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For 102 years, she lived a full and busy life
Janet Purcell Johnson, age 102, died last week at Westminster Towers in Orlando, but she led a full life, friends and family say. She went to clown school in her 80s, said one friend, and she squeezed into a swimsuit and climbed on stage for a skit in...Tags: Mother's Day, Orlando, Dwayne Johnson
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Family Meals Matter: High temperatures, low pressure
HealthyEating.orgBy mid-May the temperatures are rising in many parts of the country. But we don't want pressures rising as well. Blood pressure that is. May is National High Blood Pressure Awareness Month. Blood pressure is considered normal when systolic pressure (the...Tags: Heart Attack, Chest Pains, Salt, Foods and Beverages, Peaches
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Modesto project offers free training in simpler CPR
The Modesto BeeEmergency responders are teaching an easier lifesaving technique to residents so that cardiac arrest victims have a better chance of survival. They hope to train up to 1,000 people in 30-minute classes held across Modesto on Wednesday, giving them the...Tags: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Emergency Health Procedures, Medtronic Incorporated
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EMS goal is to increase use of CPR by everyone
The Columbus DispatchNot knowing whether "Anne" had suffered a heart attack or been waylaid by a criminal, central Ohio families packed COSI Columbus yesterday to ask her if she was OK. Anne was oblivious to the attention. She is, after all, a resuscitation dummy. The...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Heart Attack, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Emergency Health Procedures, Health and Safety at School
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Choking is easily averted, but always a tragedy
Fred Y. Sasaki put on a red tie and his gray suit. He was not a man who typically dressed up, but tonight was special. At 80 years old, Sasaki had built a successful career as a dry cleaner. He had just spent the day with his grandson. And now he was...
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How to avoid a return to the hospital
The only thing less pleasant than a stay in the hospital is having to go right back there to deal with complications. And experts say it happens all too often. One in 8 elderly patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged...
Tags: Heart Attack, Pneumonia, High Blood Pressure, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Environmental Issues
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San Bernardino County Sun, Calif., Louis Brewster column
San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.Throughout his 45-year football coaching career, Ron Reclusado faced many critical defensive situations around the end zone. As a head coach and defensive coordinator, it wasn't pleasant but it was a necessary part of the game. Reclusado -- for the...Tags: Dialysis, Edgewood
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EDITORIAL: Making sense of it
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IowaWe've long advocated that health care reform in this country must include a major effort to curb health care cost increases, which have outpaced that of virtually every other vital service or product. But we see no clear way of doing so as long as there...Tags: Government Health Care, Consumers, Consumer Confidence, Private Health Care, Science and Technology
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Heart transplant giving climatologist Lonnie Thompson a second chance
The Columbus DispatchLonnie Thompson has written to the family of the young man whose heart now beats in the 64-year-old climatologist's chest. "I will use this, a second opportunity for life, to make a positive impact on the world and my fellow human beings," he wrote....Tags: Landforms, Glaciers, Health and Medical Professionals, Cardiologists, Hospitals and Clinics
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BRIEF: Man suffers cardiac arrest while driving, crashes in St. Louis and dies
St. Louis Post-DispatchA 47-year-old man went into cardiac arrest Saturday night while exiting Interstate 44 in St. Louis, crashed his car and died, police said. The man was exiting the highway at South Kingshighway about 9 p.m. when his heart stopped, causing him to crash... -
Letters to the editor: compassionate cruise line, student debt, and Kiera Wilmot
At a time when so many cruise lines are being villified — some deservedly — I would like to voice my experience with the Royal Caribbean International Cruise Lines. On April 28, on the first day of our planned cruise on the Caribbean, my...Tags: Jamaica, Science and Technology, Cape Canaveral, Tour Operations Industry, Human Interest
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With nightmare illness, bride finds her dream wedding
The Monitor, McAllen, TexasDearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony... When Jessica Azua, 19, met 24-year-old Tomas Carrasco two years ago, Jessica said they connected instantly. Carrasco, a Marine Corps veteran, had just...Tags: Honey, Human Interest, Colon Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Family
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