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The Front Burner: Banning pit bulls saves lives and protects the innocent
Whether to ban pit bulls is a human health and safety issue that should be steered by health and safety officials. Public safety is not the profession of animal advocates. Thus, public policy coming from animal advocates concerning protecting humans...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Demographics, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Animal Attacks
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The Front Burner: Breed-specific regulation: Not new and not working
We all want to live safely, including with dogs. With that purpose in mind, we should adopt policies that have succeeded, and avoid ones that failed. Breed-specific regulation did not originate with pit bulls. Long Branch, N.J., banned the Spitz in...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Health Organizations, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Litigation and Regulation, Humane Society of the United States
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The case for food stamps
To hear Republicans — and some Democrats — in Congress talk, you'd think food-stamp dollars just disappear into a black hole. The prevailing debate in the Senate and House versions of the farm bill, which contains funding for food stamps...
Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Nutrition, Health Organizations
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Teen birth rate decreasing, according to CDC report
WSBT-TVTeen pregnancy rates are down, way down, about half what they were twenty years ago, according to a new government report. It's encouraging news for nurses and counselors who say more teens are showing up at their offices, asking about contraception,...Tags: Birth Control, Disease Prevention, Health Treatments, Family Planning
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Some teenagers are calorie counting at fast food restaurants
While some teens are oblivious to nutrition information posted at fast food restaurants, many consider calories before ordering. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveyed more than 700 young people between the ages of 9 and...Tags: Weight
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Drowning most common fatality during Superstorm Sandy
The leading cause of death during Superstorm Sandy last fall was drowning, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, which analyzed 117 storm-related deaths, comes amid a National Oceanic and...
Tags: American Red Cross, Relief and Aid Organizations, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Natural Disasters, Demographics
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Pass Swim-Class Safety Bill To Stop Pool Deaths
At least four children have died in swim programs in Connecticut since 2008. A bill that passed Wednesday in the state House may stop such drownings. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, would require two adults in swim-program pool areas, one... -
Brown administration says prison complaints are blame-shifting
Gov. Jerry Brown's administration disputes complaints that the governor's vocal legal challenges to orders to improve prison conditions has brought progress to a halt. The federal court-appointed medical receiver in charge of prison healthcare filed a...Tags: Coccidioidomycosis , Politics, Executive Branch, Prisons, Jerry Brown
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CDC to doctors: Help your patients quit smoking!
A new anti-tobacco campaign is urging smokers to turn to their physicians for help in quitting. The campaign – "Talk With Your Doctor" – also encourages clinicians to ask patients whether they smoke and to offer them assistance giving up...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Quitting Smoking, Disease Prevention, Health Treatments
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Court receiver says Brown ignores prison conditions
In a report Wednesday to federal judges, the official overseeing prison medical care said Gov. Jerry Brown's public opposition to crowding reductions, and his corrections officials' refusal to move inmates at risk of a deadly disease, show California is...Tags: Coccidioidomycosis , Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Jerry Brown, Justice System
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Health officials probe deadly respiratory illness in Alabama
ReutersBIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - U.S. and state health authorities are investigating an unidentified respiratory illness that has killed two of 10 people hospitalized with it in Alabama since last week. Preliminary tests do not indicate the bird flu,...Tags: Flu, Viral Diseases and Infections, Medical Procedures and Tests, General Practitioners, Symptoms
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New Allentown center offers help for people with mental illness
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 percent of adults in the United States are living with mental illness; however, the outlook for persons with mental illness today is much brighter than it was even a decade ago due to...Tags: Allentown, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions
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