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Man who has RMS, a rare cancer, celebrates Father's Day with his stepson
marieg@herald-mail.comThey both like cars, playing video games and doing anything mechanical. It's typical father and son stuff. But their bond isn't biological. They're connected by love and respect. Jeremy Myers was about 12 years old when David Denn came into his...Tags: Human Body, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Human Interest, Trials, Cancer
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7 Common Digestive Problems
Premium Health News ServiceThere's something about digestive difficulties that makes them hard to discuss in polite company -- which leaves many of us suffering one problem or another in silence. Yet fixes can be as simple as making informed lifestyle changes or taking over-the-...Tags: Gallbladder Removal, Abdominal Pain, Gallbladder, Blood, Newspaper and Magazine
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Few People Survive 5 Heart Attacks
AP Medical WriterWASHINGTON (AP) - Surviving five heart attacks makes former Vice President Dick Cheney pretty unusual - showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease. But the number, attention-grabbing as it is, isn't...Tags: Baylor University , University of Miami, Colleges and Universities, Medical Procedures and Tests, Surgery
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Record-Setting Kidney Swap Saves Lives
Associated PressWASHINGTON - Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify....Tags: Nursing, Coconut Creek, Takoma Park (Montgomery, Maryland), Georgetown, Colleges and Universities
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FDA: Drug Side-Effects Outweigh Benefits
The Associated PressA panel of federal health experts dealt a surprising setback Thursday to a highly anticipated anti-obesity pill from Vivus Inc., saying the drug's side effects outweigh its ability to help patients lose weight. The Food and Drug Administration panel...Tags: Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Birth Defects, Weight Loss, Internists, Companies and Corporations
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Released from Hospital
KTLA NewsWASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from a Washington hospital Friday after spending the night there as a precaution. The 76-year-old justice planned to be back at work later Friday, the court said in a statement after...Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Bill Clinton, The Ohio State University, Cancer, Surgery
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Bringing Bellyaching to an End
There's something about digestive difficulties that makes them hard to discuss in polite company--which leaves many of us suffering one problem or another in silence.
Yet fixes can be as simple as making informed lifestyle changes or taking over-the-...Tags: Gallbladder Removal, Abdominal Pain, Gallbladder, Blood, Newspaper and Magazine
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DANGEROUS REMEDY
Sun reporterAmerican military doctors in Iraq have injected more than 1,000 of the war's wounded troops with a potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug despite mounting medical evidence linking it to deadly blood clots that lodge in the lungs, heart and...Tags: Medical Services, Emergency Planning, Medical Procedures and Tests, Heart Attack, Defense
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Doctors say fatigue caused Kennedy's seizure
Doctors are blaming fatigue for the seizure that Senator Edward M. Kennedy, ill with a brain tumor, suffered during a post-inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama. Dr. Edward Aulisi, Washington Hospital Center's neurosurgery chairman, says...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama, Fatigue, Health, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Democratic Senator in Critical Condition After Surgery
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson was in critical condition recovering from emergency brain surgery Thursday, creating political drama over whether his illness could cost Democrats newly won...Tags: Tom Daschle, Blood, Heart Attack, Illnesses, Brain
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Tornado kills two UM students
Sun StaffCOLLEGE PARK - A tornado blazed a 10-mile-long path of destruction through Central Maryland at rush hour yesterday afternoon, killing two Howard County sisters and injuring dozens of people while ripping the roofs off buildings and flinging cars through...Tags: Arts, Road Transportation, Colleges and Universities, Disasters, Teaching and Learning
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La Plata twister Md.'s worst
Sun StaffLA PLATA - The tornado that roared across Southern Maryland on Sunday night, killing three people, was the worst twister in state history, the National Weather Service reported yesterday. And it showed. Stunned residents and elected officials who...Tags: Arts, Water Supply, Medical Services, Emergency Planning, Homes
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