Aging:
News Articles on Aging, Back Pain, Age Related Disease, Eldercare, Healthy Aging
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Sep 28th, 2009
Patients with end-stage renal disease are often set up for intensive dialysis treatments without first being given all options available for medical care, according to a review of medical records by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
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Sep 28th, 2009
The World Rabies Day is a day meant to spread the word about rabies, the oldest and deadliest disease known to mankind. Today is that day.
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Sep 28th, 2009
Arkansas has lost it’s sixth person to the H1N1 flu. Diamauri Hobbs, 6, of Texarkana died yesterday afternoon in a Little Rock hospital.
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Sep 27th, 2009
Scientists have discovered a new chemical compound to destroy bacteria, bringing them closer to developing a new class of antibiotics that can fight so called super bugs. For more than ten years, eradicating drug resistant bacteria has been a challenge.
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Sep 27th, 2009
Ten years ago, Shiloh Pepin was born with a rare birth defect called sirenomelia, mermaid syndrome. Most of these infants die within 72 hours. Shiloh has beaten those odds.
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Sep 26th, 2009
Potentially debilitating Lyme disease doesn’t afflict people everywhere that the ticks harbouring it are found. In 30 years, the tiny blacklegged tick has cut a huge swath through 10 northern states by carrying a bacterial infection now annually afflicting more than 20,000 North Americans.
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Sep 26th, 2009
The State Mosquito Management Program announced that mosquitoes trapped in New Canaan on September 16 tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV).
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Sep 26th, 2009
The Alaska Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, has issued new guidelines on when people should receive the pneumococcal polysaccharide (pneumonia) vaccine.
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Sep 26th, 2009
A University of Chicago researcher died at the Medical Center's Bernard Mitchell Hospital from an infection which may be attributable to a weakened laboratory strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague.
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Sep 26th, 2009
According to an extensive study review, four lifestyle interventions can prevent cancer - exercise, smoking cessation, reducing excessive sun exposure, and healthy eating. The review looked at how human behaviors change cells, producing malignancies. The researchers also identified which types of cancer can be prevented, or made less severe through lifestyle interventions.
