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Helmets Coming To Huntsville, Conroe, Sugar Land And Houston - Houston Chronicle
there are lots of excuses for bicycling without a helmet. helmets can be hot, uncomfortable or just plain uncool. but, safety experts say, there's an excellent reason to wear the protective headgear: it may safe your life. up to 88 percent of 67,000 ...
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Ralph J. Houston
alexandria — ralph j. houston, 83, died monday, sept. 29, at st. elizabeth medical center, edgewood.
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Texas Medical Center's Flood-alert System Successful
the texas medical center (tmc) was close to flooding during and after hurricane ike, but a long-term collaboration with rice university paid off by calming fears of the kind of deluge that caused extensive damage during tropical storm allison in 2001.
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Frozen Ovaries Help Women With Breast Cancer - Click2houston.com
westwood, kan. -- jennifer smith, 25, of roeland park, said she never expected to be at the university of kansas cancer center getting chemotherapy. smith said her diagnosis of breast cancer turned her life upside down. "because it's one of those ...
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Bederra Corporation Retains Tortuga, Inc. For Administrative Investor ... - Msn Moneycentral
bederra corporation (pink sheets:bdrr), a medical imaging and diagnostic company, announced today that it has retained tortuga, inc. to provide administrative support in regards to their listings and filings with the pink sheet market. tortuga, inc ...
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Hospitals Functioning, Ready To Help Patients In Need
patients in houston northwest medical center and cypress fairbanks medical center hospital are in good hands, according to officials from both hospitals. in the wake of hurricane ike, many area residents and businesses were left without power and electriciy, not to mention the scarcity of gas and food.
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Disaster Relief Team Arrives At Rice
members of the disaster medical assistance team arrived tuesday afternoon in houston to ready their support for the temporary triage center opening at rice university in an undisclosed location on campus.
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Study Links Pancreatic Cancer To Hepatitis B - International Herald Tribune
people with pancreatic cancer are more likely than those without the disease to have been infected with the hepatitis b virus, a study has shown for the first time. the finding suggests that hepatitis b - already known to cause liver cancer in some ...
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First Mobile Wireless Application Running On Sap Netweaver Mobile For ... - Msn Moneycentral
custom application developed by infologix helps the baylor college of medicine wirelessly manage inventory of 10,000 medical and scientific devices in 55 buildings hatboro, pa. , oct. 1 /prnewswire-firstcall/ -- infologix, inc. iflg , a leading ...
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Hurricane-tested Houston Now Ready To Prepare For The Country's Category 5 Heathcare Crisis
hurricane ike hit houston hard less than two weeks ago, but already health leadership is hunkering down to address healthcare issues that affect not only people in the gulf-coast region but those around the country.
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Doctors Group Giving Free Bicycle Helmets To Kids
beginning saturday in huntsville, the texas medical association and associated sponsors will distribute hundreds of free helmets to children and teens in the houston area as part of its hard hats for little heads program.
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Yao Puts Best Foot Back On The Floor - Houston Chronicle
with sweat soaking through his practice gear and his once-fractured right foot fully healed, yao ming was finally back on the toyota center floor tuesday. there were weeks of work to be done, rough edges to be honed. but he was back. freed from his ...
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Tight Times? Healthy Food Still In Reach - Click2houston.com
but experts say that cutting your budget doesn't have to mean cutting healthy food from your table. "selecting healthy food items is always important, but in an economy where money may be in short supply (and) families are under stress and people may ...
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The Online Information Source For The Medical Device Industry
this past june, groundbreaking innovations poised to change the face of healthcare received well-deserved recognition at the awards presentation of the 2008 medical design excellence awards (mdea) competition.
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Blood Center Shuts Down For Four Days, Needs Donations
with the hurricane ike shutting down houston for a few days, the influx of blood donations came to a grinding halt.
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Woman Weighing Cancer Risk - Sauk Valley Daily Gazette
obesity can ruin a person's health for many reasons. but for women, too much weight tacks on an additional danger: studies have linked obesity and breast cancer in a variety of ways. doctors aren't sure why this link exists and are trying to figure ...
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Dr. Charles Smith Named Chief Medical Officer For Cigna’s Wellness ... - Dbusinessnews.com
bloomfield -- cigna has named dr. charles smith as chief medical officer for cigna's health solutions unit, which provides the company ’ s health and wellness programs, including health coaching, behavioral health and lifestyle management programs ...
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Deaths For Saturday, September 27, 2008
bernard thornton, 69, of pine bluff died sept. 20 at jefferson regional medical center. he was born dec. 11, 1938, in dumas, ark., to the late laudell thornton sr. and beatrice hall thornton.
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Around Harris County
fairmont care center reopening fairmont emergency care, a satellite facility of bayshore medical center at 6002 fairmont parkway, will reopen at 7 a.m. friday.
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Take Charge Of Your Breast Health - Winona Daily News
there’s a new movement in breast cancer, and the focus is on survivorship. “our detection tools have gotten so good that many cases are being caught in the most treatable stages, so the survival rate is very high,” says dr. maura dickler ...
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