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Don't take a prescription unless you know why
These days, when a full 61 percent of adults use at least one medication to treat a chronic health problem, many people expect a prescription at every doctor's appointment. (And doctors are often all too happy to oblige.) Since every drug has side effects...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hospitals and Clinics, Chemical Industry, High Blood Pressure
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Patricia Modell, actress and philanthropist, dies at 80
Patricia Modell, a successful TV and film actress in the 1950s and '60s who became a well-known philanthropist in Baltimore with her husband, former Ravens owner Arthur Modell, died Wednesday at the age of 80.
Mrs. Modell was admitted two weeks ago to...Tags: Kennedy Krieger Institute, Hospitals and Clinics, Celebrities, Museums, Opera (genre)
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Thomson Reuters list of top 100 hospitals
Thomson Reuters has released its top 100 U.S. hospitals based on overall performance. The hospitals were ranked on 10 key areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average patient stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction,...Tags: Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Hospitals and Clinics, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Northwest Hospital, Sycamore
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The bariathlete
You could say that Dan Benintendi is hooked on exercise. On a typical morning in Fort Worth, Texas, he wakes up at 3:30 a.m. to swim 2,500 yards. Then he teaches a one-hour spin class, works most of the day as an AT&T account manager, teaches another spin...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Dietary Supplements, Plastic Surgeons
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Your body is talking. Are you listening?
It might be a caffeine headache, but it might be an aneurysm. Great. Now, at the very least, it's a stress headache. We asked the experts to tell us five signs that your body is telling you something. And why you should do something about it. (Namely,...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Aneurysm, Human Body, Health, Diseases and Illnesses
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PASSINGS: Murray Lender, Samuel Glazer
Murray Lender Chief executive of bagel company Murray Lender, 81, who helped turn his father's small Connecticut bakery into a national company credited with introducing bagels to many Americans, died Wednesday at a Miami hospital of complications...Tags: Corporate Officers, Hospitals and Clinics, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Leukemia, Health
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Can Gastric Bypass Cure Type 2 Diabetes? One Roanoke Man's Story
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterIt was Monday that results of a new study came out that show gastric bypass surgery can improve and possibly cure diabetes. That's no surprise to one Roanoke man. Mark Lambert had been heavy his entire life. He used to weigh 360 pounds and in 2007 he...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hospitals and Clinics, Weight Loss Surgery, Health, Diabetes
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World Autism Awareness Day: Those with autism no longer invisible
Joseph Sheppard has an IQ above 130. Ask him about his life or worldview and he'll start drawing connections to cosmology and quantum mechanics. He'll toss around names of great intellectuals -- Nietzsche, Spinoza -- as if they're as culturally relevant...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Philosophy, Colleges and Universities, Parenting, Environmental Issues
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Weight Loss Surgery better than Drugs in treating Type 2 Diabetes
CW33 NewsMelinda Barron had been thinking about weight loss surgery for years--her mother died in 2005 at the age of 62. Melinda said her mom weighed a bit more than 300 pounds and had type 2 diabetes. "When mom died my whole point was okay, I'm losing weight...Tags: Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, High Blood Pressure, Chemical Industry, Weight Loss Surgery
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What about single-payer?
President Barack Obama's vision for health-care reform could have resulted in a much better law had it not been for congressional decrees at the start that a single-payer system was "off the table." But guess what has appeared back on the table during the...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Johns Hopkins University, Hospitals and Clinics, Politics, Health
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Survey finds integrative medicine most useful for pain
A new survey of integrative medicine centers shows that the most commonly treated ailments are chronic pain, gastrointestinal conditions, depression and anxiety, cancer and chronic stress.
The survey was conducted at 29 centers, including the...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Drugs and Medicines, Hospitals and Clinics, Stress
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