Health and Fitness
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Having babies is new sex ed mantra in DenmarkOct 27, 2014 1:01 am - Sex education in Denmark is about to shift focus after fertility rates dropped to the lowest in almost three decades. After years of focusing on how to use contraceptive...
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Smart Farm in Barrington proves to be a smart ideaOct 26, 2014 11:00 pm - Organizers with the Smart Farm in Barrington are wrapping up their sixth growing season, and the numbers are staggering. This grass-roots, educational farm project produ...
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Influenza 1918-19: Fear and courage in another outbreakOct 26, 2014 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - It started with the death of John W. Clore, 30, a widower, on Sept. 21, 1918, at the old Sibley Hospital in Washington. Four days later, John Janes, 33, who...
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Zen and the art of commutingOct 26, 2014 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - As harried commuters filed aboard a Metro Red Line train at Washington's Cleveland Park neighborhood - jockeying for seats, hoisting bulging tote bags - Den...
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High-tech tracker: Will it get you walking?Oct 25, 2014 7:00 am - The innocuous little band on Seth Mnookin's wrist may not seem like much, but it has transformed the way he goes about his day. The device, a fitness tracker called Fitb...
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Hypnosis therapy can affect childhood asthmaOct 25, 2014 7:00 am - Is it possible that the mind can have an effect on the severity of childhood asthma? Over the past 30 years of medical research, the answer is a resounding "yes." Decad...
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Journalist recalls his fight to survive EbolaOct 25, 2014 1:01 am - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ashoka Mukpo knew he really was in trouble when he saw the people treating him in full protective suits and hoods. The American video journalist is ho...
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Aid group: Ebola contagion risk can't be zeroOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - CONAKRY, Guinea - Despite stringent infection-control measures, the risk of Ebola's spread cannot be entirely eliminated, Doctors Without Borders said Friday after one o...
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WHO: 5 more Ebola vaccines to be tested in MarchOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - LONDON - The World Health Organization says millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready for use in 2015 and five more experimental vaccines will ...
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Quinn orders 21-day quarantine for Ebola patient contactsOct 24, 2014 1:01 am - Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced Friday that he has ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health to require a mandatory 21-day home quarantine for "high-risk" indiv...