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Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
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Last Updated: 10:23 AM 11/20/09 - Doctors say understanding underlying triggers might help reduce the burden of those who return from combat psychologically wounded, if they can get early help. (Full Story) |
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Georgia mental hospital stops admitting patients
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Last Updated: 10:52 AM 11/20/09 - A state official says Georgia's largest mental hospital will stop admitting new patients. (Full Story) |
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Recall of Vicks Sinex nasal spray
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Last Updated: 10:49 AM 11/20/09 - A voluntary recall has been issued by Procter & Gamble for three lots of Vicks Sinex nasal spray. (Full Story) |
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Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD
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Last Updated: 4:56 AM 11/20/09 - PTSD is a crippling condition that can emerge after a terrifying event -- car accident, sexual assault, terrorist attack or combat. It's thought to affect as many as one in five veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. (Full Story) |
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Trustee: 154 salmonella claims filed
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Last Updated: 3:22 PM 11/19/09 - A bankruptcy trustee says claims have been filed for 154 people who say they were sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced to a Virginia peanut company. (Full Story) |
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H1N1 clinics scheduled for Aiken County schools
Last Updated: 1:43 PM 11/18/09 - H1N1 clinics have been scheduled in several Aiken County schools. About a week before each clinic permission forms will be sent home with students. (Full Story) |
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New 'blood bus' hits the road to save lives
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Last Updated: 6:54 PM 11/18/09 - Shepeard Community Blood Center is hitting the streets with a new set of wheels: a $200,000+ clinical bus, ready to enhance the way blood and other materials are collected in the community. (Full Story) |
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Mammogram screening debate: doctors and cancer survivors concerned over changes
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Last Updated: 12:21 AM 11/18/09 - Cancer survivors and doctors in our area both say getting a mammogram as early as possible will save lives. That is why a recommendation to start mammograms at age 50 by a government panel is not sitting well with doctors at MCG and breast cancer survivors. (Full Story) |
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MCG students help Augusta's homeless
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Last Updated: 12:01 AM 11/15/09 - Medical students at MCG in the Class of 2013 took time out of their Saturday to host the Homeless Health Fair. They provided homeless people with information about what they can do to keep from getting sick. (Full Story) |
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Taste of Health highlights food choices
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Last Updated: 11:49 PM 11/14/09 - A local health care coalition is focusing on good food choices as a way to improve personal health. The Taste of Health event held Saturday at the Tabernacle Baptist Church featured displays from local restaurants, vendors and food experts. (Full Story) |
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MCG, MCG Health to function as "single system"
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Last Updated: 2:40 PM 11/14/09 - Change is in the forecast for the Medical College of Georgia. (Full Story) |
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Emory U gets $8M Gates grant for nursing school
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Last Updated: 10:13 AM 11/13/09 - According to the World Health Organization, the lifetime risk of a dying during childbirth in Ethiopia is 1 in 27. (Full Story) |
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Only on 12: Wife concerned about reaction time after Augusta Tech teacher collapses during class
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Last Updated: 1:52 PM 11/13/09 - 62-year-old Paul Whitehead, an otherwise healthy adult education teacher, showed up to teach a morning class on October 6 and then collapsed into a coma. (Full Story) |
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Augusta health department calls $180,000 cuts "heartbreaking"
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Last Updated: 1:46 PM 11/10/09 - Augusta's health department is facing close to $200,000 in cuts. (Full Story) |
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Ga. to ban smoking at mental hospitals
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Last Updated: 10:25 AM 11/09/09 - Beginning next year, patients at Georgia's mental hospitals will no longer be able to light up. (Full Story) |
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