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Red Cross announces fall blood drives
Though the leaves are changing colors and the temperatures are dropping, the need for blood remains a constant and the American Red Cross requests donors during its Give Something That Means Someth...
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Keep list of your meds in your wallet
What’s in your wallet? Do you have a written list of the medications you take? If not, it might kill you, as it does thousands of people every year. Lack of an accurate medication list als...
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FDA OKs expanded uses for Xarelto blood thinner
NEW YORK — Johnson & Johnson’s Xarelto received an expanded indication as the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the blood thinner both to treat and to reduce the risk of recurrence of...
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Associated Press Dr. Joshua M. Hare, director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, performs a heart biopsy, a preliminary step in one of several cardiac stem cell trials, Oct. 31 at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Study: Strangers’ stem cells can repair hearts
LOS ANGELES — Researchers are reporting a key advance in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. In a study, stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as pati...
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Infant HIV test seen as breakthrough for Africa
CHICAGO — In HIV-plagued sub-Saharan Africa, it can take up to three months for mothers to learn whether their babies have been infected by the deadly virus, delaying what could be life-sustaining ...
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Associated Press Mary Tappe holds up the defibrillator that she keeps in the trunk of her automobile during a work break at the Western Union headquarters in Englewood, Colo. Tappe owes her life to bystanders' willingness to offer help. In 2004, she collapsed at her office in Iowa. A co-worker called 911; another quickly began CPR and someone else used the office's automated heart defibrillator. An ambulance took Tappe to the hospital, where doctors said her heart had stopped. They never determined why but implanted an internal defibrillator. Tappe, 51, who now lives in Englewood, said raising awareness about the importance of CPR is "incredibly important because that's the first step" to helping people survive.
CPR less likely for minorities on street or home
CHICAGO — People who collapse from cardiac arrest in poor black neighborhoods are half as likely to get CPR from family members at home or bystanders on the street as those in better-off white neig...
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An ounce of prevention
Contributed photo Flu vaccinations Kindergarten student Casey Tidwell (left) and second grader Hunter Winebarger, both of Southwest Calloway Elementary School, show off their flu vaccinations...
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Targeted therapies coming up in cancer treatments
BALTIMORE — If there ever was a right time to be diagnosed with breast cancer, Beth Thompson found one. In February 2006, the pea-size tumor in her right breast was too small for a clinical tria...
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Did you wash your hands? Studies show you probably didn’t do it properly
Washing your hands after using the bathroom — not to mention after touching any number of public surfaces, from doorknobs to subway handrails to oh-so-disgusting toilet flush levers — is a basic ru...
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Officials debate whether or not to scrap malaria program
LONDON — The future of a pricey malaria program meant to provide cheap drugs for poor patients may be in jeopardy after health officials clashed over its effectiveness in two new reports. In 201...
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