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W.Va. man shares battle with flesh-eating bacteria
marieg@herald-mail.comFlesh-eating bacteria might sound like something from a science fiction movie or an episode of "The Twilight Zone." But it isn't make believe. Instead, it's a real-life horror story — one where a micro-organism enters the body through an open wound...Tags: Swelling, Chills, First Aid, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, High Blood Pressure
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Understand the limits of fecal egg count reduction tests
Many producers rely on fecal egg count reduction tests (FECRTs) to determine which parasites are affecting their herds or whether they might have resistant parasites on their property. However, knowing the facts about the tests can help you decide whether...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests
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Kids With Crohn's
Kate Moskowitz was still in diapers when she diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that would change her life. Not many people have heard of Crohn’s disease, and there’s no one-size-fits-all method of treatment. Kate, now 5, has already been...
Tags: Ulcerative Colitis, University of Miami, Genetics, Allergies, Arts and Culture
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Another Baby Gets Herpes After Controversial Circumcision
pix11.com | @murphypixRabbis in the city’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities are resisting a possible change to the city and state health code, which would require parents to sign a consent form, before their infant boys undergo a controversial type of circumcision. ...Tags: Judaism, New York City, Christian Orthodoxy, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Orange County (New York)
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Our priorities change
Our goat herd is in expansion mode. This is our first experience with delivering kids of our own, of the four legged variety anyways. Our daughter, Bena, was more than happy to offer her assistance to the does in loving on the kids, but I reminded her... -
Embracing vegetables
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post. This week, Debra Schulze, RD, LDN, weighs in on vegetables.
Did you know there are more than 200 varieties of fruits and vegetables? While praised as a "good...Tags: Dietary Fiber, High Blood Pressure, Blood, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Tomatoes
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Ask the Expert: Ruchi Gupta, pediatrician and author of 'The Food Allergy Experience'
For parents of children with food allergies, navigating everyday life can be like side-stepping land mines. Play dates, birthday parties and after-school activities all pose potentially life-threatening hazards. And there's Halloween, when candy...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Physical Conditions, Allergies, General Practitioners, Peanut Butter
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'Magic City' actress loves yoga, Pilates
On "Magic City," a Starz television drama set in a glamorous Miami hotel in 1959, Dominik Garcia-Lorido plays a Cuban-American housekeeper training to be a Pan Am stewardess. She sizzles as a young woman coming of age and falling in love. In real life,...
Tags: Basketball, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Vitamin D, Andy Garcia, Vitamin C
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Nobel laureate, bone-marrow transplant innovator Dr. E. Donnall Thomas dies
Q13 FOX News OnlineNobel Prize winner and medical pioneer E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., died Saturday at the age of 92. Thomas won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work in bone-marrow transplantation to cure leukemias and other blood cancers. In 1974, Thomas became the first...Tags: Bone Marrow, Chemotherapy, Oncology, General Practitioners, Health Organizations
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Three steps to winning the battle against BRD
For cattle producers, half the battle to keep cattle healthy is choosing the right vaccine to help prevent bovine respiratory disease (BRD). BRD is the leading cause of economic loss in the beef industry, with losses of up to $240 per head. Cattle...Tags: Disease Prevention, Respiratory Disease, Drugs and Medicines, Preventative Medicine, Viral Diseases and Infections
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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: Hospitals and Clinics, Nursing, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Insomnia, Blood
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Vaccination of horses
As horse owners it is our responsibility to provide optimal standards of care for them. An effective health management plan will involve proper nutrition, parasite management, and routine hoof and dental care. Vaccinations are also a valuable tool for...Tags: Flu, Rotavirus, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Rabies
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