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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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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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