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(ARA) - Baby boomers rocked Woodstock, protested wars, rallied for civil rights and today have a solid reputation as professionals who work hard and play harder. But as record numbers of boomers continue to age, their health problems rise in direct proportion.
“Just because you’ve got something doesn’t mean you have to sit on the sidelines,” said Jean Brown. Brown, 65, was diagnosed with scleroderma five years ago after she noticed her hands and fingers getting white and cold in air-conditioned buildings.
Wolfpack Group Training Class: Training group begins today to prepare athletes for Wolfpack Triathlon on Aug. 30. Meets 6 p.m. Mondays. The pool at Memphis Jewish Community Center will be used for swim sessions; run and bike training on the actual race course along the trails of Shelby Farms. Fee: $165 ($125 MJCC members). Go to: infinity-multisport.com for questions and comments.
Liz Harrison missed so much school that she eventually dropped out and got her GED instead of trying to catch up.
MADISON – The T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS Research’s founder and chairman, Tony Martell of Madison, was honored May 15 with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City for his commitment to philanthropy and the establishment of his highly successful foundation.
The patient was lying on his side, asleep under anesthesia, as a machine measuring his breathing beeped soothingly.
Probiotics are coming in from the scientific cold, as researchers discover ways of using them. Jerome Burne reports.
Growing up the second-oldest of nine children, Terry Tesoriero, 54, remembers clearly how often her mother needed her to look after siblings whenever she suffered one of her many debilitating headaches.
Ceil Hall of North Oaks tells her story of dealing with multiple cancers without undergoing invasive surgery.
RANSON - Kaycee Pritt has been a fighter from the beginning, and the 4-month-old infant is in the fight of her young life, explained her "Aunty" Dana Werner. Kaycee suffered brain damage that affected her motor skills after her breathing stopped during a nap on April 17, Werner said in a telephone interview Thursday.
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