Nutrition Q&A: The highs and lows of good nutrition
McClatchy Newspapers
9/26/2008, by Gwen Schoen
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - September is Cholesterol Awareness Month. Here's a quiz to help you figure out your awareness level. Answer the following statements true or false. 1. Everyone older than 20 should have a cholesterol screening at least every five years.
2. Total cholesterol is a ...
New test for breast tumors: Water ultrasound imaging seems as accurate as mammography
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9/26/2008, by Megha Satyanarayana
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - You're lying face down on a massage table, your breast encased in a water bath through an opening in the table. Tiny ports from a surrounding ring fire ultrasound waves. There are no X-rays. There is no pain. There is no holding still for 20 minutes or more. And in the ...
No longer depressed, or on meds
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9/26/2008, by Maura Lerner
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - Henry Quant was just 5 years old and bedridden with chronic fevers when he began taking pills for anxiety and depression. His mother knew that the drugs helped, but they made her nervous.
"The really scary part," Elizabeth Quant said, "is we don't know what these ...
Saving lives in the great outdoors
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9/26/2008, by Barbara Anderson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Dr. Brian Horan gave the medical students a few minutes to grab what they'd need to treat patients for their final class exam: duct tape, hiking poles, some rope. Not your typical medical supplies. But this was no ordinary medical school course.
During a two-week ...
Diagnosis for GE Healthcare: Newly appointed CEO says he knows what ails imaging industry
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9/25/2008, by John Schmid
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT) - The X-ray tube manufacturing company General Electric launched in Milwaukee in 1947 has expanded almost without interruption into a $17 billion-a-year medical equipment and biosciences company that spans the globe. The momentum, however, petered out last year. ...
Water therapy helps dogs gain mobility
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9/25/2008, by Rolf Boone
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Soothing, warm water, gentle massage and periodic snacks sound like services fit for a high-end spa, but a South Sound veterinarian is offering similar treatments for man's best friend. Longtime veterinarian Gregg Bennett, who founded Tumwater Veterinary Hospital 20 ...
More young Jews displaying their identity with tattoos, despite tradition and ties to Holocaust
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9/25/2008, by Jeff Strickler
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - When senior Melanie Teichner walks across the University of Minnesota campus, she is hardly unusual. Yes, she sports two tattoos, but her discreet images are modest compared with many of her fellow students' skin art. But when she walks into the Hillel, the Jewish ...
How to build a dream
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9/22/2008, by Elizabeth Leland
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - To explain the genesis of his dream, Alex Neymark points to a grainy black and white photo of himself as a young man, climbing aboard a motorboat his father built. Neymark looks to be about 21, wearing a Russian fur hat on what was likely a cold day on the Dnieper River ...
A minute here and there can add up to functional fitness
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9/19/2008, by Julie Deardorff
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - I knew motherhood would change my life, but sabotage my workouts? I never dreamed it could happen. It did. My plan was to exercise in the morning before everyone woke up. But when that was a bust _ I was way too sleep deprived to pull off a 4 a.m. workout _ I had to ...
Our health: Alzheimer's takes toll on caregivers, too
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9/19/2008, by Jane Glenn Haas
The Orange County Register (MCT) - Sunday (Sept. 21) is World Alzheimer's Day – established to raise awareness about the disease that impacts as many as 5.2 million people and is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. By 2050, the estimated impact of Alzheimer's will be 11.3 million ...
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