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Saber-rattling fits the family Stone
The four Stone kids always were a competitive bunch, especially the three youngest siblings who were separated by three school grades while being home-schooled together. "They worked very hard to keep up with each other — and beat each other," said...
Tags: Sabre, Philosophy, Columbia University, Mariel Zagunis, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Margel L. Burton, factory worker
Margel L. Burton, a retired factory worker and former longtime Dundalk resident, died March 29 from complications of pneumonia at Carolina Point Nursing Home in Durham, N.C. She was 81. The daughter of farmers, the former Margel Love Gray was born and...
Tags: Heart Disease, Heart Surgery, Dundalk, Hospitals and Clinics, Durham (Durham, North Carolina)
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Medication nation: Study shows antibiotic overuse
NEW YORK (AP) — 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. Overuse is one reason antibiotics are losing...
Tags: Diabetes, Azithromycin (drug), Swine Flu, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Dangers of secondhand smoke are many
County coronerSince I wrote about the harmful effects of smoking in April, I thought this would be a great time to cover the facts about secondhand smoke. Many people think this is just a political issue about who had the right to smoke, and who has the right to a...Tags: Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, Ear Infection, Human Rights, Leukemia
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South African ruling party criticized over video of frail Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Tuesday defended a controversial decision to allow the broadcast on television of a video of an unsmiling Nelson Mandela, looking frail, pallid and uncomfortable, as...
Tags: Sociology, Government, European Union, Nelson Mandela, Jacob Zuma
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Hilary Koprowski dies at 96; developed oral vaccine for polio
Hilary Koprowski, a Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccine for polio, has died. He was 96. Koprowski died of pneumonia April 11 at his Philadelphia home, said his son, Dr. Christopher Koprowski, a radiation oncologist....
Tags: Discrimination, Biotechnology Industry, Preventative Medicine, Technology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Is medical care shipshape?
After dinner and a walk around their Viking River Cruises ship on Russia's Volga River last May, Charles and Cecilia Ford went back to their cabin. Charles, 82, was in a good mood, his wife said, cracking jokes and singing during their walk. But he also...Tags: Russia, Heart Problems
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Q&A: Ask the pediatrician! Dr. Diana Blythe answers your questions about kids' health
Have a question for Dr. Blythe? Write to her at AskThePediatrician@tribune.com. For more information on Dr. Blythe, go to pediatricassociates.com.
April 29, 2013
Q: My 5-year-old daughter just had her adenoids and tonsils removed because of snoring...Tags: Sociology, Deerfield Beach, Menarche, Ulcerative Colitis, Swelling
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Austerity is hurting our health, say researchers
ReutersBy Kate Kelland LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and infectious diseases and reducing access to medicines and care, researchers said on Monday....Tags: Malaria, Sweden, University of Oxford, Viral Diseases and Infections, HIV
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South Africa's Mandela in good health, good spirits - ANC
ReutersJOHANNESBURG, April 29 (Reuters) - Anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is in good health and good spirits, South Africa's ruling African National Congress said on Monday, in the first update on his condition since he was discharged from hospital in early...Tags: Johannesburg (South Africa), U.S. Congress, Nelson Mandela, Jacob Zuma, Tuberculosis
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Boyertown elementary school student dies of meningitis
A Boyertown School District elementary student has died of bacterial meningitis. Boyertown acting Superintendent Robert L. Scoboria released a statement to school district parents Friday, sending his condolences to the child's family and friends and...Tags: Students, Meningitis, Teaching and Learning, Flu, Common Cold
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March of Dimes fosters healthy pregnancies
alnotarianni@aol.comTerri Shoemaker had heard of March of Dimes. She knew a little about the organization, she said, but not enough to think about supporting it. Then 20 years ago, her son, Kelton Miller, was born five weeks early. “He was 6 and a half pounds. He...Tags: Premature Birth, March of Dimes Foundation, Polio, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)
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