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At-risk women can promote health through social networks

(HealthDay)—Women at risk for or living with HIV can, with some guidance, carry out health promotion messages through their informal social networks, according to a study published online Aug. 29 in the U.S. Centers for ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

War on MERS: Deadly virus prompts global battle plans

In a war room of sorts in a neatly appointed government building, U.S. officers dressed in crisp uniforms arranged themselves around a U-shaped table and kept their eyes trained on a giant screen. PowerPoint slides ticked ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Not enough young women getting tested for chlamydia: CDC

(HealthDay) -- Far too few sexually active young women are getting tested for chlamydia, an oversight that could lead them down a perilous path to severe health consequences, including infertility, later in life.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Screen all baby boomers for hepatitis C, expert panel says

(HealthDay)—All adults born between 1945 and 1965—the baby boom generation—should be screened for the hepatitis C virus along with injection-drug users and anyone transfused before 1992, according to new recommendations ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

FDA probes salmonella that has sickened 90 people

(AP) -- Federal health officials are investigating a growing outbreak of salmonella that has sickened 90 people in 19 states and the District of Columbia, according to a Food and Drug Administration memo.

Health

Should we play hide-and-go-seek with our children's vegetables?

Pass the peas please! How often do we hear our children say this? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey of adolescents, only 21% of our children eat the ...

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