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 Go Easy on 
 the Candles 


Aug 21, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don't go overboard on the candles, researchers warn. The fumes of paraffin wax candles can contribute to cancer and asthma, though it would take years of heavy use to cause a problem, the BBC reports. “An occasional paraffin candle and its emissions will not likely affect you,” says... More »

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cancer • research • illness • asthma • health research • candlelight • candle

OPINION

 Reform? 
 We Need a Revolution 


Aug 12, 09 5:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Diane McWhorter’s experience with a doctor caring for her elderly mother has her hoping for more than health care reform. “Socialized medicine, hell,” she writes on DoubleX. “How about a cultural revolution?” Her mom’s doctor, due for a vacation, dumped her on a “hospitalist”... More »

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physician • patients • illness • doctor • hospital • health care reform • medical care • Obama administration

Calif. Plant Recalls Ground Beef on Salmonella Fears

Colorado department of health

Aug 6, 09 3:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California meatpacking plant has issued a recall for 800,000 pounds of ground beef it fears may be tainted with salmonella, the Los Angeles Times reports. The ground beef from Beef Packers, Inc. is sold under various retail names in California, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. The recall came after... More »

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food poisoning • California • beef • illness • salmonella • ground beef

 Cronkite 'Gravely Ill' 


Jun 18, 09 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS News anchor and reporter, is “gravely ill,” sources tell Mediabistro columnist Gail Shister. The network began updating its obituary package for the 92-year-old last week, one added. Newsday’s Verne Gay writes that he, too, has heard the rumors: “Walter could be... More »

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illness • CBS News • Walter Cronkite • news anchor

(Newser) - Apple CEO Steve Jobs was too ill to attend a California town council meeting last night over the fate of a historic home he owns in Woodside, the San Jose Mercury News reports. “I don't think he would be strong enough if we were here until 1 am,... More »

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California • Steve Jobs • Apple • illness • Woodside • council meeting • historic preservation

 Swine Flu Shuts 2nd NY School 

Dozens of children call in sick in second major outbreak in Queens

Apr 29, 09 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A second school in Queens has been shut down after dozens of students suffered symptoms of swine flu, reports the New York Daily News. Cases have also been found in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and an outbreak is suspected at a Catholic school in Manhattan. The public school closed yesterday,... More »

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New York City • Mexico • Michael Bloomberg • Queens • illness • influenza • public schools • private schools • students • swine flu

ALS Patient Chronicled Her Struggle, Chose Her Death

'I choose not only how I will live, but if I will live'

Apr 13, 09 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - When writer Catherine Royce became an ALS patient, she shared with NPR her passionate belief that she should be able to meet her decline and eventual death on her own terms. "Every day, I choose not only how I will live, but if I will live," she said... More »

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philosophy • death • illness • Lou Gehrig's disease • writer • ALS

 Slumdog Star 'Very' Sick 

Social worker worries about emotional effect of US tour

Mar 1, 09 3:18 PM CST
(Newser) - One of Slumdog Millionaire’s child stars is severely ill after returning to India from his whirlwind American tour, the Telegraph reports. Ten-year-old Azharuddin Ismail developed a temperature of 103 and started vomiting after arriving at his Mumbai slum home. His illness comes as critics slam the psychological effects of... More »

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Hollywood • illness • Mumbai • Slumdog Millionaire • Oscars • slums

Salmonella Toll Hits 666 Sick—
and Climbing

9 killed in outbreak; Peanut Corp cited in all 'clusters of infections'

Feb 25, 09 6:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Peanut-linked salmonella has sickened 666 people and counting, despite a massive food recall, Reuters reports. The illness has killed nine. “To date, 19 clusters of infections in five states have been reported in schools and other institutions,” said a health official. “King Nut brand peanut butter was... More »

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illness • salmonella • outbreak • peanut • King Nut • Peanut Corporation of America

UPDATED

Amputated Brazilian
Model Dies

Miss World finalist lost hands and feet after septicemia infection

Jan 24, 09 2:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A top Brazilian model who underwent the amputation of her hands and feet in an attempt to save her from a life-threatening infection died early this morning, CNN reports. Marianna Bridi di Costa was hospitalized in early January for septicemia triggered by a urinary tract infection. Doctors originally believed Bridi... More »

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Brazil • infection • illness • model • beauty queen • amputation

 Ailing Piven May Bail 
 on Broadway 

Sick actor has missed three Broadway performances

Dec 17, 08 4:47 PM CST
(Newser) - Jeremy Piven has been knocked out by an illness so severe his docs suggest abandoning his new Broadway role, TMZ reports. Piven—best known as Ari Gold on HBO's Entourage—has missed three performances of Speed-the-Plow. Doctors advise he end his run with the show pronto, his rep says. The... More »

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Broadway • illness • Entourage • Jeremy Piven • Speed the Plow

Iranian Prez's Illness
Nothing Serious, MP Says

Rumors to contrary are just political 'ploy'

Oct 26, 08 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - The irrepressible Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is suffering from exhaustion, but it won’t keep him down for long, an MP told an Iranian news agency. Rumors that the Iranian president is very sick are “psychological warfare,” “an old ploy” designed to undermine him among fundamentalists before next June’... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • illness • rumor

 Apple Bats Down 
 Latest Jobs Death Rumor 

Report that CEO had heart attack is false, company says

Oct 3, 08 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Apple again today was forced to quash rumors about the health of CEO Steve Jobs, refuting a report that the CEO had suffered a “major heart attack,” Bloomberg reports. Shares fell as much as 5.4% following a post on CNN’s citizen-journalist iReport site, but have since... More »

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Steve Jobs • shareholders • Apple • death • illness • heart attack • CNN • pancreatic cancer • iReport

 53K Tots Now Sick 
 on Tainted Chinese Formula 

PM: manufacturers are 'heartless'

Sep 22, 08 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - China's quality-control chief has stepped down as the number of Chinese babies reported sickened by contaminated formula has soared to 53,000, CNN reports. Some 13,000 have been hospitalized; 40,000 more have been treated as outpatients. One ill toddler has been reported in Hong Kong. Chinese premier Wen... More »

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China • baby • illness • tainted milk

 How Did Bernie Mac
Slip Away?

Lung disease, immune-suppressing meds were factors

Aug 10, 08 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Suffering from a rare lung disease, Bernie Mac was on medication to suppress his immune system—and that that made him vulnerable to the pneumonia that ended his life, his sister-in-law told People. He was hospitalized 8 days earlier than reported with a fever and trouble breathing, and “was... More »

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immune system • death • illness • pneumonia • Bernie Mac

 Bat Deaths Perplex Scientists 

Syndrome could devastate population

Aug 1, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Experts are still in the dark about what’s causing the deaths of vast numbers of bats in the Northeast, but some theories have emerged, Salon reports. Some scientists believe white-nose syndrome is driven by global warming, while others are looking hard at pesticides. In either case, humans may have... More »

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bees • global warming • ecology • illness • fungus • bats • hibernation • animal • pesticide

Doctors Fume Over Website Selling Fake
Sick Notes

Australian physicians want it shut down

Jul 31, 08 5:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - In an Internet version of a classic schoolboy trick, a website is peddling fake doctors' notes to Australians looking to get some paid time off, reports news.com.au. The $40 certificates have infuriated the medical community, which wants the police to step in. Two backpackers reportedly set up the... More »

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medicine • fraud • Australia • illness • doctor • Britain • employee

 Patch Protects Travelers
 From Pesky Stomach Bugs 

E. coli takes fewer tourists hostage with new development

Jun 12, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tourists could soon have a new accessory to add to travel-sized toothpaste tubes and electrical adapters: an anti-diarrhea patch. A new US study shows that travelers wearing a “transcutaneous immunization” patch, loaded with E. coli toxins, reliably protected wearers against diarrhea and vomiting, the BBC reports. Those who did... More »

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travel • illness • diarrhea • tourists • scientific study • vomiting • anti-diarrhea patch

 Federer Blames Slump on Mono 

'If the doctors had found out then they would have told me not to play'

May 2, 08 11:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don’t worry about Roger Federer’s lackluster season so far: he's been sick. Federer spent the early months of the season plagued by undiagnosed mononucleosis, he told the Independent. “If the doctors had found out, they would have told me not to play,” Federer says. But... More »

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Roger Federer • tennis • French Open • illness • mononucleosis

Feeling Ill? Stay On the Ground

Airlines, staff are only modestly equipped to respond to medical emergencies in the air

Feb 27, 08 5:55 PM CST
(Newser) - In the wake of the death last week of a passenger on an American Airlines jet, one expert on in-flight health has this to say to sickly would-be travelers: “Do not fly.” Air travel can exacerbate illness, and though many airlines contract with ground-based medical support, flight attendants... More »

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death • illness • American Airlines • heart attack • flight attendants • oxygen • air travel • airsickness • MedAire

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