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Obesity and cancer
WSBT-TVHow much you weigh could put you at major risk of developing cancer. In fact, doctors treat 100,000 cases every year, and those are only cancers linked to obesity. Body weight can determine who gets cancer, how you treat it and how likely you are to...Tags: Cervical Cancer, Chemotherapy, Obesity, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy Diet
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Twins conceived after dad died won't get benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says a man's children who were born through artificial insemination after his death cannot get Social Security survivor benefits. The high court on Monday unanimously ruled that twins born to Robert Capato's...Tags: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Human Interest, Social Security, Washington, DC
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'Family Feud' TV host Richard Dawson dies at 79
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s TV comedy "Hogan's Heroes" and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show "Family Feud" has...Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Marilyn Monroe, Game Shows, United Kingdom, The Washington Post
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Relay for Life of Washington County has goal of raising about $165,000
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comMore than 600 people signed up this year to take part in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Washington County, a fundraising event that began Friday afternoon and was scheduled to extend into the morning hours Saturday. Cancer...Tags: Cervical Cancer, Human Interest, Relay for Life, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), American Cancer Society
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Letters: Dying but not wanting to know
Re "Prescribing silence," Opinion, May 16 That Dr. Susan Partovi asked a patient if he wanted to know the details of his terminal illness is commendable. But relying on the old standby, "Do you want everything done?" — not so much. The medical...Tags: Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Medical Specialization, Pancreatic Cancer
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For a dying patient, a prescription of silence
His wife was a patient at the clinic where I worked in my early days as a doctor. I saw her regularly for hypertension. But on one visit, she was more concerned about her husband — let's call him Pedro. He was having stomach pains and difficulty...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, High Blood Pressure, University of California, Los Angeles, General Practitioners, David Geffen School of Medicine
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High-profile Orlando attorney seeds medical marijuana fight
John Morgan already has the battle cry for his upcoming fight to change Florida's constitution to legalize medical marijuana. "I'll take God's plant over Big Pharma's pills," Morgan says. Morgan, a high-profile Orlando attorney whose firm employs...Tags: Medical Marijuana Therapy, Barack Obama, OxyContin (drug), Government, Heroin
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In memory of Jerry Matelski: Fund created for memorial highway effort
BOYNE CITY -- An effort to designate Boyne City-Charlevoix Road as the Jerry Matelski Memorial Highway is under way. Matelski, a Boyne City resident who passed away in 2010 at age 57 of esophageal cancer, was instrumental in obtaining extensive...
Tags: Human Interest, Highway Transportation, Politics, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning
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PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel
Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....Tags: University of Michigan, Colleges and Universities, University of California, Los Angeles, Long Island, Freedom of the Press
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Robert Bernard Brogger
ROBERT BERNARD BROGGER Robert Bernard Brogger, best known as Bob, passed away at his Newport Beach home on Tuesday, April 9th at 11:51pm. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 Esophageal cancer in November of 2012 and fought well and hard throughout the...
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Hundred's camp out for Calexico's Relay for Life
Staff WriterCALEXICO — Cancer can be scary, but Calexico fought back in its annual Relay for Life event this weekend. Calexico resident Lorena Moreno received the news that she had breast cancer on April 16, 2012. The first thought that came to Lorena&...Tags: Human Interest, Relay for Life, American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer
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Dave Alvin headlines Juke Logan cancer benefit Sunday in L.A.
Dave Alvin and a slew of other veterans of the Southern California blues and roots music communities, including Junior Watson, James Harman and the Mike Eldred Trio, will gather Sunday at Café Fais Do Do in Los Angeles to salute harmonica ace John “...
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