Health Matters
Cancer Society hits 100 as US cancer rate fallsMay 22nd, 2013NEW YORK (AP) — The American Cancer Society — one of the nation's best known and influential health advocacy groups — is 100 years old this week. Back in 1913 when it was formed, cancer was... |
Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation
Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation
Portland, Ore., voting on water fluoridation
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Report: NPS hantavirus response followed policyMay 21st, 2013YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run... |
Sports seem OK for many with heart-zapping deviceMay 20th, 2013WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors tell people with a heart-zapping device in their chests to give up intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling. But lots of patients ignore that advice —... |
Measles surges in UK years after flawed researchMay 20th, 2013In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles... |
Measles surges in UK years after vaccine scareMay 20th, 2013In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles... |
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City Proposes Obesity Map
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WHO says single yellow fever shot is enoughMay 17th, 2013GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says a yellow fever booster vaccination given 10 years after the initial shot isn't necessary. The U.N.'s global health agency said Friday that its expert group on immunization... |
Organic industry clout grows with consumer demandMay 17th, 2013WASHINGTON (AP) — The organic food industry is gaining clout on Capitol Hill, prompted by rising consumer demand and its entry into traditional farm states. But that isn't going over well with everyone in Congress. Tensions... |
Tiny preemies get a boost from live music therapyMay 16th, 2013Music therapist Elizabeth Klinger, right, quietly plays guitar and sings for Augustin as he grips the hand of his mother, Lucy Morales, in the newborn intensive care unit at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago on Monday,... |
Saudi health workers sickened by SARS-like virusMay 15th, 2013NEW YORK (AP) — A deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, health officials said Wednesday. The Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia told... |
Health care workers sickened by SARS-like virusMay 15th, 2013NEW YORK (AP) — Global health officials say a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to two health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia. They say the virus has likely already spread... |
Shrinks, critics face off over psychiatric manualMay 15th, 2013This undated image shows the cover of the revised American Psychiatric Association's guidebook of mental disorders being released in May 2013. It is the manual's first major update in nearly 20 years, but prominent critics say the APA is out... |
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