Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

Smokers More Likely To Give Kids HPV Shot – 1668th Edition

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

People who use tobacco are generally less likely to be in favor of vaccines, a study says. But a cervical cancer vaccine for young girls is different.
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10 Ways You Can Help Prevent Stroke – 1662th Edition

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Helping older people control their blood pressure, diet and stress levels can help keep them from suffering a stroke.
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Smokers More Likely To Give Kids HPV Shot – 1663th Edition

Monday, February 8th, 2010

People who use tobacco are generally less likely to be in favor of vaccines, a study says. But a cervical cancer vaccine for young girls is different.
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Mumps Outbreak Hits Orthodox Jews – 1664th Edition

Monday, February 8th, 2010

More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York.
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Older Moms More Likely To Have Autistic Kids? – 1665th Edition

Monday, February 8th, 2010

A woman’s chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births finds.
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Soda May Double Pancreatic Cancer Chances – 1666th Edition

Monday, February 8th, 2010

People who drink two or more soft drinks a week nearly double their chance of getting pancreatic cancer, a study says.
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Obama Invites GOP Leaders To Health Care Talk – 1660th Edition

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

President Barack Obama says he has invited Republican and Democratic leaders to discuss health care legislation later this month.
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Properly Disposed Drugs Can End Up In Water – 1661th Edition

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

The federal government advises throwing most unused or expired medications into the trash instead of down the drain, but they can end up in the water anyway, a study from Maine suggests.
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Obama Admits Health Care Overhaul May Die On Hill – 1657th Edition

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

No, maybe he can’t. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation’s health care system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.
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Is The H1N1 Epidemic Over? – 1658th Edition

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

If the U.S. swine flu epidemic isn’t over, it certainly looks as if it’s on its last legs.
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