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December 1st is World AIDS Day
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized in the United States in the summer of 1981. As the epidemiologic pattern of the disease unfolded, it was determined that an infectious agent, transmissible by sexual contact and by bl...
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Aplastic Anemia and MDS: II of IV
In my previous life as a Nurse Case Manager for a Worker’s Compensation (WC) Third Party Insurance Administrator TPA, I worked with a gentleman who had Aplastic Anemia. His WC claims adjuster accepted his claim as work-related due to an on-the-job...
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Workplace Eye Health Safety Month
Our eyes are organs of our sensory nervous system. Visual information from the retina in the eye travels to the brain along the optic nerve. The brain mixes the images it receives from both eyes. The outer layer of the eyeball that transmits lig...
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Healthline Wins Webby
All of us here at Healthline wanted to thank everyone who voted and helped Healthline win "People's Voice" Webby Award in the Health category. It's nice to know that we're accomplishing what we set out to do - help people make more informed and co...
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Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Can't Hurt, and They Might Help - with a lot of things...
Some reports released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the past few weeks indicate that adding omega-3 fatty acids may be a good way to protect yourself and your loved ones against many nasty conditions you probably don't want to get....
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Surviving Teenage Denial of Chronic Illness
It is Asthma Awareness Month, but for parents of kids with asthma, every day is a ritual of "Do you have your inhaler with you?" as you send them off to school. By the time they transition from elementary to middle school, they are fairly self-su...
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Interview with Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS: Part I
I had the honor and joy to spend some time speaking with Dr. Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States. This week I will post a series of excerpts from my interview with this warm and remarkable man. Readers of previous posts kn...
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Life Cycles: Middle Aged Blues are a Universal Experience
Researchers in Britain and the US have learned that happiness follows a U curve - peaking in our 20's and reaching a low point for women in their 40's, men in their 50's. Then our overall outlook and sense of contentment rises again as we age.Kno...
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August 10-16 is National Community Health Center Week
The second week of August is dedicated to recognizing the outstanding contributions of Community, Migrant and Homeless Health Centers. They do an outstanding job of providing needed services for America's 44 million uninsured and to those who liv...
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Geography Matters: Survival of Children depends on what State they are born in
The Every Child Matters Education Fund has reported startling findings. 13 million US children live in poverty, 8 million kids lack health insurance coverage and 3 million kids are abused and neglected annually. The state a child is born is a det...
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