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Health On Your Side: Health news and information about local health professionals

 

ASK KAREN: Karen McNew answers all your health questions. Click here to submit a question.

Karen McNew
Swine Flu information: click here for more information about the H1N1 virus.

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H1N1 Fact not Fiction
Several questions answered at once...
Seasonal Flu vaccine protection
Q: I was recently told that the this seasons regular flu vaccine (not the swine flu vaccine) will last longer into the flu season...
Daily water recommendations
Q: ...I've lost nearly 40 pounds. I'd been drinking 3 or 4 twenty ounce Cokes every day and that has been the hardest thing to give up.
Swine Flu and Seasonal Flu vaccines
Q: Is it better to get the Seasonal Flu vaccine at the same time as the Swine flu vaccine? Does it matter?
Prostate Cancer Surgery
Q: I have just been diagnosed with prostate cancer and would to know what percent of patients end up with incontinence from robotic prostate surgery?

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Health, Medicine and Fitness
Harvard poll finds one-third able to get swine flu vaccine
That's true even for people who are at extra risk for severe complications and should be at the front of the line
Swine flu clinics at Roanoke Valley schools Nov. 6, 10, 12th
The Roanoke City and Alleghany Health Districts, in partnership with the local school districts, will begin on site school H1N1 vaccination
New gene therapy halts 2 boys’ rare brain disease
French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence
4 more die in Virginia from swine flu
The number of deaths are now up to 21, said Dr. Karen Remley, state health commissioner
Free Clinic in Wythe Co. adds Bingo as income source
The C. Brock Hughes Free Clinic Inc. is counting on Saturday night Bingo games to bring in much-needed revenue

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