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FOCUS ON HEALTH  


   Pharmacist gets 30 years for diluting medicines
In a case that stunned the nation and outraged Kansas Citians, former pharmacist Robert R. Courtney received a maximum 30-year sentence Thursday for diluting cancer patients' drugs so he could make more money.


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GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO FITNESS  
A special interactive feature of the Daily News


   Fit for the holidays
Do you have an idea to share about how to get through the holidays with the minimum of flab? Do you have a question about fitness that we can answer? Chime in with the girlfriends at Add Your Comments. This week's topic: the Atkins Diet.

LOCAL NEWS  

Plain people, exotic illnesses
Bedtime comes early at the Martin farm, where life is still ordered by the rhythms of nature and the Old Order Mennonite faith. By dinnertime, with the cows milked and the animals fed, Amy, 10, and Derick, 12, are struggling to stay awake. By 8 p.m., they are off to bed, soon fast asleep beneath rows of special four-foot fluorescent lights that bathe them all night in a purplish-blue glow. The lights keep them alive.


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TODAY IN HEALTH
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HEALTH WEBCAST FROM HEALTHOLOGY  
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ASK THE EXPERT | POST QUESTIONS  

Lasik Eye Surgery
Brian M. Sucheski, M.D., — LASIK procedures
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Michael Ciccotti, M.D. — Phillies' doctor
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Charles R. Reed, M.D. — Pediatrician
Health and Medicine
Susan Mather, M.D. — Internal Medicine

HEALTH COLUMNISTS  

Art Carey
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Myrna B. Shure
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