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Wireless device helps MS patient walk
Daily PressBarbara Kephart of Yorktown, left, who has been suffering from multiple sclerosis for ten years, is shown with Liz Penn, physical therapist. Kephart shows her NESS L300 equipment. New therapy, NESS L300 allows woman with MS to walk again. Barbara...Tags: Human Body, Physical Therapists, Iowa, Happiness (state of mind), Muscle
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96-year-old pioneering female surgeon receives new 'jiffy hip'
![Isabella Harrison, trim and neatly turned out in lavender pants with a matching top, leans over her walker to push it methodically in front of her. Occasionally, she stops to straighten her back. "I've started to hunch over from using this," concedes the 96-year-old, a few months after undergoing hip replacement surgery. Harrison lives independently in her own home in a beautifully landscaped gated community in Virginia Beach.](http://www.dailypress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-11/57493456-15114909-187105.jpg "Isabella Harrison, trim and neatly turned out in lavender pants with a matching top, leans over her walker to push it methodically in front of her. Occasionally, she stops to straighten her back. "I've started to hunch over from using this,\" concedes the 96-year-old, a few months after undergoing hip replacement surgery. Harrison lives independently in her own home in a beautifully landscaped gated community in Virginia Beach.")
Daily PressIsabella Harrison, trim and neatly turned out in lavender pants with a matching top, leans over her walker to push it methodically in front of her. Occasionally, she stops to straighten her back. "I've started to hunch over from using this," concedes...Tags: Appendectomy, Human Body, Physical Therapists, Hampton Roads, Santa Monica
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Colonoscopies not the gold standard?
Special to the Los Angeles TimesColorectal cancer kills more Americans than any other cancer except lung cancer. But the death toll doesn't have to be as high as it is. Screening works. The American Cancer Society estimates that such tests saved 70,000 lives in the last 20 years. "Just...Tags: Science and Technology, Human Body, Sigmoidoscopy, Colon Cancer, New York
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Alternative medicine is becoming mainstream
Leon Wittman tweaked his shoulder in 1994 while attempting to keep his basement from flooding during a thunderstorm by scooping water out of a window well with a bucket.
His left arm began to ache. He realized about a year later that he rarely used it...Tags: Science and Technology, Zocor (drug), General Practitioners, Back Pain, Herbal Medicines
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Transplantable organs lost to delays, outdated practices [Updated]
With more than 110,000 people awaiting the gift of an organ in the United States, health professionals know they can ill afford to squander the chance that a grieving family will say "yes" to organ donation. And yet, in this season of gift-giving, two new...Tags: Mayo Clinic, Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Human Body, Minnesota
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A Balcony View: Life-saving lessons
!["Stay with me, Corky," I screamed. "You hang on! Look at me! Stay here!"](http://www.glendalenewspress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-07/55047579-20110806.jpg ""Stay with me, Corky,\" I screamed. \"You hang on! Look at me! Stay here!\"")
"Stay with me, Corky," I screamed. "You hang on! Look at me! Stay here!"
Moments earlier, I had been having a conversation with Corky about my love of motorcycles. He had just finished telling me about his dislike of them.
I was just about to change...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Restaurants, Vehicles, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Dining and Drinking
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Small Animal Hospital in the same place since 1925
The Glendale Small Animal Hospital, which opened in 1925, still stands at the same place where it began, one of the few veterinary hospitals remaining in its original location.
When George W. Blanche opened the hospital at 831 Milford St., it was the...Tags: Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents, Human Interest, Emergency Planning, Science
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A Word, Please: 'Comprise' is uncompromising
![A lot of people like to use the phrase "is comprised of" -— about 136 million of them, if a recent Google search is any indication.](http://www.glendalenewspress.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-09/56291099-21183159.jpg "A lot of people like to use the phrase "is comprised of\" -— about 136 million of them, if a recent Google search is any indication.")
A lot of people like to use the phrase "is comprised of" -— about 136 million of them, if a recent Google search is any indication.
"Houston is comprised of many neighborhoods," one website tells me. "Workforce planning is comprised of a number of...Tags: Nursing, Google Inc., Health and Medical Professionals, Health, Internists
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In Theory: Save the mother or the baby?
Q. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, Ariz. has stripped St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, also in Phoenix, of its Catholic affiliation for performing emergency surgery on a woman that saved the woman's life but ended her pregnancy, which...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Emergency Incidents, Ethics, Emergency Planning, Surgery
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I'm Just Sayin': Board in hot water after pay increase
Just before Christmas, the Crescenta Valley Water District Board of Directors voted to give a 1% pay increase to the district's top seven managers, which follows an earlier 1% increase for the rank-and-file employees. You may recall that in November this...Tags: Employees, Elections, Health and Medical Professionals, Career and Workplace, Health
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In Theory: Are a doctor's religious values important?
A study in the Journal of Medical Ethics found that doctors, independent of specialty, who described themselves as non-religious, were "more likely than others to report having given continuous deep sedation until death, having taken decisions they...Tags: Judaism, Ethics, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Death and Dying Customs, Values
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In Theory: Miracles for Money?
They come to be healed. They are people afflicted with everything from paralysis, cancer to blindness. Some travel great distances for a promise to be healed instantly in the name of Jesus Christ. ABC's "Nightline" this week aired a report titled "Turning...Tags: Judaism, Human Body, ABC (tv network), Human Interest, Religious Conflicts
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