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New program to improve poor's access to medicine
Detroit— Details of a new national program to improve how the uninsured receive prescription medication are expected to be released in Detroit.
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Dr. Paul Donohue: Whooshing in ear could be serious, must be checked
Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 72-year-old woman who had a scope exam of my stomach and esophagus done a few weeks ago. The next morning I woke and heard a loud whoosh-whoosh in my left ear.
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Learn proper flu etiquette
 Don't laugh but there is a socially proper way to have the flu. And Anna Post, great-great-granddaughter of the doyen of proper etiquette, Emily Post, has put together the flu etiquette ground rules.
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Rules to spare kids smoky cars urged
Chicago — Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.
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Big medical bills may add up to qualified tax breaks
 Taxpayers swamped by big medical bills in 2011 can get some relief when they file income tax forms this spring thanks to an overlooked deduction that is hard to reach in a typical year.
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Six-organ transplant saves girl, 9
 Hollis, Maine — A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes — and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.
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Paul Donohue: Coach's emphasis on stretching stirs debate
Dear Dr. Donohue: My basketball coach is gung-ho for stretching exercises. We spend at least 15 minutes of every practice doing all sorts of stretches. Some of us wonder what this is doing for us. Our coach claims that it keeps us from injuries. Does it? How?
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