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| Video Game Technology Gives Veterans New Lease on Life |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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| Staff Sgt. Brian Schar got behind the wheel of a white Chevy Colorado yesterday and went for a spin. The vehicle remained snugly parked in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Northwest Washington, despite the large screens in front of the truck, which showed a street-level view of...
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Author: Mike Musgrove |
Category: Video |
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| Many People Disregard Advice to Get HIV Tests, Studies Show |
(Fri, 21 Nov 2008)
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| Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors' offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week at a conference in Arlington.
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Author: David Brown |
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| Thomas Daschle to Be Nominated as Secretary of Health and Human Services |
(Thu, 20 Nov 2008)
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| Thomas A. Daschle, a former Senate majority leader and a confidant of President-elect Barack Obama, will be nominated as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and will take on a broader role as the administration's health policy chief, said several sources close to the transition...
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Author: Ceci Connolly |
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| Having Won Race Against Death, Md. Man Tackles Triathlons |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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| Last weekend, the bike went nowhere, the running shoes sat in the closet and Brian Boyle took a minute to reflect on the season just ended and the lifetime ahead.
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Author: Ashley Halsey III |
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| Council Bans Sale of Single Cigars in Bid to Curb Youths' Marijuana Use |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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| The Prince George's County Council adopted one of the nation's most sweeping restrictions on the sale of cigars yesterday, an effort to curb a growing trend among urban youths of using hollowed-out cigars to smoke marijuana.
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Author: Rosalind S. Helderman |
Category: Council |
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| Melamine, Lead and Other Scares Lead FDA to Send Safety Inspectors to China |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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| BEIJING, Nov. 18 -- Under fire for not having the resources to better protect consumers at home, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is deploying staff members abroad to work directly with importers and foreign regulatory agencies to guard against contaminated animal feed, counterfeit drugs, to...
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Author: Maureen Fan |
Category: Melamine, |
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| Andrews, Leggett Clash Over Ambulance Fee |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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| Montgomery County Council member Phil Andrews yesterday introduced what he called an alternative to a proposed ambulance fee that would earmark money from fines raised by red light and speed cameras to pay for fire-rescue equipment and pedestrian safety programs.
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Author: Ann E. Marimow |
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| A Half-Century Later, Woodley House Still at the Cutting Edge |
(Wed, 19 Nov 2008)
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| You don't hear much about mentally ill people being locked in the attic by misguided relatives anymore. There are no "insane asylums" where patients go for counseling but end up getting a lobotomy instead. Words such as "warehouse," "snake pit" and "cuckoo's nest" are no longer used to describe most...
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Author: Courtland Milloy |
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| Breast Cancer Survivors Rely on Their Pets to Aid in Recovery |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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| Pets . . . makeup . . . lights . . . camera . . . action!
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Author: Photographs and Text by Carol Guzy |
Category: Breast |
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| My Son Was Autistic. Is He Still? |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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| Paging through 176 MRI scans of my 9-year-old's brain on my home computer, I discovered a button that let me play them as a movie. Gray swirls burst onto the screen, dissolving into one another and revealing a new set of patterns. Beams of light faded in and out, some curving and traveling around...
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Author: Jayne Lytel |
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| NH prescription privacy law upheld |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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| CONCORD, N.H. -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation law that restricts drug company access to some information about doctors' prescription writing habits.
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Author: NORMA LOVE |
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| Gym Equipment Can't Give You a Precise Measure of How Many Calories You're Burning |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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| A little over a year ago, I was killing time on an elliptical machine at a local gym, using a wristwatch heart rate monitor to track the workout. The monitor had settings for my age, weight, sex and height, and kept a running count of the estimated number of calories used.
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Author: Howard Schneider |
Category: Gym |
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| Smoking Goes Up as Economy Goes Down |
(Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
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| An Economy Going Up in Smoke If you think you've noticed more people huddled in doorways puffing on cigarettes or smelled smoke on the breath of someone you thought had kicked the habit, you may be right: A new survey indicates that the economic meltdown is prompting people to light up more.
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Author: Adapted from voices.washpost.com/checkup |
Category: Smoking |
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| N.Y. Boy On Life Support in D.C. Dies |
(Mon, 17 Nov 2008)
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| The emotional legal battle over whether to keep a 12-year-old New York boy on life support at Children's National Medical Center ended early Saturday after the boy's heart stopped beating, an attorney for the boy's family said yesterday.
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Author: N.C. Aizenman and Michael Alison Chandler |
Category: N.Y. |
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| New Labor Dept. Rule Allows More Time Off for Families of Injured Troops |
(Sat, 15 Nov 2008)
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| The Labor Department released a new regulation yesterday allowing workers to take up to 26 weeks off each year to care for family members seriously injured in the military.
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Author: Michael A. Fletcher |
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| Nebraska begins its special legislative session on the law that has resulted in 35 children getting dumped there |
(Sun, 16 Nov 2008)
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| OMAHA -- When social worker Courtney Anderson got the urgent call, she knew another child was being abandoned to the state. She spotted a boy, 12 years old, sobbing in a chair at the emergency room registration desk.
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Author: Peter Slevin |
Category: Nebraska |
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| Fewer Fairfax Teens Have Had Intercourse |
(Sat, 15 Nov 2008)
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| About a third of Fairfax County teenage students say they have engaged in sexual intercourse, a lower rate than the national average, according to a biennial behavioral survey in county schools that asked questions about sexual activity this year for the first time.
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Author: Amy Gardner and Michael Alison Chandler |
Category: Fewer |
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| More countries make spreading HIV a crime |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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| LONDON -- An increasing number of countries worldwide are making spreading HIV a crime, according to a new report from the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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Author: MARIA CHENG |
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| Britain Debates a Child's Right to Choose Her Own Fate |
(Fri, 14 Nov 2008)
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| LONDON, Nov. 13 -- Hannah Jones needs a heart transplant. But after nine years of battling leukemia and heart disease, she has had enough of hospitals, operations, drugs and constant pain. So she has opted to skip the surgery and die at home in the company of her family.
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Author: Kevin Sullivan |
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| Doctors say marrow transplant may have cured AIDS |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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| BERLIN -- An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.
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Author: PATRICK McGROARTY |
Category: Doctors |
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| Britain in shock over abuse death of toddler |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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| LONDON -- The toddler had been visited 60 times by social workers. A doctor examined him but missed the fact he had a broken back and eight fractured ribs. His mother managed to explain away his constant bruises time and time again.
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Author: MEERA SELVA |
Category: Britain |
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| Pr. George's Getting Mobile Dental Office |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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| Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and state health officials will announce today the creation of a dental office on wheels to serve poor children in Prince George's County, an effort named for a 12-year-old county child who died last year because he lacked access to dental care.
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Author: Matt Zapotosky |
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| Toy Recalls Drop 46 Percent |
(Thu, 13 Nov 2008)
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| Toy recalls are down 46 percent from last year, when manufacturers and retailers were forced to clear shelves of toys containing lead paint, dangerous magnets and in one case, a chemical that left children temporarily comatose.
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Author: Annys Shin |
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| Rerouting urinary nerves may help spina bifida |
(Mon, 10 Nov 2008)
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| WASHINGTON -- It's a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead? Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder control that most people take for granted dared to try the procedure _ and early results suggest...
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Author: LAURAN NEERGAARD |
Category: Rerouting |
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| Study: Deadly stomach bug more common than thought |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| ATLANTA -- A nasty, sometimes deadly stomach bug is at least six times more common than was thought, researchers said Tuesday, based on a survey of hundreds of U.S. hospitals. The germ, Clostridium difficile, is resistant to some antibiotics and has become a regular menace in hospitals and nursing...
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Author: MIKE STOBBE |
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| Champions of Breakfast Say: Make a Meal of It |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| Perhaps you are reading this column over breakfast.
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Author: Jennifer Huget |
Category: Champions |
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| Can We Really Find You a Free Workout in Washington? Yes, We Can. |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| Chappall Gage's hips were in desperate need of some opening, but why was he really unrolling his mat at a yoga class on a recent Sunday? "It's free," said the 34-year-old. And indeed it is, at least once a week at all Lululemon stores, including the one in Logan Circle, where Gage lives.
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Author: Vicky Hallett |
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| Election Brings Victory for The Older Generation |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| Actually, the older man won the election. No, no, no, you protest: President-elect Barack Obama, age 47, won a decisive victory over Sen. John McCain, age 72. But that is true only if you look at age through the narrow prism of chronological years. Much more important are psychosocial and biologi...
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Author: Abigail Trafford |
Category: Election |
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| The Checkup |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| Caffeine, Your Baby and You The question of whether caffeine is safe for pregnant women and their babies continues to be examined. Many experts concur that cutting caffeine altogether is the safest bet for protecting an unborn baby's health, as its consumption may increase the risk of miscarriage...
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Author: Adapted from voices.washpost.com/checkup |
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| You've Gotta Think Like Google |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| What are the keys to success and well-being? Being able to manage the stresses of your work and personal life, right? And to cope with the emotional conflicts you brought with you into adulthood.
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Author: Douglas LaBier |
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| Music headphones can interfere with heart devices |
(Sun, 09 Nov 2008)
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| NEW ORLEANS -- Have a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator? Don't keep your iPod earbuds in your shirt pocket or draped around your neck _ even when they're disconnected. A study finds that some headphones can interfere with heart devices if held very close to them.
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Author: MARILYNN MARCHIONE |
Category: Music |
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| Blood Test, Statin Afford Potent Shield, Study Says |
(Mon, 10 Nov 2008)
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| A highly anticipated study has produced powerful evidence that a simple blood test can spot seemingly healthy people who are at increased risk for a heart attack or stroke and that giving them a widely used drug offers potent protection against the nation's leading killers.
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Author: Rob Stein |
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| Judge Delays Decision on Removing Life Support |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| A judge heard arguments yesterday in the case of a 12-year-old boy who was declared dead by Children's National Medical Center, but he held off making a decision until he can hear from the family and medical experts Thursday.
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Author: Keith L. Alexander |
Category: Judge |
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| Retracing the Path Toxic Powder Took To Food in China |
(Sat, 08 Nov 2008)
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| SHIJIAZHUANG, China -- Xue Jianzhong never posted a sign on his ground-floor shop, but somehow everyone knew what he was selling. Customers from all over this dairy farming region in the northeastern province of Hebei flocked to Xue's dusty street to buy special concoctions that he said would make...
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Author: Maureen Fan and Ariana Eunjung Cha |
Category: Retracing |
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| Extortion Used in Prescription Data Breach |
(Sat, 08 Nov 2008)
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| One of the nation's largest processors of pharmacy prescriptions said this week that extortionists are threatening to disclose personal and medical information about millions of Americans if the company fails to meet payment demands.
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Author: Brian Krebs |
Category: Extortion |
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| Head Injury in Young Kids May Predict ADHD Diagnosis |
(Fri, 07 Nov 2008)
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| THURSDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Very young children who sustain a head injury may be more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) later, researchers report.
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Author: Steven Reinberg |
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| It Isn't About the Trash Can |
(Tue, 11 Nov 2008)
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| Picture this: You're staring at the kitchen trash and feel a surge of frustration. You just saw your partner stuff one more thing into the already overflowing bin without making a move to empty it. Ready to pick a fight, you're about to lash out with an angry indictment of your partner's overall ...
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Author: Christine B. Whelan |
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| In Gaithersburg, O'Malley Touts Plan for Small Firms |
(Fri, 07 Nov 2008)
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| Judy Eisenberg said she considered providing health-care coverage to the six employees at her Gaithersburg flower shop but found that the deductibles on the insurance she could offer them were more than they could pay.
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Author: Lori Aratani |
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| Jewish Law's Meaning of Death Nears Court Fight |
(Fri, 07 Nov 2008)
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| The struggle between Children's National Medical Center and the parents of a 12-year-old boy with brain cancer yesterday drew national attention and once again brought to the forefront the emotional debate over the meaning of life and death.
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Author: Theola Labbé-DeBose, David Brown and Keith L. Alexander |
Category: Jewish |
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| D.C. Hospital Sues to Remove Boy, 12, From Life Support |
(Thu, 06 Nov 2008)
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| The family of a 12-year-old New York boy is entangled in a legal fight with Children's National Medical Center over whether doctors can cease life support because they believe he is brain-dead.
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Author: Del Quentin Wilber |
Category: D.C. |
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| First-Ever Mapping of Cancer Patient's Genome |
(Wed, 05 Nov 2008)
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| WEDNESDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- In a genetics first, researchers report that they have decoded the complete DNA sequence of a person with acute myelogenous leukemia.
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Author: Ed Edelson |
Category: First-Ever |
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| Yoga Can Give You Strength, Balance, Flexibility. Isn't That Enough? |
(Tue, 04 Nov 2008)
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| Yoga may have a soft and peaceful reputation, but the theme at Willow Street Yoga on a recent Monday evening was fear. A large theme, to be sure, but in this case it was focused on issues such as: If I collapse from a handstand, what happens to my face?
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Author: Howard Schneider |
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| Kidney Patients More Susceptible to Sudden Cardiac Death |
(Fri, 31 Oct 2008)
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| FRIDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of death among kidney failure patients, and inflammation and malnutrition are major risk factors for fatal heart attacks in these people, Johns Hopkins researchers report.
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Author: HealthDay |
Category: Kidney |
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| Pregnancy ... |
(Tue, 04 Nov 2008)
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| I found out I was pregnant on an early December morning last year and, for two days, went about my routine in a euphoric trance: a grin on my face, elbows out slightly to guard my belly from the crush of commuters and holiday shoppers.
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Author: Tomoeh Murakami Tse |
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| Big Taxes Don't Touch Little Cigars |
(Tue, 04 Nov 2008)
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| The packaging is pretty and the product sounds tasty, even a little wholesome. But inside the brightly colored wrappers that tout an assortment of flavors such as vanilla, strawberry and peach are cigars and cigarillos -- and, according to public health advocates, a not-so-subtle strategy to targ...
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Author: Fredrick Kunkle |
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| Study Links Violent Video Games, Hostility |
(Mon, 03 Nov 2008)
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| Children and teenagers who play violent video games show increased physical aggression months afterward, according to new research that adds another layer of evidence to the continuing debate over the video-game habits of the youngest generation.
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Author: Donna St. George |
Category: Study |
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| Study First to Link TV Sex To Real Teen Pregnancies |
(Mon, 03 Nov 2008)
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| Teenagers who watch a lot of television featuring flirting, necking, discussion of sex and sex scenes are much more likely than their peers to get pregnant or get a partner pregnant, according to the first study to directly link steamy programming to teen pregnancy.
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Author: Rob Stein |
Category: Study |
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| Not Life or Death, but the Stakes Are Still High |
(Sun, 02 Nov 2008)
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