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Jo-Ann Golec: Taking on Parkinson’s Disease

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Remember when you used to eat whatever you liked, and never gained an ounce? And how you used to be able to drive all day and all night and still be able to get up and meet the new day?

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Seniors: Keepin' It Light On The Road
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Facing an illness presents many challenges.

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Jo-Ann Golec: Taking on Parkinson’s Disease
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The menstrual cycle occurs in all females from the onset to puberty (average age 11 or 12 years) to the menopause in middle age (average age between 45-55).

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Reasons for Having a Period Every Two Weeks
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There are plenty of positives to being young, single and baby free, but in this week’s edition we’ll see if parenthood makes for the happiest life.

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Does Parenthood Truly Make You The Happiest? - HER Week In Health
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - The FBI says it is investigating "intentional" fires that erupted this week at two Atlanta-area women's clinics, one of which performs abortions.

FBI probes fires at women's clinics in Georgia
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most children and teens getting their appendix removed could probably go home on the same day they have surgery without facing an increased risk of ...

Can kids be sent home right after appendectomy?
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(Reuters) - After at least one child was hospitalized for swallowing its prettily packaged detergent, Procter & Gamble Co said on Friday it will make Tide Pods more difficult to open.

Tide to change Pods lid over child safety concerns
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cancer treatment can sometimes lead to infertility, but young women are less likely than young men to be informed of that risk, a new study suggests.

Women get less information on post-cancer fertility
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" with its ghostly tale of terror near the infamous, abandoned nuclear plant hits theaters on Friday after drawing protests from ...

Horror film "Chernobyl Diaries" draws some protests
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Celebrity gossip sites are beside themselves with the news that Rihanna has gotten back together with singer Chris Brown, even after photos of the bruises Brown allegedly gave Rihanna ...

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Reasons Women Return to Abusive Relationships
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The world's health ministers have agreed to try to cut premature deaths from chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and cancer by 25 percent by 2025, the ...

Chronic diseases are health ministers' target: WHO
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospitalized patients who aren't fluent in English end up spending fewer days in the hospital when they get help from a language interpreter at certain ...

Interpreters may help shorten hospital stays
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(Reuters) - Facing a May 31 deadline, the Illinois General Assembly on Friday raced to pass legislation to stop the state from sinking under pension and Medicaid payments, which account ...

Clock ticking on Illinois Medicaid, pension reforms
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A hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) is a T-shaped plastic frame that releases a type of progestin which thickens the cervical mucus to prevent sperm from reaching or fertilizing an egg, ...

Hormonal IUD: More than Just Birth Control?
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In a study published in the International Journal of Obesity, researchers found weight bias to be a very real phenomenon as it relates to hiring a candidate when skills, experience and ...

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Are Obese Women Less Likely To Be Hired Or Promoted? - HER Daily Dose
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prosecutors were expected to present evidence on Friday of Roger Clemens' DNA on a needle and other items allegedly used to inject the former baseball great with ...

Prosecutors to present DNA in Roger Clemens trial
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sanofi-Aventis plans to begin testing a novel compound that is designed to starve liver cancer to death in a phase one human clinical trial in China and possibly ...

Sanofi to test cancer-starving compound in China in 2013
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LONDON (Reuters) - European regulators confirmed on Friday that Roche's blockbuster cancer drug MabThera, also known as Rituxan, was safe to use, following a contamination scare at a ...

Europe clears Roche drug after contamination scare
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(Reuters) - A U.S. health advisory panel on Thursday issued a split vote on data for Pfizer Inc's drug to treat a rare neurodegenerative disease.

U.S. panel split on Pfizer rare disease drug
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The further you get into your senior years, the more you may be seeing fellow aging compatriots falling by the wayside, metaphorically speaking.

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Road Trip! Seniors Behind The Wheel
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With Memorial Day kicking off this weekend, it is time to fire up the grill and dust off the picnic table. But, think before you plan your menu with fatty meats and heavy side dishes.

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Want a Healthy Memorial Day? Hit the Garden And Fire Up the Grill
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You are out running errands in the mall when all of a sudden you feel a loss of control.

Panic Attack: What Happened to Me?
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Written by Alex Crees A new study finds ‘good’ cholesterol may not be as good for you as previously thought. Up until now, doctors have believed HDL cholesterol, long considered the ...

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'Good' cholesterol may not actually be that good
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday showed near unanimous support for a bill that helps fund the U.S.

U.S. Senate passes bipartisan FDA funding bill

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