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More than a dozen cases of mumps suspected at Loyola
A dozen or more cases of mumps have been reported among Loyola University Maryland students over the past month, prompting officials to alert the campus community to signs of the rare virus that has spread rapidly across college campuses in recent...
Tags: Meningitis, Teaching and Learning, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Loyola University Chicago, Disease Prevention
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From our files for March 17, 2013
100 Years Ago — 1913 For the first time in many years, no church services were held in Hustonville last Sunday and schools in Moreland, McKinney and Hustonville were closed last week due to an epidemic of measles. Hundreds of cases of a very...
Tags: Anglicanism, Christianity, Belief and Faith, ABC (tv network), Epidemics and Plagues
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A healthy dose of data
The daily broadcast of medical reports, scientific studies and sociological statistics can cause your ears to ring. Sometimes a report will contradict the findings of another issued just days earlier. More often, compelling snapshots of the American...Tags: Tetanus, Behavioral Conditions, Mumps, Mental Illness, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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'Noble Savages' looks at one anthropologist's life of controversy
In 1998, just before Napoleon Chagnon retired from the University of California at Santa Barbara, he signed a contract to write a book about his life as an anthropologist among the Yanomamö people, who live in the forests of Venezuela and Brazil. It...
Tags: Elections, Cornell University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Michigan, Human Interest
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White House warns about budget cuts in Florida
While trying to blame Republicans, the White House predicts big losses of money and jobs in Florida because of budget cuts that will squeeze schools, work-study programs, Head Start, environmental protection, law enforcement and defense. The automatic...Tags: Florida State University, Tetanus, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Wildlife, Prosecution
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White House details budget fallout amid blame game
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has detailed the potential fallout in each state from budget cuts set to take effect at week's end, while congressional Republicans and Democrats keep up the sniping over who's to blame. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-...Tags: U.S. Senate, Family, White House, Fox News Channel (tv network), CBS Corp.
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A look at automatic budget cuts in Indiana
Military and education would take big hits in Indiana from automatic cuts to the federal budget set to take effect this week, according to a report the White House issued Sunday. The White House compiled the numbers from federal agencies and its own...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Tetanus, Politics, Mumps, Environmental Pollution
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All condemn pending budget cuts, spread blame
The Associated PressThe White House and Republicans kept up the unrelenting mudslinging Sunday over who’s to blame for roundly condemned budget cuts set to take effect at week’s end, with the administration detailing the potential fallout in each state and...Tags: Elections, Executive Branch, Haley Barbour, White House, Dannel P. Malloy
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Flu shot doing a poor job of protecting elderly
ATLANTA (AP) — It turns out this year's flu shot is doing a startlingly dismal job of protecting senior citizens, the most vulnerable age group. The vaccine is proving only 9 percent effective in people 65 and older against the harsh strain of the...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Disease Prevention, Flu Vaccine, Preventative Medicine, Viral Diseases and Infections
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Q&A: Weighing the value of less effective flu shot
This season's flu shot seemed to do little to protect people over 65 from the worst and most dominant flu strain spreading around, a small government study found. Vaccinated people in that age group had only a 9 percent lower chance of going to the doctor...Tags: Chemical Industry, Disease Prevention, Flu Vaccine, Polio, Preventative Medicine
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More info on vaccines
I'm writing in resonse to Kenneth VanAntwerp M.D. commentary on Oct. 31 about Gardasil. The Gardasil supposedly protects you from only four different strains of HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) when there are more than 100 different strains of HPV. Fifty-...Tags: Chemical Industry, Smallpox , Behavioral Conditions, Disease Prevention, Autism
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Salisbury school kindergarten registration
The annual kindergarten registration will be conducted at the Salisbury-Elk Lick Elementary School from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. March 8. At the regular school board meeting on July 13, 2011, a ruling was passed that a child is eligible for...Tags: Tetanus, Diphtheria , Politics, Hepatitis B , Interior Policy
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