 Breakthroughs
Consider
the following: You step into a germ-free booth, where your face and
body are zapped by a bright white light. Seconds later, you step out,
looking 25 again — no wrinkles, no cellulite, no sags or bags. Sound
great?
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 Protect
yourself
Spring
is here and the yard is beckoning. It’s time to prune, plant and get
rid of last winter’s ugly reminders. But before you head outdoors
for some much-deserved sunshine and frolicking in the flowers,
remember to take a few precautions.
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 Sugar attack
Diabetes
is more common than ever. More than 20 million Americans have been
diagnosed with the disease, but there are many more that are unaware
they have it.
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Take heart
Heart disease is the No.1 killer in
Wisconsin for women; doctors urge it’s time to protect your health.
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Implant
alternative
Dr.
John LoGiudice became interested in plastic and reconstructive surgery
after observing a surgeon reconstruct the face of a 16-year-old girl
suffering from a rare, aggressive facial tumor.
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Rethinking
pain
"I’m
different than other people," Daffy Duck once proclaimed.
"Pain hurts me." Sorry to ruffle your feathers, Daffy, but pain hurts all of us. And
in an era of instant gratification and direct pharmaceutical
marketing, it seems there’s a pill for every ache.
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A change of
heart
At a stable near Milwaukee, there’s a
horse named "My Happy Ending." How he got his name is a story with
more convolutions than a dressage event at a national horse show.
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Deconstructing
Harry
High-achieving
men often pay a steep physical price for that success. They endure —
Bzzzzz … bzzzzzz
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A model
makeover
Many people can easily list 100 things
they would rather do than visit the dentist. But for Brian Janssen, it
was his No. 1 fear, thanks to the childhood trauma of having baby
teeth pulled by a dentist he and his brothers called "the old
crabby guy."
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Brothers
team up in prostate cancer fight
As a former football player, Gene
Felker knew what it was like to get hit. When he learned in 1997 that he had
prostate cancer, Felker felt like he’d been leveled. Surgery, months
of hormone injections, and 40 radiation treatments followed.
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Finding
relief
An autoimmune disease is among nature’s most mysterious disorders
— a malfunction of the body’s immune system, causing the body to
attack its own tissues.
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Precious
moments
All
that Ann Quale of Mequon can remember about the seizure that struck
her "totally out of the blue" on the afternoon of Oct. 17,
2007, is coming groggily back to consciousness at about the same time
her two young boys got off the school bus.
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Kid stuff
Most infants and young children will
develop an average of three respiratory infections each year, studies
show. Some infections are the result of viruses and will go away on
their own, but others are caused by bacteria and require antibiotics.
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Sleep relief
Many
a bed partner’s sleep has been disturbed by their beloved’s
nighttime symphony. Homebuilders are rescuing the sleep deprived with
separate bedrooms for the nocturnally noisy that are attached, yet
separated, from the master suite.
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Healthier by
morning
If
you don’t think good sleep is a critical part of staying healthy,
then you might be surprised by some of the questions Dr. M. Sandra
Casper asks her patients.
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Tame those
tender tootsies
News
flash: Feet aren’t supposed to hurt. Just try telling that to the
millions of Americans whose tootsies, ankles and soles are singing,
even wailing, the blues. Granted, some of the pain is the owner’s
fault — sky-high heels, extra weight, ill-fitting shoes, miles at
the track. And much of that can be eliminated with sensible heel
heights, a few less pounds, shoes with wider toe boxes or, for serious
runners, a reduction in training. But if your feet still hurt after
those solutions, it’s time to get professional help.
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