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Rescued dog needs more help
Chloe, an 85-pound Irish wolfhound, is built like a pony, but the legs that support her splay out at an odd angle. The Aberdeen Area Humane Society is raising money to pay for a $7,000 surgery that is scheduled for Thursday. It's unknown if her legs...
Tags: PayPal, Inc., American Kennel Club, Weight
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Take vitamin supplements with caution: Some may actually cause harm
Medical Edge from Mayo ClinicDEAR MAYO CLINIC: Is it true that a large study found that most vitamin supplements may actually do more harm than good? What supplements should I avoid? Which are worth taking? I'm 67 and in good health. ANSWER: Advice on vitamin and mineral...Tags: Vitamin Therapy, Dietary Supplements, Vitamin E, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Disease
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Water utilities share $105M herbicide settlement
ST. LOUIS - More than 1,000 communities that have spent millions of dollars over many years filtering a common agricultural herbicide out of their drinking water are welcoming their shares of a $105 million settlement with the weed-killer's maker. The...Tags: Syngenta AG, Water Supply, Corporate Officers, Justice System, Trials
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Chloe the dog recovering from surgery
Chloe, an 8-month-old Irish wolfhound the Aberdeen Area Humane Society is helping, is now recovering from surgery. Chloe underwent a two-and-a-half-hour-long surgery Thursday to correct her front legs. Her legs were bent because of issues with growth...
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Folic acid linked to reduced risk of autism spectrum disorders
Mothers who took folic acid supplements around the time they became pregnant were less likely to have children with an autism spectrum disorder, a new study has found. Researchers in Norway examined health records of more than 85,000 children born there...
Tags: Dietary Supplements, Health Organizations, Fatty Acids, American School for the Deaf, Food and Drug Administration
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Breast-feeding is on the rise in America, CDC says
Good news for babies: The number of mothers breast-feeding is rising across America. So says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a new report released Thursday. From 2000 to 2008, the proportion of mothers who breast-fed their infants rose...
Tags: Obesity, Drugs and Medicines, Disease Prevention, Diabetes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Why not open the floodgates on marriage?
The argument that same sex couples should have an equal right to marry is not to be taken lightly. It appeals to Americans' ingrained sense that everyone should be treated fairly. It is memorialized in the Constitution's 14th Amendment, which guarantees...
Tags: Marriage, Symbols and Symbolism, Gays and Lesbians, Family, Same-Sex Marriage
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Weigh pros and cons of 2 new diet drugs
Weight-loss drugs have so far been a complete bust. But they may be verging on a comeback, now that the Food and Drug Administration has approved two new prescription diet pills for the first time in more than a decade. Both weight-loss medications...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Physical Conditions, Cleft Lip and Palate, High Cholesterol, Migraine
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Buried history in Hanoi
Out beyond the swank poolside bar at Hanoi's Metropole hotel, which I visited last month, a gated entrance opens onto a dark set of stairs. At the bottom is a dank and musty bomb shelter, and, for those who can read Vietnamese, a sign in golden...
Tags: Explosions, Emergency Incidents, The New York Times, U.S. Military, Michael Allen
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$50-million settlement reached in Rialto Superfund site cleanup
L.A. NOWSettlements worth $50 million combined have been reached over the cleanup of a 160-acre Superfund site in Rialto, where the water supply was contaminated as companies manufactured munitions, fireworks and rocket motors, federal authorities said.... -
Petoskey students take part in 'Salmon in the Classroom'
The tiny salmon at Sheridan Elementary each have names. There was Larry, the fish fifth grader Sean Redman, 10, released last spring into the Bear River. That same spring, Kaitlyn Smith, also 10 and a fifth grader, released her own fish, named Bob. This...
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Letters: Too much trash, too many people
Re "A toxic battleground," Nov. 25 Residents of Kettleman City, Calif., claim that toxic waste dumped into a nearby landfill is responsible for illnesses, birth defects and even some children's deaths. Consider India, where crowding in parts of the...Tags: Plan B (drug)
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