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FDA warns heart patients of risk from a second antibiotic
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned that the widely prescribed antibiotic azithromycin -- marketed as Zithromax and Zmax -- may cause potentially fatal changes in the heart rhythm of people who are taking medications to treat...Tags: Ear Infection, Chlamydia , Drugs and Medicines, Ciprofloxacin (drug), Cardiac Arrhythmia
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Grandson of Johnny Oates spends some quality time with Orioles
The Baltimore SunSARASOTA, Fla. — Just before Wednesday's workout began at the Ed Smith Stadium Complex, Orioles manager Buck Showalter called for 10-year-old Johnny Oates II and his younger brother Jackson to hop the fence and join the team on the field. The...Tags: Heart Murmur, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Religious Festivals, Grapefruit League
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Alaska State Legislature Memorializes Long-Time Bean's Café Executive Director
Channel 2 NewsThe Alaska State Legislature issued a Proclamation of Memoriam to honor Jim Crockett, the former Executive Director of Bean's Café. Crockett, who served as Executive Director for 11 years, died from pneumonia last November. The shock of his sudden death...Tags: Mike Chenault
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A tribe's favorite son comes up big
SOBOBA INDIAN RESERVATION, Calif. — On a cracked and weed-choked court buffeted by mountain winds and watched by coyotes, the basketballs seem to grow on trees. The scrubby landscape in the ravine that spreads behind the rusted pole and solitary...
Tags: Sage, Rentals, College Basketball, Basketball, University of California, Los Angeles
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Teen's battle with cancer becomes a fight to help others
In life, you never know what the next moment might bring. One moment you're a 14-year-old boogie-boarding at Daytona Beach and tubing on Lake Ivanhoe, and the next you're staring at an X-ray of a grapefruit-sized bomb in your youthful chest. That...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Human Interest, Charity, Cancer, Chemotherapy
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When a drug costs 30 times what it once did
Diane Shattuck filled a prescription in December for a generic antibiotic called doxycycline. With insurance, she paid $4.30 for 60 pills at a CVS store in Orange. She returned at the end of February to refill her prescription. This time, she was told...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Prices, Watson Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Swiss Confederation, Skin Rash
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Multiple myeloma -- what is it? Is there a cure?
Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the cells in the bone marrow that affects 750,000 people worldwide; it is an uncontrolled growth of plasma cells which attack and destroy bone and damage the kidneys and immune system. In the United States, there are...
Tags: Multiple Myeloma, Thalidomide (drug), Cancer, Lymphoma, Chemotherapy
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Diagnosis: You're old
Here's a big question: When does old age begin? Will 30 years do it? Is being 50 and the holder of an AARP card with senior discounts enough? Both would be wrong guesses. Until recently, I hadn't thought much about it. Yet, I got the answer to this...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Flu Vaccine, Healthy Diet, Disease Prevention, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Frances "Mignon" Thorson
Frances “Mignon” (Smith) Thorson, age 99, of Sundance, Wyoming passed from this earth on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at Crook County Memorial Hospital in Sundance, Wyoming. Mignon was the fourth child of 13, born June 12, 1913, in...
Tags: Family, Human Interest, State Parks, Heart Disease, Parenting
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Special precautions should be taken when operating on the elderly
Surgery on older people can be riskier than other generations. But it can be safely done if doctors take certain precautions. Dr. Mark Katlic, chief of surgery at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and an expert on surgical care of patients 80 and older, talks...
Tags: Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Agriculture, Medical Procedures and Tests, Procedural Sedation, Heart Surgery
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Flu cases soaring in Kentucky
Regional epidemiologist, Jessamine County Health DepartmentWe are experiencing an early and intense influenza season this year with the activity level in Kentucky remaining at widespread. Influenza is a very contagious disease caused by the flu virus, which spreads from infected persons to the nose and throat...Tags: Flu Vaccine, Preventative Medicine, Viral Diseases and Infections, Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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New lung transplant program helps 10 area patients breathe easier
Vital Signs Health Blog - Orlando SentinelTen Central Florida patients, including 24-year-old Brent Snyder, are breathing easier today thanks to lung transplants they received at Florida Hospital Orlando. The hospital’s new lung transplant program debuted six months ago, and completes the...
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