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Area athletes finally get outside
GROTON — Area track and field athletes were finally able to get some time outside at the Groton Kiwanis Relays on Thursday. Aberdeen Roncalli’s boys and Redfield-Doland’s girls won team titles at the event. The Cavaliers compiled 140...
Tags: Sports, Swimming, Lone (music group), Track and Field
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READER SUBMITTED: Tell Your Story Asthma Essay/Poster Contest
HartfordIn 2011, it was estimated that 25.9 million Americans had asthma, including 7.1 million children under age 18. In 2010, in CT, 9.2 percent of adults and 11.3 percent of children had asthma. We all have been affected by asthma, but each of us has an...Tags: Apple iPod, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Physical Conditions, Newington
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Sick House: The Link Between Housing And Health
It was a chronic thing: Almost every time Erma Taylor's great-grandson caught a cold, he also ended up having a severe asthma attack. Taylor, a retired nurse, spent many hours at a hospital, helping to hold the toddler for tests and breathing treatments,...Tags: Heart Attack, General Practitioners, Arts, Lead Poisoning, Barack Obama
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Gut bugs are implicated in heart attacks and stroke
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Thousands of heart attack victims every year have none of the notorious risk factors before their crisis - not high cholesterol, not unhealthy triglycerides. Now the search for the mystery culprits has turned up some surprising...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Dietary Supplements, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Attack, Death
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Cinnamon challenge: Bad for kids
Orlando SentinelAs a parent, here's all you need to know about the so-called 'cinnamon challenge': It's bad for kids. Haven't heard of it? Lucky you. In the cinnamon challenge, a person tries to swallow a whole tablespoon of cinnamon in fewer than 60 seconds -- and...Tags: Cinnamon
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Brown County: "Unreal" support seen for stricken woman
A longtime public servant who's been a long way from home for far too long remains on the minds of her friends and co-workers. Charlene Millim, former Brown County welfare director, has been out of town for nearly eight months battling pancreatic...Tags: Health, Politics, Interior Policy, Travel, West Nile Virus
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Genetic marker indicates if child is likely to develop asthma after a cold
University of Chicago researchers said they have identified a genetic marker that will help identify children most likely to develop asthma after they catch a cold. The researchers found that 90 percent of children under age 3 who wheezed after catching...
Tags: University of Chicago, Education, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, Science
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Twelve school football players die each year: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Each year in the U.S. an average of a dozen high school and college football players die during practices and games, according to a new study that finds heart conditions, heat and other non-traumatic causes of death are twice...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, College Sports, Medical Procedures and Tests, Physiology
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Vietnam veteran to get his benefits
I've shown repeatedly how the Department of Veterans Affairs doesn't move swiftly to process veterans' claims for benefits. Maybe veterans would accept that pace if they knew the agency made up for it with accuracy. Vietnam veteran Matthew Ford had...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, General Practitioners, Justice System, Allentown, Northampton County (Pennsylvania)
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Imperial County gets failing air quality grade from lung association
Staff Writer, Copy EditorIn spite of the strides made over the past four decades toward improved air quality, 42 percent of Americans still live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution. Imperial County residents can count themselves among...Tags: Heart Attack, Standards, Science and Technology, Air Pollution, Corporate Officers
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The skinny on fasting
First, a couple of definitions: Intermittent fasting is when you eat your regular, fairly sensible way, say five days a week, and then take in only about 600 calories a day for the remaining two days. Calorie restriction is living on fewer than the...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diabetes, Kidney Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Breast Cancer
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Blue Ridge Marathon organizers reflect on success, look ahead to 2014
WDBJ7 Anchor/ReporterPeople are still talking about Saturday's Blue Ridge Marathon. This year's marathon was especially significant because it was the first following the bombings at the Boston Marathon just one week ago. Blue Ridge Marathon organizers are calling the...Tags: Sports, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Apr 8, 2013
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Apr 5, 2013
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Apr 6, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 24, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 22, 2013
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