Category: Health
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Teenage boy survives 42 minutes trapped six feet underwater
A teenage boy who became trapped six feet underwater in a canal in Northern Italy for 42 minutes has spoken for the first time about his recovery, which doctors say modern science is unable to explain. The boy, named only as Michael, dived into the Naviglio Grande in Cuggiono, near Milan, on a warm spring…
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Cate and Bronte Campbell behind Uncle Toby’s Join the Outsiders campaign
The Campbell sisters are challenging Queensland kids to ditch the screens and rediscover the joy of living outside. The 2016 Olympic swimming hopefuls spent so much of their childhood outdoors they had no idea how a television worked until they were in primary school. “We didn’t even know that you could turn on the TV…
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Singapore national swimmer Roanne Ho survives brush with death
Roanne Ho’s hopes of qualifying for August’s Olympics may have suffered a blow, but the swimmer is just happy to be alive after surviving a life-threatening condition. On Wednesday, the SEA Games 50m breaststroke champion went to Bukit Batok Polyclinic to seek treatment for what she thought was “a very bad cough”. But an X-ray…
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Pregnant women warned not to travel to the Rio Olympics
Pregnant women are being warned not to travel to the Olympics in Brazil after a virus causing thousands of babies to be born with unusually small heads swept through the region. Researchers have linked the rise in Microcephaly, a neurological disorder in which infants are born with smaller craniums and brains, to the Zika virus,…
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Deadwood man to swim for 12 hours on his 70th birthday
Jim Phillips is a Deadwood local, who is raising money for area swim teams, by doing something not many of us could. Next Monday, Phillips will swim from sun up to sun down at the Deadwood rec center. But, it’s not just a Monday… it will be his 70th birthday. See Black Hills FOX
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Getting in the SWIM of things
Swimming is a great activity for all. Find out how it can help you to stay fit and healthy, have fun with friends or recover from illness.
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Princess Anne swim team mysteriously sick after meet at Maury High
Parents of students at Princess Anne High School in Virginia Beach want to know what got their kids sick Thursday night. They tell 10 On Your Side more than half of the Princess Anne swim team got sick Thursday night during a meet at Maury High School in Norfolk. Swimmers say as soon as they…
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How Osteopathy Can Improve Your Swimming Form
Guest post by Melbourne Osteopathy Sports Injury Centre Swimming is a human art form that involves the correct positioning and orientation of all your limbs. Osteopathy is all about correcting the alignment of the entire musculoskeletal framework to illuminate any problems of posture or injuries that you may have as well as using different techniques…
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Former Olympian Amy Van Dyken speaks on progress after paralysis
Paralyzed after an four-wheeler accident, former Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken speaks about the progress she has made through physical therapy.