Health and Fitness
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High-risk smokers urged to get imaging scansAug 19, 2013 6:00 am - Ten million high-risk smokers aged 55 and older should get imaging scans each year to detect lung cancer when it is small and can be treated, according to new recommenda...
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Functional training can add impact, challenge to your workoutAug 19, 2013 6:00 am - Is your current exercise routine specific to your needs? Are the exercises helping or hindering you? Are you getting results? These are all questions worth asking yourse...
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3-D biopsies offer new hope in fight against breast cancerAug 19, 2013 5:56 am - Some women tested for breast cancer now have a faster screening option that eventually could supplant older screening techniques across the country. In June, Magee-Women...
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SteelBells expand workout repertoireAug 19, 2013 5:54 am - WASHINGTON — Funny thing about the TRX/Kettlebell Boot Camp classes held 12 times a week at Washington’s Reformation Fitness: They don’t use a single kettlebell. Instead...
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Memory lapse may be early warning for Alzheimer’sAug 19, 2013 5:53 am - Doctors who tell their aging patients not to fret about memory lapses may be doing them a disservice, according to new studies that suggest they may be the earliest disc...
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Prevent kidney stones with diet and lifestyle changesAug 19, 2013 5:50 am - Q. I recently passed a kidney stone — and I would do anything to prevent another one from forming. Can kidney stones be prevented? A. I’ve never had a kidney stone mysel...
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2 stem cell patients stop HIV drugs, no virus seenAug 19, 2013 5:48 am - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Two HIV-positive patients in the United States who underwent bone marrow transplants for cancer have stopped antiretroviral therapy and still sh...
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Are marathoners running into heart trouble?Aug 19, 2013 5:22 am - Bill Wenmark has run 104 marathons and personally taught more than 4,000 first-time marathoners. He isn’t about to be scared away from either endeavor. But Wenmark, foun...
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Determining Alzheimer's early on critical to patients, familiesAug 19, 2013 5:00 am - Claire Schooley tried for several years to get doctors to diagnose what was going on with her husband, David, now 57. He would ask her the same questions again and again...
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Is new fertility app ambitious or creepy?Aug 17, 2013 8:11 am - PALO ALTO, Calif. My meeting the other day with a hot new San Francisco startup began routinely enough. Ikea-furnished office full of Macs, shaggy company dog, high-end ...