Articles filed under Health
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Your Health: New breast cancer test costs less than MRISep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Breast cancer test At least two suburban hospitals are offering an alternative imaging test for breast cancer that complements mammography and costs less than an MRI. Br...
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Early flu season -- what you need to knowSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Flu season's in full swing two months early this year - and nearly all the cases are the new swine flu strain that so far is targeting mostly children and younger adults...
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Salty sanctuary promises relaxation and, for some, a kind of healingSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - As Laurie Martin entered the chamber, salt crunched softly beneath her feet. She heard a muted crashing of waves on a beach, and a faint smell of the sea came to her. As...
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Bean may be key swing vote in health care debateSep 18, 2009 11:00 pm - As a centrist Democrat, Rep. Melissa Bean could be one of the crucial swing votes to decide the debate over health care reform. Representing a former Republican district...
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Fighting cancer, not just fires, in BartlettSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Bartlett firefighters aren't wearing pink to pay homage to '80s filmmaker John Hughes, these supposedly gruff men and women are wearing pink for breast cancer awareness....
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Swine flu shots start in October for high-risk patientsSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Vaccinations for the H1N1 flu virus will be available nationwide in mid-October, officials announced Thursday, but only for those considered at highest risk of serious i...
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Your Health: Pools and asthma, breast cancer testSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Pools and asthma Swimming in chlorinated pools, new research shows, increases the risk of asthma in sensitive children. Researchers in Belgium compared children who swam...
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Navigating college students' health insuranceSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Q. My daughter will start college in a few weeks and I'm wondering what I need to do about health insurance for her. A. Even though most children can stay on th...
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Home dialysis winning support both for quality of care and lower costSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - For hundreds of thousands of Americans with failed kidneys, the days and weeks revolve around dialysis. In most patients, the process of removing waste such as phosphate...
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The secret to Michelle Obama's toned armsSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - At last, the secret to first lady Michelle Obama's sculpted arms - tricep pushdowns and hammer curls. So says Cornell McClellan, Mrs. Obama's longtime personal trainer, ...