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Thursday, July 3, 2008
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The articles below are provided by the Cleveland Plain Dealer and are written by their reporters about health topics currently in the news.
Title: Continued cases of rare lung disease stump health experts
Summary: A year after blood banks eliminated the most likely source of a rare but sometimes fatal lung injury in patients who receive transfusions, cases continue to be reported, leaving doctors stumped. The American Red Cross last year stopped using...
Published: 2008-06-19 - Updated: 2008-06-19; Source: Cleveland Plain DealerTitle: Absence of key proteins makes triple negative breast cancer aggressive and hard to treat
Summary: During her monthly breast self-exam, Angie Vitale of Canton found a lump in her breast. "I immediately thought it was cancer," she said. "But I was only 27. People don't get breast cancer at that age." But this wasn't a...
Published: 2008-06-17 - Updated: 2008-06-17; Source: Cleveland Plain DealerTitle: Local project tackles diabetes complications
Summary: Ten percent of adults in Cleveland have diabetes. Once again, we're worse off than the country as a whole. It's another embarrassment for the city. But that's not the big problem. The disease is. If you've been diagnosed with...
Published: 2008-06-17 - Updated: 2008-06-17; Source: Cleveland Plain DealerTitle: Should you take a drug to prevent a cancer you may never get?
Summary: Graphic: Lowering the risk (NYT)The New York Times writes about a debate among cancer doctors: Should patients take a drug that will lower their chance of getting prostate cancer, even if they may never get prostate cancer to begin with?...
Published: 2008-06-16 - Updated: 2008-06-17; Source: Cleveland Plain DealerTitle: Young athletes' latest enemy: spinal stress fractures
Summary: Spinal stress fractures in the lower back have become the No. 1 stress fracture among young athletes, said Dr. Joseph Congeni, the director of sports medicine at Akron Children's Hospital. In today's Health Tips, he explains the phenomenon, for...
Published: 2008-06-16 - Updated: 2008-06-16; Source: Cleveland Plain DealerTitle: Heart attack is often 1st sign of heart disease, cardiologist says
Summary: The seeds of heart disease can gather in the coronary arteries quietly over years and decades, but when it erupts into a heart attack, it often happens without warning and with catastrophic results. NBC's Tim Russert may have been...
Published: 2008-06-14 - Updated: 2008-06-16; Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
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