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Free HIV test offered at Fayette health department
The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department is offering free HIV tests
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NEWS
Central Kentucky teens help their peers in battle against suicide
"I pick up one piece at a time," Woodford County High School senior says.
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HEALTH
Lexington churches' beard-growing contest raises money for men's cancers
Just before Christmas, Jud Davis went to his pastor with an idea. Davis, who is living with stage-four, or advanced, cancer, told the Rev. Pete Jones that men with cancer "weren't getting enough support" and that he thought there was a lack of research.
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MEDICINE
Commentary: Environmental, genetic factors play roles in getting MS
When I tell a patient he or she has multiple sclerosis, I more often than not am met with a quizzical look. The patient realizes a constellation of varied symptoms has plagued him or her for some time. Blurred vision, loss of balance, poor coordination, slurred speech, tremors, numbness, extreme...
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HEALTH
Trimming super-size with half-orders, plate colors
Call it the alter-ego of super-sizing. Researchers infiltrated a fast-food Chinese restaurant and found up to a third of diners jumped at the offer of a half-size of the usual heaping pile of rice or noodles - even when the smaller amount cost the same.
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HEALTH
WHO calls for final push against leprosy
The World Health Organization warned Monday that the battle against the age-old scourge of leprosy is not yet over, with more than 5,000 new cases reported yearly in the Western Pacific, where the disease was declared eliminated in 1991.
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MEDICINE
Women can take seven steps to improve their heart health
The leading cause of death among women in Kentucky is not cancer, but heart disease. And, for the last 27 years, deaths from cardiovascular disease in women have outnumbered those in men. According to the American Heart Association, in 2008, cardiovascular disease claimed the lives of 419,370 U....
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HEALTH
Injured boomers beware: Know when to see doctor
It happened to nurse Jane Byron years after an in-line skating fall, business owner Haralee Weintraub while doing "men's" push-ups, and avid cyclist Gene Wilberg while lifting a heavy box.
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HEALTH
Q&A: Obama and the birth control controversy
What birth control debate? A half-century after the introduction of the pill, acceptance of birth control by American women is virtually universal.
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HEALTH
U. Mich.: Child porn case spurs outside review
University of Michigan officials said Friday they have ordered an outside review of campus security in the wake of a botched response to child pornography found on a medical resident's computer flash drive.
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HEALTH
Hungarian home birth advocate looses appeal
A Hungarian obstetrician known for promoting home births lost an appeal Friday against her two-year prison sentence for malpractice.


