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Hospital hosts cloth diaper change record
As part of an attempt to set a world record, Western Baptist Hospital plans to take part in the Great Cloth Diaper Change Saturday to correspond with International Cloth Diaper Awareness Week. T...
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Positive outlook on life is good for your heart
WASHINGTON — Be happy — it seems to be good for your heart. Scientists have long known that Type A personalities and people who are chronically angry, anxious or depressed have a higher risk of ...
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Black women more likely to face HPV troubles
CHICAGO — Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer: They seem to have more trouble clearing HPV, the v...
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Alzheimer’s diagnostic aid gets FDA approval
PHILADELPHIA — A radioactive compound that lights up plaques in the brain to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in patients being evalua...
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Lengthy hormone use raises cancer risk
CHICAGO — New research suggests that long-term use of any type of hormones to ease menopause symptoms can raise a woman’s risk of breast cancer. It is already known that taking pills that combin...
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WILL PINKSTON | The Sun Norm Wallace (right), chairman of the Purchase Area Master Gardeners Association vegetable garden, helps fellow master gardeners, Melissa Thaxton and Genet Davenport, prepare an example of a backyard vegetable planting box. At the group's plant sale on May 5 at the demonstration garden on Coleman Road, gardeners will show how to plant a simple backyard vegetable garden.
Enjoy home grown, healthy veggies
In a society that always stresses an environmentally conscious effort, testing one’s green thumb with backyard veggies promotes a renewable source of nutritious options, while keeping the green in ...
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Study: Autism may be linked to obesity during pregnancy
CHICAGO — Obesity during pregnancy may increase chances for having a child with autism, new research suggests. It’s among the first studies linking the two, and though it doesn’t prove obesity c...
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Reliance on BMI understates true obesity crisis, researchers say
WASHINGTON— As if the nation’s weight problems were not daunting enough, a new study has found that the body-mass index, the 200-year-old formula used to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy w...
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Associated Press Christopher Astacio reads with his daughter Cristina, 2, recently diagnosed with a mild form of autism, in her bedroom on March 28 in New York. Autism cases are on the rise again, largely due to wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials said.
Autism rates up; screening, better diagnosis cited
ATLANTA  — Autism cases are on the rise again, largely because of wider screening and better diagnosis, according to federal health officials. The rate of U.S. cases of autism and related disord...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Lupus Alliance of America Michigan/Indiana Affiliate Marketing Director Sharon L. Harris wears the Lupus Warrior bracelet on March 16 at the organization's St. Clair Shores, Mich. office.
Oft-misunderstood lupus comes out
DETROIT— The day Sharon Harris graduated from Florida A&M University was supposed to be one of jubilation. But Harris was exhausted and weak. She attributed it to the stress of final exams, p...
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