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Jan. 15 hospital report: Bothwell Regional Health Center
Dismissed Tuesday: Denzel W. Hamilton, Warsaw; Melissa Leinbach and son, Barnett; Casey N. Miller and son, Green Ridge; James Robinson, Cole Camp; Linda K. Shackleford, Edwards; Maebreecia L. Williams, Smithton; Robert L. Brosch, Ana B. Hernandez, Dorothy... 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. This... 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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  • Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people WASHINGTON (AP) -- With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science....
  • Advocates are back with real health care stories CHICAGO (AP) -- When carpenter Greg Douglas crashed his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000....
  • Federal probe finds problems with chelation study A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death....

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