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Cancer Society seeks drivers
More than 25,000 Kentuckians are expected to be diagnosed with cancer this year, and for many of them, getting to treatment may be the toughest part of their fight. The American Cancer Society’s...
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Kentucky goes red for heart month
Murray-Calloway County Hospital encourages people to don their favorite red apparel and participate in a free health screening in recognition of American Heart Month. The hospital invites the co...
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Associated Press Medical student Jimmy Beasley speaks with Joan Terry about her sister, donor Judy A. Clemens, after a memorial service Friday for bodies donated to science at Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest in Gary, Ind. During the hour-long service, relatives of donors gather around the steel tables where their loved ones were dissected along with the medical students who worked on the bodies during the previous semester. The program is geared toward teaching the medical students that this is not merely a cadaver, but a person, and their first patient.
Med students honor cadavers in dissection lab
GARY, Ind. — When medical students have finished their study and practice on cadavers, they often hold a respectful memorial service to honor these bodies donated to science. But the ceremonies ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Smoke Signals
Facing some of the highest rates of lung cancer and heart disease in the nation, Kentuckians’ changing perceptions of smoke-free laws shows favor with regulations that could limit smoking in all pu...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Sandra Nauer had heard horror stories about hysterectomies from older relatives, but her recovery took about two weeks with no complications and she was able to return to her job as a caterer.
Hysterectomy rates drop as women learn options
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Not until after the surgery did Sandra Nauer realize how sick she’d been. After years of excruciating back pain, fatigue and other symptoms, she had an outpatient hysterecto...
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Western Baptist one of country’s best for obstetrics
Western Baptist Hospital is one of 356 hospitals nationwide recognized by WomenCertified as the "Best Hospitals for Patient Experience in Obstetrics." The obstetrics award is for 2013. Baptist was...
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Your medical chart could include exercise minutes
CHICAGO — Roll up a sleeve for the blood pressure cuff. Stick out a wrist for the pulse-taking. Lift your tongue for the thermometer. Report how many minutes you are active or getting exercise. ...
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Taking the Pulse
Debra Holt-Irby, a registered nurse and former Mayfield resident, has been named the director of nursing at Holliswood Hospital in Hollis, N.Y. Holt-Irby, the daughter of Henry L. Blythe and Nad...
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Murray-Calloway plans hybrid operating room
As the aging baby boomer generation begins to seek medical care for their heart and vascular system, Murray-Calloway County Hospital announced plans to upgrade its surgical unit to accommodate and ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Argonne computational biologist Daniel Smith swabs the floor in a new hospital room to collect microbial samples on Dec. 5 at the University of Chicago Hospital in Chicago. The hospital is not yet open to the public.
‘We are 90 percent bacteria,’ reseracher says
CHICAGO — Biologist Daniel Smith crouched in an empty patient room at the new University of Chicago hospital and dragged a white cotton swab across the gleaming tile. Smith studied the dust-smud...
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