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Cancer society seeks local Relay participants
The American Cancer Society is seeking teams to be a part of the McCracken County Relay For Life, as the all-night fundraiser steadily nears with little more than a month away. Designed to raise...
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Contributed photo Tara Miller (center), Lourdes vice president and chief philanthropy officer, accepts the American Cancer Society's award on behalf of Lourdes hospital's Relay For Life team from Pam Dotson (right), chief operating officer for Mid-South Division of the American Cancer Society, and Samantha Taylor (left), senior director of Relay For Life Mid-South Division, at Lourdes Dancing With Our Stars on March 23. Lourdes' relay team fundraising efforts were recognized among the top 5 teams worldwide.
Society recognizes Lourdes’ relay team
Topping the charts at home and across the world, Lourdes hospital Relay For Life Team was recognized as the No. 1 relay team in Kentucky and No. 4 worldwide. Out of 182,000 Relay For Life Teams ...
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Study upholds breast cancer mortality
LOS ANGELES — In the nearly 11 years since researchers first rang alarm bells that women on hormone replacement therapy faced an increased risk of breast cancer, some have suggested that taking est...
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Leukemia patient trains for race
DALLAS — Justin Ozuna of Plano, Texas, will tell you he’s not a runner, and he’ll beam that white-toothed smile as he says the words. But with every step away from his leukemia diagnosis — on the t...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, talks with his patient Tiffany Hendricks and her mother, Juanita, about the difference between a healthy and damaged heart on March 21 in Chicago.
Doctors should watch diet
Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a “food-borne” illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack...
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Program examines LGBT health issues
PHILADELPHIA — Take five or 10 minutes, the professor said, and write down things that you love, like, need, or enjoy. Now pair up with someone you don’t know and spend 20 minutes introducing yo...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Jana Bregor, 68, left, who has struggled with her weight for decades, listens to Rebecca Sturges, M.S., in a therapy session in Sacramento, Calif., on March 20. She has Binge Eating Disorder (BED), which is finally gaining recognition: The new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will list it.
Guidelines offer hope for binge-eating
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At one time or another, Jana Begor has tried most of the commercially advertised diets, not to mention the grapefruit diet and the cabbage soup diet. She became a vegan. She tr...
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Red Cross seeks local volunteers
The Tennessee Valley Blood Services Region is in need of volunteers. Each year the American Red Cross collects more than 6 million units of blood from roughly 3.5 million volunteer donors. By vo...
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Diabetes increases among nation’s youth
Generally considered a disease diagnosed in adults, type 2 diabetes has increasingly become a point of physicians’ concern among the nation’s youth. According to a report published in the Januar...
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Contributed photo Children prepare to release balloons with messages to their departed loved ones during the final ceremony of Lourdes Hospice Camp Robin in spring 2012. Camp Robin is a free day camp open to grieving children, teens and parents, helping to provide support and coping skills as people deal with the loss of loved ones.
Camp offers refuge during times of grief
Suffering through the loss of a loved one can take its toll on anyone, but especially in children, the grieving process often begins with confusion, leaving parents or guardians the difficult task ...
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