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Burned kitten finds new home in Fort Wayne
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — On Wednesday, Lynne Ticen of Fort Wayne got a call at work notifying her she'd won the lottery. On Thursday she went to Fort Wayne Animal Care & Control to claim her prize: Sparkle, a 6-month-old, black and white, short-...
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GMA's Robin Roberts home from hospital
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC's Robin Roberts has come home from the hospital three weeks after undergoing a bone marrow transplant. After thanking her doctors and nurses and singing "Amen," the "Good Morning America" host began the next stage of recovery...
Tags: Bone Marrow, Stephen Colbert, Hospitals and Clinics, Robin Roberts, ABC (tv network)
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House Ways and Means chairman from Mich. fighting cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House's tax-writing committee says he's been diagnosed with a "very early, highly treatable and curable type" of cancer. GOP Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan says in a statement that doctors found non-Hodgkin...
Tags: Washington, DC, Blood, Dave Camp, Cancer, Burkitt lymphoma
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FACT FINDER: Peanut allergies
WSBT-TV ReporterBut for others, especially kids, it's a matter of life or death. And one of the most dangerous is peanut allergies. Our Fact Finder team found the number of children who have peanut allergies is rising at a dramatic rate. Between 1997 and 2008, the...Tags: Education, Peanut Allergy, Students, Vaccines, Allergies
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Concert For a Cause helps Niles girl
MISHAWAKA -- At the 4th annual Concert For a Cause at the Mishawaka FOP Saturday night the community rallied around a Niles family to help a special little girl who has been battling major health issues her entire life.
The Concert For A Cause was...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Entertainment, Music, Hospitals and Clinics, Parkinson's Disease
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Was South Bend man's death tied to recalled shrimp?
WSBT-TV ReporterThe St. Joseph County Health Department is investigating whether a South Bend man's death is related to recently recalled shrimp from Martin's Super Markets. WSBT Fact Finder Kelli Stopczynski found this may be an issue concerning food preparation, not...Tags: Flu, Electrical Appliance, Food and Drug Administration, Medical Procedures and Tests, Shrimp
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Are your kid's toys sanitary?
Little kids love putting things in their mouths but are the toys they play with clean? And could they make them sick? Our Fact Finder team wanted to find out. We sent WSBT's Kristin Bien to the lab to test them and get some answers.
Many parents bought...Tags: Toy Industry, Salmonella Infection, Companies and Corporations, Companies and Corporations, Toys
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FACT FINDER: How much bacteria is on the items you touch every day? The answer may shock you
WSBT-TV ReporterHave you ever thought about what kind of bacteria could be lurking on the things you touch every day? And whether that bacteria could be hazardous to your health? We wanted to find out. Boys will be boys -- And in the Davis household the boys play...Tags: Gaming, Cell Phones, Gaming, Entertainment, Gaming Industry
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Pa. boy, 13, ill after smoking synthetic pot, dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania eighth-grader who became ill after smoking synthetic marijuana and had a double lung transplant has died. Tonya Rice tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (http://bit.ly/tk0Vod ) that her 13-year-old son, Brandon,...Tags: Pittsburgh, Synthetic Marijuana, Lung Transplants, Lungs and Airways, Tom Corbett
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Teenager's new valve holds promise for others with heart defects - including her own sister
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterWhen Courtney DeGraff was born 19 years ago, doctors quickly discovered that her heart was riddled with problems. Pediatric heart surgeons at what’s now called Riley Hospital for Children at University Health decided to wait a few months to...Tags: Medical Research, Cardiologists, Halloween, Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics
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I Found the Best Food to Feed Your Dog or Cat
Hardly a day goes by at my office without a client asking us what is the best food for my dog or cat, because everyone knows most of the pet foods are terrible. They have things like grain, BHA, by-products of some sort, preservatives, and who knows...Tags: Cheng Yu-tung, Nutrition, Google Inc., Companies and Corporations, Food Industry
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FDA says Pfizer's Prevnar vaccine works in adults
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health scientists say Pfizer's best-selling vaccine Prevnar is at least as effective as a competing vaccine from Merck at helping prevent potentially deadly infections in adults Prevnar 13 is designed to reduce the risk of...Tags: Washington, DC, Meningitis, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Merck & Company Incorporated, Drugs and Medicines
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