Health Experts: New one-time cholesterol test for everyone
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Health Experts: New one-time cholesterol test for everyone

The American Heart Association is now recommending a new additional test for cholesterol -- which can be a key indicator for heart disease risk

A possible hantavirus case - unrelated to the cruise ship outbreak - is being followed in Illinois
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A possible hantavirus case - unrelated to the cruise ship outbreak - is being followed in Illinois

This possible Illinois cases is believed to be the North American strain of hantavirus, which is not spread from person to person, like the Andes strain that struck the cruise ship in the Atlantic.

Local doctor talks about rare hantavirus transmitted by rodents
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Local doctor talks about rare hantavirus transmitted by rodents

A rare virus -- transmitted by rodents -- killed at least 3 people aboard a cruise ship in the Atlantic

Researchers at Wash U Medicine may have found the first real treatment for rotavirus
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Researchers at Wash U Medicine may have found the first real treatment for rotavirus

Rotavirus causes severe dehydration in infants and young children -- it is a big killer of babies in developing countries but not as much in the United States and Europe.

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Watching closely for measles spread in St. Louis area after exposure

The extreme contagiousness of the measles in unvaccinated people has local health experts closely watching for any sign of possible spread in the St. Louis area following a case that recently passed through Lambert Airport.
by Fred Bodimer KMOX Health Editor
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Bypass surgery without cracking open your chest? It's now possible in Missouri

Mercy St. Louis has just become the only hospital in Missouri to offer a new hybrid alternative to heart bypass.
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Bypass surgery without cracking open your chest? It's now possible in St. Louis

Mercy St. Louis has just become the only hospital in Missouri to offer a new hybrid alternative to heart bypass.
by Fred Bodimer KMOX Health Editor
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Missouri resident dies from brain-eating amoeba, likely contracted at the Lake of the Ozarks

The patient had recently been water skiing at the Lake of the Ozarks
by Fred Bodimer KMOX Health Editor