Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Report Finds States With Best Health Care – 1023th Edition

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

A group that wants to improve health care in all states takes a look at which are doing the best and which have the most problems to fix.
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Seizure-Detecting Dog Taken From Boy – 1024th Edition

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

A hospital reviews its policy on service animals after forcing out a dog that alerts a boys parents when he is about to have a seizure.
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Can A Laser Cure Your Allergies? – 1025th Edition

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

A new company claims its computers can figure out your allergy triggers, then cure them with a laser. Does it work?
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Swine Flu Put Many Hospitalized Patients Into ICU – 1026th Edition

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That’s a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
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Pacemakers Safe To Recycle, Study Says – 1027th Edition

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Heart patients in the Philippines are given heart implants that were taken from dead patients in the U.S.
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Officials Stop Counting Swine Flu Cases – 1028th Edition

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
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CDC: 76 Kids Dead Of Swine Flu As Cases Rise – 1029th Edition

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Health officials said Friday that 76 U.S. children have died of swine flu, including 19 new reports in the past week — more evidence the new virus is unusually dangerous for the young.
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Swine Flu Put Many Hospitalized Patients Into ICU – 1017th Edition

Friday, October 9th, 2009

One quarter of Americans sick enough to be hospitalized with swine flu last spring wound up needing intensive care and 7 percent of them died, the first such study of the early months of the global epidemic suggests. That’s a little higher than with ordinary seasonal flu, several experts said.
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Pacemakers Safe To Recycle, Study Says – 1018th Edition

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Heart patients in the Philippines are given heart implants that were taken from dead patients in the U.S.
By fox5vegas.com

Officials Stop Counting Swine Flu Cases – 1019th Edition

Friday, October 9th, 2009

U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
By fox5vegas.com