• Exercise Options That Double as Stress-Busters

    Exercise is a known stress buster, and different disciplines relax and tone you in a variety of ways. So, you can pick and choose from many types of exercise to go beyond physical fitness to better mental...

    • Posted June 18, 2018
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  • Today’s Sleepy Teens May Be Tomorrow’s Heart Patients

    Most kids don’t get enough sleep, and that may put them on a path to future heart trouble, a new study finds. Young teens who slept less than seven hours a night tended to have more body...

    • Posted June 18, 2018
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  • Health Highlights: June 18, 2018

    NIH Cancels Large Alcohol/Heart Health Study California Health Agency Seeks to Reassure People About Coffee Compulsive Video Gaming a Mental Health Condition: WHO

    • Posted June 18, 2018
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  • Health Tip: Travel-Related Ills May Surface After You Return

    Just because you’ve returned home from a trip abroad doesn’t mean you can’t get sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Here are the agency’s suggestions for what to do when you get back home:...

    • Posted June 18, 2018
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  • Health Tip: Soothing Baby During Teething

    Teething is a normal part of an infant’s life, but it doesn’t come without some pain and discomfort. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cautions against applying medication directly to the gums. Products such as the numbing...

    • Posted June 18, 2018
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  • Health Highlights: June 15, 2018

    First Generic Under-the-Tongue Opioid Addiction Treatment Approved by FDA Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Eggs is Over: CDC

    • Posted June 15, 2018
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  • Strategies to Avoid Sunburn

    If you could protect yourself from cancer, you’d do it, right? Yet most Americans still aren’t taking the easiest step to prevent the most commonly diagnosed type — skin cancer, which will affect one in five people...

    • Posted June 15, 2018
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  • Does Salt Water Help Your Cut? And Other Health Myths of Summer

    It’s often said salt water is good for cuts. Or that sunscreen isn’t needed on cloudy days. But both are incorrect, says Isabel Valdez, a physician assistant and instructor of family medicine at Baylor College of Medicine...

    • Posted June 15, 2018
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  • Liver Cancer a Big Threat to U.S., Other Developed Nations

    Liver cancer cases in several developed countries have doubled in the past 25 years, due to the continuing obesity epidemic and a spike in hepatitis infections, new research suggests. Even worse, the sharp rise in liver cancer...

    • Posted June 15, 2018
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  • Kellogg’s Honey Smacks Cereal Recalled Due to Salmonella Risk

    The Kellogg Company announced Thursday it was recalling certain boxes of Honey Smacks cereal due to the possibility of contamination with salmonella. In a news release, the company said it “launched an investigation with the third-party manufacturer...

    • Posted June 15, 2018
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