Articles filed under Health
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Health bulletinDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Need to sleep? Stay out of hospitals Intensive care units are so noisy and disruptive that patients cannot get the restorative sleep that they need to heal, accordi...
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Lessons learned: Exercises for older athletes can benefit othersDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Sports medicine, long geared to the needs of young athletes, is branching out to help older people remain active and athletically competitive as they age. And while much...
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PET scans can detect lung cancer soonerDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - The use of positron emission tomography, known as PET scans, can improve the diagnosis of people with lung cancer and better guide treatment decisions, Canadian research...
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Your healthDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - If you're attending holiday parties this month, chances are you'll be offered an alcoholic drink. A sensible way to imbibe is to alternate alcoholic drinks with nonalcoh...
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Quitting timeDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Smokers have a new incentive to quit this Jan. 1, and it's not another New Year's resolution. Illinois' statewide ban on smoking in restaurants, bars and public buildin...
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Gentler chemo helps patients survive lymphomaDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - A gentler chemotherapy regimen may help some lymphoma patients better tolerate and benefit from bone marrow transplants, and the combination could even cure them, U.S. d...
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Haven't gotten a flu shot yet? There's still timeDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - It's December, and flu season has been under way for weeks, but federal health officials are still imploring people to get immunized -- even healthy adults who have been...
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Worms live longer on antidepressantsDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - It seems antidepressants don't just help humans. Roundworms given a particular antidepressant lived longer -- possibly because they were fooled into behaving as though t...
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Struggle to overcome childhood cancer leaves its mark years laterDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Andrew Flaton survived a brain tumor as a child, but he still suffers from the effects of his cancer treatments. One of his most challenging tasks: holding down a job. H...
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Holiday cookie ritual extends to new generationDec 11, 2007 10:00 pm - Holidays, food and families have woven themselves together, like braids on a loaf of challah or strands of colored beads on a Christmas tree, since time now forgotten. T...