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93-5 'KHY Rock Report
Headlines for Wednesday, June 19, 2013
RAY MANZAREK: Last Recordings Out Today
Less than a month after his death comes a new album from Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Twisted Tales is Manzarek's third album with slide guitar player Roy Rogers came...Tags: American Idol (tv program), Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett, Casino and Gambling, Oregon Ducks, Companies and Corporations
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Pregnancy: How a poor diet can affect your fetus
Pregnant women who eat poorly risk leaving their children less able to properly store fats in later life, leading to a higher risk of diabetes, according to research that sheds new light on how nutrition in the womb can permanently influence adult health....Tags: Medical Research, Health, University of Cambridge, Diseases and Illnesses, Julie Deardorff
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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, Chemical Industry, Insulin, Obesity, Pharmaceuticals
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Disability and desire
Life is divided into two phases: the one in which you're not supposed to be having sex and the one in which you're supposed to be having more sex.
Confusion abounds during both phases. But if you're living in the second phase — that is, you're an...Tags: Health, Sexual Dysfunction, Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes
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Officials: Des Plaines woman who collapsed shoveling died from hemorrhage, cold exposure
One of two women who died Friday after collapsing while shoveling snow died in part from cold exposure, the Cook County medical examiner’s office found today.
Both Florence Erickson, 77, of Des Plaines, and Joan Lilek, 64, of Oak Lawn, died at...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Health, Park Ridge, Oak Lawn, Diseases and Illnesses
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Fighting for air
For brief moments, Cassie Stanley can forget her precarious relationship with death.
She forgot on Christmas morning when her family opened presents. At other times, she forgets by immersing herself in watching the Bulls or Cubs on TV in her family's...Tags: Chemical Industry, Allergies, Concerts, Hospitals and Clinics, Music
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UPDATE: Goshen hospital data breach exposes personal information
WSBT-TV ReporterGOSHEN – Life-threatening diseases, ailments, and illnesses – doctors at IU Health Goshen Hospital treat it all. But a different kind of virus has the hospital on alert and the personal information of 12,000 people at risk. "We are very sorry...Tags: Health, Interior Policy, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics
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FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock
Only 20% of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are given to people who are sick with bacterial infections, such as ear and urinary tract infections and pneumonia. Most of the penicillin, tetracycline and other antibiotic drugs used in this country are given...Tags: Health, Pneumonia, Salmonella Infection, Health Insurance Cost, Health Organizations
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Treating menopause symptoms
Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Chemical Industry, Symptoms, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Bones and Joints
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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: Chemical Industry, Asthma, Behavioral Conditions, Health Organizations, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Health, High Blood Pressure, Medical Procedures and Tests, Symptoms, Health and Medical Professionals
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Chronic conditions' toll tallied
The sunny fact that Americans are living longer, more productive lives has a dark side: More of us than ever live with chronic illnesses that are not only a drag on sufferers' time and energy, but on the nation's pocketbook. The Institute of Medicine on...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes, Schizophrenia
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