Barry Carpenter - Health News
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Dallas County Braces for H1N1 Vaccine Clinic Video
It's the calm before the storm, of people wanting the H1N1 vaccine. The doses are chilled and ready to go. Tomorrow, the Dallas County Health Department will hold it's first, first come, first serve swine flu clinic. Tamesha Washington says to attend. more
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Swine Flu Vaccine Safety Reviewed Video
Federal health officials promise more doses of the hard to find H1N1 vaccine are on the way. But for many parents, the only thing harder than finding the vaccine, is deciding weather or not to have their kids vaccinated. Tricia Lensmeyer says having her three sons vaccinated was a difficult... more
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Halloween Candy and H1N1: Gross Out! Video
Halloween parties are supposed to be fun and scary, but this year there may be an uninvited guest, H1N1. We decided to see what happens when kids dig into a bag of candy and root around for their favorite treat. more
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Okay for Women With Kidney Transplants to get Pregnant Video
28 year old Rachel Beane is positively beaming because she's the proud mother of Abby and David. But when she was seventeen, she had a kidney transplant, and like many women, she wondered if she should, or could, have children. In fact, she says she remembers her first question after surgery. more
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H1N1 and Halloween: Scary or Not? Video
Halloween. It's the night kids wait all year for, door after door and handful after handful of candy. It's almost always safe and harmless fun, but this year there is the H1N1 virus. Dr. Doug Hardy is an infection disease expert at Medical City Dallas. He says all that candy, fingered by all those... more
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Hope for the Depressed: Space Age Therapy Video
On the outside, Mark Webb looks like a free-wheeling soul, but for the past nine years, Mark says that beneath the leather and helmet, he was depressed. more
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Bubble Boy: Six-Week-Old Boy Recovers in Dallas Video
Six-week-old Brady Stewart is one in a million. He's also one of about 100 kids a year in the United States diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency syndrome, or SCID. It's probably better know as 'bubble boy disease.' Brady was born without an immune system, he's not in a bubble. His... more
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Concussion Program: Now That's Using Your Head
Playing catch with his dad is as close to football Collin Heusinkveld has gotten in nearly a month, and here's why. more
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Real Men Have Breast Cancer Video
The annual Komen Race For The Cure in Dallas, a sea of women running down a dream of ending breast cancer. In Decatur, Stephen Wren says he has the same dream. In July, he was diagnosed with breast cancer. more
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Rare Disease. Unique Bed. Video
Jason Stricklin is doing much better now, but the past two months his life was hanging in the balance. Literally. For about a month, Jason was upside down in a bed called RotoProne. He doesn't remember much about it, because he was in a medically induced coma. He was put there soon after being... more
