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Study links obesity surgery, alcohol abuse
CHICAGO — The most common type of obesity surgery may increase patients’ chances for alcohol abuse, according to the largest study to demonstrate a potential link. Patients who had gastric bypas...
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Cancer workshop offers eye-opening information
Through the end of June, Lone Oak Chiropractic will host educational events discussing suspected causes of cancer and lifestyle choices preventing the disease. Designed to inform people with an ...
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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun Dr. Greg Batts, an optometrist at Paducah's Keene Optical, grabs a pair of UVA/UVB approved sunglasses from a display case in his practice Monday. In the same way skin can burn if unprotected in the summer sun, eyes can also be damaged if not protected from long-term exposure with appropriate eyewear.
Quality shades a must for summer protection
Though they’ve become more of a fashion statement in recent years, quality sunglasses remain a first-line defense on those sunny summer days against harmful burning rays. It’s easy to visualize ...
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AP Files Dr. JoAnn Manson poses for a photo in Boston. Manson says women employees are less likely than men to ask her for pay raises, a phenomenon she says may explain results of a new study showing women doctor-researchers get paid substantially less than their male counterparts.
Women paid less: reluctant to ask for raise?
CHICAGO — Female physician-scientists are paid much less than their male counterparts, researchers found, with a salary difference that over the course of a career could pay for a college education...
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Couch potatoes thriving around world
DURHAM, N.C. — Too many Americans may be overweight couch potatoes, but a new study finds that people in four other big countries are just as out of shape and sedentary as we are. People in Chin...
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Weekly classes aid people with mental illnesses
A free, weekly education program offers help to families and friends of people with serious mental illnesses. Starting in August, the 12-week classes will focus on how families can support their...
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Life-improving chemistry
Take one part chemistry, one part creativity and one part medical ingenuity; finely mix with a mortar and pestle and the resulting combination leaves individualized treatment that really helps the ...
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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun Advances in laser technology in the last several years have greatly increased the effectiveness of LASIK surgery to where this machine at Innovative Ophthalmology in Paducah, can correct lenses in a range of -12 to +6.
Cutting-edge laser technology aids eye surgery
Advances in technology have made lasers a staple in minimally invasive surgeries throughout the medical community, but those same advances have vaulted precision corrective eye surgery to a new zen...
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AP Photo A young patient gets a CT scan at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati. Too much radiation from medical testing is a growing concern, especially for children, because it may increase the risk of cancer later in life.
Child CT scans could raise cancer risk slightly
LONDON — Children who get several CT scans have a slightly higher chance of brain cancer and leukemia in later life, although the risk is still small and probably outweighed by the need to get the ...
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That guilt you feel? There’s a place (in your brain) for that
WASHINGTON — The father of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, had a special affinity for discerning the guilt and self-blame in his patients’ thinking. That, he said, is one of the things that distinguishe...
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