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Treating menopause symptoms
Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...Tags: Chemical Industry, Genes and Chromosomes, Pharmaceuticals, Diseases and Illnesses, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Quitting smoking is tough, but not impossible
Many people pick quitting smoking as their New Year's resolution. But if quitting smoking was easy, most smokers would have already done it. Tobacco is highly addictive and the process isn't easy, but quitting is possible for those who really are ready...Tags: Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Diseases and Illnesses, Lung Cancer, Asthma
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Prosecutors drop charges against 4 in '94 murder case
Tribune reportersCook County prosecutors said today that they would not retry four men who won new trials late last year in a brutal 1994 murder in the Englewood neighborhood after DNA evidence from the crime linked a convicted murderer who has since died to the crime....Tags: Chemical Industry, Lawyers, Judges, Human Body, Murder
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Why we're fat, Part 4: Outside forces affect what we eat, how much exercise we get
Beyond what we eat, what we're born with and what we do, our environment contributes in major — and mostly unnoticed — ways to our health and our weight.
All have conspired to make two-thirds of adult Americans and one-third of American...Tags: Politics, Chemical Industry, Marketing, Overweight, Government
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Why we're fat, Part 3: Our lifestyle promotes added pounds
Despite popular belief, a surge of laziness and gluttony is not what's making Americans fat, says science writer and fat researcher Gary Taubes, author of "Why We Get Fat."
In looking at the past 30 years, during which time obesity rates have soared,...Tags: Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Colleges and Universities, Insulin, Commuting
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Family identifies son killed by playmate
FOX 5 San Diego StaffWINTER GARDENS, Calif. -- Family members of a 12-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by a playmate released a photo of the victim Tuesday. Authorities did not release the deceased boy's name, but his family identified him to reporters as Ryan Carter, a...Tags: Health, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Juvenile Delinquency, Hospitals and Clinics
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Broken ankle fractures life as you know it
Forgive my absence from these pages, but I recently suffered a dislocated fracture of my ankle while saving a kitten from a speeding car.
The bad news is, it required reconstructive surgery and I have to spend the next six weeks on my butt. The good news...Tags: Health, Christina Applegate, Medical Specialization, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Pharmaceuticals
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DNA database search turns up no suspects in Mishawaka murder
MISHAWAKA — The investigation into the death of 84-year-old Lois Hickey of Mishawaka appears to have received another blow recently.
Blood found at the scene of the homicide believed to have belonged to the killer did not bring back any matches...Tags: Health, Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Human Body, Human Body
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Long on decline, whooping cough makes a comeback
Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. -- many of them children -- were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace," as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s.
"Childhood Cough Is Given...Tags: Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at School, Tetanus
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Project seeks 1 million veterans to give blood, DNA for disease research
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a few good men and women to volunteer for a battle it's waging at home — against disease.
Actually, more than a few are needed. Officials overseeing health care for the nation's veterans are...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Chemical Industry, Genes and Chromosomes, Colleges and Universities, Diseases and Illnesses
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Man arrested in 2000 Dundalk killing not long-time suspect
For years, Baltimore County police were convinced that 24-year-old Heidi Bernadzikowski was killed in 2000 by her boyfriend. Stephen M. Cooke Jr. had taken out a lucrative life-insurance policy on Bernadzikowski just a month before her death. The...Tags: Chemical Industry, Dundalk, Human Body, Baltimore County, Murder
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Wheat Growers remains in black
Wheat Growers had a profitable 2011, despite lower-than-expected grain totals due to flooding, say Wheat Growers officials. The cooperative had $17 million in earnings and $9 million in profits according to figures. "Financially, we had a solid year,"...Tags: Chemical Industry, Agricultural Research and Technology, Fertilizer, Watertown
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