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Health & Wellness News tagged with health

H1N1 Flu Shot Clinics Are a Hit
Health & Wellness  (tags: H1N1, Health, Schwan )

Nancy
- 6 hours ago - startribune.com
Several thousand people lined up around the Schwan Center in Blaine for vaccinations at the flu vaccination clinic, which was administered by the Anoka County Health Department.
2 comments
Average UK Woman Wears 515 Chemicals a Day
Health & Wellness  (tags: UK woman, chemical, study, health, living )

Sophie
- 11 hours ago - reuters.com
The average British woman "hosts" 515 chemicals on her body every day, according to a new study.
7 comments
MYTHBUSTERS: Cold Weather Won't Make You Sick
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, EDUCATION, research, humans, disease, investigation, family, protection, news, study, prevention )

Cal
- 1 day ago - aarpmagazine.org
Fresh studies of scientific research are busting all those health myths you grew up with
8 comments
Sebelius on Mammograms: Don't Change What You're Doing
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, Health and Human Services Secretary, healthcare, mammograms, prevention, research, protection, safety, women )

Dee
- 1 day ago - prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday afternoon issued a strong statement intended to put distance between federal policy and an influential panel's recommendations that most women..
13 comments
Critical Food Safety Vote This Week!
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, food, safety, protection, risks, health, humans, nutrition )

Tierney
- 2 days ago - secure.consumersunion.org
And not a moment too soon! On Wednesday, a key Senate committee is slated to vote on a bill that will encourage food producers to clean up their acts and prevent deadly contamination in the foods we buy each day. With the holidays just around the corner,
3 comments
Can Pets Catch H1N1 Flu From Humans?
Health & Wellness  (tags: humans, pets, flu, diseases, health, animals )

Simone
- 2 days ago - entertainmentandshowbiz.com
A case of an indoor 13-year-old house cat in Iowa who has contracted the deadly H1N1 flu while living with two flu-sick owners has fuelled concerns if the illness can spread from humans to animals. The Iowa Department of Public Health confirmed the
3 comments
Injection Snoreplasty Stop Snoring In 2 Minutes
Health & Wellness  (tags: snoring, snoring treatment, sleep, sleep apnea, health, injections )

FatJ
- 2 days ago - todaymedic.com
The technique known as "snoreplasty" involve injecting a chemical under local anesthesia into the roof of the mouth of the snoring patient ....
14 comments
YouTube - Announcing the Winner of the Health Reform Video Challenge   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, babies, health, healthcare, illness, Health Reform Video Challenge, Health Reform )

Kelli
- 2 days ago - youtube.com
Help put the final ad on the air:After nearly 1,000 submissions, 20 amazing finalists, and more than 3 million views, Organizing for America supporters and a panel of experts have picked the winner of the OFA Health Reform Video Challenge.
2 comments
The Need of Public School Nurses
Health & Wellness  (tags: Schools, Nurse, Education, Medical, Health, Swine Flu, A H1N1 )

Nancy
- 2 days ago - nursingschoolsearch.com
There is an increase in the prominence of school nurses with the fear of H1N1 spreading throughout public schools faster than we thought possible a year ago.
1 comment
The Stupak-Pitts Controversy Is Based On--and Masks--A Deepset Fear of Women's Agency
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, health, government, abortion, stupak-pitts )

Tierney
- 2 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
The Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House bill for health care reform grabbed most of the headlines after the health care reform vote. It makes sense---the media and socially conservative politicians love to bang the drum about abortion
3 comments
The Health Care America Refuses To Provide
Health & Wellness  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, healthcare, health, medicine, government, humans, politics, culture, society )

Kat
- 2 days ago - dissidentvoice.org
As you're reading this I'm sure your eyes are beginning to roll, indicating how peeved you're probably getting over yet another tirade on the subject of health-care-overhaul. Fear not. To prevent this article from joining the all-embracing tautology of...
8 comments
Vaccines on Horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, Herpes
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, vaccines, disease, illness, humans, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MARIETTA, Pa. - Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
10 comments
New Mammogram Advice Raises Questions, Concerns
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, breast cancer, mammograms, protection, prevention, disease, illness, death, safety, study, treatment, warning )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at all.
3 comments
The Evolving Role of Ultrasound Technicians
Health & Wellness  (tags: Ultrasound Technicians, Medical, Health, Sonography, Science )

Nancy
- 3 days ago - ultrasoundtechnicianschools.org
Ultrasound technicians typically focus solely on the well-being of new babies, but these recent evolutions within their sonography world has led to give them a heightened role at the forefront of cancer studies.
5 comments
Heart Patients Lacking Vitamin D More Likely to Be Depressed
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, illness, research )

Cal
- 3 days ago - cnn.com
People with heart disease and similar conditions who don't have enough vitamin D are more likely to be depressed than their counterparts with adequate levels of the "sunshine vitamin," according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American H
3 comments
 
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