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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Lindsay Avner is flanked by Mary Kate Fitzgerald, left, and Denise McClanahan at a presentation Avner made to Chicago Bulls employees, March 7, in Chicago. Avner had a preventive double mastectomy at age 23 and has since founded Bright Pink, an organization to help young women facing choices about breast and ovary health.
Double mastectomy offers pre-emptive cancer strike
CHICAGO — At age 23, Lindsay Avner took charge of her genetic fate: she elected to have her healthy breasts removed before cancer could strike first. Six years later, the resident of Chicago’s Nort...
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Benton Elementary receives Project Fit America grant
With a grant from Baptist Health Paducah, Benton Elementary School this fall will launch Project Fit America, a fitness program aimed at reducing childhood obesity. Benton is the sixth area scho...
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This is your teenager’s brain, growing up
Wondering where your teen’s mind is? A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests adolescents may be quite busy adding brain cells during puberty, and it might just ha...
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The cost of care
A new national report suggests 1 in 3 seniors will die from Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia as Alzheimer’s increasingly claims more people despite declines in other major diseases in the past...
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Violence more likely among vets, troops
LONDON — Young men who have served in the British military are about three times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers reported in a study that explores the ro...
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Student health checks
Veronika Pribyslavska, an intern at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital Center for Health and Wellness, checks the blood pressure of Haley Garland during a health screening at North Calloway Elemen...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Beulah Burton, 100, listens to Kevin Dunn sing gospel songs at West Georgia Hospice in LaGrange, Ga., on March 4. Every Monday for more than the past decade, Dunn sings songs at a hospice.
Singing offers comfort at hospice
ATLANTA — Shirley Gunn-Walton reads the Bible to her mother every time she visits her at a hospice. One day, while reading Psalms 23, Gunn-Walton hears a sound — so sweet, like a gentle breeze. ...
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Baptist Health to offer lung cancer screenings
Lung cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths across Kentucky, but more than 80 percent of such cancers can be cured if detected early. Baptist Health Paducah will offer th...
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American Red Cross seeks community volunteers
When becoming an American Red Cross volunteer, people join a caring group that truly makes a difference in the lives of fellow Americans. The Tennessee Valley Blood Services Region is in need of...
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Associated Press A health practitioner holds an OraQuick oral swab, a quick-result HIV screening test that can yield results in about 20 minutes, at Heartland CARES in Paducah in 2012. A Kentucky Health Issues Poll indicated only about three in 10 Kentuckians ages 18-64 reported discussing HIV testing with a medical provider.
Health providers miss opportunity
A new poll suggests Kentucky health-care providers might be losing valuable opportunities to discuss routine HIV screening with their patients, while most people report taking part in the viral tes...
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