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New research shows being married helps heart surgery patients survive
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterHeart bypass surgery is fairly common these days. Now new research shows being married might help your long term survival. Being happily married helps even more. (Full study results below) One local couple is living proof that a happy marriage really...Tags: Family, Heart Surgery, High Blood Pressure, Stress, Obesity
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Physical activity reduces the risk of diabetic neuropathy
Clark County Health DepartmentRegular physical activity can help reduce your risk for or the severity of nerve damage and pain from diabetic neuropathy, but you may need to modify some parts of your exercise program so that other problems don’t develop. First, talk with your...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, American Diabetes Association, Diabetes, Health
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Cleveland tragedy reminds us of importance of knowing neighbors
Americans were at once thrilled and horrified with the news this week out of Cleveland. Three long-missing women ... found alive after all these years. With details still trickling out, we've only scratched the surface of the nightmare lived by Amanda...
Tags: Amanda Berry, The Wall Street Journal, Dwayne Johnson, Gina DeJesus, Michelle Knight
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Mom charged in son's shooting
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA Southeast Texas woman is facing a felony charge for allegedly delaying hospital treatment of her teenage son's gunshot wound until she researched treatment options online. The incident happened Tuesday evening at the family's home in Santa Fe,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Shootings
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WebMD top management steps down
ReutersMay 7 (Reuters) - WebMD Health Corp said Chief Executive Cavan Redmond, appointed last June, will be leaving as the health information provider reported a narrower quarterly loss. Shares of the company were up about 10 percent at $27.94 in after-hours...Tags: Advertising, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Finance, WebMD Health Corporation
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Complementing end-of-life care
Of the countless painful decisions surrounding a loved one's end-of-life care, among the trickiest is how to provide physical comfort in a way that also provides a dignified ending. "For end of life, the opioids are very important for pain management,...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Chemical Industry, Massage Therapy, Pharmaceuticals, Vomiting
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One for the record books
HealthThere are all sorts of stories lurking in the piles of data compiled by government and scientific researchers, but you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to see some major implications in the birth data reported recently in the journal Pediatrics. According... -
Barbara Walters, a.k.a. Benjamin Button, has chicken pox
Barbara Walters has chicken pox. Not shingles, which comes from the same virus and is something one might more likely expect in a woman who's 83 years old. No, Babs has good old-fashioned chicken pox. "She'd never had it as a child," Whoopi...Tags: Shingles, Whoopi Goldberg, Flu, Social Media, Google Inc.
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How to stick to your new year's resolution fitness plan
It's a new year and once again some of you have made the ubiquitious goal to get in shape and lose weight. Most of you will fail. By the end of the month the crowds at the gym will thin out and all that will be left are the die- hard exercisers. But...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School
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Fight against cancer is a fact of life for Manchester girl, 11, and her family
Like all parents, John and Tammy Carver face daily challenges in trying to raise a large brood. But for the Manchester couple, who have adopted six youngsters from orphanages in Russia and Belarus between 1997 and 2004, those challenges also include...
Tags: Health Treatments, FedEx Field, Chemotherapy, Arthur Jones, MRI (imaging)
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Column: No easy fix for school violence
After the unspeakable tragedy of school shootings in Connecticut, a number of ideas have been brought forth regarding how to prevent a similar event from ever happening again. From banning guns to hiring armed security guards in every school, the...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School
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Fighting mental illness
Maybe something good will come from the Shakespearean tragedy that is the Jesse Jackson Jr. saga: A deeper understanding of mental illness and more empathy for those afflicted with it. Or maybe not. The level of cynicism in these parts is so high that...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Mayo Clinic, Washington, DC, Substance Abuse, Philosophy
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