Overall, U.S. obesity rates are unchanged, but obesity rates in young children ages 2 to 5 declined significantly from 2003/2004 to 2011/2012, officials say. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in the ...
LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Kentucky heroin overdose deaths and emergency department visits increased from 2011 to 2012, while prescription painkiller overdoses dropped, officials say. A report by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and ...
UC San Francisco and Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) have opened a unique Walgreens store today on the UCSF campus that aims to improve medication safety, decrease health care costs and help patients use medicines more effectively by ...
This article was updated Feb. 24 with further recall information. At least eight people have been sickened with Listeria monocytogenes infections after eating cheese produced by Roos Foods under a number of brand names, according to the ...
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Maryland’s Department of Legislative Services says that making raw milk sales legal through individual cow-share or herd-share schemes could increase sporadic or isolated cases of illnesses from unpasteurized milk from almost none ...
Health Affairs: Use Of Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Residents And Generate Savings For Medicare Hospitalizations of nursing home residents are frequent and result in complications, morbidity, and Medicare ...
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Henry Schein, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSIC), the world's largest provider of health care products and services to office-based dental, animal health and medical practitioners, together with 26 of the Company's valued supplier partners, join the ...
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Judging by the news stories that have cropped up in the past 24 hours, Uncle Ben’s Infused Rice is having some problems with niacin, the organic compound also known as vitamin B3. The problems came to a head on Monday, when Mars ...
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Children with depression are more likely to be obese, smoke and be inactive, and can show the effects of heart disease as early as their teen years, according to a newly published study by University of South Florida Associate Professor of ...
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It's still not too late to get a flu shot, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Flu activity often peaks in January or February and can last well into May, and a flu shot protects you as long as flu viruses are ...
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Relieving Stress at Your Desk Work-related stress is a very real and serious thing. According to a study by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 40% of workers reported their job “very or extremely ...
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BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Healthcare providers who work with young men who have sex with men should stress the urgency of getting HIV tested, U.S. researchers say. Study author Dr. Bill G. Kapogiannis, scientific director of the ...
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US-based Acentia has secured a contract worth $1.25m from the State of Rhode Island Department of Health (DOH) to provide its secure cloud-based national electronic disease surveillance system base system (NBS) for the DOH’s Division ...
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Another Cruise Ship Hit by Illness Outbreak Another cruise ship voyage has ended early due to an illness outbreak, the second such ...
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ATLANTA, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Before attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, U.S. health officials recommend travelers ensure their vaccinations are up to date. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta ...
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