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A swine fllu clinic will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Allenmore Hospital, 1901 South Union Avenue in Tacoma.
You might say that E. coli has been very, very good to William Marler.
WASHINGTON – A technology originally developed for premature babies may be helping to save some of the sickest swine flu patients by rerouting their blood so their lungs can rest.
BALTIMORE – Crisis pregnancy centers in Baltimore must display signs stating they do not provide abortions or birth control referrals under a measure approved by the City Council on Monday night and thought to be the first of its kind.
BRUSSELS – For 23 torturous years, a Belgian man, Rom Houben, says he lay trapped in his paralyzed body, aware of what was going on around him but unable to tell anyone or even cry out.
ATLANTA – When the nation’s swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be “messy.” They were right.
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed contrasting images.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department on Wednesday eased restrictions on who should receive swine flu vaccinations, moving young children back to the head of the line.
SEATTLE – Premature birth rates in the Pacific Northwest are among the lowest in the nation, but the March of Dimes says that still only earns Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska C’s on the organization’s premature birth report card.
The University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital researchers are looking for 110 6-month-old infants in the Puget Sound area to participate in a new study.
ORLANDO, Fla. – A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin – drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.
On defense for flu season? Doctors will tell you your best shot is to get a shot. But that won’t cut it for Sue Berman of Blue Heron Wellness in Silver Spring, Md. To keep sniffles at bay, she plans to spend a whole lot more time with needles.
A high-fat, high-sugar diet does more than pump calories into your body. It also alters the composition of bacteria in your intestines, making it easier to gain weight and harder to lose it, research in mice suggests. And the changeover can happen in as little as 24 hours, much faster than researchers had suspected, according to a report Wednesday in the new journal Science Translational Medicine.
ROME – Nearly 200 million children in poor countries have stunted growth because of insufficient nutrition, according to a new report published by UNICEF Wednesday before a three-day international summit on the problem of world hunger.
Scientists at the University of California campuses in Irvine and San Francisco have found a potential new use for human embryonic stem cells – helping cancer patients recover the cognitive function lost when their brains are treated with radiation.
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