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Drunk on Facebook? That could be a problem
ReutersCollege students' Facebook pages might hold clues to which of them are at risk for alcohol dependence and abuse, according to a new study. Researchers found that students who had pictures or posts about getting drunk or blacking out were more likely to...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alcohol Addiction, Mass Media
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News of the Weird: Save Your Liposuction Juices
Risky Business Models: (1) Orlando-area cosmetic surgeon Jeffrey Hartog inaugurated Liquid Gold, a storehouse for patients' frozen liposuctioned fat, charging $900 to safekeep a coffee-cup-sized portion and $200 per year storage (in case the fat is needed...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Plastic Surgeons, Facial Wrinkles, Prosecution, Lawyers
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Hospital receives heart care achievement award
Northern Michigan Regional Hospital has received the Get With the Guidelines — Heart Failure Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association. The recognition signifies that Northern Michigan Regional Hospital has reached an...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Hospitals and Clinics, Corporate Officers, Stroke, Heart Failure
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Online Dish: Forget Lorena Bobbit! Wife Chops Off Hubby's Penis, Tosses in Garbage Disposal
KIAHCatherine Becker, 48, is in the joint, accused of chopping off her estranged hubby's penis and tossing it in the garbage disposal. Becker started the master plan by lacing her husband's food with an unknown drug or poison, not feeling well, he went to...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Plastic Surgeons, Penis, Surgery, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mary Joan Hagigh, social worker, dies
Baltimore Sun reporterMary Joan Hagigh, a retired social worker and registered nurse, died June 24 from complications of a fractured hip at Emeritus Towson Assisted-Living. The Ruxton resident was 78. Mary Joan Wall, whose father was head of collections for the Internal...Tags: Vernon (Tolland, Connecticut), Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, Mount Vernon, Social Issues
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Robotic surgery grows, but so do questions
These days, some surgeons have four arms and are made of metal and plastic. Use of a robotic assistant called the Da Vinci Surgical System has quadrupled in the last four years, and the machine now helps with incisions and sutures in 2,000 hospitals...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Newspaper and Magazine, Marketing, Diseases and Illnesses, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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The Unreal World: 'Web Therapy' plot has some issues
"Web Therapy"
11 p.m. Sept. 13, Showtime
Episode: "Whistling While I Work"
The premise: Fiona Wallice (Lisa Kudrow) is a therapist with unspecified credentials who begins seeing clients in three-minute sessions conducted online via video chat. In...Tags: Fraud, Hospitals and Clinics, Showtime (tv network), New York University, Lisa Kudrow
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A drop in pressure
Getting high blood pressure is the easy part — 76 million Americans already have it. But lowering it back down again doesn't have to be tricky either. Talk to your doctor and see if trying some of these ideas throughout the day can get you back on...Tags: Lady Gaga, Hospitals and Clinics, Science, Heart Disease, Harvard Medical School
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LV HEALTH: What is lacking in the treatment of breast cancer?
HealthThe study, which evaluated more than 1,000 breast cancer survivors showed that many of them experience significant social and emotional problems that are not adequately addressed by the current standard of care.... -
Adele: Surgery successful, prognosis good, her doc says
Ministry of GossipAdele's surgery: Singer Adele had surgery on her vocal cords and is expected to make a full recovery. The doctor who did Adele's surgery had Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler as a patient in 2006.... -
Mary K. Trout, 80
MARCH 22, 1931-JUNE 6, 2011 Mrs. Mary Kathryn (Remsberg) Trout, 80, of the Village of Robinwood, Hagerstown, died Monday, June 6, 2011, at Meritus Medical Center. She was the wife of the late George William Trout Jr. Born March 22, 1931, in Frederick,...Tags: Maryland, Hospitals and Clinics, Reformed, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), Christianity
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Aromasin Cuts Risk Of Breast Cancer In Some Groups
ReutersThe estrogen-blocker Aromasin was found to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer by 65 percent in post-menopausal women at high risk for breast cancer, researchers said on Saturday. A late-stage trial of 4,560 post-menopausal women who were at...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Oncology, Placebo, Breast, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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