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UH Creates Cancer Fund Named For Comic Strip Character
Health & Wellness  (tags: disease, breastcancer, healthcare )

Sarah
- 815 days ago - newsnet5.com
Big news for University Hospitals and its cancer patients. It involves Tom Batiuk, the creator of the comic strip Funky Winkerbean, who used his characters to educate readers about cancer.
Work Stress May Increase Breast Cancer Risk
Health & Wellness  (tags: breastcancer, stress, research, disease, illness )

Sarah
- 815 days ago - newsnet5.com
Women with demanding jobs were more likely to develop breast cancer in a 14-year Swedish study.
Food Safety System Perceived as in Crisis, Says U.S. Congress
Health & Wellness  (tags: recalls, nutrition, protection, risk, safety )

Sarah
- 814 days ago - thatsfit.com
After so many food recalls from sources in China recently, is it any surprise that many Americans are skeptical of imported food and other products ?
Are Expired Drugs Safe?
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, medicine, risk, safety, study )

Sarah
- 814 days ago - thatsfit.com
Are expired drugs perfectly potent, less potent or potentially dangerous?
Starving Is Like Ecstasy Use for Anorexia Sufferers
Health & Wellness  (tags: starving, anorexia, ecstasy, brain, disorders, drug addiction, humans, mice, drug target )

Eduardo
- 815 days ago - newscientist.com
Anorexia and ecstasy use activate some of the same brain pathways. The findings hint that the condition works in a similar way to drug addiction, and may also point the way towards new drug treatments for the eating disorder.
Widow Warns of DVT Risk as Millionaire Husband Dies After Long-Haul Flight
Health & Wellness  (tags: deep vein thrombosis, DVT, humans, risk flight, death )

Eduardo
- 815 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Long-haul flights triple the risk of a DVT -- and among older people the risk is likely to be higher. A post mortem showed that the millionaire businessman had died from a pulmonary embolism brought on by a VT, probably triggered by the lengthy flight.
Breast Cancer Survival Linked to Women's Age
Health & Wellness  (tags: breast cancer, studies, age, size, link, research, health, treatment )

Ali
- 816 days ago - news.com.au
SURVIVING breast cancer is strongly linked to age and how big the tumour is by the time the disease is diagnosed, according to new research underlining the importance of screening programs in early detection.
Judith Scott
Health & Wellness  (tags: arts, americans, interesting, media, women, Body-Mind-Spirit, disease, humans, illness, interesting, women )

Echo
- 816 days ago - creativegrowth.org
As well as being mentally handicapped, Judith cannot hear or speak, and she has little concept of language. She does not know that she is an artist, nor does she understand that the objects she creates are perceived by others as works of art.
Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite
Health & Wellness  (tags: bedbugs, health, illness, humans )

Sarah
- 815 days ago - wkyc.com
Cincinnati officials say a city bedbug infestation is showing no sign of abating.
Woman Gives Birth to Own Grandchildren
Health & Wellness  (tags: babies, birth, surrogate, women )

Sarah
- 816 days ago - wkyc.com
A 51-year-old surrogate mother for her daughter has given birth to her own twin grandchildren in northeastern Brazil, the delivery hospital said.
 
 
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