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/ 5 years agoVA reports significant increase in Veteran use of telehealth services
The 17% increase over the prior fiscal year contributed to VA’s delivery of more than 2.6 million episodes of telehealth care...
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/ 5 years agoCDC: Numbers Show Decline in Early Childhood Obesity in WIC Families
3 states saw actual increases in obesity.
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/ 5 years agoStudy Finds Safe Infant Sleep Practices Need Improvement
Approximately 3,500 infants die annually in the United States due to sleep-related deaths. This accounts for the largest share of infant...
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/ 5 years agoDPH Identifies Likely Source of Measles in Cobb County, Additional Cases Confirmed
Five previously unreported cases of measles in one family in Cobb County occurred in early October. These five cases are presumably...
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/ 5 years agoMore People in the US Dying from Antibiotic-Resistant Infections than Previously Estimated
On average, someone in the United States gets an antibiotic-resistant infection every 11 seconds and every 15 minutes someone dies.
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/ 5 years agoCigarette Smoking Among U.S. Adults Hits All-Time Low
The study found that an estimated 49.1 million (19.7%) U.S. adults currently used a tobacco product in 2018...and e-cigarette use is...
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/ 5 years agoVA equips 200,000 Veterans with lifesaving naloxone
More veterans have naloxone thanks to a program within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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/ 5 years agoDEA Issues Warning over Counterfeit Prescription Pills from Mexico
Based on a sampling of tablets seized nationwide between January and March 2019, DEA found that 27 percent contained potentially lethal...
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/ 5 years agoNestlé Cookie Dough Products Recalled Due to Potential Plastic Contamination
All of the impacted products were sold across the United States.
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/ 5 years agoSelect Anxiety Med Recalled Over Possible ‘Foreign Substance’
The drug is a generic form of the anti-anxiety medication 'Xanax'
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