The Oakridger:Health News Archive
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- A guide to the new food pyramid
- Heart patients wait longer on nights, weekends
- Seminar focuses on understanding prostate cancer
- New StrokeScore screenings target prevention
- Comfort care
- Nearly $95 billion a year being spent on medical research
- MMC's cardiopulmonary rehab earns recertification
- Eye exams needed prior to kindergarten
- Ten percent of reproductive-age women have PCOS
- Good breast health requires being proactive
- Research shows CPR can be learned in just 20 minutes
- Is lower back pain keeping you down?
- Physiatry: What is it? How does it benefit patients?
- FDA to require cancer warnings on two eczema drugs
- Innovations in orthopedics
- Free health screenings
- Cancer: prevention and screening
- Local sleep specialist offers tips for adjusting to time change
- Our 'internal clock'
- More fast-food ads shown on black-oriented TV
- Nicotine supplements affect therapy
- Ready to quit smoking? A plan can help
- Advances in varicose vein treatment - Part II
- Preparing for THE birth day: Birth plans can help
- Growing mom, growing baby
- After dropping for years, teen smoking in the U.S. has leveled off
- High-tech IMRT helps local patients in battle against certain cancers
- Drug approved to treat rare but potentially deadly disease
- Women are lifting more, but national goal a stretch
- Autism
- HPV vaccine a new challenge for parents
- Ignoring blood in urine can be deadly mistake
- WTC workers have lung problems
- Rare, potential drug complication raises concerns among some patients
- ‘Mini-Maze’ at UT treats abnormal heart rhythms
- Doctors test ways to spur knee cartilage to grow
- New once-a-year osteoporosis shot reduces fractures
- Vanderbilt to conduct long-distance eye exams in Peru, Bolivia
- Sleep apnea: Condition can be mild problem or life-threatening
- Quality in healthcare
- Patients quit pills too early, a deadly choice in some cases
- Excuses, excuses.… Excuses to avoid mammograms can be deadly
- Breast cancer facts
- Merck diabetes drug wins federal approval
- MMC's Health Night will focus on quality and infection control
- Matters of the heart... Symptoms of heart attacks in women and men differ
- 70 percent of dieters go it alone with no doctor, survey finds
- Oak Ridge Breast Center welcomes new radiologist