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DSHS Urges Precautions to Reduce West Nile Exposure
Texas Department of State Health ServicesThe Texas Department of State Health Services is urging people to take precautions to reduce the risk of contracting West Nile virus, a mosquito borne illness. People should use insect repellent when outdoors and avoid going outside at dusk and dawn....Tags: Vaccines, West Nile Virus, Headaches, Symptoms, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Battling Her Lung Cancer And Everyone Else's
The Hartford CourantThe stigma surrounding lung cancer bothers Diane Legg. "Most often the first question asked is, 'Did you smoke?'" she said. "No other disease, nobody asks such an in-your-face question. Most people who have a heart attack, they don't ask if they smoked....Tags: Human Interest, Heart Attack, Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Demographics
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Insurance more predictive of death after heart attack than race
Health insurance was a better predictor of survival from health attacks and strokes than race, according to Johns Hopkins researchers who looked at health outcomes in some Maryland hospitals. Specifically, those who did not have coverage were more likely...Tags: Internists, Health Insurance, Stroke, Heart Disease, Health and Medical Professionals
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Growing obesity in Africa could worsen infant mortality
World NowAs obesity becomes a bigger problem in much of Africa, babies already at high risk in the region could face new and added dangers, a new study published Wednesday in the Lancet has found.... -
New city data to help improve health in neighborhoods
More than half of the deaths in recent years in a quarter of Baltimore's neighborhoods were avoidable, according to a new set of assessments from city health officials that were released Friday. The data were collected in 55 neighborhoods and showed in...Tags: Health, Heart Disease, Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Conservation
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42% of nation to be obese by 2030, study predicts
CNNAfter years of rising obesity rates in the United States, recent statistics show the rates may have steadied. But that may not be enough, according to a new report released on Monday - it estimates about 42% of the U.S. population will be obese by 2030....Tags: Health, Weight, Heart Disease, Body Mass Index, Diseases and Illnesses
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Alligators
Most people come to the Everglades in search of one specific animal: the alligator. If you’re chomping at the bit to see an alligator, you’re in luck. The dinosaur’s distant cousins are easy to spot in all of South Florida, but especially in Everglades...Tags: North Carolina, Florida, Everglades, Animals, Everglades National Park
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OCC advances to state tourney
COSTA MESA — An Orange Coast College baseball team that had been larger than life most of the season, benefited from a healthy dose of mortality on Sunday to win the second championship game of the double-elimination Southern California Super...Tags: Foo Fighters (music group), Students, College Baseball, Pittsburgh Pirates, College Sports
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Unhealthful foods kill more Americans every year than tobacco
Letter writer Gilbert Ross implies that there is no comparison between eating pizza and smoking ("Eating a slice a pizza is not the same as smoking a cigarette," May 10). As a physician, I disagree. Both tobacco and processed meats increase risk for...Tags: Health, U.S. Department of Agriculture, General Practitioners, Heart Disease, Cancer
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Tests show no rabies danger to people from dog in Seymour that was euthanized
news@ky3.comMARSHFIELD, Mo. -- The Webster County Health Unit says tests on a dog from Seymour that was euthanized last week show people who were around the dog are not in danger of contracting rabies. The tests don't show, however, whether rabies would have...Tags: Vaccines, Health, Medical Procedures and Tests, Family, Symptoms
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LVH plays a role in aspirin-warfarin study
HealthPatients recruited through Lehigh Valley Hospital helped play a role in an important study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study took 10 years and was the largest double-blind comparison of aspirin and warfarin, a blood-... -
Legislation would set rules for use of frozen eggs, sperm
If you wanted to use your late husband's frozen sperm to have a baby, you would need his written permission under legislation that appears poised for approval in the Maryland General Assembly. The House and Senate have both passed bills that would make...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Joseph M Getty, Court Administration, Government, Cancer
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