The William W. Backus Rehabilitation Services Department will host a program on creative ways to exercise during the cold winter months on Thursday, Dec. 4, from 5-7 p.m.
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The Operating Room at the William W. Backus Hospital will hold an open house on Sunday, Nov. 23 from 12-3 p.m. in the hospital's entry level conference rooms and the Same Day Surgery area.
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The next William W. Backus Hospital Cancer Services Department dinner will focus on colorectal cancer, which 150,000 people are diagnosed with each year -- the third most common cancer in men and women.
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Backus Hospital cardiologists are cautiously optimistic about a new study that found giving a cholesterol-lowering statin drug to patients with inflammation of the arteries can help reduce their risk of heart attacks, strokes and death by nearly half.
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