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  • Swimming lessons saved baby born with half a heart

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    Read The Telegraph Charlie Cobb, had to undergo open heart surgery just hours after being born and surgeons warned he might not pull through. Even after the op he suffered a huge heart attack – underwent two more operations – and was hospitalised countless times to fight off infections. But ever since mothrer Louise Bushby,…

  • Fanny Lecluyse on SpartaNova

    Fanny Lecluyse on SpartaNova

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    Fanny Lecluyse (GOLD Swimming Team), her physiotherapist Manu Wemel (Callewaert-Wemel) and coach Wauter Derycke on SpartaNova. Fanny Lecluyse on SpartaNova (subtitles) from SpartaNova on Vimeo.

  • Raising An Olympian: Eamon Sullivan

    Raising An Olympian: Eamon Sullivan

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    Eamon Sullivan and mom Pam on how he started swimming because of asthma, on his swimming and on his many injuries. Raising An Olympian: Eamon Sullivan (Australia, Swimming) from Karoliina Tuovinen, Editor on Vimeo.

  • 12-year-old Kali Hardig third ever to survive brain-eating parasite Naegleria Fowleri

    12-year-old Kali Hardig third ever to survive brain-eating parasite Naegleria Fowleri

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    Read for instance Huffington Post and MailOnline The 12-year-old Kali Hardig of Arkansas is now the third survivor of the rare but nearly always fatal infection caused by the brain-eating parasite Naegleria fowleri. Kali was brought into the Arkansas Children’s Hospital on July 19 with a fever, not long after she went swimming at the…

  • Swimming and granny’s remedies keep Putin young

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    Read Fox News The secrets of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s buff physique and youthful appearance are the result of herbal health remedies and swimming regularly to combat stress, his doctor revealed Monday. Putin “doesn’t look his age,” the Kremlin’s top doctor Sergei Mironov told Russian weekly Itogui, chiefly because the 60-year-old is “sceptical about medication.”…

  • Asthma Society of Ireland on Swimming

    Asthma Society of Ireland on Swimming

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    “Traditionally we used to recommend swimming as a good sport for people with asthma because the environment in a swimming pool is warm and humid, and those conditions are good when you are breathing hard. They generally don’t tend to cause the type of breathing problems that we see with the field sports.” “We want…

  • Swimmer’s Ear

    Swimmer’s Ear

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    “Swimmers ear is an infection of your ear canal. Not using q tips and keeping your ear canal dry can help prevent these infections. Do not put things in your delicate ear canal that will strip out the protective wax.”

  • Public swimming pools just as dirty as Lake Erie

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    See wkyc The Centers for Disease Control tested a number of public pools and found that 58 percent were positive for E. coli, bacteria normally found in the human gut and feces. Other bacteria that can cause skin rashes was found in 59 percent. Pools don’t put up signs warning of water advisories. Lake Erie’s…

  • Jenna hits up swim class with Dara Torres

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    See Today “Doctors say that swimming is one of the best forms of exercise that women can do while they’re pregnant, but as Jenna found out, sometimes the stakes can be pretty high in those prenatal swimming classes. The solution? A private refresher course with Olympian Dara Torres. TODAY’s Jenna Wolfe reports.” Visit NBCNews.com for…