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Wait longer between Pap tests, ob-gyns say
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most women can wait three to five years between Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer, according to guidelines released Monday by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). The recommendations fall in...Tags: American Cancer Society, Medical Specialization, Disease Prevention, Vaccines, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia)
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Diet changes can help protect against prostate cancer
Premium Health News Service"It seems nearly all men will develop prostate cancer if they live long enough," says Karen Collins, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., nutrition advisor for the American Institute for Cancer Research. Thus, scientists have been searching for lifestyle measures that can...Tags: Science, Trials, Illinois Institute of Technology, Lentils, Tomatoes
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Ask the Expert: Ruchi Gupta, pediatrician and author of 'The Food Allergy Experience'
For parents of children with food allergies, navigating everyday life can be like side-stepping land mines. Play dates, birthday parties and after-school activities all pose potentially life-threatening hazards. And there's Halloween, when candy...
Tags: General Practitioners, Pediatrics, Butter, Medical Specialization, Northwestern University
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'Magic City' actress loves yoga, Pilates
On "Magic City," a Starz television drama set in a glamorous Miami hotel in 1959, Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays a Cuban-American housekeeper training to be a Pan Am stewardess. She sizzles as a young woman coming of age and falling in love. In real life,...
Tags: Basketball, Vitamin C, Eastern Medicines, Vitamin D, Vitamin Therapy
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Nobel laureate, bone-marrow transplant innovator Dr. E. Donnall Thomas dies
Q13 FOX News OnlineNobel Prize winner and medical pioneer E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., died Saturday at the age of 92. Thomas won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work in bone-marrow transplantation to cure leukemias and other blood cancers. In 1974, Thomas became the first...Tags: General Practitioners, Oncology, Medical Specialization, Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize Awards
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Three steps to winning the battle against BRD
For cattle producers, half the battle to keep cattle healthy is choosing the right vaccine to help prevent bovine respiratory disease (BRD). BRD is the leading cause of economic loss in the beef industry, with losses of up to $240 per head. Cattle...Tags: Chemical Industry, Preventative Medicine, Drugs and Medicines, Disease Prevention, Vaccines
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Local chef and farmer writes about the lingering effects of West Nile
In northwest Indiana, where I have raised vegetables for 20-odd years, mosquitoes flourish when rain fills the swamp pools in the backwaters of the Kankakee River. In August 2004, those pools spawned a particularly righteous throng. One afternoon, they...
Tags: Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Physical Therapy, Lyme Disease, Physical Therapists
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Scientists: Nanotech-based products offer great potential but unknown risks
Zinc oxide would be the perfect sunscreen ingredient if the resulting product didn't look quite so silly. Thick, white and pasty, it once was seen mostly on lifeguards, surfers and others who needed serious sun protection. But when the sunscreens are...
Tags: Environmental Politics, University of Michigan, Consumers, Government, Dermatology
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Trying to figure out if a nontraditional approach to wellness works for you
Your body's ability to heal itself is a guiding principle of integrative medicine. That doesn't mean you can't help it along a bit. "The world is moving on from this idea that you either take the conventional approach or you take the CAM (complementary...
Tags: Back Pain, Chemotherapy, Personal Service, Asthma, Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Firefighter Raises Awareness about Organ Donation as He Waits for Transplant
Multi-Media SpecialistA Dauphin County firefighter is seeking to raise awareness about living organ donations, as he waits for a kidney transplant. Richard Slusser has lived with a rare genetic kidney disorder his entire life, receiving his first transplanted kidney in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Charity, Human Interest
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Mail Call - Oct. 16
“I’d like to respond to an article in Sunday’s paper, Oct. 7, titled ‘Halfway church responds to Chick-fil-A.’ This is now still a free country, and free speech. Christians do not hate gays; it’s their lifestyle. Also,...Tags: Elections, Politics, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Social Issues, Same-Sex Marriage
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GMA's Robin Roberts home from hospital
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC's Robin Roberts has come home from the hospital three weeks after undergoing a bone marrow transplant. After thanking her doctors and nurses and singing "Amen," the "Good Morning America" host began the next stage of recovery...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Bone Marrow, ABC (tv network), Robin Roberts, Good Morning America (tv program)
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