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Ellen Dunning, interim area director for the American Cancer Society, prepares a wig for a breast cancer patient. The ACS offers wigs, make-up and personal care instruction in its Look Good, Feel Better program. Women with cancer have an opportunity to meet other patients and improve their morale by overcoming side effects of treatment.
Look Good, Feel Better helps patients deal with side effects
The American Cancer Society has a program to improve a woman’s morale while she battles breast cancer. Mary Huff, health initiatives representative for the ACS in Paducah, said while battling a ...
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Study: Whooping cough vaccination fades in three years
ATLANTA — The whooping cough vaccine given to babies and toddlers loses much of its effectiveness after just three years — a lot faster than doctors believed — and that could help explain a recent ...
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Real-time tracking of diseases aids diagnosis
WASHINGTON — The doctor doesn’t think your sore throat is bad enough yet to order a strep test — unaware that a dozen people across town were diagnosed with strep throat just last week. Doctors ...
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Grants to aid in checking health insurers
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Tuesday announced $109 million in grants to states to help them beef up oversight of health insurers, a key goal of the health care law the president signed la...
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Poor countries increase health spending
UNITED NATIONS — Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nepal and some of the world’s other poorest countries delivered not only money but new services in the year since U.N. member states pledged more than $40 bil...
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ALAN REED | THE SUN Dr. Donald Spicer, urologist at Western Baptist Hospital, demonstrates the DaVinci Surgical Robot. With the DaVinci, Spicer can remove a cancerous prostate with minimal pain, minimal recovery time and a small incision. Through a video of an actual surgery, Spicer demonstrated the dexterity he can manipulate the robot with inside a patient's body.
Prostate 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths in US men
The American Cancer Society reports 240,890 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011 while 33,720 men will die from the disease this year. According to the cancer society, 1-in-6 men w...
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Teen superhero succumbs
SEATTLE — In real life he was Erik Martin, a boy with a constellation of severe health problems and a rare form of cancer. But in his imagination he was Electron Boy, a superhero who saved Seattle ...
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Amber Spears, a RN at the offices of Dr.s Lisa Cheney Lasher and Amanda Wagner prepares a HPV injection for a patient. Wagner said she considers HPV vaccines to be safe and recommends all girls and women between 9 and 26 receive the shot which could protect them from cervical cancer.
Doctor, CDC agree HPV vaccine does not cause health defects
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said human papillomavirus vaccine shows no risk of causing mental retardation in innoculated children. Republican presidential candidate Congr...
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Older pills often safer; many think new is better
CHICAGO — Many consumers mistakenly believe new prescription drugs are always safer than those with long track records, and that only extremely effective drugs without major side effects win govern...
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Internet photo This picture shows healthy red blood cells under magnification.
Minorities at greatest risk of sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, sickle cell disease affects between 70,000 and 100,00...
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