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Talley Vinyards hosting memorial run

Posted 10:09 PM 5/29/2012 by Jeanette Trompeter

You can run through the Edna Valley wine country this weekend at the 19th Annual Marianne Talley Memorial Fun Run. It is this Sunday, June 3. This year's fun run offers a 10K in addition to the 5K, 1 mile youth run and 1 mile walk.

Online registration, with late registration pricing, will (More)

5/28/2012

UO study links water with healthy food choices

Posted 12:48 PM 5/28/2012 by Associated Press

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A new study by researchers at the University of Oregon suggests a relatively easy way to get children to eat more vegetables - serve water with meals. The authors of the study say behavioral research has found people correlate a glass of water with healthy food (More)

Sequoia National Park suffers from worst air of all National Parks

5/24/2012

Hoping to conceive? Try this doctor-approved, baby-making diet

Posted 12:10 PM 5/24/2012 by NBC News (CC)

The dream of having a healthy baby starts long before the infant is brought home.

The website www.whattoexpect.com has narrowed down the key foods to help women and men up their baby-making odds.

They include (More)

C-section babies are twice as likely to be obese

5/23/2012

Twin Cities Community Hospial honored

Posted 11:35 AM 5/24/2012 by Jeanette Trompeter, KSBY News

Twin Cities Community Hospital has been honored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Critical Care Societies Collaborative for its successful and sustained efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

HAIs, a leading cause of death in the (More)

5/24/2012

Italian doctors describe what went into the world's smallest heart transplant

Posted 11:17 AM 5/24/2012 by NBC News (CC)

Doctors in Italy are describing the amazing implant surgery that saved the life of a 16-month-old baby boy.

Doctors implanted the world's smallest artificial heart in the young boy in March and now almost two months later the baby is doing well.

The tiny titanium implanted heart (More)

Do you really want to know how dirty the break room might be at your work?

5/23/2012

UN global health agency chief wins 2nd term

Posted 10:22 AM 5/23/2012 by Associated Press, (CC)

GENEVA (AP) - Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general. The World Health Assembly, which oversees the U.N. health agency, on Wednesday reappointed (More)