Health and Fitness
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More awareness about high blood pressureNov 01, 2010 4:05 pm - ATLANTA — More American adults are aware they have high blood pressure, and more are taking medicine to try to control it, according to a new government report. Yet the ...
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Panel: Parents, get your kids whooping cough shotOct 31, 2010 2:49 pm - ATLANTA — A federal advisory panel is recommending that people 65 and older who are around infants get vaccinated against whooping cough. The Advisory Committee on Immun...
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Health overhaul may lead to free birth controlNov 01, 2010 7:22 pm - WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care ...
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Social networking adds to infertility angstNov 01, 2010 4:05 pm - Diane Colling, an occupational therapist and fertility patient, was scrolling through her Facebook page last week when, once again, she was bombarded by a friend's exube...
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Evaluating health of preemiesNov 01, 2010 4:05 pm - Stanford University researchers have developed a method for predicting health problems in premature babies that they say is much more reliable than the standard Apgar sc...
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Vitamin D invaluable to good healthOct 31, 2010 2:49 pm - Ten years ago, few knew about vitamin D. It was a mystery and had something to do with sunlight. Today, it seems that every newspaper, magazine and journal has at least ...
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Exercise while commutingOct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - There are commutes that are walkable, commutes that are runnable, commutes that are bikeable and then there's my commute: 40 miles each way from Baltimore to downtown W...
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Crackdown on chelation therapy drugsOct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - WASHINGTON — Federal health officials have announced a crackdown on a controversial therapy widely hawked on the Internet and elsewhere as an alternative treatment for c...
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Chest first, then breaths for CPROct 26, 2010 2:48 pm - DALLAS — New guidelines switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts “the simplest ...
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Cloudy vision may be sign of Fuchs' dystrophyOct 24, 2010 12:09 pm - Q. My mother-in-law is 70 years old. She never had a need to see an eye doctor until last week, when she scratched her eye. She found a local ophthalmologist who tol...