Health and Fitness
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Despite increase in numbers, heart failure can be preventedSep 10, 2013 6:00 am - If current health trends continue, 8 million Americans will suffer from heart failure by 2030. Treating them will cost $70 billion, according to the American Heart Assoc...
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Mapping the way to a more fair wait for new liversSep 10, 2013 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — Where you live can affect your chances of getting a liver transplant, and your risk of dying while waiting. The nation's transplant network says it's time t...
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Hopes Palatine will reconsider its voteSep 10, 2013 5:00 am - Responding to comments made regarding Catherine Alice Gardens of Palatine by Chris Peterson (Aug. 19), regarding the majority rejection by the Palatine council, you are ...
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Your health: Allergy app for kidsSep 09, 2013 6:27 am - Allergy app Being the only kid in class with an allergy can feel incredibly lonely. A smartphone and tablet app offers help by introducing such kids to virtual frie...
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Novel vaccine fights Type 1 diabetes by stopping immune attackSep 09, 2013 6:00 am - NEW YORK — An experimental vaccine designed to tamp down the abnormal immune response that causes Type 1 diabetes helped preserve patients’ insulin-producing cells in a ...
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Memory decline may be earliest sign of dementiaSep 09, 2013 6:00 am - BOSTON — Memory problems that are often dismissed as a normal part of aging may not be so harmless after all. Noticing you have had a decline beyond the occasional mispl...
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Test-tube babies: A simpler, cheaper technique?Sep 09, 2013 5:39 am - LONDON — Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has evolved into a highly sophisticated lab procedure. Now, scientis...
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High levels of blood sugar boost risk of dementia, study findsSep 09, 2013 5:29 am - High levels of blood sugar raise the risk of dementia, even if a person doesn’t have diabetes, a condition known to be associated with the brain disease, a study found. ...
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Movement becomes medicine for Parkinson’s patientsSep 09, 2013 5:26 am - The first thing you notice at Lucy Bowen McCauley’s dance class for people with Parkinson’s disease is the range of symptoms among the 15 people seated in a wide circle ...
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Science weighs in on the ‘Freshman 15’Sep 09, 2013 5:16 am - For many new college students, adapting to university life is especially challenging when faced with the threat of the so-called “Freshman 15,” a term for the weight col...