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2008-11-18 Prevention is better than the cure for cancer

The side effects of chemotherapy depends mainly on the drugs and doses the patient receives. Generally, anti-cancer drugs affect cells that divide rapidly. These include blood cells, which fight infection, help the blood to clot, or carry oxygen to all parts of the body. When blood cells are affected by anticancer drugs, patients are more likely to get infections, may bruise or bleed easily, and may have less energy. Cells that line the digestive tract also divide rapidly. As a result of chemotherapy, patients may have side effects, such as loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, hair loss, or mouth sores. For some patients, the doctor may prescribe medicine to help with side effects, especially with nausea and vomiting. Usually, these side effects gradually go away during the recovery period or after the treatment stops. Hair loss,

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2008-11-11 Science News / FOR KIDS: Salt Secrets

Whats the impact of high blood pressure on the U. S. population: How many people have this condition, what are their risks of disease, which people (age, gender, race) are most likely to develop elevated blood pressure What are the costs for treating this condition What are the financial costs to society in terms of people who get sick and cant work or must pay for medicines to treat their condition

Most national heads of policy-making bodies in the United States and Canada and Great Britain are reaching the same conclusion, says Lawrence Appel, professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Reduce your salt intake.

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2008-11-09 Torontoist: Historicist: The Odds Against Success

In addition to dogs and lab space, Macleod arranged for Charles H. Best to serve as Bantings assistant before promptly leaving for a summer-long vacation. The twenty-one-year-old Best had only finished the final examinations for his biochemistry degree a day before beginning work with Banting. But, as his favourite aunt had succumbed to diabetes, Bests determination matched Bantings, and the two made an effective collaborative partnership. Working around the clock, Banting and Best cooked meals over bunsen burners and slept in the lab. They endured financial difficulties, too, with Banting selling his car and Best resorting to canvassing door-to-door to ask dog owners to donate (or sell) unwanted dogs so that their promising experiments could stretch beyond the original allotment of time and resources.

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2008-11-04 Janet Jackson, dog news and Wet-Naps The Detroit News

I didnt even know dogs could get cement-stuffed prosthetic elbows, and here we are one step further in the process. I point this out partly to salute surgeon Loic Dejardin of the Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine, and mostly because I couldnt resist printing a photo of Jake, making tracks on an underwater treadmill and clearly wondering why the heck he isnt getting anywhere.

Jared Rosenberg of Wright Crear Management in Culver City, Calif. , had been kind enough to respond to Pivas e-mail shortly after the postponed performance. "We would like to do something to make it up to you because this would never be the intent of Janet and unfortunately I can not tell you the proof that she puts her fans first but please know that her fans are the most important thing to her," Rosenberg wrote.

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2008-11-04 Swanson search: no answers - Marshall Independent

Brandon Swanson has been missing since his car was found in a ditch along the Lincoln Lyon County Line Road, near the Yellow Medicine River near Taunton. It is believed Swansons body is somewhere along the river or in bog areas near the river. Swanson had called his parents to tell them his car was in the ditch when that cell phone call ended abruptly. Swanson had told his parents his car was near Lynd, and his parents looked for him in that area after he called. Later, law enforcement found Swansons car near Taunton, about 10 miles north of Lynd.

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2008-11-01 Griffins first usd. 1 beer/hot dog night scheduled for November 7th; Field Trip game scheduled Red Wings Snapshots

Education and Hockey: Beginning at 10 a. m. , a Healthy Goals for Life-themed educational event will take place. Local medical and health professionals will share with elementary and middle school students the importance of a healthier lifestyle, through interactive displays set up in the banquet rooms and on the concourse. These displays will focus on physical activity, rest and nutrition. Meanwhile, high school students will attend a career forum in the bowl of the arena. This years speakers include: Dr. Marsha Rappley (Dean of Human Medicine at MSU), Dr. Steve Triezenberg (Scientific Investigator and Dean of the VAI graduate schools program) and Vicki Smith (Lake Michigan Credit Union). Following the educational part of the morning, all students will cheer on the Griffins as they battle the Houston Aeros.

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2008-10-31 K-State Veterinary Professor Says Falls Wet Weather Leading to More Cases of the Bacterial Infection Leptospirosis

MANHATTAN, Kan /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kansas State University veterinarians are seeing a dramatic increase in the number dogs with a bacterial infection common in wet weather. "The rain has made this a banner fall for leptospirosis," said Dr. Kenneth Harkin, a veterinarian at K-States College of Veterinary Medicine. "Our lab is seeing a positive test about every other day. " Harkin, an associate professor of clinical sciences, developed a PCR test to improve the diagnosis of leptospirosis, an infection caused by bacteria that thrive in wet weather. The disease is transmitted through the urine of domestic and wild animals and can be transmitted to people. Harkin said dogs usually pick up the infection from a water source like a puddle or pond. It also is possible for dogs to get leptospirosis through

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2008-10-31 New Treatment Method For Canine Eye Diseases Developed By Iowa State Researcher

Dr. Sinisa Grozdanic, an assistant professor of veterinary clinical sciences at Iowa States College of Veterinary Medicine, is working with a drug manufacturer to develop a method of implanting biodegradable medicine into the tissue surrounding a dogs eyes. The medicine releases gradually and treats the infected eye for an entire year.

With drops, immediately after putting them in the eye, there is a lot of medicine going where it needs to go," said Grozdanic. "Then the amount of medicine getting into the eye goes down quickly. Also, you have a specific time for how long that drug will be therapeutically active. "

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An Iowa State University researcher is exploring a new method of getting medicine to the eyes of infected dogs that is more effective and reliable than using eye drops. Dr. Sinisa Grozdan - Veterinary news medical news health news medical headlines healthcare news health articles medicine articles welfare living

2008-10-28 Should basic school foods be banned Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cancer Project, an arm of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has petitioned the U. S. Department of Agriculture to stop supplying schools with processed meats, including hot dogs, bacon, sausage, salami and other cured meats and to stop reimbursing schools for lunches that contain those foods.

If some people dont like hot dogs, that doesnt mean they (schools) should give them up for everybody, said Lauren Rummel, an 8-year-old at Taylor Mill Elementary, who says hot dogs are her second favorite food behind burgers.

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A national cancer group is trying to get hot dogs banned from school lunch menus. Thats right: no more corn dogs, coneys or foot longs. Bacon would go, too. - Local news Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati OH News local news headlines stories world news

2008-10-26 NewsoftheNorth. Net

Vicki Hinkforth joins Ministry Medical Group (MMG) in Rhinelander as a nurse practitioner to internal medicine. Hinkforth received her bachelor of nursing degree from Nebraska Methodist College. She worked as an ER nurse at Saint Marys Hospital for 13 years. She received her nurse practitioner certification from Concordia University and joined the hospitalist program at Saint Marys Hospital in .

Williams began is role as a PA after serving 20 years in the U. S. Air Force. Prior to joining MMG, he practiced as a PA with Northland Orthopedics in Rhinelander. In addition to orthopedics, Williams has experience working in urgent care, family medicine, occupational medicine, emergency medicine and nursing homes.

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