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Ind. hospital's obesity billboards stir debate
HOBART, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana hospital that erected billboards with the message "Obesity is a disease. Not a decision" is facing a public backlash from people who find the signs offensive. The staff at St. Mary Medical Center's Healthy 4...Tags: Obesity, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Weight, Hospitals and Clinics
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Native American culture on display
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterSOUTH BEND - Samantha Fowler is a fry bread aficionado. From the time she was 12 years old, she’s worked at her family’s food booth at Indian powwows across the Midwest, making and selling the rich bread that can be eaten alone or with...Tags: Arts and Culture, Breads, Minority Groups, Human Body, Native Americans
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Cancer center offers free services for patients, survivors, caregivers
SOUTH BEND—A diagnosis of cancer is a life changer. Many patients do not know how to deal with the physical and emotional changes. RiverBend Cancer Services has a new wellness center where they offer free programs for people affected by cancer. ...Tags: Human Interest, Stress, Health Treatments, Diseases and Illnesses, Health
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Number of flu cases increase in South Bend area
Because increasing numbers of seasonal influenza have been reported throughout the area over the past three weeks, St. Joseph County health officer Dr. Thomas A. Felger is encouraging residents to protect themselves against the influenza virus....Tags: Fever, Health, Coughing, Diseases and Illnesses, Flu Vaccine
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Prosecutor: Student told of pregnancy stabs girl
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities have jailed a 17-year-old Ypsilanti High School student they say repeatedly stabbed a classmate with whom he'd had sex after she told him she may be pregnant. The attack happened Tuesday on the school...Tags: Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Crimes, Lawyers
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Chimp attack victim gets face transplant in Boston
BOSTON (AP) — Doctors at a Boston hospital have performed a full face transplant on the Connecticut woman who was mauled two years ago by her friend's pet chimpanzee. Officials at Brigham and Women's Hospital say they performed the transplant on...Tags: Connecticut, Health, Human Body, Charla Nash, Hospitals and Clinics
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Cancer, heart surgery can't keep her from her true love
This is for all those people who are seriously ill and thinking they may never do what they love again. I was like that in 2010, recovering from back-to-back breast cancer and heart surgeries and the aftermath. I thought tennis, which is my athletic...Tags: Breast Cancer, Andre Agassi, Lymphatic System, Wimbledon Championships, U.S. Open (tennis)
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1994 Dolphins: Some ex-players succeed, some fall on hard times
A heroin dealer in upstate New York. A juvenile court judge in Tennessee. A Stanford grad overseeing $500 million in pension funds for Florida state retirees. A felon who watched his son win the Heisman Trophy from a jailhouse TV. These are your 1994...
Tags: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Golf, Judges, Media Industry, Juvenile Delinquency
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More than 5000 area kids suffer from juvenile arthritis
KIAHIt may seem like a movie when you talk about a child suffering from old age and arthritis, but this is no movie. For 5000 kids in the Houston area, that is the reality of juvenile arthritis Bella Lawler, age 11, suffers from JA and says, "I was getting...Tags: Allergies, Arthritis
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Wrists overworked? Take regular breaks — and ice the pain
Maybe your wrists and fingers swell when you leave work. Or maybe they ache or go numb in the middle of the night. Sounds as if you've been messing with your carpal tunnel — that tiny tunnel in your wrist where the median nerve, flexor muscles...
Tags: Inflammation, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Health, Human Body, Wrists
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Howard County Pets: Is it unhealthy to share my bed with a pet?
Q: After news reports earlier this year, we’re wondering: Is it unhealthy or unsanitary to allow dogs or cats to share our beds? A: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study that triggered concerns and news-media...Tags: Pets, Pharmaceuticals, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body
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Pets and your health: the good and the bad
They cuddle and purr. And they shed. They wag their tails and fetch your slippers. And they shed. They never talk back and they never hold a grudge. And they shed.
There are obvious pluses and minuses to living with pets, not only with respect to your...Tags: Lymphatic System, Cat-scratch disease , Pets, MRSA, Diseases and Illnesses
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