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Pets:
Sunburn in canines and felines

The Heldenfiles:
Monday Notebook, New "90210" on DVD

Patrick McManamon:
Eric Wedge will stay the season

Akron Zips:
Opponent outlook: Northern Illinois

Browns Bulletin:
Single-game ticket sales begin July 11

Tribe Matters:
Wedge assured of job through season

Cleveland Browns:
Stallworth test showed marijuana

Kent State Sports:
Men's Basketball Scheduling update

Cleveland Cavaliers:
Updated: Free Agency: Another Gone - Apparently

All Da King's Men:
The Obligatory Palin Post

Blog of Mass Destruction:
The "Limbaugh Babies"

Akron Law Café:
The Veil and the Burqa – Constitutional to Ban or Restrict?

Varsity Letters:
Highland senior receives honor

See Jane Style:
Picnic Wear

Car Chase:
Where do We Go from Here?

Let's Talk Real Estate:
ID My Bug

Ohio Travels with Betty:
Tom asks where to stay while visiting the football Hall of Fame.

Sound Check:
Rundgren fans rejoice!: Second night of AWATS at The Civic added

HRLite House:
Morscruethal Behaviors or Just Lip Service?

Akron Gamer:
Hot link: Best of Nintendo at E3

Health
PHIL MASTURZO - AKRON BEACON JOURNAL

High-tech 'heart burn' helps cardiac patients
For some cardiac patients, a little heart burn could cure big problems. Akron General Medical Center recently started offering a new procedure that uses magnet-guided catheters to burn tiny sections of the heart for people with uncontrolled heart rhythm disorders. Read the story>>
F.Y.I.
FDA panel urges ban on Percocet, Vicodin
A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects on the liver. Read the story>>
HEALTH DEAL
Health deal may be ailing in Congress
A Republican senator seeking a bipartisan health deal spoke Sunday of ''dialing down'' expectations while one of President Barack Obama's Democratic allies questioned whether the White House had the votes necessary for a such a costly and comprehensive plan during a recession. Read the story>>
IN THE NEWS
Experiment seeks vaccine to head off Type 1 diabetes
The doctor had barely pulled away the needle when a blister appeared on Tracey Berg-Fulton's abdomen: An experimental shot was revving up the 24-year-old's immune system — part of a bold quest to create a vaccine-like therapy for diabetes. Read the story>>
F.Y.I.
Vaccines instruct body to fight cancerous cells
First there was surgery, then chemotherapy and radiation. Now, doctors have overcome 30 years of false starts and found success with a fourth way to fight cancer: using the body's natural defender, the immune system. Read the story>>

MORE HEALTH STORIES

MEDICAL NOTES
Medical calendar, July 1-7 - 03:48 PM
WEDNESDAY, July 1
Overeaters Anonymous - 7:30 p.m., Christ United Methodist Church, 380 Mineola Ave., Akron, 330-375-1860; 7:30 p.m., St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 317 Liberty St., Medina, 330-375-1860. Read the story>>