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Our View: Collective, individual efforts needed to improve air quality
Based on the grades the county has received from the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report, there would seem to be yet another reason to stay indoors this summer. The county received a failing grade for its ozone, a “D&...Tags: Physical Conditions, Facebook, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues, Health
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Arthur H. Schlosser
Mesa, Ariz.: Arthur H. Schlosser, born Aug. 27, 1931, to John Carl and Erna Wilhemina (Rathke) Schlosser at home in Palmyra Township, S.D., and moved to the family farm in Allison Township, S.D., passed away Friday, April 27, 2012, in Tempe, Ariz., at the...Tags: U.S. Navy, American Cancer Association, Washington, DC, Verizon Communications
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Fox59 investigation reveals many schools aren't testing for radon
A Fox59 investigation found many schools haven’t recently tested for a potentially deadly health hazard in decades and some have never been tested. When Fox59 offered to test at no charge, they all said “no.” These classrooms and...
Tags: Lungs and Airways, Zionsville, Human Body, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Budgets and Budgeting
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Mailbag: 'Mean-spirited' fire pits column overlooked health hazards
Re "Wu: Fire pit removal illustrates lack of conservatism," March 25: Your credibility is at stake if you have edited the above column, which erroneously portrays the Newport Beach City Council and Corona del Mar residents as being guided by racist or...Tags: High School Sports, Politics, Ku Klux Klan, Coughing, Health and Safety at Work
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News Briefs for April 5
Senior food program applications being accepted Blue Grass Community Action Partnership is taking applications for the commodity supplemental food program for senior citizens age 60 and older who meet the income guidelines set forth by the program. For...
Tags: Republican Party, Golf, Sports
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Several local counties receive failing grades for air quality
Multi-Media JournalistNearly six million people, including many in south central Pennsylvania, live in counties that have a high level of ozone and pollution. The American Lung Association graded the nation’s counties, and several in our area did poorly. Dauphin,...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Human Body, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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CDC unveils graphic anti-smoking ads
![SAN DIEGO - The <a href="#">Centers for Disease Control</a> unveiled a controversial new advertising campaign designed to scare smokers into quitting.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-03/68846825-16072633.jpg "SAN DIEGO - The <a href="#\">Centers for Disease Control</a> unveiled a controversial new advertising campaign designed to scare smokers into quitting.")
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO - The Centers for Disease Control unveiled a controversial new advertising campaign designed to scare smokers into quitting. This is the first time the CDC is launching an anti-smoking campaign and it is using graphic images to get the point...Tags: Elections, Politics, Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Amputation
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Jamie Reed Robbins, 59
Jamie Reed Robbins, 59, of Stanford, died Wednesday, Feb. 29, at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville.
Born Feb. 16, 1953, in Portsmouth, Ohio, Jamie was a daughter of the late James L. and Bette Clinebell Reed. She worked as attendance...Tags: Jim Miller, Tampa
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Smoking in apartments could be outlawed
FOX5 San DiegoSAN DIEGO - A San Diego City Council committee wants the City Attorney's Office to evaluate a possible ordinance under which an apartment-dwelling smoker could be punished if someone else in the building objected and possibly evicted if the smoker did not...Tags: Substance Abuse, Quitting Smoking
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Smoking programs not keeping pace
![ Most states, including Maryland, are not doing enough to protect the public from tobacco or prevent related disease, according to the latest assessment from the <a href="http://www.lungusa.org/" target="_blank">American Lung Association</a>due out today.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/288511760-18123700.jpg " Most states, including Maryland, are not doing enough to protect the public from tobacco or prevent related disease, according to the latest assessment from the <a href="http://www.lungusa.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Lung Association</a>due out today.")
Most states, including Maryland, are not doing enough to protect the public from tobacco or prevent related disease, according to the latest assessment from the American Lung Associationdue out today.
In its 10th annual State of Tobacco Control Report...Tags: Government Health Care, Politics, Government, Medicaid, Human Rights
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Acid reflux drugs don't help asthma in children
A new study has found that acid reflux medicine used to treat asthma in children isn't effective.
Physicians often prescribe the acid reflux drug lansoprazole in addition to standard inhaled steroid drugs to children who have asthma. The number of...Tags: Physical Conditions, Medical Research, Health and Safety at School, Physical Conditions, Medical Research
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Don't be fooled: Smokeless tobacco is dangerous
I was dismayed by the letter written by Brad Rodu minimizing the devastating health consequences caused by using smokeless tobacco products ("All tobacco is not equally harmful," Jan. 24). Dr. Rodu is a dentist and scientist at the James Graham Brown...Tags: Tobacco Products, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Cancer, Google Inc., Tobacco Addiction
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