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Paralysis Defined

The inability to use a muscle because of injury to or disease of the nerves leading to the muscle

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Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

Published August 28, 2008, 8:18 am, The Belvoir Eagle

Cases of West Nile virus have been documented in every state except Alaska and Hawaii since it was first seen in the United States in 1999. It is passed on by the bite of an infected mosquito.

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More Aortic Chest Aneurysms Being Treated With Less-Invasive Stents

Published August 28, 2008, 6:15 am, Medical News Today

An estimated 60,000 Americans are walking around with time bombs in their chests called thoracic aortic aneurysms. At any time, their main chest artery could suddenly burst open, causing massive internal bleeding that is almost always fatal. It's possible to repair the defect before the artery bursts, but traditional surgery is highly invasive.

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West Nile virus test is positive in village

Published August 28, 2008, 3:14 am, Morton Grove Champion

Officials say that while there have been fewer people, mosquitos and birds infected with the West Nile virus identified so far this year, the virus seems to be popping up later than usual and the hazard this summer is not yet over.

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Ask Dr. Gott: Surgery is the last, best option

Published August 28, 2008, 2:17 am, The Monterey County Herald

Dear Dr. Gott: I read your column about a person who seems to have the same progressive disorder of the spinal discs that I have. I have enclosed the doctor's report of my MRI. I am a 74-year-old man. I take one Ultram tablet three times a day and one Lyrica tablet twice a day.

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Race issue looms large for unions

Published August 28, 2008, 1:46 am, The Columbus Dispatch

The international president of another major labor union addressed the Ohio delegation yesterday with the same message about confronting racism in the fall election that other labor leaders have expressed this week -- but this one was in the bluntest terms yet.

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Cycling Club Rides in the Northwest

Published August 27, 2008, 11:55 pm, Yakima Herald-Republic

Date: Sunday. Location: Newport. The skinny: Ride the county roads of Pend Oreille County, with a route geared to any member of the family. Distance: 15, 30, 50, or 85 miles.

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Nobel winner Thomas Weller dies at 93

Published August 27, 2008, 11:36 pm, The Kansas City Star

Thomas H. Weller, a tropical-medicine specialist whose tissue-culture research in 1949 made development of the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines possible and won him a share in a Nobel Prize, died on Aug. 23 at his home in Needham, Mass. He was 93.

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Mosquito control plan confuses

Published August 27, 2008, 10:17 pm, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Eleanor Stanford is so worried that she's taking her sons, ages 2 and 4, out of town. She found out just yesterday morning that come evening, the state would spray an insecticide from low-flying airplanes over her home in Lower Merion, plus portions of Philadelphia and elsewhere in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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Mister Slime Review [DS]

Published August 27, 2008, 5:44 pm, GameSpot

There's something icky about Mister Slime.

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Peta Bee reports on the hazards of buying herbal remedies on the internet

Published August 27, 2008, 4:25 pm, Guardian Unlimited

Peta Bee: What has changed so dramatically is the ease with which consumers can now obtain these dangerously toxic concoctions

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