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Breathing easier without limiting activities is the goal of new government guidelines that urge more attention to asthma sufferers' day-to-day symptoms, not just their severe attacks. More ... Thousands more lung cancer patients each year could be offered surgery or other aggressive therapy under a new system that classifies many tumors as more treatable than in the past. It is the first big overhaul of a decades-old method used to predict survival and help determine whether a lung cancer patient will have surgery, chemotherapy or be treated at all. More ... DEAR DR. DONOHUE: As an adolescent and young adult, I was plagued with migraine headaches. Finally, one of my doctors prescribed Inderal, which I took twice a day for about one and a half years. It totally controlled my headaches. Eventually I tapered off of it. I was migrainefree for several years. I restarted it when the headaches returned, and it again controlled them. More ... Women who have their ovaries removed before menopause run a heightened risk of developing dementia or other mental problems later in life - unless they take estrogen until age 50, a new study suggests. More ... Just two weeks left! If you have not been following the plans, but would like to start this week, email me and I will send you the plans. The full plan is also available at http:// www.mountainhealth.blogspot.com. More ... If you smoke, you already know two things: It's bad for your health, and it's very hard to quit. But now, there have never been more resources available for people who want to quit smoking. So even if you've tried to quit before, it may be time to try again. More ... Hazard Community and Technical College and Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College will hold a pre-admission conference for the radiography program in room 235 of the Belinda Mason Building on the Whitesburg Campus of SKCTC at 3 p.m., Sept. 25. More ... September has been named Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month so that more women can learn about this type of cancer. Ovarian cancer has been called the cancer that whispers because it often has no clear-cut symptoms until the cancer has progressed to a more advanced stage. More ... |
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