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UPDATE: Goshen hospital data breach exposes personal information
WSBT-TV ReporterGOSHEN – Life-threatening diseases, ailments, and illnesses – doctors at IU Health Goshen Hospital treat it all. But a different kind of virus has the hospital on alert and the personal information of 12,000 people at risk. "We are very sorry...Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Health, Viral Diseases and Infections, Hospitals and Clinics
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British TV crew visits Indiana city for obesity show
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A British TV crew visited an Indiana city this week to film segments about obesity for a program called "Supersize vs. Superskinny." Producers from the show, which focuses on dieting and extreme eating lifestyles, visited...Tags: Heart Disease, Sleep Apnea, Health, Obesity, Health Insurance Cost
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Murder not a top cause of death, a first in 45 yrs
ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top causes of death. U.S. Health officials say the murder rate fell enough in 2010 to drop it out of the top 15 causes. Criminologists have not...Tags: Heart Disease, Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Murder, Cancer
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Girl, 9, who faced online taunts in 2010 dies
WYANDOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A 9-year-old Detroit-area girl whose battle with Huntington's disease drew attention after she was taunted online by a neighbor has died. Michigan Memorial Funeral Home in Flat Rock, which is handling arrangements, says...Tags: Health, Mount Hope, Diseases and Illnesses, Huntington's Disease, Facebook
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US wants effective Alzheimer's treatment by 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025. The Obama administration is developing the first National...Tags: Politics, Health, National Government, Symptoms, Government
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After possible exposure at Super Bowl Village, could measles break out in Michiana?
Measles have hit central Indiana and the Super Bowl may be to blame.
Indiana health officials said a person diagnosed with measles may have exposed visitors to the disease at Super Bowl Village in Indy on Friday. Now there are four more cases: Two in...Tags: Health, Football, Measles, MMR Vaccine, Symptoms
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Headlines for Wednesday, May 22, 2013
SAVING ABEL: Get New Single for Free
Saving Abel are giving away a download of their new single.
Fans can get the track "Mystify" at SavingAbel.com now. It will appear on the band's as-yet-to-be titled new EP,...Tags: New Year's Day, Emeril Lagasse , Football, Mitt Romney, The Doors (music group)
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Pregnancy: How a poor diet can affect your fetus
Pregnant women who eat poorly risk leaving their children less able to properly store fats in later life, leading to a higher risk of diabetes, according to research that sheds new light on how nutrition in the womb can permanently influence adult health....Tags: Heart Disease, Julie Deardorff, Health, Research, Cancer
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Paula Deen's diabetes: Blaming the victim?
As Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen certainly knows by now, people with Type 2 diabetes are routinely blamed for causing their disease by eating junky food and making unhealthy lifestyle choices.
Known for high fat recipes that raise the risk for...Tags: Heart Disease, Health, Weight, Weight, Food and Drug Administration
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Disability and desire
Life is divided into two phases: the one in which you're not supposed to be having sex and the one in which you're supposed to be having more sex.
Confusion abounds during both phases. But if you're living in the second phase — that is, you're an...Tags: Breast Cancer, Sexual Dysfunction, Health, Columbia University, Health and Medical Professionals
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Officials: Des Plaines woman who collapsed shoveling died from hemorrhage, cold exposure
One of two women who died Friday after collapsing while shoveling snow died in part from cold exposure, the Cook County medical examiner’s office found today.
Both Florence Erickson, 77, of Des Plaines, and Joan Lilek, 64, of Oak Lawn, died at...Tags: Heart Disease, Health, Park Ridge, Des Plaines, Oak Lawn
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Fighting for air
For brief moments, Cassie Stanley can forget her precarious relationship with death.
She forgot on Christmas morning when her family opened presents. At other times, she forgets by immersing herself in watching the Bulls or Cubs on TV in her family's...Tags: Health, Cystic Fibrosis, Lung Transplants, Wrigley Field, Hospitals and Clinics
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