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Jun 10 2009

You can help find the cure for cancer

Published by Jennifer under Cancer, Featured, Leukemia, Lymphoma

(ARA) – After a routine blood test in 2001, Helen Anbinder, now 67, of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., heard the dreaded words: You have cancer. The diagnosis was chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), a serious blood cancer that affects more than 90,000 people in the United States.
One of her first calls was to The Leukemia & Lymphoma [...]

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Jun 02 2009

Ignoring Diabetes is Risky Business

Published by Jennifer under Diabetes, Featured

(ARA) – Are you taking risks with your life without even knowing it? You may be one of the nearly 6 million Americans who have type 2 diabetes and don’t even know it. 
Diabetes affects nearly 24 million children and adults in the United States and another 57 million have pre-diabetes, a condition that places them [...]

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Apr 01 2009

Good Bacteria? Probiotics Help Immune and Digestive Health

(ARA) – It may fly in the face of everything your mother taught you about health, but not all bacteria are bad. Some can actually improve your immune and digestive health. Eating foods enhanced with probiotics, or taking supplements, are a great (and delicious) way to make bacteria work for you and to fight germs.
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Oct 31 2008

Family’s Personal Tragedy Helps Others Learn the Importance of Flu Prevention

(ARA) – Getting the flu can have serious consequences, especially for children. Every year, children in the United States get extremely ill and some die from influenza (“the flu”) and its complications. Richard Kanowitz knows this all too well — he and his wife Alissa lost their 4-year-old daughter, Amanda, to the flu four years [...]

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Sep 18 2008

Having a Mother with Osteoporosis Can Lead to Increased Risk for Spinal Fracture

Published by Jennifer under Bone Health, Featured, Osteoporosis

Of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis, 80 percent are women, and having a mother with osteoporosis puts a daughter particularly at risk for fractures.
Priscilla Turner, 67, of Memphis, Tenn., knows this risk all too well. Her 90-year-old mother, Jewell Fondren, suffers from osteoporosis (a disease that causes bone to become weak and susceptible to [...]

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