Peanut-sniffing dog is allergic girl's best friend
McClatchy Newspapers
2/20/2009, by Brian Newsome
The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo. (MCT) - Eight-year-old Riley Mers still has a scar on her foot from a time when a peanut shell slipped into her sandal at the park, burning her skin like an acid. She's gone into hives and struggled to breathe from inhaling peanut residue too faint to smell. In ...
Thanks to surgeries, pacemakers and lots of family love, boy's heart still keeps rhythm
McClatchy Newspapers
2/17/2009, by Deke Farrow
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - With his brother Frank paying no mind, Gabriel Sanchez quietly steps onto the fireplace hearth behind him and leaps upon his back. Frank barely reacts. And why should he? It's sort of like a house cat pouncing on a lion. It's typical little-brother stuff.
Well, yes and ...
Insurance options beyond COBRA are there if you shop around
McClatchy Newspapers
2/17/2009, by Cheryl Powell
Akron Beacon Journal (MCT) - When Robbin Hazlett recently lost her job at a uniform and linen company, the cost to continue her health coverage could have taken her to the cleaners. To keep the same insurance plan her former employer used to provide, the Barberton, Ohio, woman would have paid ...
Time for an emotional stimulus plan
McClatchy Newspapers
2/16/2009, by Barbara Mahany
Chicago Tribune (MCT) - Maybe it hits you only once in a while, whenever, say, you hear rumblings in the office that pink slips are coming, and suddenly there's that pang in your heart, the quickening of the thump-thump that are your pulse and your blood pressure rising like flames in a kindled ...
Ask Dr. Denton: Is it Safe, or Possible, to Lose Weight Fast?
Catholic Online
2/12/2009, by Dr. Denton D. Weiss
In the midst of all of the competing and apparently contradictory claims, many people are suffering from what I call “Weight loss Confusion”. What do the Experts Say? PORTSMOUTH, VA. (Catholic Online) – “I am looking for the fastest way to loss weight. I know there is a diet out there for me. The ...
Shape shifter: Once more than 200 pounds, trainer helps others get fit with exercise cards
McClatchy Newspapers
2/6/2009, by Patricia Montemurri
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Lori Wengle has come by her credentials as a personal trainer through experience. In her transformation _ from 242 pounds to 135 pounds, from weak to strong, from hiding her body to showing it off _ Wengle also has discovered the inspiration for a new business.
"Because ...
Ask Dr. Denton: 'Why Am I Still Fat?'
Catholic Online
2/6/2009, by Dr. Denton D. Weiss
The answer is in the right match up and a true commitment to move forward to improving the temple we’ve been given by God, our body. PORTSMOUTH, VA. (Catholic Online) - If you’re like me you have spent most of January trying to get in shape, start a new exercise regimen, and lose a little... A lot ...
Drugs get closer look as jaw damage appears among osteoporosis patients
McClatchy Newspapers
2/5/2009, by Alan Bavley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - After Geneva Grimpo fell and broke her hand and arm, doctors put the tiny, fragile-looking woman on drugs to strengthen her bones. Three years into her drug therapy, trouble began.
Her lower jawbone poked out through sores on the left side of her mouth where her gums ...
A rare challenge, a rare chance: 1 baby in 10,000 has this defect. Erica's was the worst doctors had seen
McClatchy Newspapers
2/5/2009, by Sarah Avery
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Everyone knew from the start that Erica Nance would present challenges. As a fetus, her abdomen failed to fuse shut in the early weeks of development, leaving all her organs outside her body instead of safely encased behind the rib cage, under muscle and sealed with ...
With new smartphones, doctors reinvent the house call
McClatchy Newspapers
2/3/2009, by Bobby Caina Calvan
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (MCT) - Dr. Javeed Siddiqui, an infectious-disease physician, was on the job at University of California Davis Medical Center when his iPhone rang with an urgent call. A colleague's niece was in distress, her right eye swollen from a dog bite.
Siddiqui asked the girl's father ...
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