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People walk to raise bone marrow awareness
More than 250 people raised about $50,000 on Saturday for the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry during the seventh annual walkathon, “Walk of Life 2012.” The 6K walk began at Glendale Memorial Hospital to raise awareness about patients...
Tags: Leukemia, Charity, Bone Marrow
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W.Va. man hosts blood drives to give back in memory of his wife
richardb@herald-mail.comBy the time she died in 2011 at the age of 58 from Diamond Blackfan Anemia, Cynthia Snyder had been given an estimated 500 units of blood over her lifetime, her husband said. On Monday, Lee Snyder hosted the second blood drive in memory of his late wife,...Tags: American Red Cross, Charity
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Lance Armstrong has new title: doping kingpin
Maybe the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency should have handled our nation's "war on drugs," first launched more than 40 years ago. It took 14 years worth of evidence, but the USADA knocked off a drug kingpin in Lance Armstrong. We witnessed the final nail in the...
Tags: Frankie Andreu, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Cycling Trial, Tour de France, Cycling
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Colts Head Coach Chuck Pagano released from the hospital
One thing was more important then a win for the Colts, finding out that Head Coach Chuck Pagano was able to watch the victory from home. After securing a 17-13 victory over Cleveland on Sunday afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium Colts owner Jim Irsay...
Tags: Leukemia, Chuck Pagano, Football, Lucas Oil Stadium, Andrew Luck
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Local chef and farmer writes about the lingering effects of West Nile
In northwest Indiana, where I have raised vegetables for 20-odd years, mosquitoes flourish when rain fills the swamp pools in the backwaters of the Kankakee River. In August 2004, those pools spawned a particularly righteous throng. One afternoon, they...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, West Nile Virus, Disease Prevention, Lyme Disease, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Doctors discover 80-pound cyst in woman's stomach
For years, Nancy Lukee put on weight, but tried not to dwell on it. A doctor blamed the bulge in her abdomen on a hernia, but said it didn't need to be repaired. And since Lukee, 56, wasn't in pain and didn't have health insurance, she never got...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Hernia, Hospitals and Clinics, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health Insurance
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FSU’s EJ Manuel, Dustin Hopkins support ‘Team Fleetwood’
Chopping Block - Seminoles Blog - Orlando SentinelWhen Florida State quarterback EJ Manuel walked into the Moore Athletics Center for his weekly news conference Monday afternoon, a new red and black rubber band was wrapped tightly around his right wrist. It will stay there for a very long time. On Sunday... -
More than 250 butterflies will be released at Wings of Hope
HealthCancer Support Community -- Greater Lehigh Valley will have its annual Wings of Hope: A Butterfly Release 10:30 a.m. Sept. 8 at Cedar Crest College Allentown. The event honors those who've been affected by cancer wtih live and paper butterflies.... -
A day of reckoning for Lance Armstrong's fans
Tim Loranger is a Los Angeles aviation attorney who was deeply moved by Lance Armstrong's story of beating cancer. The former Marine wears the Armstrong yellow wristband, races in an Armstrong hat and has raised thousands of dollars for Armstrong's cancer...
Tags: Justice System, Cycling, The New York Times, Lance Armstrong, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency
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Florida to Maine awareness ride
The Chain Gang - Orlando SentinelI first encountered Di Sawyer more than a year ago when she and her bike went down hard on the West Orange Trail. We called an ambulance and she spent a lot of time recovering but she went on to accomplish this inspiring Florida-to-Maine ride to raise... -
The gift, the girl and the firefighter
The girl and the firefighter lived in the same part of town, the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the Far Southwest Side of Chicago, a neighborhood of cops, firefighters and city workers. The Mayoskis live there. And so do the Beazleys, and although there...
Tags: Mike Ditka, High Blood Pressure, Chicago Fire Department, Greenwood, Chicago White Sox
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The risk factors for breast cancer
Breast cancer affects hundreds of thousands of families each year. A potentially deadly disease, breast cancer is associated with several risk factors. Some of those risk factors, including gender and age, are beyond an individual's control, while other...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Breastfeeding, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Birth Control, Hormones and Metabolism
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