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Love Notes: So many differences, all so irrelevant
Janice Patterson remembers calling her mother to announce she was engaged. There wasn't much excitement on the other end of the line. "She said, 'Well, I'll tell your father. It's your life,' Janice recalls. "Then she said, 'I have to get off the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Weddings, Spencer Tracy, Autism, University of Chicago
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Roberto Bolano's 'Woes of the True Policeman' a sketchy work
-------------------- Woes of the True Policeman A Novel Roberto Bolaño, translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 256 pp., $25 -------------------- An early death isn't the end for a writer. Like a special dispensation from...
Tags: Heroin, French Literature, Literature, David Foster Wallace, Mexico
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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: Chemicals, Women's Health, Symptoms, Breast Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses
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Progress in Hepatitis C research
Hepatitis C has long been a problem with a low rate of cure. But new drug therapies are in use and others are on the horizon, according to Dr. Paul J. Thuluvath, chief of gastroenterology at Mercy Medical Center and the medical director of the Institute...Tags: Liver Cancer, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Preventative Medicine, Liver, Drugs and Medicines
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How to treat minor animal bites, scratches
Animal bites can be serious. They can injure the skin and bones and joints, and the damage could have lasting impacts. Dr. Tanveer Giaibi, chief of emergency medicine at Northwest Hospitals, answers questions about the dangers of and treatments for all...Tags: Animal Attacks, Hospitals and Clinics, Abdominal Pain, Preventative Medicine, Swelling
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In Mexicali, a haven for broken lives
Mario Ramos stirs a pot of beans with a bent spatula as the men crowd into the kitchen, the ragged line stretching out the splintered doorway.
Years ago, Ramos, 45, grilled up pricey seafood in a tiki-themed restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway in...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Prisons, Restaurants, Illegal Immigrants, Los Angeles Hotels
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Stephen Baxter, travel agent
Stephen Baxter, a retired travel agent, died of liver disease Oct. 2 at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Mays Chapel resident was 66.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Samuel Baxter and Lola Annen Baxter. He lived on Barclay Street and in Anneslie. He...Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Colleges and Universities, Elizabeth II, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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What kind of drinker are you?
Moderation in all things — maybe that is the key to health and happiness. The proverb certainly seems true for alcohol consumption.
Study after study has shown that moderate alcohol consumption is associated with good health. The evidence is...Tags: Breast Cancer, Transportation Accidents, Medical Research, Drunk Driving, Behavioral Conditions
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Some health experts sour on fructose
Just as recent science has divided dietary fats into good, bad and really bad categories, some scientists now think different sugars also may deserve individual scrutiny. Most experts agree that Americans eat too much sugar, period. But studies in recent...
Tags: Medical Research, Heart Disease, Obesity, Overweight, Food Industry
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Death row inmate argues he's too fat for execution
Q13 FOX News OnlineA death row inmate who weighs 480 pounds is arguing that he is too fat to be executed. Ronald Post, who shot and killed a hotel clerk in northern Ohio almost 30 years ago, wants his upcoming execution delayed, saying his weight could lead to a "torturous...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Justice System, Health and Medical Professionals, Judges, Prisons
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Baby boomers unknowingly infected with hepatitis C
When Alan Shackelford's ankles would swell up, he brushed it off as another sign of getting older — only to find out it was a symptom of something much worse.
The 59-year-old Windsor Mill man was shocked when his doctor recently diagnosed him...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Symptoms, Liver Cancer, Recreational Substance Use, Hepatitis C
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OUR HEALTH: New Hepatitis C Treatment Clinic Brings Specialized Treatment to Local Patients
Anewly formed infectious disease clinic in Lynchburg, VA is bringing expert medical care to those in the area with hepatitis C. An estimated 3.2 million people in the United States have a chronic hepatitis C viral infection. Most of them don’t even...
Tags: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Symptoms, Liver Cancer, Merck & Company Incorporated, Recreational Substance Use
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