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Total disc replacement helps with range of motion, expert says
Knee and hip replacements have been common for decades, offering patients who suffered from degeneration a full range of pain-free movement. But spines and backs have been more problematic. Spinal fusions, the gold standard, have meant a limited range...Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Spine, Health Treatments, Back Surgery, Physical Therapy
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Ask the Expert: Early-onset dementia and Alzheimer's
Everyone forgets a name or a date from time to time. But how do you know when it's something serious? Marina Tompkins, a certified social worker and director of Keswick Multi-Care Center's adult day program, talks about how to tell the difference between...Tags: Retirement, Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Alzheimer's Disease
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Weight management The University of Maryland Center for Weight Management and Wellness offers a free weight-loss seminar at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 23. Registration required: 410-328-8940. Information: http://www.umm.edu/weightloss. Menopause...Tags: Family, Nutrition, Methadone (drug), Lungs and Airways, Disease Prevention
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HPV connected to oral cancers too
It's common knowledge that HPV — or human papillomavirus — is linked with cervical cancer, thanks to the controversy over the vaccine. But far fewer people know that this same sexually transmitted viral strain is connected to oral cancers,...Tags: AIDS, HPV Vaccine, University of Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Throat Cancer
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Ky. weighed politics, medicine in inmate's surgery
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security, politics and even the possibility of inviting scorn from Fox News pundits. Emails...
Tags: Lawyers, Hips, Trials, Hepatitis C , Steve Beshear
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Fighting SMA Through Research
WGNO NewsLike any other 4-year-old, Jackson Audibert, is into animals, toys and his parents, but Jackson isn't like most toddlers. “The focus was on that he may pass away before he was a year old,” says his father Shawn Audibert. “I'm telling...Tags: Research, Health, Genes and Chromosomes
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Doug Dillard dies at 75; banjo player, member of the Dillards band
Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument.
"He was so...Tags: Judy Garland, Bluegrass (genre), Steve Martin, Obituaries, Dillard's Incorporated
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Long on decline, whooping cough makes a comeback
![Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. -- many of them children -- were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace," as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67189235-05215457.jpg "Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. -- many of them children -- were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace,\" as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s.")
Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. -- many of them children -- were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace," as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s.
"Childhood Cough Is Given...Tags: Health Organizations, Cook County, Chicago Tribune, Diseases and Illnesses, Chemical Industry
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Market Watch: New cherry varieties worth a pit stop
Special to the Los Angeles Times— Early cherries are reason enough to head to the farmers market, but be careful. Erratic winter chill, freezes during bloom, hail and late rains have made for a short crop of early cherries from the southern San Joaquin Valley. But there's still...Tags: Cherries, Medical Specialization, Biology, Genetics, Health
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Sheriff: Gacy victim identified through DNA
Tribune reportersCook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced this morning that a previously unidentified victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy has been identified through DNA. Using DNA technology that has only been available in recent years as well as other identifiers,...Tags: Norwood Park, Biotechnology Industry, Murder, Chemical Industry, Crimes
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Consultants help turn frequent-flyer awards into tickets -- for a price
Christine Ballentine is a loyal US Airways customer, and she has been saving up her frequent-flyer miles for a trip to France this summer. But turning them into a ticket hasn't been easy.
"US Airways is telling me that they have flights into Nice but...Tags: Services and Shopping, France, United Air Lines, Southwest Airlines Co., Jacksonville (Duval, Florida)
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Senior Travel: 'Airpasses' of limited use
![The Skyteam airline alliance just announced a new "Go Africa" airpass, which joins the alliance's existing regional airpasses for Asia, China, Europe and Italy. Skyteam (www.skyteam.com) is anchored in North America by Delta, and includes Aeroflot, Air France, Alitalia, China Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, KLM, Korean, and a few smaller lines. The other two big alliances already offer an Africa pass as well as similar lists of regional and continental passes:](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-03/68775743-13054522.jpg "The Skyteam airline alliance just announced a new "Go Africa\" airpass, which joins the alliance's existing regional airpasses for Asia, China, Europe and Italy. Skyteam (www.skyteam.com) is anchored in North America by Delta, and includes Aeroflot, Air France, Alitalia, China Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, KLM, Korean, and a few smaller lines. The other two big alliances already offer an Africa pass as well as similar lists of regional and continental passes:")
The Skyteam airline alliance just announced a new "Go Africa" airpass, which joins the alliance's existing regional airpasses for Asia, China, Europe and Italy. Skyteam (www.skyteam.com) is anchored in North America by Delta, and includes Aeroflot, Air...Tags: Services and Shopping, Asia, Trips and Vacations, U.S. Airways, Air France-KLM
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