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'Melrose Place' actress sentenced to 3 years in deadly DUI crash
Actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer spent a season living at "Melrose Place" -- now she'll spend three years living behind bars at a New Jersey state prison. Locane-Bovenizer was sentenced Thursday to three years for vehicular homicide and three for assault by...
Tags: Google Inc., Lucy Lawless, Prosecution, Somerville, Punishment
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New grant will help reduce incidence of Johne's disease in dairy cows
ITHACA, N.Y. - Every day, more than 16 million gallons of milk are consumed in the United States. However, despite the technology and safety standards in place, some of that milk contains a nasty bacterium that is linked to Johne's disease in cattle and...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, The Pennsylvania State University, Science and Technology, Financial Aid, Colleges and Universities
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The gut and its bacteria a growing focus of research
The yards of dank tubing in our midsections form a complex, amazing and absolutely pivotal foundation for human health. And the more that scientists come to appreciate this, the more they anticipate that future medical discoveries will come from the lowly...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Chemotherapy, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities, Medical Research
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Oh, boo hoo
Change of Subject(Dan Webb and other) lawyers for (convicted former Gov. George) Ryan, 72, had sought a sentence of 2 1/2 years in prison, saying they feared anything much longer could amount to a death sentence. He suffers from Crohn's disease and...... -
Baltimore document thief sentenced to year in prison
The younger of two men who admitted to stealing a wealth of culturally significant documents was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison, ending the prosecution of a case that began at the Maryland Historical Society and rattled archives,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Central Intelligence Agency, Manhattan (New York City), Abraham Lincoln, Libraries
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Danielle Leavitt rises above Crohn's Disease to star in academics, athletics
Her journey began ominously, in a hospital, with a doctor holding test results from a colonoscopy. "Oh, my God, this is one sick kid," the doctor told her parents. A biopsy revealed a severe case of Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Biology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Probiotics: A gut-check on bacterial health
A fascinating, if disconcerting, fact: More than 100 trillion so-called good bacteria thrive in or on the human body. A sizable chunk of them maintain residence in the human digestive tract. Probiotics, live microorganisms that benefit their human host,...
Tags: Yeast Infection, Urinary System, Diarrhea, American Medical Association, Food and Drug Administration
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Jennifer Jaff dies at 55; advocate for the chronically ill
Jennifer Jaff was on the brink of attending law school when her doctor tried to stop her because she had a debilitating chronic illness. "I decided I couldn't stay in bed the rest of my life," she later said. "I had to live." Decades later she was a...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Queens (New York City), Business Enterprises, Barack Obama, Insurance
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Connecticut Prepares For Medical Marijuana
This Oct. 1 could be nicknamed "Medical Marijuana Day" in Connecticut. That's when Connecticut residents can actually start applying to have the legal right to use pot for medical purposes in this state. The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, Multiple Sclerosis, Dannel P. Malloy
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Gut bacteria linked to obesity-related health problems
The answer to why some obese people develop diabetes and other health problems may be found not in just a love for junk food, but in the bacteria that thrive deep in the human gut.
Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Colleges and Universities, Inflammation, Drugs and Medicines, Human Body
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'Can't' doesn't cut it
I always chuckle when someone tells me they can't do something before they even try it. "I can't lose weight," "I can't stop smoking," "I can't cut 700 words out of this 1,000-word letter to the editor." I bet you can if you try. "Can't" is not a...
Tags: Pearl Jam (music group), Fatigue, Abdominal Pain
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Man Avoids Jail After Sewing Son's Butt Shut
KTLA NewsWAUKEGAN, Illinois -- A man who took a needle and thread to his son’s buttocks accepted a plea deal that will keep him out of prison. Randy Swopes, 52, will be put on 24-months probation and have to do 250 hours of public service, NBC Chicago reports....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Juvenile Delinquency, Immune System, Health, Hospitals and Clinics
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