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Salina community rallies around one of its own
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsSarah Thompson's winter break plans are unlike many of her classmates at Wichita State. She is going to Chicago to give a piece of her liver to her friend, Charlie Fiorillo who has Byler's Disease. "He's had it his whole life," Thompson said. "It...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Education
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Letters: The risks of being obese
Re "Why we diet," Opinion, Jan. 4 Abigail Saguy intermingles the social and medical aspects of obesity. Certainly, discriminating against someone because of body habitus is inexcusable. However, ignoring the adverse health consequences of obesity is...Tags: Diabetes, Sleep Apnea, Weight, Obesity, Heart Attack
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UNCOMMON BOND: Siblings share rare genetic disorder
kpeek@amnews.comFor the Jennings family, the unknown is a real part of their lives. Vanessa, 11, and Jacob, 7, were diagnosed with a rare disease in 2008. At the time, Vanessa was 7 and Jacob just 2. Doctors had been testing Vanessa since she was about 2 years old in...Tags: Research, YouTube, Schizophrenia, Aneurysm, Parenting
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Love Notes: So many differences, all so irrelevant
Janice Patterson remembers calling her mother to announce she was engaged. There wasn't much excitement on the other end of the line. "She said, 'Well, I'll tell your father. It's your life,' Janice recalls. "Then she said, 'I have to get off the...
Tags: University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Marriage, Spencer Tracy, Helen Keller
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Merry Christmas
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas. Preschool to hold open house Jan. 6 Northern Cross Preschool will hold an open house Sunday, Jan. 6, from 2 to 4 p.m. The preschool is for 3- and 4-year-olds. It meets Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9 to ...
Tags: Religious Festivals, Preschools, Schools, Religion and Belief, Weight
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Chicagoan raises tens of thousands for charities while biking or walking
Desmond Campbell is a marathon man who has traveled miles and miles — many of them by foot, some of them by bike and quite a few of them while virtually standing still. During the course of his travels, he has helped people in extraordinary ways....
Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Social Issues, Travel, Mick Jagger, Sports
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Evolved Humans Prefer the Runner’s High
The Fitness Center - Orlando SentinelA new study shows that there is an endocannabinoid system that releases cannabis-like chemicals into the blood stream, which alter and lighten our mood. The system must reach a threshold point attained only after prolonged exertion.... -
Our health and humanity unites us in ways that politics cannot bind
HealthA message I read this morning from a friend who specializes in treating liver disease shook me away from the daze of political polarities to focus on our common humanity.... -
Roberto Bolano's 'Woes of the True Policeman' a sketchy work
-------------------- Woes of the True Policeman A Novel Roberto Bolaņo, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 256 pp., $25 -------------------- An early death isn't the end for a writer. Like a special dispensation from...Tags: French Literature, Heroin, Book, Teaching and Learning, David Foster Wallace
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In Mexicali, a haven for broken lives
Mario Ramos stirs a pot of beans with a bent spatula as the men crowd into the kitchen, the ragged line stretching out the splintered doorway.
Years ago, Ramos, 45, grilled up pricey seafood in a tiki-themed restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in...Tags: Chinese Restaurants, Los Angeles Hotels, Restaurants, Immigration, Mexico
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Stephen Baxter, travel agent
Stephen Baxter, a retired travel agent, died of liver disease Oct. 2 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Mays Chapel resident was 66.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Samuel Baxter and Lola Annen Baxter. He lived on Barclay Street and in Anneslie. He...Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Elizabeth II, Govans, Catonsville, Travel
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Some health experts sour on fructose
Just as recent science has divided dietary fats into good, bad and really bad categories, some scientists now think different sugars also may deserve individual scrutiny. Most experts agree that Americans eat too much sugar, period. But studies in recent...
Tags: Diabetes, Drugs and Medicines, Coca-Cola Co., Hormones and Metabolism, Medical Research
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