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First steps toward good dental health
It may seem basic, and it is: Brushing teeth is a task that most people learn at a very early age and keep up with faithfully throughout their entire lives. But sometimes, when something seems s...
Jun 20, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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MRI-safe pacemaker offered at Baptist Heart Center
If Kim Fox needs to have an MRI some day, she can, even though she has a pacemaker. Fox, 40, of Grand Rivers, recently received the first MRI-safe pacemaker at Western Baptist Hospital. MRI —...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service When cooking for a party, grill a little extra so you will have leftovers for dishes like Asian chicken and peanut butter sandwiches.
A lunch lift from leftovers
By Judy Hevrdejs McClatchy-Tribune News Service The outdoor grilling/picnic season is in full swing. If you covet your free time (and I do), you cook enough for 10 when only eight are coming ...
Jun 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Doc’s arthritis struggle shows illness’ severity
WASHINGTON — Dr. Sue Zieman can almost set her watch by her disease: Twice a day, she gets a fever and the already arthritic joints in her arms and hands, legs and feet abruptly, painfully swell e...
Jun 15, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Older moms a new movement
By John Sammon McClatchy-Tribune News Service WATSONVILLE, Calif. — At one time, women older than age 40 giving birth was a headline-making rarity. But today is a mainstream phenomenon. “I...
Jun 08, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Nutrition Quiz: Your coffee IQ
By Sam McManis McClatchy-Tribune News Service Great news for those who go on daily coffee jags: A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reports that the life-gi...
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Here’s how to prevent age spots
By Alison Johnson McClatchy-Tribune News Service Ask any dermatologist how to prevent brownish spots as you get older and you’ll likely get the answer given by Dr. Elizabeth McBurney, clinica...
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Patient says his HIV was cured
By Melissa Healy McClatchy-Tribune News Service LOS ANGELES — To many of the nation’s million people living with a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, Timothy Brown is the Harry Potter of the disease: Tod...
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Courtney Montgomery shows the scars of her heart transplant at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. on May 19. Given a choice Courtney had refused a heart transplant; but then she met another teen who’d just had one and was doing well. Associated Press
Bond overcomes girl’s fear
WASHINGTON — Courtney Montgomery’s heart was failing fast, but the 16-year-old furiously refused when her doctors, and her mother, urged a transplant. Previous surgeries hadn’t helped and the North...
May 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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‘Revolution is at hand’ for breakthroughs in medicine
Someday soon, thanks to advances in medicine, a surgeon will operate on a patient who is not in the same room, but thousands of miles away. Particles that are one-10,000th the thickness of a strand...
May 25, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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