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Keeping your senior dog healthy and happy can require daily changes, preventive action
Fort Worth Star-TelegramI never had a dog when I was growing up, and I thought I didn't want one, especially years ago when I had a harried household of three young sons and a husband. However, the guys outnumbered me during the debate about accepting the "free" Lab/chow puppy...Tags: Animals, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Liver Disease, Heart Disease, Drugs and Medicines
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Nursing Home Fined After Four Die From Pneumonia, Following Virus Outbreak
The Hartford CourantA Durham nursing home has been fined $2,000 for lapses in patient care in connection with an outbreak of viral respiratory illnesses at the home in April, in which four patients died of pneumonia. Nearly half of the home's 43 residents were sickened...Tags: Fines, Long Term Care, Neurontin (drug), Punishment, Pneumonia
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Dr. Henry V. "Harry" Chase
Dr. Henry V. "Harry" Chase, a retired internist who served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, died June 9 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Somerford Place, a Frederick assisted-living facility. He was 90. The son of Harry...
Tags: Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Histoplasmosis , Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Health Organizations
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Supreme Court rejects gene patents
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled that human genes are a product of nature and cannot be patented and held for profit, a decision that medical experts said will lead to more genetic testing for cancers and other diseases and to lower costs for...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Clarence Thomas, Myriad Genetics Incorporated, Genetics, Invention and Innovation
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Get out of your gardening rut and plant something new
Too often we fall into a gardening rut — planting the same annuals in the same spot, growing the same varieties of vegetables, using the same plants our neighbors have in the landscape. There are plenty of opportunities, large and small, to exercise...Tags: Fertilizer, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Services and Shopping, Inventories, Tools
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My body, my property
Angelina Jolie's breast cancer gene. John Moore's cell line. The brain tissue of deceased children from a Chicago suburb. These disparate body parts have been the subject of legal conflicts about the body as property. As a lawyer, I've spent the last 25...
Tags: Science, Biotechnology Industry, Breast Cancer, Biology, Leukemia
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Consumer Reports: Tests Show Ground Turkey Bacteria Resistant To Antibiotics
In its first lab analysis of ground turkey products, Consumer Reports found potential disease-causing organisms in most of the samples it tested, more than half of which proved resistant to more than three antibiotic drug classes. Consumer Reports tested...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Consumers, E. coli Infection, MRSA, Salmonella Infection
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Lilly halts Alzheimer's drug trial because of liver problems
ReutersJune 13 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly and Co said on Thursday it was halting a midstage clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer's disease treatment due to potential liver toxicity problems. It was the latest setback in the quest to find a treatment that...Tags: Lilly Eli & Co, Alzheimer's Disease
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South Africa mission is a life-changing event
Artist Sue Bleyaert of Petoskey has been changed forever as a result of her involvement with a nonprofit organization which has a goal to change the lives of children in a South African village. The 12-member board of directors of the South Africa...
Tags: Tuberculosis, Africa, Tinea Corporis, Board of Directors, AIDS
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Miles apart, except in their hearts
Had he not left the Halloween party early or had she not given into her friends' pleas to hit one more bar, it's unclear how Daniel Bujas and Aline Fernandes might have met. As it happened, late that October night in 2008, Bujas was waiting on the Damen...
Tags: Open-Wheel Racing, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Crime, Law and Justice, Brazil, Colleges and Universities
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Peninsula congregations 'wear blue' for prostate cancer
The debate over appropriate diagnostic screenings for prostate cancer has not abated. Last year, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which consists of government-appointed physicians, issued new guidelines that recommended against PSA (prostate...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Diabetes, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Father's Day, Oncology
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