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Understanding the new pap smear guidelines
Many women became used to having a Pap smear annually to check for cervical cancer, but recent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force have updated the timeline. Now, most women will need the test every five years. Cancer experts...Tags: Infertility, Entertainment, Symptoms, Human papillomavirus, Cancer
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The Medical Emporium: Health Insurers Pushing Patients To Shop By Price
The Hartford CourantEmployees of the city of Manchester, N.H., can receive up to $150 if they choose low-cost medical providers for colonoscopies, CT scans and other procedures. It's a pilot program offered by one of WellPoint's Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans for the...Tags: Career and Workplace, Healthcare Provider, West Hartford, Insurance, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Medical screenings: Time is of the essence
Deep down inside, we all know it: It's inevitable, this living, breathing, beautiful, multipart machine, the human body, is — at some point, somewhere — going to break down. We've all heard the warnings, the doctors' admonitions to get...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Medical Professionals, University of California, Los Angeles, Symptoms, Human papillomavirus
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A Little Bit of Heaven
Fox 5 San Diego staffKevin Bacon is that actor we all loved in Footloose and so many movies the game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” became part of pop culture. Director Nicole Kassell thought it would be a good idea to cast him as a child molester in a film (The...Tags: Whoopi Goldberg, Bacon, Alanis Morissette, Comedy (genre), Kevin Bacon
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Lee Initiatives awards 33 grants to community organizations
Our Town EditorJoseph Pawlowski recalls the young man who attended church and programs at the Salvation Army in Johnstown. When the man's toothache progressed into an infection and abscess, it was cleaned insufficiently and capped. He died from encephalitis, said...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Career and Workplace, The Salvation Army, Financial Markets, Dentistry and Dental Health
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Study: 2 in 5 Hoosiers will develop cancer during their life
A new study released Monday showed about 2.5 million Hoosiers, or two in five people now living in Indiana, will develop cancer. That’s 30,000 Hoosiers each year. Greenwood resident Rhonda Irskens never thought a colonoscopy would change her life...
Tags: Medical Research, Chemotherapy, Cancer, Lungs and Airways, Breast Cancer
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Woman organized 5K run/walk to honor mother and fight pancreatic cancer
HealthTo honor two women who lost lives to pancreatic cancer and raise funds for research to find a cure, Jenn LeConte of Hanover Township, Northampton County, started J's Run 5K Run & Fitness Walk, which is scheduled for 9 a.m. May 12 at Asa Packer... -
Lloyd Waters: Coffee? Tea? How about some MoviPrep?
Mickey Mantle was one of my favorite baseball heroes as I was growing up in Dargan. I still remember the exciting 1961 home run race between him and Roger Maris. As Mantle lay in his New York hospital bed dying from cancer of the liver, he famously said,...Tags: Mickey Mantle, Hospitals and Clinics, Cancer, The Herald-Mail, Colon Cancer
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News briefs
Analysis: Obama sends Romney a message: The game is on even if you aren’t ready WASHINGTON (AP) — Reality smacked Mitt Romney in the face twice in a 24-hour span. President Barack Obama used the power of the presidency to ring the general...
Tags: Christianity, Health and Medical Professionals, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Elections
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Unnecessary medicine: Physician groups list 45 overused tests, procedures
Should you get a cardiac stress test as part of your annual checkup? A chest X-ray before outpatient surgery? A CT scan or antibiotics for chronic sinusitis? In most cases, no. But patients get these commonly used tests and procedures — and many...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Heart Disease, Cardiologists, Shelton, Aspirin (drug)
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