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Check out wellness events to stay healthy
Upcoming Virtual Dementia Tour: 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. June 22. Grand Villa of Altamonte Springs. Free interactive tour. Natural Solutions to Pain: 7:00-8:30 p.m. June 24. Oviedo YMCA, 7900 Red Bug Rd., Oviedo. 407-359-3606 Kidney Smart: 9-11 a.m. June 27....Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Windermere, First Baptist Church of Orlando, Hospitals and Clinics
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Third annual Hope Walk to fight Huntington's disease
South Bend TribuneGRANGER -- The Northern Indiana Committee for the Huntington's Disease Society of America will host the third annual Hope Walk at Discovery Middle School in Granger on Saturday. The local iteration of this national event was inspired by 1987 Penn High...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Auction Service, Health and Safety at School, Indiana University
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Arlo Guthrie is performing to honor dad Woody Guthrie's legacy
When Arlo Guthrie was a boy, he sat in the backyard with the guitar he'd gotten for his fifth birthday and listened to his father, Woody, teach him "This Land Is Your Land." The verses decrying hunger and espousing equality didn't strike Arlo as political...Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), Woodstock Festival (1969), Music, Natural Disasters, Entertainment
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Honoring his father's mission
He still performs the original words. When Arlo Guthrie was a boy, he sat in the backyard with the guitar he'd gotten for his fifth birthday and listened as his father taught him the end of "This Land Is Your Land" — the lyrics, cut in many...
Tags: Hurricane Katrina (2005), Woodstock Festival (1969), Music, Natural Disasters, Entertainment Events
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Blowing smoke on workplace health
The best way to hire productive employees is to look for people with qualifications, talent, honesty and commitment. Now, however, a small but growing number of employers are looking for something else as well: job applicants who don't smoke. As much as...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Colleges and Universities, Diabetes
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Margaret H. Abbott, genetics researcher
Margaret Hawkins Abbott, a retired Johns Hopkins Medical School genetics researcher who investigated families with inherited conditions for nearly five decades, died of dementia complications Feb. 1 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. She was 89 and lived in...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Hospitals and Clinics, Diseases and Illnesses, Anglicanism, University of Miami
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Dr. William J. Weiner, UM chairman of neurology
Dr. William J. Weiner, a professor and chairman of the department of neurology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who was nationally known for his work with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders, died Dec. 29 of multiple myeloma...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Diseases and Illnesses, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), University of Miami
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Gene patent case could impact patients, research
Every time a woman is tested for gene mutations linked to significantly higher rates of breast and ovarian cancer, her blood is sent to a lab in Utah. That's because Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics Inc. owns the patents to the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Science, Breast Cancer, Science and Technology, Colon Cancer
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Saturday's Calendar
SATURDAY Newport Beach Relay for Life The 11th annual American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Newport beach kicks off at 9 a.m. at Newport Harbor High School, 600 Irvine Ave., Newport Beach. A Luminaria Ceremony in honor of cancer survivors and in...Tags: Chiropractic, Republican Party, Arthritis, Relay for Life, Sam Cassell
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Girl, 9, who faced online taunts in 2010 dies
WYANDOTTE, Mich. (AP) — A 9-year-old Detroit-area girl whose battle with Huntington's disease drew attention after she was taunted online by a neighbor has died. Michigan Memorial Funeral Home in Flat Rock, which is handling arrangements, says...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Diseases and Illnesses, Mount Hope, Health, Facebook
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