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Diabetes increases among nation’s youth
Generally considered a disease diagnosed in adults, type 2 diabetes has increasingly become a point of physicians’ concern among the nation’s youth. According to a report published in the Januar...
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Program examines LGBT health issues
PHILADELPHIA — Take five or 10 minutes, the professor said, and write down things that you love, like, need, or enjoy. Now pair up with someone you don’t know and spend 20 minutes introducing yo...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Jana Bregor, 68, left, who has struggled with her weight for decades, listens to Rebecca Sturges, M.S., in a therapy session in Sacramento, Calif., on March 20. She has Binge Eating Disorder (BED), which is finally gaining recognition: The new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will list it.
Guidelines offer hope for binge-eating
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — At one time or another, Jana Begor has tried most of the commercially advertised diets, not to mention the grapefruit diet and the cabbage soup diet. She became a vegan. She tr...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, talks with his patient Tiffany Hendricks and her mother, Juanita, about the difference between a healthy and damaged heart on March 21 in Chicago.
Doctors should watch diet
Despite a growing consensus that cardiovascular disease is a “food-borne” illness, many physicians are ill-prepared to advise patients on what they should eat to best protect them from heart attack...
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Leukemia patient trains for race
DALLAS — Justin Ozuna of Plano, Texas, will tell you he’s not a runner, and he’ll beam that white-toothed smile as he says the words. But with every step away from his leukemia diagnosis — on the t...
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Contributed photo Children prepare to release balloons with messages to their departed loved ones during the final ceremony of Lourdes Hospice Camp Robin in spring 2012. Camp Robin is a free day camp open to grieving children, teens and parents, helping to provide support and coping skills as people deal with the loss of loved ones.
Camp offers refuge during times of grief
Suffering through the loss of a loved one can take its toll on anyone, but especially in children, the grieving process often begins with confusion, leaving parents or guardians the difficult task ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Joey Wever, 63, is HIV-positive. Thanks to antiretroviral treatments the life expectancy of people with HIV is increasing with many living to their 50s, 60s and older.
Aging with HIV offers own health challenge
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Not long after Bob Reed learned in 1986 that he had AIDS, he watched 20 of his friends die from the disease as it ravaged his body and he battled to survive. Today, as he ...
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American Red Cross seeks community volunteers
The Tennessee Valley Blood Services Region is in need of volunteers. Each year the American Red Cross collects more than 6 million units of blood from roughly 3.5 million volunteer donors. B...
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Cold and flu season brings rash of pinkeye
ATLANTA — Elizabeth Brockob’s eye was red and hurting, so she went to the internet for a diagnosis. Within minutes the 13-year-old from Johns Creek, Ga., was convinced she was going blind and th...
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Early number sense affects later math skills
WASHINGTON — We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as...
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