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American Red Cross seeks community volunteers
When becoming an American Red Cross volunteer, people join a caring group that truly makes a difference in the lives of fellow Americans. The Tennessee Valley Blood Services Region is in need of...
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Associated Press A health practitioner holds an OraQuick oral swab, a quick-result HIV screening test that can yield results in about 20 minutes, at Heartland CARES in Paducah in 2012. A Kentucky Health Issues Poll indicated only about three in 10 Kentuckians ages 18-64 reported discussing HIV testing with a medical provider.
Health providers miss opportunity
A new poll suggests Kentucky health-care providers might be losing valuable opportunities to discuss routine HIV screening with their patients, while most people report taking part in the viral tes...
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Stretch marks are more than skin deep
OAKLAND, Calif. — For many women, they’re the red, white or sometimes brown badges of bearing children. But while pregnant women are the group with whom we most frequently associate stretch mark...
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Violence more likely among vets, troops
LONDON — Young men who have served in the British military are about three times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers reported in a study that explores the ro...
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When blood clots strike the healthy
DALLAS — Blood clots don’t tend to grab headlines. Mostare caused by trauma or recent surgery, said Dr. James Kohn, a vascular surgeon on the medical staff at Doctors Hospital at White Rock Lake...
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Student health checks
Veronika Pribyslavska, an intern at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital Center for Health and Wellness, checks the blood pressure of Haley Garland during a health screening at North Calloway Elemen...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Beulah Burton, 100, listens to Kevin Dunn sing gospel songs at West Georgia Hospice in LaGrange, Ga., on March 4. Every Monday for more than the past decade, Dunn sings songs at a hospice.
Singing offers comfort at hospice
ATLANTA — Shirley Gunn-Walton reads the Bible to her mother every time she visits her at a hospice. One day, while reading Psalms 23, Gunn-Walton hears a sound — so sweet, like a gentle breeze. ...
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Baptist Health to offer lung cancer screenings
Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths across Kentucky, but more than 80 percent of such cancers can be cured if detected early. Baptist Health Paducah will offer th...
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Researchers: Food memories may aid weight loss
Dieters may want to forget episodes of falling off the wagon, but researchers say an attentive memory for what is eaten could help people eat less at their next meals. So sitting at a movie with...
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Associated Press The Watchman, an experimental heart device, is on display. The future is unclear for the promising heart device aimed at preventing strokes in people at high risk of them because of an irregular heartbeat. Early results from a key study suggested it is safer than previous testing found, but may not be better than a drug that is used now for preventing strokes, heart-related deaths and blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation over the long term.
Device for stroke prevention misses key goal in recent study
SAN FRANCISCO — The future is unclear for a promising heart device aimed at preventing strokes in people at high risk of them because of an irregular heartbeat. Early results from a key study of...
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