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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Phil Mickelson is being treated for arthritis that surfaced just before the U.S. Open and left the golfer in so much pain that he couldn't walk.
Mickelson revealed Tuesday he has psoriatic arthritis, a condition he said causes the immune system to attack the body's joints and tendons. Weekly shots of Enbrel, which lowers his immune system, have brought the disease under control.
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In a spectacular turnabout, hospitals are treating almost all major heart attack patients within the recommended 90 minutes of arrival, a new study finds. Just five years ago, less than half of them got their clogged arteries opened that fast.
The time it took to treat such patients plunged from a median of 96 minutes in 2005 to only 64 minutes last year, researchers found.
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The entire story of Louisiana in the post-Hurricane Katrina era is not yet written, as the facts and events and ethical issues are still un...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas | Texas A&M coach Billy Kennedy said Thursday that he is in the early stages of Parkinson's disease.
Kennedy took a leave of absence from the team this month to undergo testing after experiencing neck and shoulder pain for several months that led to an inability to sleep regularly. The tests revealed that Kennedy was in the early stages of Parkinson's disease, a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement.
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The Pentagon's military-exchange program with China for 2010 was canceled earlier this year because of Beijing's anger at arms sales to Taiwan, and military ties remain in deep freeze after the unusually combative exchange in Singapore last week between a Chinese general and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
In remarks to a security conference June 4, Mr. Gates defended U.S. arms sales to Taiwan as legal under U.S. law and carried out carefully by successive administrations.
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HAMMOND, La. - A special education teacher at Hammond High School is being treated for the antibiotic-resistant staph "superbug" - an infection her doctor didn't recognize, but her principal did.
The teacher's classroom has been scrubbed down with diluted chlorine bleach, and she is at home being treated for the disease diagnosed by a second doctor, principal Carmon Moore said Friday.
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DENVER -- Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTCBB: CBIS) a pioneering U.S. biotech company developing pharmaceutical cannabis (marijuana derivative) products, i...
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104 Average number of minutes before heart attack patient treated at CAMC in 2007 76 Average number of minutes before heart attack patient treated at ...
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While much has been written and said about the unprecedented U.S. mortgage market decline and its impact on home values, homeowners, and mortgage serv...