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Health Watch: Skin cancer prevention, detection tips

Our weekly Health Watch, with tips on skin cancer prevention, the effects of binge drinking on heart health and when to call a doctor for your child.

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Health Watch: Skin cancer prevention, detection tips

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By April 14, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Past Trauma Can Increase Parents’ Stress at Child’s Cancer Diagnosis

When the parent of a child with cancer has already experienced a traumatic life event prior to hearing of the child’s cancer diagnosis, he or she is more psychologically vulnerable to the diagnosis, according to a study from Karolinska Institutet.

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Past Trauma Can Increase Parents’ Stress at Child’s Cancer Diagnosis

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By April 3, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Child’s Cancer Often Causes Parents Severe Distress: Study

Title: Child’s Cancer Often Causes Parents Severe Distress: Study Category: Health News Created: 4/2/2013 10:35:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2013 12:00:00 AM

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By March 29, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

Slidell mom hopes for a cure to her aggressive cancer

Dennis Woltering / Eyewitness News Email: dwoltering@wwltv.com | Twitter: @dwoltering A young terminally ill Slidell mother is searching for hope this Easter. Crystal Slaughter is looking for an experimental cancer treatment that could give her hope of surviving long enough to raise her two-year old son. You won’t find a stronger example of a mother’s love for her child than Crystal Slaughter …

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By March 15, 2013 0 Comments Read More →

The Politics of Cancer

The last thing someone diagnosed with a serious cancer wants to hear about is politics. It’s bad enough to think that whether or not you will live to see your child graduate from college may depend on your grandmother’s genes, or the cigarettes you smoked before you knew better, or work and living decisions you made before you knew the risks involved.

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The Politics of Cancer

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