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'House' recap: The elephant in the room
Show TrackerHouse treats a performance artist who views the encounter as a "game."... -
Pancreatic cancer: Symptoms and treatment
Vital Signs Health Blog - Orlando SentinelBecause several newspapers are reporting that Aretha Franklin has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, we at Vital Signs decided to take a closer look at this deadly disease. First, let's start with the bad news: This is one of the deadliest of cancers.... -
Virginia man receives face transplant at Maryland Shock Trauma
When Richard Lee Norris opened his eyes after a marathon 36-hour surgery to give him a new face, he immediately wanted a mirror.
A natural reaction for a man who had been practically living as a recluse since a 1997 gun accident took off his nose, chin,...Tags: Charity, Bones and Joints, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Gun Control, Politics
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Paula Deen's diabetes: Blaming the victim?
As Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen certainly knows by now, people with Type 2 diabetes are routinely blamed for causing their disease by eating junky food and making unhealthy lifestyle choices.
Known for high fat recipes that raise the risk for...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Diet, Food and Drug Administration, Pharmaceuticals, Recipes
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New Technique in Roanoke Used to Detect Pancreatic Cancer
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterIt is a type of cancer that doesn't have many symptoms and like most cancers early diagnosis is key to treating it. Now pancreatic cancer is being detected using a technique that's new to Roanoke. Edith McLaughlin never felt sick. "I never felt any...Tags: Abdominal Pain, Symptoms, General Practitioners, Pancreatic Cancer, Jaundice
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Importance of Health Screenings Highlighted during World Diabetes Day
The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pennsylvania Diabetes Action Partnership are urging Pennsylvanians to take control of their health by being screened for diabetes, an often preventable disease and Pennsylvania’s seventh-leading cause of...
Tags: Tom Corbett, Diseases and Illnesses, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Symptoms, Diabetes
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Cancer fight tests Aberdeen family's mettle
calvinmen@aberdeennews.comTo understand where Mackenzie Keplin's life is at now, you have to go back to February, when doctors discovered a football-sized tumor growing in her stomach and pressing against her organs. Keplin, who was then a 17-year-old senior at Central High...Tags: Sports, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, Science and Technology, Chemotherapy
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Living donors and families join together in celebration of life
alnotarianni@aol.comThey received “the nightmare call of all parents,” Charles Hutchinson said. He and his wife, Cindy Hutchinson, received news at their Boonsboro home on Thanksgiving morning three years ago that their son, C.J., then 20, a U.S. Marine...Tags: American Legion, Charity, Human Interest, Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Study reveals strongest link yet between organ transplants, cancer
The most comprehensive study ever on the link between organ donations and cancer is arming physicians with new data that could help make the procedures safer.
Organ transplant patients get new kidneys, livers and lungs that save their lives, but they...Tags: Lymphoma, Kidney, Medical Research, University of Maryland Medical Center, Abdominal Pain
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Cut these 4 foods to lose weight
Q: I'm trying to lose weight, and a friend recently told me that cutting white bread and potatoes out of my diet completely will help. Is that true? A: Your friend is right. Taking white bread and white potatoes, as well as white rice and white pasta,...
Tags: White Bread, Mayo Clinic, Internal Medicine, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages
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Quitting smoking is tough, but not impossible
Many people pick quitting smoking as their New Year's resolution. But if quitting smoking was easy, most smokers would have already done it. Tobacco is highly addictive and the process isn't easy, but quitting is possible for those who really are ready...Tags: Addiction, Health Treatments, Heroin, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals
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Life-threatening sepsis appears to be on rise
Every year, some 750,000 Americans develop sepsis, an extreme immune system response to infection. It kills a quarter to half of them, more than the combined number of people who die of prostate and breast cancer and AIDS, according to the National...Tags: Physical Conditions, Urinary System, National Institutes of Health, Kidney, Pharmaceuticals
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