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Jefferson Memorial Hospital nurse honored
Jefferson Memorial Hospital recently chose Justin Campbell, LPN, a nurse in the emergency department, as the recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses for the first half of 2012. Denise Carter, nurse manager of the emergency department and...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Nursing, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Specialization, Health
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Microbe that lives in salt shows promise for salmonella vaccine
After years of complex research, a small team of University of Maryland scientists says it has developed a simple solution to a killer Third World disease using salt.
It's a bit more complicated than ordinary table salt, though the crystals have the same...Tags: Research, Global Expansion, Genes and Chromosomes, Salmonella Infection, Health and Safety at School
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NIH superbug outbreak a warning for local hospitals
Much of Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Jason Farley's recent research has focused on an evolving medical crisis: How to stop the spread of bacteria that have adapted immunity to most antibiotics. To stop it the medical community needs to track it. He's...
Tags: Heart Problems, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work, Meningitis
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Calories -- are they all the same? Yes and no
chrisc@herald-mail.comIn the diet world, there are a few vocabulary words that are generally considered as bad words. All too often, "calorie" is one of them. But that's too bad, because, according to Brittany Smith, clinical dietitian at Meritus Medical Center, calories...Tags: Weight Loss, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bagels, Cheese Corn
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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: Probiotics, Diarrhea, Symptoms, Flu, Crohn's Disease
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Family offers memories of cancer victim
Staff WriterCancer. It’s a powerful word that strikes fear in many. It can kill twice: first by crippling a sufferer’s quality of life and draining away his will to live, and secondly, when it takes his life. Some people, like Imperial Valley native...Tags: Chemotherapy, Meningitis, Health Treatments, Cancer
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FIV: Another devastating cat disease
FIV, or feline immunodeficiency virus, is a virus specific to cats. It is in the same family of viruses as HIV or human immunodeficiency virus. Make no mistake: The cat FIV virus cannot infect humans and the human HIV virus cannot infect cats. People are...
Tags: Disease Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Preventative Medicine, Lymphatic System
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Maryland braces for more meningitis cases
Maryland could see new cases of meningitis for a month or more as health officials continue to search for new and past cases of the disease, which has sickened 50 people in several states who received injections of a tainted steroid. In the cases...
Tags: Harford County, Back Pain, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Symptoms, Towson
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Church raising funds for pastor's cancer treatment
kpeek@amnews.comWhen modern medicine is unsuccessful in curing diseases, some seek alternative treatments. For Pastor Charles Daugherty, that time has come. After a year-long battle with multiple myeloma, during which time he has undergone chemotherapy, radiation and...Tags: Blood, Chemotherapy, Biotechnology, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Organizations
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How cattle perceive their world affects handling
Cattle really see the world differently. A cow may see more than you see and is often distracted by motion off to the side. However, she doesn't see the world as clear and sharply focused as humans see it, and it takes her more time to process what she...Tags: Physiology, Blindness, Cancer
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Scourge for cattle producers: Dust and cattle
I'm in the middle of reading a book by Timothy Egan called “The Worst Hard Time.” If you're interested in American history surrounding the plight of the farmers and townspeople of the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930's,...Tags: Pneumonia, Diseases and Illnesses, South Dakota State University, Lungs and Airways, Respiratory Disease
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Food for Thought: Do You Take Dietary Supplements?
WGNO NewsThe Department of Health and Human Services released a report Wednesday stating 20% of 127 dietary supplements marketed for weight loss or immune system support included prohibited claims on their labels. Seven percent of the supplements lacked the...Tags: Dietary Supplements, Health Treatments
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