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Photo contributed Cara Sims visits with her mother, Rosemary Crisp, who succumbed to a 12-year struggle with ovarian cancer at age 65. Sims will be holding a movie screening to raise awareness about the disease on Thursday at Maiden Alley Cinema, 116 Broadway.
Real Steel Magnolias
The term “girls’ night out” has taken on a different meaning for Cara Sims. Sims’ mother, Rosemary Crisp, died at age 65 after battling ovarian cancer for over a decade, Sims said. She has made ...
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West Nile’s symptoms can plague victims for life
FORT WORTH, Texas — Claire McCall says that a mosquito bite changed her life. On Aug. 8, 2008, she entered a Dallas emergency room with a 103.4-degree fever. She would be diagnosed with West Nil...
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Associated Press Leana Wen of Boston who is doing her medical residency in emergency medicine at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, speaks with Josh Kosowsky, clinical director of emergency medicine in the emergency department at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston. Wen chose emergency medicine because the hours are more flexible than those of primary care physicians.
Today’s doctors want a real life
CHICAGO — Don’t call today’s young doctors slackers. True, they may shun a 24/7 on-call solo practice and try to have a life outside of work. Yet they say they’re just as committed to medicin...
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AP Files Organic radishes sit for sale at the Pacifica Farmers Market in Pacifica, Calif.
Study: Is organic food that much healthier?
WASHINGTON — Patient after patient asked: Is eating organic food, which costs more, really better for me? Unsure, Stanford University doctors dug through reams of research to find out — and conc...
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Associated Press Athletes run through the Leadenhall Market during the men's marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics on Aug. 12 in London. Some medical research suggests excessive exercising over long periods of time could lead to the potential damaging of bodily structures.
Running, exercise: Too much of a good thing?
There’s no doubting the benefits a daily workout routine can have on the human body. But when pushed to the maximum, medical studies suggest that deep burn after pushing the body to the limit might...
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Associated Press Emily St. Martin in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Ochsner Medical Center, is shown on a webcam feed at her family's home in LaPlace, La. Her parents, Laura and David St. Martin, with their daughter Jacqueline, 2, background, are able to watch her from a web cam installed over her crib on their iPad.
Webcams in newborn ICUs grow as a business
NEW ORLEANS — Corey Harrington spent the first month of his life in intensive care 150 miles from home, but his parents could see him any time thanks to a webcam in the premature baby’s incubator i...
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Yoga and deep breathing successful in treating soldiers’ stress
MILWAUKEE — Rich Low dreamed of Iraq long after he returned home from the war. The memories haunted him when he was awake, too. About six months after his deployment, he was driving at night whe...
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Associated Press Social worker Shannon Coyne poses for a portrait with her 11-month-old son in Philadelphia. Coyne and her husband decided against circumcision for their son. The nation's most influential pediatricians group says the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks and insurance companies should pay for it. In its latest policy statement on circumcision, a procedure that has been declining nationwide, the American Academy of Pediatrics moves closer to an endorsement but says the decision should be up to parents.
Circumcision pluses outweigh the risks, pediatricians say
CHICAGO — The nation’s most influential pediatricians group says the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks and insurance companies should pay for it. In its latest p...
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Where tuberulosis is very much alive
LOS ANGELES — Matthew Kennedy spent his 39th birthday at the hospital learning to walk again. Three months ago, the Venice Beach resident started having trouble moving his legs. When a chest X-r...
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Pulled from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention archives With the release of the most recent data-set from the WIC program -- using 2010 data -- Kentucky is shows above-normal obesity levels among low-income children 2-4 years old. In McCracken County, data suggested 13.29 percent of children older than 2 are considered obese in this category.
Data highlights obesity concern
In an annual report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, data suggests McCracken County children from low-income families are hovering around the state average for pediatric ...
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