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House Call, January 2013

Western Baptist Health Source Summer 2012

McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Joey Wever, 63, is HIV-positive. Thanks to antiretroviral treatments the life expectancy of people with HIV is increasing with many living to their 50s, 60s and older.

Aging with HIV offers own health challenge
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Not long after Bob Reed learned in 1986 that he had AIDS, he watched 20 of his friends die from the disease as it ravaged his body and he battled to survive. Today, as he ...

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American Red Cross seeks community 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. B...

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Cold and flu season brings rash of pinkeye
ATLANTA — Elizabeth Brockob’s eye was red and hurting, so she went to the internet for a diagnosis. Within minutes the 13-year-old from Johns Creek, Ga., was convinced she was going blind and th...

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Early number sense affects later math skills
WASHINGTON — We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as...

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Associated Press
Atlanta cardiologist Dr. Spencer King demonstrates how doctors can open blocked heart arteries by going through an arm, using a model on March 11 at the American College of Cardiology conference in San Francisco. The original catheter-based treatment, balloon angioplasty, is still used hundreds of thousands of times each year in the U.S. alone. A Japanese company, Terumo Corp., is one of the leaders of a new way to do it that is easier on patients - through a catheter in the arm rather than the groin.

Heart repair advances replace surgeon’s knife
SAN FRANCISCO — Have a heart problem? If it’s fixable, there’s a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels. Heart ...

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Contributed by Murray-Calloway County Hospital
Murray Mayor Bill Wells has his blood drawn by Tori Stone, LPN, to test for cholesterol levels, estimated average glucose and blood sugar screening during the Diabetes Awareness and Prevention Day at Murray-Calloway County Hospital on March 16. The hospital sponsored the free screenings and educational sessions to the public to help gauge and reduce the risk level of diabetes. More than 100 community members stopped in to learn about the disease and participate in the free screenings.

Promoting diabetes awareness
Contributed by Murray-Calloway County Hospital Murray Mayor Bill Wells has his blood drawn by Tori Stone, LPN, to test for cholesterol levels, estimated average glucose and blood sugar screening...

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Neurologists: Take the bench with concussions
Concussion research has yet to turn up therapies that can diminish the consequences of a mild traumatic brain injury or shorten the duration of its symptoms, the nation’s leading group of neurologi...

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House Call Monthly — April 2013

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Lindsay Avner is flanked by Mary Kate Fitzgerald, left, and Denise McClanahan at a presentation Avner made to Chicago Bulls employees, March 7, in Chicago. Avner had a preventive double mastectomy at age 23 and has since founded Bright Pink, an organization to help young women facing choices about breast and ovary health.

Double mastectomy offers pre-emptive cancer strike
CHICAGO — At age 23, Lindsay Avner took charge of her genetic fate: she elected to have her healthy breasts removed before cancer could strike first. Six years later, the resident of Chicago’s Nort...

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Benton Elementary receives Project Fit America grant
With a grant from Baptist Health Paducah, Benton Elementary School this fall will launch Project Fit America, a fitness program aimed at reducing childhood obesity. Benton is the sixth area scho...

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