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Patient’s own stem cells help heal heart0
- Health & Healing
- February 16, 2012
A patient's own heart cells can be used to regrow new heart tissue and help undo damage caused by a heart attack, according to early research published on Monday by scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. CNN Blogs, 2/13/2012
READ MOREPastor Rick Warren born again to healthier living0
- Celebrity HealthStyles
- February 9, 2012
Pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling The Purpose Driven Life and head of Saddleback Church in Southern California, is spreading the word about how he lost 60 pounds on a program he invented called The Daniel Plan. The plan was created with help from three well-known doctors: Mark Hyman, Daniel Amen and Mehmet Oz.
READ MOREParents: Help Your Kids Make the Most of Winter Break0
- Home & Family
- December 27, 2011
This article goes through numerous ways to keep teens busy and engaged during the long holiday break, including educational (but fun) trips to museums, zoos, or factories; virtual field trips; community volunteer work, etc. Yvette Jackson, CEO of the National Urban Alliance, a nonprofit that focuses on improving student engagement in low-income schools, advises, "The
READ MOREParents Turn to the Internet Before Going to the ER0
- Family & Kids
- October 24, 2011
While some parents turn to the CDC or American Academy of Pediatrics’ Healthy Children websites, most use WebMD or Wikipedia. One in eight parents goes online for medical information about their child’s condition before taking the child to the emergency room, according to new research. Mother Nature Network, 10/20/2011
READ MOREParents of teen who died texting and driving: ‘Kids think they’re invincible’0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- March 6, 2012
Clay and Shauna Sauer, the parents of teenager Taylor who died while texting and driving, are fighting to have laws instated to prevent similar accidents. TODAY, 3/5/2012
READ MOREParents of Queens boy who died from undiagnosed infection urges Senate panel: ‘No more Rorys’0
- Health & Healing
- September 26, 2013
Rory Staunton was 12 years old when he died from an undiagnosed case of sepsis, after having scraped his elbow in gym class. Rory had gone to the hospital after waking up on the day after the gym class incident with a high fever, leg pain, high blood pressure, high heart rate, and vomiting, but doctors had assumed the boy just had a stomach flu.
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