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Kannapolis students to take part in growth study
Independent Tribune, Concord, N.C.KANNAPOLIS, N.C. -- Kannapolis City Schools will begin a partnership that will allow researchers to study the growth and development in the system's first-graders over the next few years. Members of the Kannapolis City Board of Education heard a...Tags: Science and Technology, Education, Recreational Substance Use, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Teaching and Learning
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Animal-rights group files complaint against Yemassee facility in monkey deaths
The Island Packet OnlineAn animal-rights group has filed a complaint and is seeking punitive damages against a Yemassee company for the deaths of monkeys in 2011 and 2012. Stop Animal Exploitation Now filed the complaint against Alpha Genesis Inc. on May 6 with the U.S....Tags: Hypothermia, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Hyperthermia, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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College researchers begin to feel sequester effects
Lafayette College geologist Kira Lawrence is piecing together a model of the climate between 3 million and 5 million years ago by analyzing the chemical makeup of organic matter from the bottom of the ocean. It was a time called the Pliocene Epoch,...Tags: Financial Aid, Science and Technology, Lafayette College, Education, Research
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Entitlements' unimpeded growth is a benefit to seniors
WASHINGTON (AP) — With Congress increasingly unable to resolve budget disputes, federal programs on automatic pilot are consuming ever larger amounts of government resources. The trend helps older Americans, who receive the bulk of Social Security...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Research, U.S. Senate, Research, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Creative arts may ease cancer-related anxiety, pain
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Music, art and dance therapy may relieve anxiety and similar symptoms among people with cancer, according to a new analysis of past studies. Researchers who analyzed results from trials conducted between 1989 and 2011 said the...Tags: Medical Research, Science and Technology, Drugs and Medicines, Symptoms, Health and Medical Professionals
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Local women, doctors weigh in on test to gauge cancer risk
The Bakersfield CalifornianWhen one of Janie Olvera's nine sisters had preventative double mastectomy to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer, Olvera thought she was crazy. But several years later, Olvera's 28-year-old niece was diagnosed with breast cancer and soon after,...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, The New York Times, Healthcare Provider, Angelina Jolie, Health Treatments
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Ovarian cancer fall sped up as hormone use dropped
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ovarian cancer rates in the U.S. began to decline faster in 2002 around the time many older women went off hormone replacement therapy, according to a new study. That year, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) found that...Tags: Women's Health, Medical Research, Drugs and Medicines, Ovarian Cancer, Symptoms
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Jon Tevlin column
Star TribuneWhen a Mayo Clinic surgeon showed a short film featuring the drummer of the heavy metal band Extractus at the Minneapolis Convention Center last week, he probably wasn't hitting the band's target audience. They were suit-clad doctors, in town for the...Tags: Science and Technology, Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Disease, Science
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Actress Angelina Jolie's mastectomy leads to local calls asking advice
The BladeAfter actress Angelina Jolie disclosed that she had a preventive double mastectomy upon learning she carries a hereditary gene that raises the risk for breast cancer, ProMedica's Kelly Morse was busy with requests to learn more about the tests to detect...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Mastectomy, Medical Procedures and Tests, MRI (imaging)
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Thanksgiving weekend turns into long nightmare for Mishawaka man
South Bend Tribune, Ind.Lori McCune had finished her breakfast and was peeling potatoes for Thanksgiving dinner when her husband, Rick, walked into the kitchen to help. This was a ritual for the two of them, to see who could peel the most potatoes the quickest. But Rick was...Tags: Stroke, Disease Prevention, Vaccines, Allergies, Music
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High hospital bills go public, but will it help?
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same city....
Tags: Pneumonia, Hospitals and Clinics, Kathleen Sebelius, American Hospital Association, Barack Obama
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Small restaurants serving big calories, salt: studies
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite public health progress in cutting calories, as well as salt and fat from fast foods and supermarket products, neighborhood restaurants are still packing big helpings of each into their meals, a trio of studies suggests....Tags: Science and Technology, Dining and Drinking, Health and Medical Professionals, Obesity, Internal Medicine
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