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Cancer Treatment Centers keeps employees happy so they can help patients better
The staff at Cancer Treatment Centers of America knows the perception those not familiar with its hospitals might have: that places that focus on such insidious, life-altering diseases must feel melancholy, even hopeless. Not so, say employees. The...
Tags: Chemotherapy, High Blood Pressure, Government, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Health and Medical Professionals
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Home pregnancy tests may detect men's cancer
If you've been near social media or on the Internet, you may be aware of the buzz over posts claiming a teenage boy took a home pregnancy test as a joke, received a positive result, and wound up being diagnosed with testicular cancer. CNN interviewed a...
Tags: Pancreas, News Agency, Testicular Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, Blood
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Suit blames hotel for death from Legionnaires' disease
Tribune reporterA wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Thursday against Marriott International, claiming that a downtown Chicago hotel is responsible for infecting an Irish tourist with Legionnaires’ disease. The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, says...Tags: Marriott International Inc., Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Legionellosis
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Niland air quality reaches unhealthy level for some
Air quality levels in the Niland area have reached unhealthy levels for sensitive groups, according to an alert from the Imperial County Air Pollution Control District. People with respiratory or heart disease, the elderly and children are the groups...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Respiratory Disease, Environmental Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Olympia baseball pitcher survives cancer scare to go unbeaten as senior
Michael Hennessey graduated from Olympia this week.
He had a 3.5 GPA. He will play college baseball and study finance. His future is filled with promise.
That wasn't the case on Nov. 5, 2010, when Hennessey was diagnosed with testicular cancer....Tags: Science and Technology, Health, Chemotherapy, Demographics, College Baseball
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Baby boomers need hepatitis C testing
All baby boomers should get tested for hepatitis C, the virus that can lead to liver disease, cancer and death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in 30 boomers is infected and most don't know -- read about that in this...Tags: Hepatitis C , Viral Diseases and Infections, Liver Disease, Medical Procedures and Tests, Cancer
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CDC: Baby Boomers should get tested for Hepatitis C
BALTIMORE SUNAll baby boomers should get tested for hepatitis C, the virus that can lead to liver disease, cancer and death, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One in 30 boomers is infected and most don't know -- read about that in this...Tags: Hepatitis C , Viral Diseases and Infections, Liver Disease, Medical Procedures and Tests, Cancer
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Doctors grapple with prostate cancer screening guidelines
For years, the PSA test has been the standard method for early detection of prostate cancer, which strikes one in six men.
But recently, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a federal advisory panel, said the test that checks for prostate-specific...Tags: Health, Prostate, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Urinary Incontinence, Medical Research
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Valley Police Beat: First heat stroke death of the year occurs
EL CENTRO - The first case of heat stroke-related death occurred this week as an illegal immigrant was brought to El Centro Regional Medical Center about 12:30 p.m. Monday. Mayra Franco, 29, died after she was taken to the El Centro hospital’s...Tags: Physical Conditions, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Heat Stroke, Abusive Behavior
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Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to heart disease, strokes and death
Considering how many people eat too much and exercise too little, it's not surprising that nearly 67 million Americans have high blood pressure. But here's the asterisk: 36 million of them do not have it under control, even though most know they have...
Tags: Internists, Atenolol (drug), Michelle Obama, Walmart, Chemical Industry
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Officials educate, deal with first case of Chronic Wasting Disease
Staff reporterA new worry for hunters and farmers across the state as Pennsylvania deals with its first case of Chronic Wasting Disease. The first positive sample was discovered in a deer in Adams County. So far, animals at three farms including one in Adams, Lycoming...Tags: York County (Pennsylvania), Lifestyle and Leisure, York (York, Pennsylvania), Symptoms, Hunting
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Growing through grief
Almost four years after her husband's death from Parkinson's disease, former Sacramento County, Calif., supervisor Sandra Smoley has reinvented her life. She rented out the Fair Oaks home where she lived with her late husband, architect Walter Rohrer,...Tags: Medical Specialization, Science and Technology, Depression, Research, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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