June is Home Safety Month and the Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Aging Services is urging older adults to practice safety to prevent injuries. In 2005, there were 15,800 people 65 and older who died from injuries related to unintentional falls. About 1.8 million in this same age group were treated in emergency [...]
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Menthol cigarettes will not be banned by a newly introduced legislation, but health officials are urging that these tobacco products pose health risk and don’t deserve a special treatment.
A new bill on Menthol cigarettes, passed by House and Senate committees and pending for Congress approval, bans flavored cigarettes, such as strawberry, chocolate, fruit, candy and [...]
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Many parents become anxious toward the end of a pregnancy, when women are sleepless, fatigued and finding it difficult to perform their daily activities. Technology during the past 10 years has made labor induction easier and more successful, and now, more than ever before, deliveries are planned during the last few weeks of pregnancies.
But studies [...]
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Health Canada is warning consumers not to use the natural health product Trophic Kelp %26amp; Glutamic Acid HCl due to the health risk posed by exposure to high levels of iodine. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and individuals with thyroid disease such as Graves’ disease are particularly at risk.
Excessive iodine exposure can result in [...]
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans volunteer to take part in medical research studies, from simple health surveys to detailed analyses of their DNA or tests of experimental medicines.
But what happens after their participation is over? In many cases, volunteers won’t ever hear from the researchers about what the study revealed. But other studies [...]
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