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iPad contributes to insomnia
CHICAGO — Like many of Americans, Amalie Drury has grown very attached to her smartphone. The 33-year-old Chicago writer checks the device several times a day for Facebook updates and email mess...
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AP files A Kentucky Fried Chicken employee uses tongs to hold up an sample of the company's trans fat-free Extra Crispy fried chicken in New York. New York City now has hard evidence that its ban on trans fat in restaurant food made a meaningful dent in people's consumption of the artery clogger and that the trans fat wasn't just replaced with another bad fat.
Fat ban makes food healthier
WASHINGTON — Turns out it’s possible to make a fast-food lunch a bit healthier even without skipping the fries. New York City now has hard evidence that its ban on trans fat in restaurant food m...
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Doctors discourage PSA screenings for men
WASHINGTON — There’s more advice on the contentious issue of prostate cancer screening: A leading group of cancer specialists says the decision hinges in part on a man’s life expectancy. Doctors...
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Manage your blood sugar with these nutritionists’ tips
According to a 2011 study from the Diabetes Prevention and Control program, 370,000 Kentuckians, or 10 percent of the state’s population, are estimated to have type 2 diabetes, compared to 8.7 perc...
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Dogs and cats can help a baby’s health
LOS ANGELES — Fido the dog and Ginger the cat need not worry about being replaced by a new baby — in fact, they could be helping parents raise healthier children. A new study finds that children...
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HEART opens doors to expensive meds
Since its humble beginning on Charles Thompson’s kitchen table 10 years ago, HEART USA has helped nearly 2,500 people in western Kentucky afford medications they otherwise couldn’t. HEART, short...
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Children’s blood pressure is a growing concern
Steadily rising numbers of young people diagnosed with high blood pressure has pediatricians concerned and researchers searching for a cause to the condition that has always been traditionally asso...
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Study reveals overuse of drug-coated heart stents
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A national group of researchers has found yet another example of how American medicine may be spending hundreds of millions of dollars more than necessary to keep us healthy. ...
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Report: Too little mental health care for boomers
WASHINGTON — Getting older doesn’t just mean a risk for physical ailments like heart disease and bum knees: A new report finds as many as 1 in 5 seniors has a mental health or substance abuse probl...
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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama's health care law says almost all Americans should get insurance coverage by 2014. What about uninsured young people who feel healthy and don't have money to spare? Some will probably skip coverage and pay financial penalties that will be much cheaper than insurance premiums. But health care advocates urge caution.
Health care options for young, healthy and broke
WASHINGTON — They’re young, healthy and flat broke — and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars’ worth of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twentysomethings do? We...
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