Asthma - Harper treated in hospital for asthma attack

Harper treated in hospital for asthma attack
CTV - Prime minister-designate Stephen Harper was rushed to an Ottawa hospital Thursday night after suffering an asthma attack. Harper's spokesperson William Stairs told the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, however, that "it was nothing serious.'' A longtime

Straight from the heart
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St. Dom s students vie to secure 2nd nat l title
Brick Township Bulletin - CHRIS KELLY staff St. Dominic s School students Brianna Hallenbeck (l), 13; Lainey Allison, 14; Victoria Rhodes, 13, all of Brick, and David Senos, 13, of Point Pleasant, record pyrotechnics expert Bill Bahr s presentation at the school Jan. 10

Symptoms may differ in females
MSNBC - Continuing the Heart Smarts series, day two focuses on heart disease and women. One in every five deaths in America is caused by heart disease. In fact, more women will die of heart disease and stroke than they will of breast cancer. For women

Cough-medicine alert silences the quackwatchers
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel - If you're concerned about sham medicine, look up the countless Internet watchdog groups that promise to protect us from rampant

A Full Heart: Transplant has given man 18 more years
Winston-Salem Journal - STATE ROAD - J. Charles Madison sees each day as a bonus. "Each morning when I wake up, I say, 'Thank you,'" Madison said. Because each day could be the last for each of us, each day truly is a bonus. But, for those of us in good

Spitzer targets fill Suozzi's coffers
Newsday - Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, who has made cracking down on Medicaid fraud a centerpiece of his likely bid for governor, accepted $19,000 in campaign contributions between 2002 and 2004 from a nursing home owner whose businesses were

Woodbury retiree worked his way past hip, cardiac, limb problems
Pioneer Press - Thirty years ago, Peter Laramy of Woodbury served as Vulcanus Rex XXXIX in the 1976 Winter Carnival. This year, he's getting together with several other 1976 Vulcan Krewe members for a big steak dinner. Laramy, a 75-year-old retired manufacturers

Fighting pet obesity
Sun Chronicle - Apache was always a big dog, but his owner, Kim Carter, didn't realize he was too big. At 200 pounds, his weight was never much of a concern to Carter until the Old Eng lish Mastiff tore a knee liga ment after jumping up on his hind legs in November

Aides downplay story of Harper's hospital visit
CTV - A Thursday night hospital visit by Canada's soon-to-be prime minister sparked a flurry of speculation on what had caused his ailment, with asthma one of the top suspects. After a long Thursday, meeting the Governor General and giving his first news