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CDC: Flu season `bad one for the elderly'
The number of older people hospitalized with the flu has risen sharply, prompting federal officials to take unusual steps to make more flu medicines available and to urge wider use of them as soon as symptoms appear. The U.S. is about halfway through...Tags: Flu Vaccine, New York City, Pneumonia, Vaccines, Margaret Hamburg
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Chicago, like the nation, in midst of 'very bad' flu season
Chicago Tribune reportersAt Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, the staff is working extra shifts, and emergency room waits for patients can last up to two hours in the worst flu season emergency department director Ginger Diven has ever seen. "Things are...Tags: Flu Vaccine, University of Chicago, Pneumonia, Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals
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Documentary about Key West gay mayor
Staff WriterRichard Heyman was a gay man living in Key West and he made headlines back in 1983. That was the year he became the first openly gay mayor in the United States, right on the cusp of the AIDS epidemic and in the wake of the Anita Bryant campaign just one...Tags: Human Rights, PBS (tv network), Harvey Milk, Gays and Lesbians, AIDS
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UM researchers study how flu is spread
Every flu season, doctors instruct their patients in the basics of respiratory etiquette: To limit spread of the disease, wash your hands, cover your mouth when you cough and practice good hygiene.
The practices are based on the belief that the flu and...Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Coughing, Vaccines, Preventative Medicine, Health and Safety at School
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Obesity declining in young, poorer kids: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The number of low-income preschoolers who qualify as obese or "extremely obese" has dropped over the last decade, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. Although the decline was only "modest" and...Tags: Overweight, Weight, American Medical Association, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Healthy Diet
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S.D. governor's pine beetle initiative wins Innovations Award
PIERRE - Gov. Dennis Daugaard's action plan to combat the mountain pine beetle infestation in the Black Hills has earned a 2012 Innovations Award from the Council for State Governments. The Governor's Black Hills Forest Initiative was recognized as an...Tags: Dennis Daugaard, Regional Authority, Politics, Government, Executive Branch
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Crack epidemic in Brazil
FrameworkBrazil is dealing with what officials call a crack epidemic, affecting Brazilians of all ages and confounding government efforts to deal with it. Almost a year after a high-profile police effort to clean up Sao Paulo’s cracolandia as part of a... -
Flu becomes epidemic laced with shortages
ReporterSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Centers for Disease Control now calls it an epidemic and the Ozarks is no exception. Influenza numbers continue to climb across the country as we deal with vaccine and treatment shortages. On average, February tends to be when...Tags: Flu Vaccine, Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry, Vaccines, Flu
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Mayo Clinic Medical Edge: Even the young and healthy benefit from flu vaccine
Premium Health News ServiceDEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm 28 and healthy. I've never gotten a flu shot and have never had the flu. Do I really need a flu vaccination? My employer is recommending it for everyone, but I'm hesitant. I've heard some people get sick from the actual vaccination....Tags: Fever, Flu Vaccine, Pneumonia, Mayo Clinic, Preventative Medicine
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TRANSCRIPT: Obama Press Conference On Gun Violence
Shortly after noon Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced he had asked Vice President Joe Biden to oversee an effort by his administration to recommend policies “to reduce the epidemic of gun violence that plagues this country every single day....
Tags: Gun Control, Ronald Reagan, Laws, Law Enforcement, Behavioral Conditions
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Morbid obesity can exact huge costs
Bariatric surgeon David Salzberg can reel off a list of life-threatening problems associated with morbid obesity. They include diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, joint pain, depression and elevated rates of cancer. "Twenty percent of...
Tags: Overweight, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Bones and Joints, Gallbladder, Knee Replacement
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Treat Chicago's homicide surge as an epidemic
For once, Chicago has beaten New York in a competition that the Windy City had no desire to win. Chicago ended 2012 with more homicides than New York. No one cheers for that. Chicago, with only a third of New York's population, ended 2012 with 506...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Lobbying, Gun Control, Laws, Murder
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