April 11, 2012 RSS feed / Health

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Girl, doctor fight freak injury

By MELISSA CORNETT
It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary for spunky eight- year- old Hannah Click to hop on the go-kart with her 23-year-old sister to take a couple laps around her family’s Knott County home. More...

Autism research about to bear fruit?

By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer

ATLANTA More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade researching autism. More...

Whooping cough’s unwelcome return

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: My husband has had a cough that seems to have lasted forever. He saw several doctors. Each gave him a different diagnosis and different treatment. None worked. The last doctor believed he had whooping cough and tested him for it. More...

THE NUMBERS GAME: Knowing Your Blood Pressure

You may know that high blood pressure puts you at risk for many serious complications with diabetes. You’ve probably been told repeatedly to work at keeping your blood pressure at a reasonable level. More...