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93-5 'KHY Rock Report
Headlines for Monday, May 20, 2013
IN STORES THIS WEEK
Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars are back with their fourth album, Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams.
Aussie rockers Airbourne return with their second album, Black Dog Barking.
The Rolling...Tags: Adriana Lima , Providence, Butterfly Ballots, CSI (tv program), Will Ferrell
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Pregnancy: How a poor diet can affect your fetus
Pregnant women who eat poorly risk leaving their children less able to properly store fats in later life, leading to a higher risk of diabetes, according to research that sheds new light on how nutrition in the womb can permanently influence adult health....
Tags: University of Cambridge, Medical Research, Julie Deardorff, Cancer, Research
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Paula Deen's diabetes: Blaming the victim?
As Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen certainly knows by now, people with Type 2 diabetes are routinely blamed for causing their disease by eating junky food and making unhealthy lifestyle choices. Known for high fat recipes that raise the risk for...
Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Albert Einstein, Weight, Human Body, Insulin
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Disability and desire
Life is divided into two phases: the one in which you're not supposed to be having sex and the one in which you're supposed to be having more sex.
Confusion abounds during both phases. But if you're living in the second phase — that is, you're an...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Health and Medical Professionals, Prostate Cancer, Birth Defects, Health
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Officials: Des Plaines woman who collapsed shoveling died from hemorrhage, cold exposure
One of two women who died Friday after collapsing while shoveling snow died in part from cold exposure, the Cook County medical examiner’s office found today.
Both Florence Erickson, 77, of Des Plaines, and Joan Lilek, 64, of Oak Lawn, died at...Tags: Park Ridge, Disasters and Accidents, Health, Oak Lawn, Diseases and Illnesses
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Fighting for air
For brief moments, Cassie Stanley can forget her precarious relationship with death.
She forgot on Christmas morning when her family opened presents. At other times, she forgets by immersing herself in watching the Bulls or Cubs on TV in her family's...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Charity, Christmas, Cystic Fibrosis, Concerts
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UPDATE: Goshen hospital data breach exposes personal information
WSBT-TV ReporterGOSHEN – Life-threatening diseases, ailments, and illnesses – doctors at IU Health Goshen Hospital treat it all. But a different kind of virus has the hospital on alert and the personal information of 12,000 people at risk. "We are very sorry...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Computer Networking and Internet, Personal Data Collection, Health, Politics
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FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock
Only 20% of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are given to people who are sick with bacterial infections, such as ear and urinary tract infections and pneumonia. Most of the penicillin, tetracycline and other antibiotic drugs used in this country are given...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Staphylococcal Infection , Agriculture, Health Insurance Cost, Agriculture
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Treating menopause symptoms
Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Genes and Chromosomes, Blood, Urinary System, Human Body
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Quitting smoking is tough, but not impossible
Many people pick quitting smoking as their New Year's resolution. But if quitting smoking was easy, most smokers would have already done it. Tobacco is highly addictive and the process isn't easy, but quitting is possible for those who really are ready...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Asthma, Peripheral Vascular Disease, Human Body, Chantix (drug)
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Medical screenings: Time is of the essence
Deep down inside, we all know it: It's inevitable, this living, breathing, beautiful, multipart machine, the human body, is — at some point, somewhere — going to break down.
We've all heard the warnings, the doctors' admonitions to get...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Hysterectomy, Health and Medical Professionals, Cardiologists, Health
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