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Study finds women who undergo early menopause face increased risk for heart disease and stroke
A recent study has found that females who stop having their periods before age 46 had a higher incidence of heart disease and stroke. Doctors have long suspected that women who undergo early menopause might be at an increased risk for those medical...
Tags: Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease, Science and Technology, Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses, University of Alabama
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OUR HEALTH: Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners are helping to meet the growing demand for primary care.
Ten thousand Americans turn 65 every day, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Not only is our population getting older, but it’s also growing at such a rate that by 2025 we will need an additional 52,000 family doctors. This...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government Health Care, Heart Attack, Nursing Homes, Health and Safety at School
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Neighborhood opposition leads Centra to rethink plans for doctor's office
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefNot in my neighborhood. That's what some in Lynchburg are saying about a proposed doctor's office. Officials with the Centra Medical Group want to move Lynchburg Internal Medicine to a new location. The current building on Thomson Drive is small and...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Internists, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia)
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A healthy dose of jazz
Some might see an odd destiny — if not exactly Jerry Garcia’s “long strange trip” — in the formation of the 3-year-old Jazz Docs band. Its five members form a sort of Venn diagram — with Ellicott City dentist Hank...
Tags: Classical Music (genre), Lisbon (Portugal), Science and Technology, Health and Medical Professionals, Music
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Jean Wells: Feminist And Medical Trailblazer
Jean Wells was a strong individualist, a feminist path breaker and a strong-willed pediatrician at a time when women physicians were rare and not always held in high esteem. In her Yale Medical School class, there were four women who repeatedly heard...
Tags: Hartford Hospital, Health and Medical Professionals, Newington, University of Hartford, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Flu 411: What everyone needs to know
It's flu season in Baltimore. A few days after Christmas, Baltimore resident Kathleen Dudley began experiencing telltale signs of the flu — fever, chills, body aches, sore throat, cough and overall exhaustion. "The worst part — the fever...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Glen Burnie, Baltimore County, Howard County, Sore Throat
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Obituary: Teresa Ann Johnson
STANFORD — Teresa Ann Johnson, M.D., an internal medicine physician who specialized in emergency medicine, passed away in the comfort of her home on the 18th day of January, 2013. She was 53. Known affectionately as “Doctor J” in the...
Tags: Culture, Tim Robbins, Health and Medical Professionals, Golf, High School Sports
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Cut these 4 foods to lose weight
Q: I'm trying to lose weight, and a friend recently told me that cutting white bread and potatoes out of my diet completely will help. Is that true? A: Your friend is right. Taking white bread and white potatoes, as well as white rice and white pasta,...
Tags: Mayo Clinic, Pasta, Breads, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pancreas
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Jean Schaller
Services for Jean Schaller, 82, of Groton will be 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 21 at St. John's Lutheran Church, Groton. The Rev. Craig Grams will officiate. Burial will follow in Groton Union Cemetery, under the direction of Paetznick-Garness Funeral Chapel,...
Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Internists
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Mark C. Stanberry: A Psychiatrist Who Focused On Listening
The Hartford CourantMark C. Stanberry was a psychiatrist who resisted the trend toward medication only, and instead concentrated on careful listening and helping his patients unravel their problems. It wasn't that he was against the pharmacopeia that has helped millions...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatrists, Multiple Sclerosis, Leukemia, Cancer
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Aberdeen: Cancer specialist joins Avera
Dr. Richard Conklin, a longtime cancer specialist in Aberdeen, has joined Avera Medical Group Oncology and Hematology Aberdeen. The partnership will involve major growth over the next few years that will help improve treatment for patients with cancer,...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Specialization, Internists, Vanderbilt University
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Is being pear-shaped not so good after all?
If you're pear-shaped and smug, a new study's findings may take you down a peg: For those at slightly increased risk of developing diabetes, fat stored in the buttocks pumps out abnormal levels of two proteins associated with inflammation and insulin...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Drugs and Medicines, University of California, Davis, Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses
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