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Your Daily Dose: 'RICE' is best recipe to heal muscle injury
By Jackie Hutcherson/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
YOUR DAILY DOSE
Mental health advocate Patty Duke kicks off lecture series
By Deirdre Cox Baker/QUAD-CITY TIMES
As a teen actress, Patty Duke played the role of the blind and deaf Helen Keller to the heights of her profession, but she does not know if creative mania associated with bipolar disorder may have helped her Oscar Award-winning performance.
Foreclosures take toll on mental health
by Stephanie Armour / USA Today
On a brisk day last fall in Prineville, Ore., Raymond and Deanna Donaca faced the unthinkable: They were losing their home to foreclosure and had days to move out. For more than two decades, the couple had lived in their three-level house, where the elms outside blazed with yellow shades of fall and their four golden retrievers slept in the yard. The town had always been home, with a lazy river and rolling hills dotted by gnarled juniper trees.
Bid to win tickets to Sheryl Crow concert
By Times staff
Two pairs of front-row tickets to the Sheryl Crow concert at 7:30 p.m. June 3 at the i wireless Center will go up for auction on eBay’s Mission Fish on Monday, May 12.
Trinity VNHA offers free Lifeline activation
By Times staff
Trinity VNHA is offering free Lifeline activation, a savings of $50, during May and June.
Walk to Cure Diabetes raises funds for research
By Times staff
Nearly 2,000 people strolled through Niabi Zoo under umbrellas and rain gear May 3 to make the first Quad-Cities Walk to Cure Diabetes a success.
Women’s Health Week activities stacking up
By Deirdre Cox Baker
A different way to measure bone health and an activity-packed evening called Ladies’ Night Out highlight the list of Quad-City area events scheduled for the upcoming National Women’s Health Week.
ALS can’t stop Moline man's sense of humor
By Deirdre Cox Baker
David Emmert smiles, his eyes twinkling, and speaks a stream of words indecipherable to anyone except Judie, his wife of 47 years.
