Family criticizes autopsy findings in death of Marlon Brown
An attorney representing the family of Marlon Brown, who was run down and killed by a DeLand police officer May 8, took issue Tuesday with an autopsy of Brown and repeated his call for an independent criminal investigation into Brown's death.
A video... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
"In sickness and in health" -- Married people who are diagnosed with cancer are less likely to die than single people, new research shows.
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Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 24, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Human skull found near Ocoee revives case of missing woman
Detectives and deputies are treating Friday's discovery of a human skull near Ocoee with all the care of a homicide investigation until medical examiners determine what happened.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office is bringing out cadaver dogs, sending a... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 20, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Carole Ober, the Blum-Riese Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been named chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago.
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Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 19, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Dead or alive? Researchers find activity after common "brain death" indicator.
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Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 18, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Florida fails on health insurance
Access to affordable, quality health care for poor Americans varies dramatically among states — with Florida ranking among the nation's worst, according to a new study released today.
The report from the nonprofit Commonwealth Fund found a... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 17, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Program links Medical City jobs to west Orlando workers
Orlando's Medical City holds the promise of thousands of jobs, but many have been out of reach for some Orlando residents who need work the most.
On Friday, Orlando leaders will announce a wide-ranging effort to help mostly low-income residents of... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 6, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Science, math, beer and tapas -- all under one roof
Denise Kirschner always had a good sense of what career pathshe wanted to follow, and she eventually accomplished her dreams.
The bigger surprise, as it turns out, is how she got there.
“I, from the day I was born, wanted to be a physician,”... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - September 5, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Forgetful? It may be your medicine
Taking medications that relieve pain, depression, allergies or incontinence may be causing another problem: faster memory loss, researchers at the University of Florida have found.
Subjects who took a category of medicine called anticholinergics --... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - August 26, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Osceola says it has landed 3-D imaging company but won't reveal name
Osceola County says it has lured a technology company to Kissimmee, with 110 jobs paying an average of $62,000 a year.
The county says the company, which will hire locally, is involved in 3-D imaging and will soon move its headquarters into a county-... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - August 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Annual Renaissance Faire auditions set for Saturday
The Educational Foundation of Lake County will present the 12th annual Lady of the Lakes Renaissance Faire from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 1 through 3 at Hickory Point Recreational Facility in Tavares.
Auditions for volunteer cast members are from 10 a.m.... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - August 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
What we think: Fix law, stop sexual predators
Let us hear their voices, the ones still alive to talk about Florida's broken promise to protect us from violent sexual predators.
"If they hadn't let him out, this wouldn't have happened to me," says great-grandmother Eunice Alexander, who was raped... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - August 21, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Indoor tanning remains popular among young white women, despite the risks of skin cancer, a new CDC study reports.
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Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - August 19, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Patients with microvascular angina often treated successfully with procedure called EECP
Question: I am a middle-aged woman with chest pain. I saw a heart doctor and he did a stress test, which was abnormal. I had an angiogram done and the blood vessels around my heart are not blocked. He wants me to do a series of treatments in a pressure... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - August 18, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Sanford-Burnham, Pfizer collaborate on diabetes discovery
Working to cure a disease that plagues more than one in 10 American adults, researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and those at pharmaceutical company Pfizer will begin collaborating to find a new way to combat obesity-related diabetes.... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - August 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news
