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Paying big bucks for pets' medical care
Brute, a German shepherd, lay anesthetized on an operating table, his hairy chest under a plastic cover and his powerful paws taped immobile. "Here comes the wire up the artery!" said Dr. Chick Weisse, who infused the dog's cancerous liver with...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Medical Procedures and Tests, Science, Family, Cat (animal)
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Quinn signs new nursing home safety bill
Even before Gov. Pat Quinn signed landmark nursing home safety reforms into law Thursday in a room packed with senior citizens, top state officials have been working behind the scenes to implement many provisions of the new legislation aimed at ending...Tags: Illinois, Social Issues, Career and Workplace, Nursing, Employers
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Feds launch largest Medicare fraud bust, charging 94 in 5 states for $251 million scams
Associated Press WritersMIAMI (AP) — Elderly Russian immigrants lined up to take kickbacks from the backroom of a Brooklyn clinic. Claims flooded in from Miami for HIV treatments that never occurred. One professional patient was named in nearly 4,000 false Medicare claims....Tags: Physical Therapists, Kathleen Sebelius, Barack Obama, Prosecution, Baton Rouge
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Calming Dental Patients
WGN NewsIt keeps 60 million people from going to the dentist each year. Fear. Anxiety. A local dentist believes he has the antidote ... and it's not a drug. It's no wonder a trip to the dentist strikes a nerve ... the parodies aren't pleasant. For some ... it'...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Medical Procedures and Tests, WGN, Dentistry and Dental Health, Health
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Volunteers: Mother and son, both cancer survivors, to kick off Relay for Life
Who: On Dec. 17, 2001, Anna Roeser's life changed forever. It was the day the Libertyville mother of three and her husband, Mike, learned that their 3-year-old son, Gus, had leukemia. The family's joy when Gus completed 2 1/2 years of chemotherapy in...Tags: Illinois, Family, Health Organizations, Cancer, Heart and Circulatory System
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Exercise may reduce chronic pain
For more than a decade, Cheryl Clark has lived with the chronic pain that accompanies fibromyalgia. After years of suffering with severe flulike aches and pains, she finally found some relief — but it didn't come from a pill or a shot. It came...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Science, Physical Therapy, Education, Pain
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Studies target amyloid plaques and tau tangles
For a long time now, scientists studying treatments for Alzheimer's disease have focused on telltale plaques that appear in patients' diseased brains as a target for therapy. The plaques are clumps of a small protein called beta-amyloid that build up in...Tags: Physical Therapists, Chiropractors, Plastic Surgeons, Health and Medical Professionals, Symptoms
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FDA panel: Roche drug should lose approval for breast cancer after disappointing studies
AP BUSINESS WRITERGAITHERSBURG (AP) — A panel of cancer experts said Tuesday that the government should remove its endorsement of Roche's drug Avastin for breast cancer, after follow-up studies failed to show benefits for patients. A Food and Drug Administration...Tags: Physical Therapists, Genentech Inc., Chiropractors, South San Francisco (San Mateo, California), Tumors
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Avastin Rejected for Breast Cancer
Los Angeles TimesA Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday recommended that the agency withdraw its marketing approval of the blockbuster cancer drug Avastin for treating breast cancer, concluding that new trials showed no apparent benefit from the drug....Tags: Physical Therapists, Genentech Inc., Lungs and Airways, Breast, Crime, Law and Justice
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Does that backyard plant have health benefits?
The Monterey County HeraldFunny what you find in your backyard. My friends were helping me whack away at some pretty tall weeds when Pat remarked about some of these not-so-friendly-looking plants. He pointed to the one I was attacking with my shovel. "That's a milk thistle," he...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Inflammation, Health, Death, Medical Research
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The Many Ways to Share Bad News
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAfter her breast cancer diagnosis in December, Ederlen Casillas of Downey found herself overcome by more than just her cancer treatments. "Trying to communicate with family and friends was starting to feel overwhelming," she says. "It's an emotional...Tags: Facebook, Social Issues, Family, Death, Electronics
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FDA panel says Avastin should not be marketed for breast cancer treatment
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Tuesday recommended that the agency withdraw its marketing approval of the blockbuster cancer drug Avastin for treating breast cancer, concluding that new trials showed no apparent benefit from the drug....Tags: Physical Therapists, Genentech Inc., Lungs and Airways, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Medical Professionals
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