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'MotherToBaby CT' Launches For Mother's Day
A CDC-recommended non-profit organization has been launched in time for Mother's Day. Through 'MotherToBaby CT', experts will be able to provide the public with free answers to the many questions that arise during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Read...
Tags: Birth Defects, Disease Prevention, Family, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut)
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October Is SIDS Awareness Month
Shockingly, statistics show that about 7000 babies die each year in this country from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Parents, such as Melissa and Rudy Haberzetti, a Colorado couple profiled in Parenting Magazine, experience a true nightmare and can never...
Tags: March of Dimes Foundation
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Angelina Jolie's decision to get double mastectomy isn't unusual in Lehigh Valley
Kelly Vanek, a runner, cyclist and triathlete, was listening to sports talk radio in the car when the conversation shifted to Angelina Jolie. The actress and sex symbol took the public by surprise last week with the announcement that she had her healthy...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Breast Cancer, Biotechnology
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More guns used in suicides than homicides
When people think of gun violence, they typically think of a masked robber or a disturbed young man with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. In truth, the most common victim of fatal gun violence is a distraught man who, alone in a...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Mental Illness, Crime, Law and Justice, Orange Blossom Trail, Health
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Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes
Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Queens (New York City), Medical Research, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University
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EDITORIAL: We Can Decrease Highway Deaths ��� If We Want To
Times Record, Fort Smith, Ark.What exactly is the acceptable death rate on American highways? That's a rather blunt way to ask a question that most of us don't like to consider but that the National Transportation Safety Board is tasked with answering. We know things like slower...Tags: Transportation Industry, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Highway Transportation, National Transportation Safety Board, Drunk Driving
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Motorcycle warnings go out as temps go up
Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Ill.Just days after three people died in separate motorcycle collisions in the region, a deadly motorcycle collision Friday in Virginia claimed the life of another, demonstrating the importance of being alert to a changing driving landscape, riders and...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Illinois Department of Transportation, Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Sesame paste sickens two Minnesota infants with salmonella
Star TribuneTwo Minnesota infants have fallen ill with salmonella poisoning after eating a brand of tahini sesame paste that is the subject of a multistate recall, state officials said Friday. Consumers are being directed to not eat Krinos brand tahini from the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Tahini, Food and Drug Administration, Product Recalls
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Social Sciences, Mental Illness, Health, Culture, Depression
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End of smallpox
Although polio has been reduced to its lowest level in history, three countries still have polio transmission — Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Last year 223 polio cases were reported. So far in 2013 there have been 19 cases, according to the...Tags: Polio, Politics, Diseases and Illnesses, Rotary International, Pakistan
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Redeveloping failed Citadel site poses a challenge for KC
The Kansas City StarEnvironmental cleanup of the failed Citadel Plaza site is imminent, but finding new investors and developers will be a more daunting task. City officials and consultants shared that message Thursday night with about 50 people who live or work near the...Tags: Target, Menards
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Fecal matter found in many public pools
aboll@kspr.comSpringfield, MO--"Everything so far has been great." says Carmel Gutierrez who takes her two kids to the pool four to five times a week. She went out of her way to make sure her kids didn't contaminate the pool water. "We had the baby swim diapers on or...Tags: Disease Prevention, Health, E. coli Infection, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Procedures and Tests
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