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Snapshot of influenza activity in local states
Here is a snapshot of flu activity in Kentucky and bordering states: n Illinois: Intensive care unit hospitalizations and flu-related deaths surpass previous years and continue to climb, with 27...
Jan 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Risk to all ages: 100 kids die each year from flu
NEW YORK — Twenty flu-related deaths have been reported in children so far this winter — one of the worst tolls this early in the year since health officials began keeping track. Still, observer...
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Brain image study: Fructose intake doesn’t register a ‘full’ feeling
This is your brain on sugar — for real. Scientists have used imaging tests to show for the first time that fructose, a sugar that saturates the American diet, can trigger brain changes that may lea...
Jan 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press Jeffrey Shaman works at a computer in his office Dec. 13 at Columbia University's Department of Environmental Health Sciences in New York. In the study of New York City flu cases published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors said they could forecast, by up to seven weeks, the peak of flu season. Scientists hope to try real-time predictions as early as next year, said Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University, who led the work.
Flu? Malaria? Disease forecasters look to sky
NEW YORK — Only a 10 percent chance of showers today, but a 70 percent chance of flu next month. That’s the kind of forecasting health scientists are trying to move toward, as they increasingly ...
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Hospitals go paperless to boost efficiency
ANNISTON, Ala. — On one floor high in Regional Medical Center in Anniston is a room with nothing but rows of desktop computers. From there, it’s a few clicks for a physician to check a patient’s me...
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Doctors team up to tackle difficult cancer cases
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — It’s 7:30 a.m. in IU Health Bloomington Hospital’s Medical Staff Conference Room, and about 20 doctors, nurses and specialists are having their weekly cancer conference — a two-...
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Associated Press  Researcher Sukhrob Kamolov leaves a set of windowless modules after a grueling 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars. Astronauts have a down-to-Earth problem that could be even worse on a long trip to Mars: They can't get enough sleep.
On simulated Mars mission, sleep quality becomes crucial
If humans ever journey to Mars, they will face an array of challenges: assault by cosmic rays, the erosion of bone mass and more subtle problems that could disrupt a mission’s success. Now experime...
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CDC: 1 in 24 admit nodding off while driving
NEW YORK — This could give you nightmares: 1 in 24 U.S. adults say they recently fell asleep while driving. And health officials behind the study think the number is probably higher. That’s beca...
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Bacteria in gut studied to examine obesity link
If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to lose weight, you are not alone – the United States has the highest rate of obesity in the world. In 2010, more than 35 percent of American adults were...
Jan 02, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Melissa Stockwell (right) fits a client with her new prosthetic leg on Dec. 4 in the Scheck and Siress lab at University of Illinois at Chicago. Stockwell, a three-time world champion Paralympics triathele, works at a prosthetics lab helping fit amputees with artificial limbs.
Amputee drives people to get moving
CHICAGO — Army veteran Melissa Stockwell has one strong, healthy leg. The other is a scarred, 6-inch stump that she has proudly nicknamed “Little Leg.” She throws birthday parties for this short...
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