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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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Parkview receives Gold standard for rehab
Parkview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Paducah achieved the Gold rehab standard from the Life Care Centers of America’s 111-point quality audit. According to the center, each Life Care bu...
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Agency requests local 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 Lincoln Park Zoo researcher Anna Czupryna, left, visits a household in the village of Nangale, Tanzania, to collect data on family dogs on Oct. 6, 2012.
How to keep the fight against rabies alive
BUNDA, Tanzania — Tucked in a quiet corner of the bustling area occupied by this town’s bus station and central market, the setup doesn’t look like much: a few of the country’s ubiquitous four-whee...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Dr. Edward Tobinick injects Anna Alfaro with a treatment aimed at helping brain injury patients recover movement years after stroke or other injury. The treatment was given in Boca Raton, Fla., on Dec. 3, 2012.
Stroke survivors get shot at mobility
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A single injection, then a five-minute wait. That’s all it took for hundreds of stroke and traumatic brain injury patients from South Florida and nationwide to reverse ye...
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Taking the Pulse
Lourdes announced the promotion of Tara Miller to vice president and chief philanthropy officer for Lourdes and Lourdes Foundation. Miller had served as executive director of Lourdes Foundation. Sh...
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On the cover WILL PINKSTON | The Sun The instruments of the da Vinci surgical robot demonstrate their dexterity by picking up pennies from an operating table during the unveiling of a surgical expansion at Western Baptist Hospital in November. A new study released by the Dartmouth Atlas Project highlighted the frequencies of elective surgeries throughout Kentucky for 2008-10.
Study: Surgery selection depends on location
A new national study suggests patients may receive certain types of elective surgeries more commonly based on where they live — a factor of regional physicians’ experience and training — as opposed...
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