Drugs and suicide
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Sometimes medicine for physical ills can lead to death
September 10, 2008
Cody Miller was a high school football player who was allergic to ragweed. Douglas Briggs was a doctor coping with pain from an old back injury.
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More flu vaccine is aimed at key flu spreaders — kids
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September 10, 2008
WASHINGTON — Lots of youngsters on your street? Watch out: Flu may strike your community sooner and harder than it hits the hip singles neighborhood down the road.
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Why do we put things off?
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September 10, 2008
This may sound strange, but procrastination is not always a bad thing. Sometimes we need to wait before beginning a task.
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Active living
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September 10, 2008
SPRINGFIELD — The Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont Inc. is offering a free in-home counseling program called PEARLS.
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Hospice training
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September 10, 2008
A free eight-week training class for individuals interested in becoming a hospice volunteer is being offered from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursdays, Sept. 25 to Nov. 13, at Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice, 7 Albert Cree Drive in Rutland.
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Cholesterol screening
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September 10, 2008
Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice will hold a total lipid profile along with a comprehensive cholesterol and glucose screening at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at the RAVNAH office on Albert Cree Drive.
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RAVNAH clinics
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September 10, 2008
Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice provides public blood pressure and foot care clinics each month. There is a suggested donation of $2 for blood pressure screenings and $5 for foot care.
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Finding a way through hard times
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September 10, 2008
At a recent meeting with a client and her daughter, we were making small talk about how high grocery prices are when the younger woman mentioned she had been going online to learn how to make preserves.
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Ingredients matter when making great ratatouille
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September 9, 2008
In Provence, every grandmother worth her Dutch oven has a ratatouille recipe that family members swear is unsurpassed.
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Was vaccine rushed to market?
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September 3, 2008
In two years, cervical cancer has gone from obscure killer confined mostly to poor nations to the West's disease of the moment.
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Doctor's memoir describes hard fall from Parkinson's
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September 3, 2008
''Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love and Loss With Parkinson's Disease and Dementia,'' by Thomas Graboys, M.D., with Peter Zheutlin, Union Square Press, 210 pages, $19.95.
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Health Talk: Staying active in the fall
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September 3, 2008
Now that the summer is coming to a close, it is time to make your fall exercise plan. All it takes is a few minutes of planning so when the weather turns cool, you will be prepared.
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Active living
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September 3, 2008
SPRINGFIELD — The Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont Inc. is offering a free in-home counseling program called PEARLS, Program to Encourage Active Rewarding Lives for Seniors, for eligible seniors 60 years or older residing in Windham or Windsor counties, who have been feeling down or blue or who have lost interest in doing things.
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'Matter of Balance'
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September 3, 2008
Does the fear of falling keep you from many activities?
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Informational programs
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September 3, 2008
Several informational programs are being offered through the Rutland Regional Medical Center.
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Cholesterol screening
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September 3, 2008
The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice will hold a total lipid profile along with a comprehensive cholesterol and glucose screening at 8:30 a.m. today at the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland Town.
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RAVNAH clinics
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September 3, 2008
The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice provides public blood pressure and foot care clinics each month. There is a suggested donation of $2 for blood pressure screenings and $5 for foot care.
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Health Calendar
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September 3, 2008
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Love food?
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September 2, 2008
When Linda Lipsky taught a course called "So You Want to Open a Restaurant" at Temple University in Philadelphia, she deliberately made the business sound like a minefield. She warned her students that it is possible to lose their homes, their life savings, and even the rights to their own names.
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How to clear confusion from allergy warnings
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August 27, 2008
It's one of the biggest frustrations of life with food allergies: That hodgepodge of warnings that a food might accidentally contain the wrong ingredient.
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Health Talk: August is for vaccine awareness
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August 27, 2008
August is recognized as National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM).
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Injured troops increasingly turning to prescription medication
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August 27, 2008
In the last six months of his life, Staff Sgt. Mark Waltz tried 23 different prescription medications to relieve the pain of war.
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Cholesterol screening
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August 27, 2008
The Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice will hold a total lipid profile along with a comprehensive cholesterol and glucose screening at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, at the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland Town.
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Active living
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August 27, 2008
SPRINGFIELD — The Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont Inc. is offering a free in-home counseling program called PEARLS.
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RAVNAH clinics
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August 27, 2008
Rutland Area Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice provides public blood pressure and foot care clinics each month. There is a suggested donation of $2 for blood pressure screenings and $5 for foot care.
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Health Calendar
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August 27, 2008
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Home caregivers get a break
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August 20, 2008
MILWAUKEE — Mildred and John Fischer thought their retirement years would be a time for traveling and visiting their grandchildren. Then last September, just as John Fischer was retiring from the post office, Mildred Fischer's mother, who has Alzheimer's disease, came to live with them.
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Health Talk: Stress: It can make you sick
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August 20, 2008
What is stress anyway?
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Many think God's intervention can revive the dying
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August 20, 2008
CHICAGO — When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans.
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Health Calendar
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August 20, 2008
Today
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