Health and Fitness
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Senator Kirk speaks for the first time about his strokeJan 02, 2013 4:00 am - For Mark Kirk, there was no white light, no tunnel. What Illinois' junior U.S. senator experienced was three angels standing at the foot of his bed. "You want to come...
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Brain image study: Fructose may spur overeatingJan 01, 2013 5:43 pm - This is your brain on sugar — for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigge...
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Clinton receiving blood thinners to dissolve clotJan 01, 2013 7:00 am - WASHINGTON — Doctors treating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for a blood clot in her head said blood thinners are being used to dissolve the clot and they ar...
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Feds fail to stop rampant steroid useJan 01, 2013 5:12 am - EDITOR’S NOTE — Whether for athletics or age, Americans from teenagers to baby boomers are trying to get an edge by illegally using anabolic steroids and human growth ho...
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Oswego family back home after mom delivers baby along Reagan TollwayJan 01, 2013 4:30 am - Megan Martinez knew time was critical when she woke around 7:30 a.m. Friday and realized she was in labor with her second child. What the 28-year-old Oswego woman never ...
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Cliff avoided: Congress staves off tax hikesJan 01, 2013 12:00 am - WASHINGTON — Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases ...
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Obesity decreases among preschoolersDec 31, 2012 5:04 am - Obesity rates fell among U.S. preschool-age children in 2010, reversing a trend of the past decade, according to the first national study to spot a decline in the condit...
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More drugs adversely affected by grapefruitDec 31, 2012 5:00 am - Twenty years ago, Canadian researchers discovered that grapefruit interferes with the body’s metabolism of certain drugs, including the immunosuppressant cyclosporine an...
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Glasses can correct blurred vision caused by astigmatismDec 31, 2012 5:00 am - Q. I wear corrective glasses for astigmatism, but I don't really understand what astigmatism is. A. Astigmatism means that the cornea of the eye has an irregular...
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Vision loss increases among Americans as diabetes rates riseDec 31, 2012 5:00 am - The number of Americans with vision loss not correctable by glasses is rising, caused in part by increasing diabetes rates, a study found. The rate of non-refractive vis...