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Help children lose weight
If you had a choice, which conversation would you rather have with your children? The one about the birds and the bees? The one about saying no to drugs? Or the one about them needing to lose weigh...
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Contributed Photo Terri Walters, a registered nurse in the Western Baptist radiation therapy department, and other department employees dance during the filming of the hospital's Pink Glove Dance video.
Hospital seeks video honors
The Pink Glove Dance, a YouTube phenomenon launched in Oregon two years ago for breast cancer awareness, has spread to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. More than 225 local employees star in the...
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Outbreak could be deadliest in a decade
WASHINGTON — As many as 14 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, health officials say — a death toll that would make the food outbreak the deadliest in m...
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Decade after attacks, worry over stockpile
WASHINGTON — Anthrax vaccine — check. Antibiotics — check. A botulism treatment — check. Smallpox vaccine — check. Ten years after the anthrax attacks brought home the reality of bioterrorism, t...
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Associated Press A father and son head for their fishing hole at Muddy Run Recreation Park in southern Lancaster County, Pa., in April. New research suggests that dads are less likely to die of heart-related problems than childless men are. The study by AARP, the government and several universities is the largest ever look at men, fertility and mortality.
Study: Dads less likely to die of heart problems
Fatherhood may be a kick in the old testosterone, but it may also help keep a man alive. New research suggests that dads are a little less likely to die of heart-related problems than childless men...
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Preschools close for virus in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam — More than a dozen kindergartens in Vietnam have closed to deal with an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that has killed 111 children and sickened more than 57,000 this year...
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Associated PressNathan and Jessica Ewald hold their 5-month-old son, Bennett, at their home in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. Like many new moms, she got a hospital goody bag with supplies including free formula and formula coupons that she gave away as soon as she got home. Ewald, the daughter of a breast-feeding activist who fought to get those goody bags out of hospitals, says hospitals sending newborns home with formula can really undermine a woman's determination to breast-feed.
Do hospitals’ freebies undermine breast-feeding?
CHICAGO — Jessica Ewald brought more than a new baby boy home when she gave birth earlier this year. Like many new moms, she got a hospital goody bag, with supplies including free infant formula an...
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Ellen Dunning, interim area director for the American Cancer Society, prepares a wig for a breast cancer patient. The ACS offers wigs, make-up and personal care instruction in its Look Good, Feel Better program. Women with cancer have an opportunity to meet other patients and improve their morale by overcoming side effects of treatment.
Look Good, Feel Better helps patients deal with side effects
The American Cancer Society has a program to improve a woman’s morale while she battles breast cancer. Mary Huff, health initiatives representative for the ACS in Paducah, said while battling a ...
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Study: Whooping cough vaccination fades in three years
ATLANTA — The whooping cough vaccine given to babies and toddlers loses much of its effectiveness after just three years — a lot faster than doctors believed — and that could help explain a recent ...
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Real-time tracking of diseases aids diagnosis
WASHINGTON — The doctor doesn’t think your sore throat is bad enough yet to order a strep test — unaware that a dozen people across town were diagnosed with strep throat just last week. Doctors ...
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