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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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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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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.
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HEALTH
For pregnant women with cancer, chemo possible
Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant. Studies suggest that these women can be treated almost the same as other cancer patients are, with minimal risk to the fetus.
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HEALTH
Russians alarmed by rash of teenage suicides
A rash of teenage suicides in Russia has set off alarm bells and experts are urging the government to take immediate action.
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HEALTH
Nearly 1 in 20 US adults over 50 have fake knees
Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.
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HEALTH
For pregnant women with cancer, chemo possible
Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while pregnant. Studies suggest that these women can be treated almost the same as other cancer patients are, with minimal risk to the fetus.
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MEDICINE
Beshear says Medicaid problems were anticipated, will be fixed
Legislators express frustration over Kentucky's switch to managed care companies.
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HEALTH
Under fire, Obama adjusts his birth control policy
Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for free birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies...


