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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...
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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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Red Cross requests blood donations
Christmas has come and gone, and as people start to look to the New Year, the American Red Cross urges people to list blood donation as one of their resolutions. According to the Red Cross Tenne...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Jeff Leider (center) sits with his two sons Jason, 6, and Justin, 3, at Fortis Institute, a training facility for nurses and practitioners, Dec. 20 in Wayne, N.J. The boys were born with a rare genetic disease, Hunter syndrome, in which their bodies fail to produce a key enzyme needed to maintain healthy cells.
Dad fights for sons born with rare fatal disease
HACKENSACK, N.J. — Imagine tucking your two boys in bed every night knowing that neither of them is likely to live long enough to graduate from high school. It’s a daily reality for Jeff and Deena ...
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Students donate to hospital women’s center
The death of a local high school alumnus from breast cancer moved students toward raising donations for the Lourdes hospital Women’s Center. St. Mary High School donated $300 to the women’s cent...
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Predicting who’s at risk for school violence isn’t easy
CHICAGO — It happened after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo., and now Sandy Hook: People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But observers say predicting who will be the ne...
Dec 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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