Heart help: Anyone can do it
By Valerie Melton, THE JOPLIN GLOBE (JOPLIN, Mo.)
April 30, 2008 05:16 pm
Hands-only CPR is a compression-focused source of resuscitation to be used on adults experiencing interrupted breathing or heart attack-like symptoms until professional help arrives. (more) >>>

Biomedical intervention helps moms battle autism
By Bev Davis, THE REGISTER-HERALD (BECKLEY, W.V.)
April 20, 2008 12:02 am
It’s little wonder that a single puzzle piece is used as the symbol by most organizations that deal with autism. (more) >>>

Surgery brings 'my second life'
By J.J. Huggins, THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE (NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.)
March 24, 2008 01:11 pm
Tomsa's road to the operating table began six years ago when his family saw an advertisement for a free health clinic run by a group of American doctors in another Romanian town. (more) >>>

Patients with chronic sinus problems find relief in acupuncture
By Suzanne Laurent, THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE (NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.)
March 14, 2008 12:29 am
To some people in our Western culture, acupuncture remains a mystery. But acupuncture and related medical treatments are more than 5,000 years old. (more) >>>

Student dies after acetaminophen overdose
By Andrew W. Griffin, THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT (NORMAN, Okla.)
February 28, 2008 09:11 pm
Madalyn Byrne's parents warn others to be wary of taking excessive over-the-counter medicines. (more) >>>

Back to the basics: Doc tells all about being a physiatrist
By Jamie Hergott, Hendricks County Flyer (Avon, Ind.)
February 26, 2008 09:26 am
While Nathan Prahlow has been called a physiologist, psychiatrist, and even a physical therapist, he’s none of the above. He is a physiatrist, a physician who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation, in the Clarian West Medical Center Back and Neck Center, which opened in April of last year. (more) >>>

What itches you?
By Suzanne Laurent, THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE (NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.)
February 08, 2008 12:09 am
Dry, irritated skin can be the result of plain old winter weather or something more serious. The key to treatment is finding out what's causing it.
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‘You will not smoke ... You will not smoke’
By Julie Kirkwood, THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE (NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.)
October 26, 2007 12:24 am
Smokers who had just one hypnotherapy session had a 50 percent chance of kicking the habit and remaining smoke-free for six months. (more) >>>

Donning pink to raise green
By Kristen Grieco, GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES (GLOUCESTER, Mass.)
October 18, 2007 11:57 pm
Curtis calls the decision to fund-raise for breast cancer research “serendipity:” Halloween is in October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the costumes she’d made were various shades of pink, the breast cancer color, because that was the hue most available to her at a sale price. (more) >>>

Banking on babies: Clinic stores sperm for couples
By Julie Kirkwood, THE EAGLE-TRIBUNE (NORTH ANDOVER, Mass.)
September 28, 2007 01:06 am
In the process of setting up and running the sperm bank and laboratory, Collins has picked up an endless supply of interesting facts about sperm. (more) >>>