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Health & Wellness News tagged with prevention

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
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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..
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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
No Ban on Abortion Coverage-Please Take Action!!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, protection, healthcare, safety, prevention, government )

Tierney
- 3 days ago - org2.democracyinaction.org
When you need medical care, your insurance should pay for it. Yet some in Congress are trying to use healthcare reform to ban insurance coverage for abortion services, coverage that millions of women already have.
1 comment
Rx: Cranberries
Health & Wellness  (tags: diet, family, food, health, healthcare, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, prevention, protection )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - lime.com
Maybe we should add cranberries to the long list of things to be grateful for at Thanksgiving. Cranberries -- a staple food source with settlers and Native Americans in the northeast -- were valued for their thick skins, allowing them to surv
2 comments
NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH: Taking Preventive Measures
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Amreican health, native americans, healthcare, health, prevention, diet, news )

Cal
- 4 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Employees of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota learned ways to prevent suicide during training sessions, following the deaths of 27 teens and young adults and the attempted suicides of more than 400 tribal members over the past few years.
7 comments
Sign the Petition, Send a Coat Hanger
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, treatment, protection, medicine, humans, illness, health, family, death, children, babies, prevention )

Daphna
- 5 days ago - act.credoaction.com
"We know what happens when women are denied access to reproductive health care including abortion. And we can't go back to an era of coat hangers and back alley abortions. Reconsider your vote on the Stupak Amendment. Tell House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
8 comments
Sign the Petition, Send a Coat Hanger
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, prevention, protection, risks, treatment, reproductive health care )

Kelli
- 5 days ago - act.credoaction.com
Sign this petition and send a coat hanger to the 20 formerly pro-choice Democrats -- all men -- who voted to pass the Stupak Amendment.
18 comments
Another Doctor Mad As Hell
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, congress, government, prevention, family )

Tierney
- 8 days ago - rhrealitycheck.org
Congress has done it. They've thrown women's reproductive rights under the bus. They've catered to religious extremists rather than protect the health of our mothers, daughters, and sisters
9 comments
Childhood Scurvy Cases on Rise in England
Health & Wellness  (tags: children, diet, disease, family, food, health, humans, illness, nutrition, prevention )

Daphna
- 8 days ago - greenlivingideas.com
Scurvy is one of those diseases of legend, conjuring up images of pirates and explorers of the sea. When I think of scurvy, I still recall an educational video shown in elementary school of sailors falling ill from a lack of vitamin C. Unfortunately for
6 comments
Call on Senate Leader Reid: Stop Abortion Coverage Ban-Petition!!
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, healthcare, government, protection, prevention )

Tierney
- 9 days ago - secure.prochoiceamerica.org
The House of Representatives passed health-reform legislation that included an anti-choice amendment that will seriously jeopardize women's access to abortion
4 comments
H1N1 Virus Can Be Killed By Acidic Ozone Water
Health & Wellness  (tags: study, medicine, humans, protection, h1n1 virus, prevention )

Katie
- 10 days ago - physorg.com
Scientists have found that acidic ozone water can effectively kill H1N1 viruses, with the advantages that it leaves no environmentally harmful residue and is inexpensive to prepare.
8 comments
PLEASE Stand Up for Women's Reproductive Health and Choice, President Obama
Health & Wellness  (tags: petition, women, prevention, medicine, humans, interesting, illness, health, ethics, children, protection )

Daphna
- 10 days ago - change.org
WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE TO PASS HEALTH CARE REFORM THAT SERVES WOMEN? LEADERSHIP. Despite hundreds of thousands of voters like you and me who called on members of the House of Representatives to include women's health care in health car
4 comments
Pedestrian Deaths Are Preventable. Demand Safer Streets! -Please Take Action !
Health & Wellness  (tags: safety, risks, protection, government, accidents, Obam, prevention )

Tierney
- 11 days ago - action.smartgrowthamerica.org
Thousands of Americans of all ages have been struck down in the simple act of walking. These "accidents" overwhelmingly occur on roads that are dangerous by design, with little or no provision for people on foot, in wheelchairs, or on a bicycle.
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As Donors Focus on AIDS, Child Illnesses Languish
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New Mammogram Advice Raises Questions, Concerns
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