Health and Fitness
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Ex-Kansas doc dumps abortion filesMar 27, 2012 4:15 pm - TOPEKA, Kan. — Anti-abortion lawmakers called Tuesday for the Kansas Legislature to investigate after a former abortion provider discarded hundreds of patients’ private ...
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Kane County TB outbreak gets national attentionMar 27, 2012 4:04 pm - Kane County’s ongoing battle against a tuberculosis outbreak in the Aurora area has now become evidence in a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that h...
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Fremd senior honored for raising money to buy AEDMar 27, 2012 11:28 am - A Fremd High School senior has been honored for successfully raising enough money, with the help of her classmates, to purchase an automated external defibrillator for t...
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Controversial health care law originally a Republican ideaMar 27, 2012 12:00 am - As the Supreme Court hears arguments on President Obama's signature health care law this week, there is a curious twist: The case largely rests on the constitutionality ...
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Predicting future number of very old difficultMar 26, 2012 6:04 am - Researchers trying to predict future numbers of the very old have missed the mark lately. Plotting trends with the oldest old has always been a tough assignment as Ameri...
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Fitness program geared to mentally illMar 26, 2012 6:04 am - KEENE, N.H. — Back when he was a self-described friendless recluse, Craig Carey spent hours sitting in a chair doing nothing or driving around in his car, alone. Then a ...
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Apps let parents keep tabs on kidsMar 26, 2012 6:04 am - Returning to work after having a baby used to be a new parent’s first lesson in letting go. Not anymore. New baby-tracking websites and phone applications are the latest...
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Aspirin once a day may keep cancer at bayMar 26, 2012 6:00 am - Aspirin, the 3-cent painkiller whose origins can be traced to Hippocrates, reduces the chances of developing or dying from cancer earlier than previously thought and als...
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Push for less costly, invasive colonscopy alternativesMar 26, 2012 6:00 am - A colonoscopy, a dreaded medical procedure recommended for people 50 and older, is the best, one-shot way to screen and detect colon cancer for now, most health professi...
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Fittest Losers halfway through battle to shed poundsMar 26, 2012 6:00 am - Going into this, the six contestants of the Daily Herald's 2012 Fittest Loser competition knew this wasn't going to be easy. It's halfway through — and they were right...