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Use this information to help you stay healthy at ages 50 and above. Learn which screening tests you need and …
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Deadly ‘kissing bug’ spreads to states outside Texas
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With cold and flu season around the corner, consumers will soon begin to purchase medicines such as cough syrup, throat …
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The primary care system in America has disillusioned legions of doctors who have become inundated in paperwork or burdened by …
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Millions of children will head back to school this month. But many will end missing school while they deal with …
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This Concussion Handbook is designed to help with your concussion management and recovery. Whether you’re a kid or teenager who …
How to Tell If a Rash Needs Medical Attention
SCHAUMBURG, IL — To the untrained eye, all rashes may look alike and seem easily treatable with over-the-counter oral antihistamines or …
Can America cope with a resurgence of tropical disease?
Having stamped out a number of tropical diseases – including malaria – decades ago, is America today complacent about a …
How to stop brain-eating amoeba from killing you
A young boy has died and officials in Louisiana have found a brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri, in the freshwater supply …
Tips to keep you and your pet cool on hot summer days
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Heads up! These mice droppings can kill you
You probably didn’t know it but deer mice, cotton and rice rats and white-footed mice carry the potentially deadly Hantavirus. …
How to treat water for drinking using established survival protocols
When you’re desperate you’ll want to drink anything. But remember, most water isn’t safe in an emergency situation. Sure the …
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This story comes from Texas but it’s relevant everywhere there are mosquitos. Read down for the red-highlighted sections that apply …
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Temperatures in the upper 90s – over 100 perhaps? When the National Weather Service issues an excessive heat watch you need to …
Tick-tock, it’s Tick time: How to avoid Lyme disease
You may think your risk of getting Lyme disease ends when the weather starts to cool, but by Fall, adult …
High blood pressure: stopping a common killer
Roughly 29% of Americans suffer from high blood pressure. Hypertension can lead directly to heart disease, strokes, and kidney failure, …
F.A.S.T. — Warning signs of stroke
THINK YOU ARE HAVING A STROKE? CALL 9-1-1 IMMEDIATELY! F.A.S.T. is an easy way to remember the sudden signs of …
Heartburn: What to take, what to avoid, when to give in.
Although the name may imply the heart, heartburn has absolutely nothing to do with the heart itself. Heartburn is pain …
How to spot melanoma
Check your body before you hit the summer season and expose yourself to the sun. Remember, melanoma is a young …
Respiratory precautions against wildfire smoke
Wildfire. It can happen fast. And when dry brush and fallen foliage goes up, there’s a lot of smoke with the …