Health and Fitness
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End-of-life surgeries for seniors questionedNov 07, 2011 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — The odds of elderly Americans having surgery in their last year of life may have more to do with their age and where they live than whether they want or nee...
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Any way you slice it, breakfast an important mealNov 07, 2011 5:00 am - By midmorning her mind was wandering and there was just no way the student could focus during class. The high school senior was in for a physical and telling me about he...
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Deaths from painkiller overdose triple in last decadeNov 06, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government has reported — a trend that a U.S. health official cal...
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New device uses light to screen for melanomaNov 06, 2011 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Dermatologists will soon get some high-tech help deciding which suspicious-looking moles should be removed and checked for melanoma, the deadliest form of s...
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Your health: Get that beauty sleepNov 06, 2011 10:00 pm - Sleeping spouses When wives had trouble sleeping, it meant trouble the next day for both partners, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh Schoo...
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Aging boomers show need for more geriatriciansNov 06, 2011 10:00 pm - PALATKA, Fla. — In this sleepy, riverside town in northeast Florida, 86-year-old Betty Wills sees the advertisements of obstetricians and gynecologists on the main road'...
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Questions continue over in-depth cholesterol testsNov 06, 2011 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — For heart health, you're supposed to know your numbers: Total cholesterol, the bad LDL kind and the good HDL kind. But your next checkup might add a new num...
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Teens' brains still developingNov 06, 2011 10:00 pm - How do teens alternate between shoplifting a case of beer, then “borrowing” a car and at other times scoring the winning goal or singing the national anthem at perfect k...
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Mosquito bred to fight Dengue fever shows promiseNov 05, 2011 7:18 am - NEW YORK — Scientists attempting to halt Dengue fever have, for the first time, released mosquitoes into the wild that were genetically modified to pass on deadly DNA th...
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How Summitt’s diagnosis has raised Alzheimer’s awarenessNov 05, 2011 12:00 am - KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee coach Pat Summitt hopes her public battle with dementia raises awareness about the disease and inspires people to do more. Kentucky associa...