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Family offers memories of cancer victim
Staff WriterCancer. It’s a powerful word that strikes fear in many. It can kill twice: first by crippling a sufferer’s quality of life and draining away his will to live, and secondly, when it takes his life. Some people, like Imperial Valley native...Tags: Meningitis, Chemotherapy, Cancer, Health Treatments
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FIV: Another devastating cat disease
FIV, or feline immunodeficiency virus, is a virus specific to cats. It is in the same family of viruses as HIV or human immunodeficiency virus. Make no mistake: The cat FIV virus cannot infect humans and the human HIV virus cannot infect cats. People are...
Tags: AIDS, HIV, Viral Diseases and Infections, Preventative Medicine, Leukemia
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Maryland braces for more meningitis cases
Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid. In the cases...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Back Pain, Harford County, Steroids, Diseases and Illnesses
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Church raising funds for pastor's cancer treatment
kpeek@amnews.comWhen modern medicine is unsuccessful in curing diseases, some seek alternative treatments. For Pastor Charles Daugherty, that time has come. After a year-long battle with multiple myeloma, during which time he has undergone chemotherapy, radiation and...Tags: American Cancer Society, Biotechnology, Blood, Chemotherapy, Cancer
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How cattle perceive their world affects handling
Cattle really see the world differently. A cow may see more than you see and is often distracted by motion off to the side. However, she doesn't see the world as clear and sharply focused as humans see it, and it takes her more time to process what she...Tags: Physiology, Cancer, Blindness
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Scourge for cattle producers: Dust and cattle
I'm in the middle of reading a book by Timothy Egan called “The Worst Hard Time.” If you're interested in American history surrounding the plight of the farmers and townspeople of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930's,...Tags: Lungs and Airways, South Dakota State University, Diseases and Illnesses, Pneumonia, Respiratory Disease
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Food for Thought: Do You Take Dietary Supplements?
WGNO NewsThe Department of Health and Human Services released a report Wednesday stating 20% of 127 dietary supplements marketed for weight loss or immune system support included prohibited claims on their labels. Seven percent of the supplements lacked the...Tags: Dietary Supplements, Health Treatments
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Another Baby Gets Herpes After Controversial Circumcision
pix11.com | @murphypixRabbis in the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities are resisting a possible change to the city and state health code, which would require parents to sign a consent form, before their infant boys undergo a controversial type of circumcision. ...Tags: Orange County (New York), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, New York City, Christian Orthodoxy, Christianity
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York launches flu shot campaign
Content ManagerThe York City Bureau of Health announces the start of it's influenza immunization campaign for the 2012-2013 influenza season. Debra Stoops, R.N., the Bureau's Immunization Program Coordinator, states, "Influenza vaccines have arrived and the supply is...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Flu Vaccine, Nursing Homes, Diabetes, Diseases and Illnesses
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Popcorn recalled; possible Listeria contamination
Dale and Thomas Popcorn is voluntarily recalling bags of its flavored, ready-to-eat Indiana-brand products due to a possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that...
Tags: News Agency, Consumers, Popcorn, Abdominal Pain, Headaches
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Tags: Popcorn, Abdominal Pain, Headaches, Weather, Food and Drug Administration
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Longer-term treatments
After surgeons removed the tumor from her breast last November, Karen Hajiaskari, of Hamburg, N.Y., was deemed cancer-free. But for the next five years she will take a drug called tamoxifen, a medication that's commonly used to prevent a breast cancer...
Tags: Genetic Engineering, Hormones and Metabolism, Menopause, Medical Specialization, Lymphatic System
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