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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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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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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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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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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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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Rob Evans, 61, sits at the UCLA Hospital in Westwood, Calif., on July 28, where he is a heart transplant patient. The hospital is experimenting with a new heart transplant procedure that keeps the heart beating outside the body using a mechanical device instead of the traditional ice method to preserve the organ in transit.
Warm-heart transplants tested
LOS ANGELES — Rob Evans, a 61-year-old social worker from Apache Junction, Ariz., got the good news on Father’s Day: After 3½ years, doctors had found him a heart and were preparing to bring it to ...
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Families urge action as US drafts plan
WASHINGTON — As her mother’s Alzheimer’s worsened over eight long years, so did Doreen Alfaro’s bills: The walker, then the wheelchair, then the hospital bed, then the diapers — and the caregivers ...
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Report: 366 million people now have diabetes
LONDON — An estimated 366 million people worldwide now suffer from diabetes and the global epidemic is getting worse, health officials said Tuesday. The International Diabetes Federation describ...
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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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