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Phoebe focuses on colon health
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Last Updated: 10:21 PM 03/14/10 - More than 50,000 lives are claimed by colon cancer each year in the United States, experts say. Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story) |
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Hospital offers ‘sleeping sacks’ for the smallest patients
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Last Updated: 10:27 PM 03/14/10 - An Albany hospital has begun giving parents specially-designed blankets for babies to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story) |
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'Doc Hollywood' impacts the next generation
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Last Updated: 10:39 PM 03/13/10 - Jimmy Hotz is finishing up his third year of medical school at Medical College of Georgia. - Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story) |
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Heroes inspire through daily trials of life
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Last Updated: 11:13 AM 03/12/10 - Every so often I will pull a tire or a box out to the middle of the gym and sit, looking around and thinking about the community of like-minded individuals that has been created here. (Full Story) |
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Hospital workers utilizing new simulated infant
Last Updated: 11:04 PM 03/15/10 - A new technology being used by a local hospital came with a cost of approximately $24,000. Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story) |
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Rotary aims to end polio
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Last Updated: 8:14 PM 03/06/10 - As of 2006, four countries were considered polio-endemic. - Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story) |
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Group says voters support tobacco tax
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Last Updated: 7:29 PM 03/06/10 - Seventy-one percent of those recently surveyed say they favored a $1 increase in the tax on tobacco products. - Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story) |
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When it comes to fitness, just do it
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Last Updated: 11:04 AM 03/05/10 - Hello, Albany. I hope you all are finishing up a wonderful weekend! Throughout the course of the week, I receive questions about health and fitness and would like to take this column to answer just a few of them. (Full Story) |
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H1N1 remains a headache
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Last Updated: 9:31 PM 03/04/10 - As of mid-February, 126 million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine had been ordered across the country. (Full Story) |
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Behavioral health unit operating at Phoebe
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Last Updated: 12:08 AM 03/04/10 - The two units will add a total inpatient capacity of 38, officials say. - Jennifer Maddox Parks, staff writer (Full Story) |
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