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Health & Medicine

Colon Cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths in the U-S and early detection is the key to survival. Mike Lefler is a spokesman with the American Cancer Society in Nebraska and he says a non-evasive test kit can help in the early detection of polyps within your digestive system.

More that 106-thousand new cases of colon cancer were diagnosed in the U-S last year and the lifetime risk of developing colon cancer is about 1 in every 19 people. Survival rate is excellent if it is caught early, which isn’t the case. If it is caught early, there is a 90-percent survival rate but that only happens 40-percent of the time.

Through the month of March, free test kits are available to anyone over 50-years of age. The free test kits are available at a number of pharmacies and grocery stores across the state.

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Help for problem gamblers

by Karla James 03/8/10 1:24 PM

It won’t be long before office pools start popping up as March Madness approaches. For some, putting a few dollars down during the games is not a big deal but for others, it is a serious life-altering problem. Scot Adams with the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services says help for a problem gambler [...]

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UNMC helping people kick the habit through vaccine

by Karla James 03/4/10 2:25 PM

The University of Nebraska Medical center is one of 20 centers around the country that will involve one-thousand people in NickVax, a vaccine that could help people stop smoking. Nurse Practitioner Mary Carlson is working on this project and says this is a different way of treating nicotine addiction and is given by vaccine.
“Has a [...]

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UNMC Parkinson’s disease research

by Karla James 03/1/10 1:48 PM

It is estimated that one-million people in the U-S currently has Parkinson’s disease. Now there is hope on the horizon for those who currently suffer and for those that may develop the illness. Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center have developed a new vaccine that would not cure the disease but could reverse [...]

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Families USA On Health Care Reform

by Karla James 03/1/10 1:46 PM

The failure to enact health care reform this year will lead in the next decade countless premature deaths of people 25 to 64 years of age. Families USA released a report, “Lives on the Line: The Deadly Cost of Delaying Health Reform” report and it shows the number of deaths would grow from 68 per [...]

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