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Unhealthy workers face higher premiums
If you’re overweight, have high blood pressure, smoke or are diabetic, your employer may soon require you to improve your health, get counseling on the issue or pay a fine, especially if you work f...
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Americans overuse antibiotics, study finds
NEW YORK — U.S. doctors are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 4 out of 5 Americans every year, an alarming pace that suggests they are being overused, a new government study finds. ...
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Medical team uses ‘ick’ factor to cure GI infection
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pam Kee calls herself a “mixologist.” But the concoction in her blender comes together at a hospital. Kee is a nurse at Carolinas Medical Center-University, where she assist...
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Most kids’ meals still far from healthy, group warns
ORLANDO, Fla. — Even though children’s nutrition has received lots of attention the past few years, you’re still more likely to find chicken fingers and fries on kids’ menus than wraps and salads. ...
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10 minutes can relieve your stress
If meditation sounds intriguing, you can try it out — in as few as 10 minutes a day — without leaving your office. “I’d say there’s quite a range (of styles), says Mark Coleman, a longtime teach...
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Rosy cheeks or childhood virus?
In music a perfect fifth might ring true, although when it comes to a common children’s ailment, fifth disease proves anything but harmonious. A viral derivative of the human parvovirus B19, ery...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Charlotte Wendel, 10, practices on the piano at her family home in Schwenksville, Penn., on March 13. Charlotte has a form of encephalitis, or brain inflammation, that was caused by her own immune system.
Encephalitis: Betrayed by the brain
PHILADELPHIA — In hindsight, Susan Wendel thinks her daughter was sick months before she wound up in a coma. Charlotte’s second-grade teacher that fall complained that she was disruptive. That w...
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IGT: Some moms can’t breast feed
CHICAGO — After struggling to breast-feed her first two children, Nyssa Retter was determined to do better with her third. She gave birth without painkillers, which may make newborns slightly dr...
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Contributed photo Dr. Corey Forester (from left); Becky Johnson, certified nurse midwife; and Dr. Matthew Price, pose for a picture at their practice in April. The midwifery services are now available in Marshall and Calloway counties.
Certified midwifery services extend to Marshall, Calloway
Traditional in its approach to childbirth, new midwifery services will give expectant mothers in Marshall and Calloway counties more options when considering their birthing plan. Joining service...
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China bird flu mutates, might infect mammals
BEIJING — In a worrisome sign, a bird flu in China appears to have mutated so that it can spread to other animals, raising the potential for a bigger threat to people, scientists say. As of Apri...
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