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- Living with congestive heart failure
- (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – Congestive heart failure doesn't have to be a death sentence. Recently Newschannel 3 visited Borgess Medical Center's Heart Failure Clinic where patients learn to live by managing their illness. Irma Pruve comes to... Full story
- Fish oil shows promise in preventing psychosis
- CHICAGO (AP) - A preliminary study suggests a cheap, easy-to-find supplement could help young people with signs of mental illness from descending into schizophrenia. More research is needed to determine if fish oil can really prevent the... Full story
- Options exist for dealing with uterine fibroids
- (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – It can cause debilitating pain, and it's dangerous. One in four women suffer from uterine fibroids, but a hysterectomy isn't the only option. When Pam Dickinson looks at her doctor, she sees her good luck... Full story
Focus on Fitness
- Fine-tune workout to rule slopes
- Folks, ski season is coming. And more than a few of you have asked questions about getting in skiing shape. Even when we're in great shape there are things we can do to help improve our ability to ski better and, if you ski as badly as I do,... Full story
- U.S. needs czar to coordinate health efforts
- America needs a trainer.
- America needs a trainer. The country needs somebody qualified to help whip our butts into shape. That somebody would have the power to command, influence and draw resources from various aspects of the government to help us get in better shape.... Full story
- Gradual shift in habits helps avoid fitness-program rebellion
- Impatience can kill even the best fitness programs.
- Impatience can kill even the best fitness programs. Folks are aware that too many kids in the United States are overweight or obese. We even know how to reverse the situation and how to prevent it. We know that more physical activity helps. We know... Full story
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- Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found....
- Bad malaria pills in Africa raise resistance fears High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality - including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal - raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday....
- Even if you're careful, drugs can end up in water PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests....
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