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  • Bored with your job? How to get the spark back

    Published May 09, 2013

    If you are finding it hard to drag yourself to work, maybe you need a new job - but maybe you just need to adjust your attitude. Here's how

  • Woman cheats death to receive double lung transplant

    Published May 08, 2013

    Terry Perrotta had always been active and healthy, so she became concerned when at the age of 44, she felt completely out of breath merely from walking up the stairs. In 2006, Perrotta, a divorced mother of two teenagers who lives in Rhode Island, was with pulmonary hypertension and cheated death several times. Here's her story

  • One-day radiation therapy a new alternative for breast cancer patients

    Published May 02, 2013

    A new type of radiation, known as intra-operative radiation, is helping some breast cancer patients. With this treatment, patients are given the entire dose of radiation at once, though the total amount of radiation is less than the cumulative dose a woman receives when radiation is given over a period of six weeks

  • Mediterranean diet linked to better memory

    Published April 30, 2013

    Add one more benefit to eating a Mediterranean diet—a reduced risk of mental decline with age

  • How to cope with bullying in the workplace

    Published April 25, 2013

    An estimated one in seven employees are bullied at work, usually by their bosses. Women are more likely to be victims than men. And since there aren't really any laws to protect them, workers have almost no legal recourse when a bully boss embarrasses, harasses, humiliates and/or mistreats them

  • Employees paid to lose weight: A win-win situation?

    Published April 18, 2013

    More and more companies are paying its employees to lose weight, and a new study found that the golden carrot works, especially when it’s a generous payout

  • New technique 'lights up' brain tumor

    Published April 12, 2013

    An experimental technique is helping surgeons see brain tumors better and remove more of it 

     

     

  • Heart risk assessment tests also predict cognitive decline

    Published April 02, 2013

    Having risk factors for heart disease in middle age is associated with cognitive decline, according to a new study

  • MRI-guided brain surgery easier on Parkinson’s patients

    Published March 25, 2013

    Brain surgeons have begun using a new computer-driven surgical system to reduce drawbacks of surgery for Parkinson's patients and to improve the accuracy of the procedure. The new system, called ClearPoint, uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during the surgery to precisely pinpoint the target for the pacemaker in real time

  • Study looks into better screening tools for lung cancer

    Published March 21, 2013

    One group of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic are exploring how to improve the sensitivity of X-rays so it can be a viable screening tool for lung cancer without all the drawbacks of CT scanning