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Red Cross team with hockey franchise for a haunted house
DAILY AMERICAN REPORTERTo avoid going shorthanded on blood reserves during the winter months, a regional Red Cross chapter is teaming up with Johnstown’s Junior A hockey franchise. A “Haunted House of Hockey” will be held inside the Cambria County War...Tags: Charity, Ice Hockey, Politics, Haunted Houses (attractions), Sports
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The American Red Cross And Conemaugh Health System, Memorial Medical Center, Are Partnering On Blood Drive On Friday, Oct. 19 In Memory Of Greg Beiter, A Former 31-year Hospital Employee.
The blood drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Myron C. Williams Conference Room at the hospital’s Eighth Ward campus. Beiter, who was employed by Conemaugh as a courier, died Aug. 24. “He was always there for his family and...Tags: Charity, Health Insurance, American Red Cross, Relief and Aid Organizations, Human Interest
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Homegrown Fall Favorites
Homegrown Fall Favorites Late fall brings a bountiful harvest with plenty of time to enjoy fresh produce grown close to home. Fall’s peak produce includes: - Apples: Gala, Empire, Ida Red and Jonathan (all good multi-purpose apples for...Tags: Cancer, Arthritis, Nutrition, Vitamin C, Foods and Beverages
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Vaccine injury awareness
It's a little known fact that the month of October is Vaccine Injury Awareness month! Many of you may not have heard about it in the main stream media or our local papers but it is a very real occurrence for many families. Many people have heard about...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cancer, HPV Vaccine, Viral Diseases and Infections, Arthritis
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People walk to raise bone marrow awareness
More than 250 people raised about $50,000 on Saturday for the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry during the seventh annual walkathon, “Walk of Life 2012.” The 6K walk began at Glendale Memorial Hospital to raise awareness about patients...
Tags: Charity, Bone Marrow, Leukemia, Human Interest
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W.Va. man hosts blood drives to give back in memory of his wife
richardb@herald-mail.comBy the time she died in 2011 at the age of 58 from Diamond Blackfan Anemia, Cynthia Snyder had been given an estimated 500 units of blood over her lifetime, her husband said. On Monday, Lee Snyder hosted the second blood drive in memory of his late wife,...Tags: Charity, American Red Cross
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Lance Armstrong has new title: doping kingpin
Maybe the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency should have handled our nation's "war on drugs," first launched more than 40 years ago. It took 14 years worth of evidence, but the USADA knocked off a drug kingpin in Lance Armstrong. We witnessed the final nail in the...Tags: Frankie Andreu, Cancer, Testosterone, Lance Armstrong, Tour de France
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Colts Head Coach Chuck Pagano released from the hospital
One thing was more important then a win for the Colts, finding out that Head Coach Chuck Pagano was able to watch the victory from home. After securing a 17-13 victory over Cleveland on Sunday afternoon at Lucas Oil Stadium Colts owner Jim Irsay...
Tags: Andrew Luck, Football, Leukemia, Sports, Lucas Oil Stadium
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Local chef and farmer writes about the lingering effects of West Nile
In northwest Indiana, where I have raised vegetables for 20-odd years, mosquitoes flourish when rain fills the swamp pools in the backwaters of the Kankakee River. In August 2004, those pools spawned a particularly righteous throng. One afternoon, they...
Tags: Cancer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Viral Diseases and Infections, Polio, Insomnia
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Doctors discover 80-pound cyst in woman's stomach
For years, Nancy Lukee put on weight, but tried not to dwell on it. A doctor blamed the bulge in her abdomen on a hernia, but said it didn't need to be repaired. And since Lukee, 56, wasn't in pain and didn't have health insurance, she never got...
Tags: Health Insurance, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Hernia, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics
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Walking — and sharing life details — to fight cancer
Before she joined the sea of pink-clothed people who turned out for a breast cancer walk in Baltimore Sunday morning, Janet Warren filled out a medical history and gave a blood sample. It was a different way to show her commitment to the cause — one...
Tags: American Cancer Society, Cancer, Pikesville, Superman (fictional character), Cervical Cancer
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A day of reckoning for Lance Armstrong's fans
Tim Loranger is a Los Angeles aviation attorney who was deeply moved by Lance Armstrong's story of beating cancer. The former Marine wears the Armstrong yellow wristband, races in an Armstrong hat and has raised thousands of dollars for Armstrong's cancer...Tags: Cancer, The New York Times, Testosterone, Tour de France, Lawyers
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