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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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Researchers: Food memories may aid weight loss
Dieters may want to forget episodes of falling off the wagon, but researchers say an attentive memory for what is eaten could help people eat less at their next meals. So sitting at a movie with...
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Associated Press The Watchman, an experimental heart device, is on display. The future is unclear for the promising heart device aimed at preventing strokes in people at high risk of them because of an irregular heartbeat. Early results from a key study suggested it is safer than previous testing found, but may not be better than a drug that is used now for preventing strokes, heart-related deaths and blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation over the long term.
Device for stroke prevention misses key goal in recent study
SAN FRANCISCO — The future is unclear for a promising heart device aimed at preventing strokes in people at high risk of them because of an irregular heartbeat. Early results from a key study of...
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Food allergies keep some flipping through the menu
While it might be difficult for some afflicted with food allergies to find their perfect meal on a night out, a bill heading before Maryland’s legislators would require restaurants to make appropri...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Calvin Woodard helps a patient out of his van for her afternoon appointment Feb. 19 in south Los Angeles, Calif. Every weekday, Woodard ferries dozens of patients to and from T.H.E. Clinic. Many patients do not have transportation and prefer Woodard's door-to-door service over waiting at a bus stop.
Clinic’s driver helps patients on the go
LOS ANGELES — He knows all about his patients: who likes to cook, whose blood pressure is out of control, who is quarreling with her husband. He keeps track of their appointments and recalls many o...
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Murray hospital hosts free diabetes awareness screenings
Nearly 26 million people across the nation face an everyday battle with diabetes, costing more than $200 billion in medical costs, and a local hospital hopes to educate about the disease with free ...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Grant Halliburton Foundation president Vanita Halliburton talks with assistance from her daughter Amy Halliburton McCloskey, director of communications, Feb. 19, in Dallas, Texas. The two are helping raise awareness about teen and young adult mental health and suicide prevention after the death of Grant Halliburton, who took his own life at the age of 19.
Mental illness affects 1 in 5
DALLAS — Grant Halliburton was handsome, artistic, bright, popular and loved. He also suffered from bipolar disorder and depression. When he was 19, he jumped off a 10-story building to his deat...
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Sun files People walk through an inflatable colon exhibit at Baptist Health Paducah during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month in March 2011. Colorectal cancer remains one of the leading cancer killers in the nation, but is one of the most preventable if caught early.
Early cancer detection vital
Early detection through screenings can save lives in the fight against the nation’s second-leading cancer killer, a message health agencies nationwide hope to impart with a month-long awareness cam...
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New-found cells may heal damaged tissue
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — To their surprise, University of California, San Francisco researchers have discovered a new type of cell in women’s breast tissue that might one day be used to heal a variet...
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