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Attention deficit disorder increasingly common in older kids, CDC says
Associated PressMore older children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder while the rate is holding steady for children under 12, according to a government report released Wednesday. Some experts called the finding surprising, noting that...Tags: Population, Demographics, Mental Illness, Medical Research, University of Michigan
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'Father of medical genetics' dies at 86
Sun ReporterDr. Victor A. McKusick, a Johns Hopkins professor who pioneered the study of medical genetics and spent his career exploring how patients' genes predisposed them to medical disorders, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in Towson. He was 86. Often...Tags: Medical Specialization, Heart Disease, Medical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Medicine
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South Florida hospital guard uncaring; nurse showed compassion
On July 4, my 91-year-old father was stranded in his disabled car with a violent attack of food poisoning in front of Pembroke Memorial Hospital on Sheridan Street. He begged the guard for entrance to the men's room and his pleas were coldly dismissed. A...Tags: Food Safety, Healthcare Policies
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July 24: Cost of smoking, retirement financial gamble, Savage on autism, Mastic services
Smoking? That would be a 'no' Sadly, the longtime smoker featured in a story about health dangers has not gotten the message about the risks of smoking, and he is in denial ["How to get the message across," News, July 20]. Perhaps he should spend a...Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Town of Brookhaven, Mental Illness, Heart Disease, Illnesses
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The over-50 crowd shouldn't put off colonoscopy, however off-putting
Two days before former White House spokesman Tony Snow died of colon cancer, I went in for my first screening. Snow was only 53 when he died on July 12. He had been diagnosed in 2005, and his colon was removed. He underwent six months of chemotherapy,...Tags: Death and Dying, Cancer, Tony Snow, The White House, History
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Free clinic to move, expand services and size
247-4741The Western Tidewater Free Clinic had just settled in, but it's already time to move. The building's owners want to sell the building once the clinic's two-year lease is up May 1, said Dave O'Brien, vice-chair of the clinic's board. The clinic opened in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Isle of Wight (Isle of Wight, Virginia)
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Freeport man to sue LI hospital over hepatitis diagnosis
ann.givens@newsday.comThomas Robinson thought the worst of his medical woes were finally behind him when he was released from Nassau University Medical Center after 18 days. That is, until he got a letter in May from the hospital, explaining that there was a chance that an...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, AIDS, Diseases
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Medpedia Project aims to create an online encyclopedia of health information
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterInternet entrepreneurs are teaming with doctors, researchers and other medical professionals to create what they hope will be the Web's largest body of health information. Modeled on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, but written and edited only by...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Google Inc., Private Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Wanted
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Lombard man, 82, gets jail for sexually abusing aide who cared for dying wife
Chicago Tribune reporterA Lombard man facing up to 15 years in prison after being convicted last year of sexually assaulting and abusing a nurse's aide caring for his dying wife reached an agreement with DuPage prosecutors Tuesday and was sentenced to six months in the County...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Trials, Punishment, Sexual Assault, Plainfield
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Joan Folk, nurse who spoke out on issues, dies at 83
rhoda.amon@newsday.comScores knew Joan N. Folk as "the nurse in the neighborhood," always available to mend cuts and bruises and give practical advice. And hundreds more knew Folk for her "letters to the editor," which detailed positions on issues from the opening of the...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Smithtown, Long Island, Columbia University, Nuclear Power
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