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Want to stop smoking? Attend free workshop in South Ogden

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 11:27pm

SOUTH OGDEN — To celebrate National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week, the Pulmonary Wellness Center is sponsoring a free stop-smoking workshop for the public from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Wednesday at 5974 Fashion Pointe Drive.

The workshop will include information on the risks of smoking and offer a variety of tips and techniques on how to quit.

Information will also be available about new nicotine patches.

For more information, call Dawn or Troy at 801-479-9644.

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Utah's efforts to discourage youths from smoking is paying off, as the number of kids addicted to nicotine is dropping, Here, at the Ogden Amphitheater in May 2009, volunteers Nelson Riches, 16, dressed as a cigarette, and Lary Deuel, dressed as secondhand smoke, talk with kids during a celebration of the smoking ban in public outdoor spaces. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Utah battle against youth tobacco use continues despite improvements

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 10:12pm

The U.S. Surgeon General is urging states to discourage kids from smoking by implementing tobacco tax hikes, high-impact interventions, smoking bans and mass media campaigns.

Each day, nearly 4,000 kids try their first cigarette and an additional 1,000 under the age of 18 become daily users, according to a report issued this week by the Office of the Surgeon General. About 3.6 million middle and high school students smoke, the report states.

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New Davis Hospital treatment focuses on breast, prostate, cervical cancers

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 9:11pm

LAYTON — Davis Hospital and Medical Center now has a specialized radiation treatment for breast and prostate cancers.

Brachytherapy is an advanced cancer treatment that uses radioactive seeds that are placed in or near the tumor, delivering a high dose of radiation while reducing exposure to surrounding tissues.

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Three women walk past a picture of legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno to pay their respect in front of his casket during a public viewing in the Worship room of the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the Penn State campus, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 in State College, Pa.. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

2nd day of mourning for Paterno to end with burial

Genaro C. Armas The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 10:50am

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The second day of a three-day period of public mourning for Joe Paterno will culminate with the funeral and burial for the Hall of Fame football coach who became the face of Penn State University.

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Doctors discover massive tumor in shooting victim

Jeff Weiner The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 12:35pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- At first, getting shot by an assault rifle in an Orange Blossom Trail motel room seemed like a bad thing.

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(Associated Press file photo) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sits with daughter Kara Kennedy at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in May 2008. Kara, the oldest child of the senator who died Aug. 25, 2009, died Friday at a Washington-area health club, says brother Patrick Kennedy. The 51-year-old had battled lung cancer, which left her weakened, her brother says. “Her heart gave out. She’s with Dad.”

Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at 51 after workout

Andrew Miga, Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:12pm

WASHINGTON — Kara Kennedy became teary-eyed when she accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her ailing father at a 2009 White House ceremony, but she also managed to smile as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s life was honored. After the senator died two weeks later following a battle with brain cancer, his only daughter read a psalm at his funeral Mass in Boston. It was about peace and justice and caring for poor children.

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New global killers: heart, lung disease and cancer

Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 7:57am

What’s killing us? For decades, global health leaders have focused on diseases that can spread — AIDS, tuberculosis, new flu bugs. They pushed for vaccines, better treatments and other ways to control germs that were only a plane ride away from seeding outbreaks anywhere in the world.

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Acceptance slow for new CT scan that may help in lung cancer fight

Irene Mahler St. Petersburg Times

Last updated Friday, September 2, 2011 - 2:47pm

Every year, lung cancer kills more Americans than colon, breast and prostate cancers combined.

So the news last year of a national trial showing that high-tech CT scans for early detection could improve survival was widely hailed. But Medicare and private insurance aren't covering it yet, and the American Cancer Society still hasn't endorsed the practice.

Even so, some health care providers are offering the test for those who'll pay up to a few hundred dollars cash. And Tampa's Moffitt Cancer Center announced that it is offering the test to those at high risk of lung cancer.

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