If running is so good for you, why do people drop dead during marathons every year? A lifelong runner, with help from the experts, finds the encouragi...

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Special events are this city's bread and butter. Providing an enjoyable, convenient experience to visitors is the minimum standard. And if things ...

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Dr. Pierre d’Hemecourt, the Boston Marathon co-medical director, said that through early afternoon there were no cases of heat stroke, but they ...

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Heat-related illness accounts for about 700 deaths a year and is the nation’s No. 1 weather-related killer, according to the Centers for Disease...

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By Deborah Kotz GLOBE STAFF  JANUARY 12, 2012 At least 1,000 runners and family members will be trained in CPR the weekend befo...

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In October Tim Good was invited to see how race medicine was implemented in the Chicago Marathon. The trip was aimed as getting a good idea of how the...

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HOUSTON -- A woman who collapsed just before she reached the finish line during Sunday's Chevron Houston Marathon is still hospitalized. Race o...

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Like many marathon runners, Kate Mori always drank plenty of fluids before, during and after a race, rather than waiting until she got thirsty.  ...

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With temperatures warming and the snows of 2011 finally dissolving into oatmeal slush, many people are feeling an insistent urge to get outside and ru...

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Oct 08, 2012 (Pioneer Press - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A middle-aged runner collapsed with a cardiac arrest during the Me...

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