ASHEVILLE, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham was released from hospital Tuesday after spending six days recovering from pneumonia, a hospital spokeswoman said. Doctors decided to let the 93-year-old evangelist go home after he responded well to antibiotics and physical therapy to increase his strength after his latest illness, said Nancy Lindell, a spokeswoman for Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C. Read full article > >

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A violent man with a history of mental illness went on to kill months after being released from prison without any supervision or care, says a report.

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A violent man with a history of mental illness went on to kill months after being released from prison without any supervision or care, says a report.

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Every weekday, nurse Jill Ross telephones some of her sickest patients. On this particular morning, she is asking breast cancer patient Renita Mock when her double mastectomy is scheduled. The conversation quickly veers to Mock’s stress over the operation. As someone with diabetes , hypertension and a host of other illnesses, Mock, 52, is considered too high-risk for reconstructive surgery, and she’s struggling with the prospect of losing her breasts. She asks for help in finding a therapist. Read full article > >

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New Maryland health program promotes care for the whole patient

Graham Dilley, a hero of the 1981 Ashes Test win over Australia at Headingley, dies aged 52 after a short illness.

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The single local victim (so far) of the listeria outbreak lived in central Maryland. He had eaten a Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupe contaminated with one of four strains tied to the current outbreak, which has already caused 72 illnesses in 18 states and claimed the lives of 12 other people. Where the Maryland resident ate the strange fruit, however, remains a complete mystery. Read full article > >

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A coroner says that an Enniskillen man who killed his wife in 2009 wanted to preserve her dignity at the end of a “devastating illness”.

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An outbreak of food-borne illnesses that have killed four people and sickened nearly three dozen others is linked to cantaloupe produced at a Colorado farm, the Food and Drug Administration confirmed Monday. The FDA identified Jensen Farms, a family-owned operation that says it has grown cantaloupe for two decades, as the source of melons contaminated with a strain of Listeria, a dangerous but uncommon bacteria that thrives in cool temperatures. Read full article > >

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For a few crazy days, it was as if Tareq and Michaele Salahi were back on reality TV. Michaele went missing, only to turn up on tour with a rock guitarist from Journey . Tareq filed for divorce , and claimed the rock star, Neal Schon , sent him humiliating raunchy photos . Schon’s ex cried foul . Tareq blamed his wife for their dog’s illness — then turned out Sunday in Hume, Va., to watch pieces of his family’s bankrupt winery go to auction. Read full article > >

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Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook resigns over claims he emailed defender Nedum Onuoha’s cancer-suffering mother mocking her illness.

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Archaeologists have uncovered a sewer buried by the volcano Vesuvius which has yielded secrets of the ancient Roman lifestyle, diet and illnesses.

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It is unclear if the illness that halted Casey Anthony’s murder trial will delay the trial Friday morning.

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A national monitoring system for food-borne illness detected growing sickness from a group of rare E. coli bacteria related to the strain in Germany.

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Being in a hospital at night or over a weekend can be hazardous to your health, and even has a name: “the weekend effect.” A raft of studies has documented higher rates of death, complications and medical errors affecting patients treated at night or on weekends. “After normal working hours it’s mostly maintenance,” said Jessie Gruman, 56, director of the Washington-based Center for Advancing Health, a nonprofit health-policy group. “There’s a real sense of vulnerability you have at night when you know things are not happening at full speed. There’s less nursing care, less access to a doctor and more demands on doctors,” added Gruman, a veteran of more than 35 years of hospitalizations to treat cancer-related illnesses. To bridge the chasm between the day and night shifts, hospitals from Syracuse to Seattle are hiring a new breed of subspecialist called a “nocturnist” — an experienced doctor who works overnight taking care of patients outside the emergency room. The growing demand for these physicians, who typically work fewer hours and command higher salaries than their daytime counterparts, is being fueled by several factors: the widespread acceptance of inpatient specialists known as hospitalists, who are often eager to bolster night coverage by hiring nocturnists; mandatory limits on the work hours of interns and residents, the most inexperienced doctors who traditionally cared for patients at night in teaching hospitals with little supervision; and a push by the federal government and other groups to improve safety Read full article > >

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Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger died Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a short illness. Eagleburger rose through the ranks of the foreign service, working as Henry Kissinger’s assistant in the Nixon administration, ambassador…

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