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Cleveland tragedy reminds us of importance of knowing neighbors
Americans were at once thrilled and horrified with the news this week out of Cleveland. Three long-missing women ... found alive after all these years. With details still trickling out, we've only scratched the surface of the nightmare lived by Amanda...
Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Amanda Berry, Ariel Castro, The Wall Street Journal, Gina DeJesus
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Mom charged in son's shooting
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA Southeast Texas woman is facing a felony charge for allegedly delaying hospital treatment of her teenage son's gunshot wound until she researched treatment options online. The incident happened Tuesday evening at the family's home in Santa Fe,...Tags: Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics
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Complementing end-of-life care
Of the countless painful decisions surrounding a loved one's end-of-life care, among the trickiest is how to provide physical comfort in a way that also provides a dignified ending. "For end of life, the opioids are very important for pain management,...
Tags: Biotechnology, Massage Therapy, Chemical Industry, Health Organizations, Health Treatments
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One for the record books
HealthThere are all sorts of stories lurking in the piles of data compiled by government and scientific researchers, but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to see some major implications in the birth data reported recently in the journal Pediatrics. According... -
Barbara Walters, a.k.a. Benjamin Button, has chicken pox
Barbara Walters has chicken pox. Not shingles, which comes from the same virus and is something one might more likely expect in a woman who's 83 years old. No, Babs has good old-fashioned chicken pox. "She'd never had it as a child," Whoopi...Tags: Flu, Barbara Walters, Social Media, Shingles, Whoopi Goldberg
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How to stick to your new year's resolution fitness plan
It's a new year and once again some of you have made the ubiquitious goal to get in shape and lose weight. Most of you will fail. By the end of the month the crowds at the gym will thin out and all that will be left are the die- hard exercisers. But...
Tags: Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Fight against cancer is a fact of life for Manchester girl, 11, and her family
Like all parents, John and Tammy Carver face daily challenges in trying to raise a large brood. But for the Manchester couple, who have adopted six youngsters from orphanages in Russia and Belarus between 1997 and 2004, those challenges also include...
Tags: Biotechnology, Cancer, Sports, National Football League, Medical Specialization
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Column: No easy fix for school violence
After the unspeakable tragedy of school shootings in Connecticut, a number of ideas have been brought forth regarding how to prevent a similar event from ever happening again. From banning guns to hiring armed security guards in every school, the...Tags: Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning
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Fighting mental illness
Maybe something good will come from the Shakespearean tragedy that is the Jesse Jackson Jr. saga: A deeper understanding of mental illness and more empathy for those afflicted with it. Or maybe not. The level of cynicism in these parts is so high that...
Tags: Mayo Clinic, Dan Webb, Mike Royko, Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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System to quickly alert state healthcare providers about disease outbreaks
The Indiana State Department of Health announced Thursday they would implement a new alert system, which will communicate urgent public health messages to healthcare providers statewide. “As demonstrated by the several public health emergencies...
Tags: Salmonella Infection, Measles, Healthcare Provider, Diseases and Illnesses, Meningitis
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Wheat for people allergic to gluten: Possible?
Can scientists create gluten-free wheat plants to make bread with? Writing in the journal PNAS, a team of scientists concludes that it’s quite possible. People with serious gluten allergies such as celiac disease now have only one tried-and-...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, Breads, Abdominal Pain, Diseases and Illnesses, Celiac Disease
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Is Obamacare a tax? The argument teaches us to stay healthy by disagreeing
Sometimes our elected officials operate on such a high intellectual plane that their message can get lost. Take, for example, the debate over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law in the wake of theU.S. Supreme Court's declaration that the...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Education, General Practitioners, Politics, Samuel A. Alito
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