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Lourdes welcomed Dr. Griffin K. Bicking to its medical staff. Bicking graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery. Bicking is now accepting...
Nov 19, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Madisonville hospital joins Baptist Health
Baptist Health welcomed Trover Health System as its eighth hospital across the state, bolstering the health network’s coverage in western Kentucky. Effective Nov. 1, Trover Health System — locat...
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FDA sought to close pharmacy in 2003
WASHINGTON — Nearly a decade ago, federal health inspectors wanted to shut down the pharmacy linked to a recent deadly meningitis outbreak until it cleaned up its operations, according to congressi...
Nov 14, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Associated Press A mother watches over her child who is suffering from severe malaria in the Siaya hospital Oct. 30, 2009, in western Kenya. Malaria is spread by mosquitoes and kills more than 650,000 people every year, mostly young children and pregnant women in Africa.
Malaria vaccine less effective for infants
LONDON — An experimental malaria vaccine once thought promising is turning out to be a disappointment, with a new study showing it is only about 30 percent effective at protecting infants from the ...
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Sun files Terri Walters, radiation oncology nurse at Western Baptist Hospital, gets her blood drawn by Brett Meyers during open enrollment for the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study 3 at Western Baptist in April. The second round of open enrollment will begin Thursday at Lourdes hospital.
Cancer study enrollment to begin
It was the very first cancer prevention study that helped conclude the link between smoking and lung cancer. Now nearly 40 years after that study’s conclusion — on the day the nation recognizes ...
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Study: Vitamins don’t lower heart risks in men
LOS ANGELES — Multivitamins might help lower the risk for cancer in healthy older men but they do not affect their chances of developing heart disease, new research suggests. Two other studies f...
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Associated Press Packages of the medicine Tamiflu by Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche are displayed on April 28, 2009 in Stuttgart, southern Germany. A leading British medical journal is asking the drug maker Roche to release all its data on Tamiflu, claiming there is no evidence the drug can actually stop the flu.
Medical journal slams Tamiflu
LONDON — A leading British medical journal is asking the drug maker Roche to release all its data on Tamiflu, claiming there is no evidence the drug can actually stop the flu. The drug has been ...
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Hospital to offer free flu shots
Western Baptist Hospital will offer free flu shots from 8 a.m. to noon, or until supplies run out, today. Shots will be administered only to people 18 and older. The flu shot clinic will be in t...
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Spray developed to detect poison oak’s toxins
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The last time Rebecca Braslau got a bad case of poison oak, she found herself pondering the chemical structure of urushiol, the toxic oil in poison oak and its relatives, poiso...
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Surgery seems best for heart disease in diabetics
LOS ANGELES — New research shows that people with diabetes and several clogged heart arteries fare better with bypass surgery instead of having stents placed to prop open their blood vessels. Do...
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