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  Nutrition

  Starbucks posts calorie counts

  Starbucks has a new way to wake up its customers: showing the calories in its drinks.
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  Organ donations

  Needed: Black and Hispanic organ donors

  A new campaign is trying to dispel myths about organ donations in the African-American and Hispanic communities

• Clinical Trials

  New website matches patients with clinical trials

  A new website seeks to match patients with clinical trials in hopes of helping both participants and science.

• Dear Abby

  Dear Abby: Fear of losing his beloved pet keeps man up at night

  Dear Abby: I have written to you before, and your advice served me well. I have another problem now, and I don’t know what to do about it.
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  Fitness

  Vixen Workout gets heart pumping in South Florida

  A new workout has professional women finding their inner vixen
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  health

  Waist circumference is competing with BMI for health risk measure, expert says

  Waist-to-height ratio may be a more accurate measure of cardiovascular health risk than the current standard, the body mass index, a St. Louis expert says.

• Unexpected pregnancy

  Surprised by the stork

  Trish Staine had just finished running 10 miles while training for a half-marathon when she started going into labor. The mother of three said she hadn’t gained any weight or felt any fetal movement in the months before and had no idea she was pregnant. Is it possible for a woman not to know she’s pregnant before she starts giving birth?
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  Medicine

  Why science won’t help us live longer anytime soon

  Recent headlines make it seem that the cure for old age is just around the corner. “Brain Experiment Could Give You an Extra 20 Years,” one promised. “Telomerase reverses ageing process,” another declared. “Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?” asked The New York Times Magazine.

• Miami Beach

  Former Miami Beach health clinic leader sentenced in embezzlement case

  Former Miami Beach Community Health Center CEO Kathryn Abbate was sentenced to 42 months in prison for embezzling almost $7 million.
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  After rains in South Florida, mosquito boom raises health concerns

  Public health authorities have increasing concerns about mosquito-borne diseases, with dengue fever a particular concern for South Florida
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  Fight Against Cancer

  Castaways Against Cancer set to kayak for a cure

  A group of kayakers is about to set out on its yearly 165-mile trek to Key West for the cause of fighting the nation’s second-most common cause of death.

• Jock Doc

  Clicking in knee could mean meniscal tear

  The clicking or catching sensation in the knee most likely is related to a meniscal cartilage tear.
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  Fitness

  Rigorous training can boost fitness for the race of life

  Three years ago, when Tyrone Duncan was jobless, recovering from a spinal injury and a stint in a homeless shelter, some volunteers at his transitional housing site encouraged him to run with them as they trained for a race.

• Miami Beach

  Beachfront cities to chip in to hire a school nurse

  Several municipalities, including Miami Beach, are digging into their own budgets to provide a school nurse.
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  Medicare releases hospital prices for outpatient procedures

  Federal officials pushing for more price transparenny on Monday released new data revealing what hospitals charge for 30 outpatient procedures, reflecting big differences in the prices that hospitals bill patients for similar services.

• Plastic Surgery 101

  Injectables can give you a Liquid Face Lift

  Without seeing you it is difficult for me to tell you if you need such a thing.
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  SENIORS

  Finding the ‘Fountain of Youth’ at the Pembroke Pines YMCA

  YMCA kicks off a program aimed at baby boomers

• Chew On This

  Hail the white veggies

  It is time to give a shout out to white vegetables. The usual recommendation to eat richly colored fruits and vegetables ignores nutritious and pale palette-pleasing produce.

• Congenital syphilis on rise in South Florida

  The number of babies born with syphilis in Miami-Dade and Broward counties increased from 17 cases in 2011 to 21 cases in 2012, according to the Florida Department of Health, which announced Thursday the launch of a public awareness campaign and visits to prenatal centers and labor and delivery sites in both counties to review screening and testing protocols with medical staff.
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  Books

  ‘Vagina Monologues’ writer Eve Ensler chronicles cancer struggle

  Writer and activist Eve Ensler chronicles a life-and-death struggle in her new memoir

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