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Doctors: Kids Should Ride in Rear-Facing Seats Longer
Fox News
Kids should sit in rear-facing car seats as long as they fit, or until age two, pediatricians urged Monday. After that, they should ride in booster seats up to age eight or if they're still too small to fit correctly in seat belts. ...
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More 'average guys' turning to cosmetic surgeons
CTV.ca
TORONTO — More and more these days, the patient consulting a plastic surgeon for cosmetic enhancement is often a man -- and not just for a little filler here and a bit of Botox there. New statistics released Monday by the American Society of Plastic ...
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Early-warning diabetes test hope
BBC News
Experts believe a simple blood test could spot diabetes up to 10 years before the first symptoms of the disease occur. By looking at levels of five amino acids in the blood US researchers were able to correctly identify people who went on to develop ...
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Health care overhaul takes root in divided US
CBS News
Mary and Joe Thompson stand with their children Sarah, center, Andrew, right, and Emily, front, at their home in Overland Park, Kansas. (AP) WASHINGTON - A year after President Obama signed his health care overhaul, the law remains so divisive that ...
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79% of smokers want to give it up
The Press Association
Almost eight in every 10 smokers in Ireland want to kick the habit, according to new research. The proportion of tobacco users who want to give it up is higher compared to most other European countries, the study found. Norma Cronin, of the Irish ...
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Boston hospital performs first full face transplant
Boston Herald
By Joe Dwinell Doctors at a Boston hospital announced this morning they successfully performed the first "full face transplant" in the nation last week. Here is a portion of the release just sent to the Herald: A Brigham and Women's Hospital plastic ...
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Kasich budget to hurt nursing homes
Canton Repository
Registered Nurse Lisa Perduk works with Janet Boring a resident of the Astoria Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation home in the Meyers Lake Village. By Robert Wang In his state budget last week, Gov. John Kasich proposed cutting Medicaid funding for ...
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Bike shop creates breast cancer motorcycle
Lexington Dispatch
A pink-trimmed motorcycle in honor and memory of people impacted by breast cancer is on display at Garwood Custom Cycles. The motorcycle shop on Pine Top Road built the bike in cooperation with the NC Triad affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure ...
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Surviving cancer with hope
Sparta Expositor
Editor's note: This is the personal story of a White County woman and her up-hill climb to beat the odds. She shares her story to encourage everyone to participate in Relay For Life, American Cancer Society's premier fundraising event, on May 6, 2011, ...
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Residencies at the end of the rainbow
The JHU Gazette
By Greg Rienzi The fourth-year medical students may not have needed the luck of the Irish on March 17, but many wore green and crossed their fingers as they opened envelopes that contained the answer to where they will begin their careers as doctors. ...
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Mental Healthcare in United States Close to a Crisis
French Tribune
The shape of mental health care in the United States is looking worse and worse as time goes on. Five years ago in 2006, the US ranked number one among all nations for the frequency of mental illness because close to half of all Americans met the ...
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French Tribune
Minn. overdoses show gray area around party drugs
Austin Herald
BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — After nearly a dozen teenagers overdosed and one died from taking a hallucinogen at a house party, investigators determined the substance was a version of a banned rave-party drug that can be purchased online. ...
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The Board Trustees Voted on Marijuana Ordinance
French Tribune
Voting 3-2 to prohibit dispensaries, the Holly Township Board of Trusties directed attorney Gregory Need to draft its own ordinance associated with the medical marijuana governance in the township. At the same time supervisor Jesse Lambert and ...
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French Tribune
Roche, Curis Skin Cancer Drug Advances
TheStreet.com
By Adam Feuerstein 03/21/11 - 07:48 AM EDT SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (TheStreet) -- Roche and partner Curis(CRIS) said Monday that an experimental drug met a pre-defined response rate target in a mid-stage study that enrolled patients with a common ...
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