Men struggle with wives' breast cancer in silence
May 19, 2013
| First Coast News - She runs the hospital's Breast Cancer Survivorship Program, where it's her job... Even though breast cancer is primarily about the woman fighting it, psychologist Jennifer...
Men struggle with wives' breast cancer in silence
May 19, 2013
| First Coast News - Seventy two hours after Elissa Bantug's mastectomy, she felt broken. She was only 25 years old, but she had lost both breasts and her strawberry blond hair to cancer. Drainage...
Dixie Blues player a three- time cancer survivor
May 16, 2013
| First Coast News - Tracy Gaines is a three-time cancer survivor, battling breast cancer twice and uterine cancer once. Chris Porter shares her story of strength in the video above. ...
Thursday on FCN at 6: Major change for breast cancer drug
May 15, 2013
| First Coast News - Having breast cancer ... But they know the drug Tamoxifen might keep them from getting breast cancer again and dying. On Thursday on First Coast News at 6, anchor Jeannie Blaylock...
Buddy Check 12
May 15, 2013
| First Coast News - Remind a buddy every 12th of the month to self-check for breast cancer. Read breast cancer survival stories and sign up for a reminder e-mail or text message. ...
COSMETIC SURGERY
' Lunchtime Lipo': Would you ever consider it?
May 15, 2013
| First Coast News - Should Bullied Teens Be Getting Plastic Surgery ... Should Bullied Teens Be Getting Plastic Surgery? Watch Video' Bro-tox': More Men Get Botox Watch Video Inside Angelina Jolie's...
Surgery for toned arms?
April 29, 2013
| First Coast News - '' Arm lifts'' have become one of the fastest-growing varieties of plastic surgery ... for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ... The number of cosmetic surgeries increased by 3% last year, to nearly 1.7 million, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery ...
Groupon fires CEO Andrew Mason
February 28, 2013
| First Coast News - The guidance fueled investor worry that people are tiring of the myriad of online restaurant, spa and Botox deals that Groupon Inc. built its business on, and that the company...
Top countries for plastic surgery?
February 05, 2013
| First Coast News - The USA remains the plastic surgery capital... While breast augmentation is the top surgical procedure in the USA, the top plastic surgery worldwide is lipoplasty (fat removal,...
Soldier gets double- arm transplant at Johns Hopkins
January 28, 2013
| First Coast News - The 13-hour operation was led by Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, plastic surgery chief at Johns Hopkins, and is the seventh double-hand or double-arm transplant done in the United States....
DIABETES
Nutty finding: Olive oil, nuts can protect your brain
May 21, 2013
| First Coast News - The volunteers, aged 55 to 80, were all at high risk of heart disease because of diabetes, a family history of the disease, high blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol levels...
Bus drivers top obese workers list
May 19, 2013
| First Coast News - It's a job that leads to higher rates of medical issues for a number of conditions, including diabetes, high blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome and chronic obstructive...
Jacksonville police seek missing man
May 17, 2013
| First Coast News - He speaks no English and has diabetes and dementia. Anyone who has any information in regards to this missing person is asked to contact JSO at 904 - 630 - 0500 or email...
Report questions reducing salt intake too dramatically
May 15, 2013
| First Coast News - People who are 51 and older and those of any age who are African American or have hypertension, diabetes ... have hypertension, diabetes or chronic kidney failure. More research is...
Newfound hormone holds hope for diabetes
May 08, 2013
| First Coast News - A newly discovered mouse hormone may open the door to better treatment for diabetes ... The hormone, called betatrophin, triggers the growth of pancreatic'' beta'' cells lost or ineffective in diabetes ...
FLU
Cold and Flu
April 25, 2013
| First Coast News - Cold and Flu ...
China mass bird killing due to flu
April 05, 2013
| First Coast News - BEIJING - China announced a sixth death from a new bird flu ... The mass bird killing is the first so far as the Chinese government responds to the H7N9 strain of bird flu ... the H5N1 bird flu ...
New bird flu strain causes fifth death in China
April 04, 2013
| First Coast News - BEIJING - A middle-aged man who transported poultry for a living and another unidentified person have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll to five among 14...
H7N9 bird flu virus could be silent threat
April 03, 2013
| First Coast News - In a worrisome sign, a bird flu in China appears to have mutated so that it can spread to other animals, raising the potential for a bigger threat to people, scientists...
Equine herpes virus found in 7 Horses in Florida
February 28, 2013
| First Coast News - The first horse with the influenza-like condition was taken for treatment and examination Feb. 20 at a Florida veterinary hospital and is reported to be doing better. ...
HEALTH CARE
Diners underestimate calories in fast- food meals
May 24, 2013
| First Coast News - Teens underestimated the calories in fast-food meals by 34%; parents of school-age children by 23%; adults by 20%, says lead researcher Jason Block of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care ...
Post- tornado peril: Victims could face deadly fungal infections
May 23, 2013
| First Coast News - '' The risk of complex wounds with foreign-body contamination during natural disasters is high, and wound management can pose considerable clinical challenge in post-disaster settings, especially when the local health care ...
Phone bank tonight: Childhood asthma questions answered
May 17, 2013
| First Coast News - The following health care professionals from Wolfson Children's Hospital will be manning the phones: Cathy Clark, RRT, AEC, Certified Asthma Educator, Community Asthma...
Ousted IRS chief: It was not on purpose
May 17, 2013
| First Coast News - Already, the controversy has leaked into the debate over House Republican efforts to repeal Obama's health care reform law. The IRS official in charge of that agency's...
Adam Putnam quietly launches re- election campaign
May 15, 2013
| First Coast News - The expansion is a key component of the federal health care overhaul. The Florida Legislature during its annual session rejected the idea of expanding Medicaid. The relationship...
KID'S HEALTH
EPA fails to revise key lead- poisoning hazard standards
March 10, 2013
| First Coast News - The result is that children will continue to be exposed to lead particles in house dust and yards at levels that can cause reduced intelligence, attention disorders and other health problems because the EPA's standards - set in 2001 - give a false sense of safety, scientists and child health ...
Study: ADHD medicines help curb criminal behavior
November 23, 2012
| First Coast News - The Swedish Research Council, the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Wellcome Trust and other agencies paid for the research. ADHD medicines may...
MEDICAL RESEARCH
Researcher works to unlock mysteries of migraines
May 17, 2013
| First Coast News - That's a social stigma that somehow even extends to the medical research community, which largely has overlooked this neurological disease for years - to the public detriment....
BioHub offers new hope to diabetes sufferers
March 30, 2013
| First Coast News - On March 5th, researchers under the leadership of Dr. Camillo Ricordi at the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami announced a medical breakthrough, a...
MENTAL HEALTH
Murder charges for teens in Georgia stroller slaying
March 27, 2013
| First Coast News - The Brunswick News reported that Gough has filed a court motion asking a judge to grant him access to mental health records of the slain boy's mother, saying they could be...
Gunman fires on homes; police surround residence
March 26, 2013
| First Coast News - It was not known whether anybody else was in the home with the gunman, who Troyer said was known to have'' mental health issues'' and was believed to have been drinking....
Toddler's mother responds to negative accusations
March 26, 2013
| First Coast News - (Reporter:'' She mentioned bi-polar, schizophrenia.'')'' I actually do not recall anything that she had said, she did not speak to me about it,'' said West. There have...
Daughter of Brunswick victim questions mother's story
March 25, 2013
| First Coast News - Glassey says her mother is bipolar and has schizophrenic tendencies. She believes her mother is on medication but could not tell me any prescriptions specifically.'' She...
Teachers and school staff turn to self- defense training
March 24, 2013
| First Coast News - Egan said he is not aware of a significant national move toward self-defense training, noting instead a push for preventive measures such as increased access to mental health ...
VEINS
Clinton's blood clot in head is serious but treatable
January 01, 2013
| First Coast News - Doctors say they found the clot, called a right transverse sinus venous thrombosis, during a routine follow-up MRI, a scan of the brain. These kinds of clots are potentially...
Residents stranded in Daytona Beach high rise
October 29, 2012
| First Coast News - She says she's disabled due to severe varicose veins in her legs. She's had to rely on a neighbor to take her 15-year-old Chihuahua down the stairs to be walked. Residents...
WEIGHT LOSS & FITNESS
Study: Diet soda habit as bad for teeth as meth addiction
May 24, 2013
| First Coast News - Heavy consumption of diet soda can damage... In his study, he found that a woman in her 30s who drank 2 liters of diet soda daily for three to five years experienced tooth rot and...
Secretary of State praises new election law
May 23, 2013
| First Coast News - '' Not one size fits all and we gave the flexibility to supervisors to exercise their own discretion based on what their own electorate wants to have and so every supervisor has...
Would you rather lose $ 1,000 or gain 20 lbs?
May 23, 2013
| First Coast News - '' Twenty pounds outweighs a thousand dollars because it could cost more than a thousand dollars to lose the weight if you consider the price of weight-loss programs, and those...
Parents set children's' media diet'
May 23, 2013
| First Coast News - Researchers with the AAP say parents should become more aware of their child's'' media diet.'' The organization suggests the creation of'' screen-free'' zones at home,...
Nutty finding: Olive oil, nuts can protect your brain
May 21, 2013
| First Coast News - For instance, people who choose to eat nuts might also dislike meat, or they might like sweets, or they might exercise more or less than people who do not think much about...
