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Animal Care and Control Celebrates Pet New Year
Channel 2 NewsAnimal Care and Control celebrated "Pet New Year" with the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in an event that promotes pet vaccinations and microchipping. Held at the Alaska Mill and Feed warehouse, the Pet New Year offered discounted rabies...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Health, Rabies, Animals, Pets
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Deputy Who Tried to Smuggle Heroin in Burrito Gets 2 Years
KTLA NewsDEL AIRE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who pleaded no contest to smuggling drugs into a courthouse jail in a burrito has been sentenced to two years in jail. Henry Marin, 27, pleaded no contest to one count of bringing drugs...Tags: Health, Foods and Beverages, Organized Crime, Prosecution, Trials
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Paula Deen's diabetes: Blaming the victim?
As Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen certainly knows by now, people with Type 2 diabetes are routinely blamed for causing their disease by eating junky food and making unhealthy lifestyle choices. Known for high fat recipes that raise the risk for...Tags: Health, Diabetes, Insulin, Chemicals, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock
Only 20% of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are given to people who are sick with bacterial infections, such as ear and urinary tract infections and pneumonia. Most of the penicillin, tetracycline and other antibiotic drugs used in this country are given...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Health, Agriculture, Salmonella Infection, Pneumonia
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Thump thump...your heart needs some lovin'
Ladies, do you need an excuse to tell your significant other you need a massage? Gentlemen, sick of your loved one complaining about your garlic breath? You can thank us for this blog. Because, February is Heart Health Month, and by getting a massage...Tags: Personal Service, Health, High Blood Pressure, Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Quitting smoking is tough, but not impossible
Many people pick quitting smoking as their New Year's resolution. But if quitting smoking was easy, most smokers would have already done it. Tobacco is highly addictive and the process isn't easy, but quitting is possible for those who really are ready...Tags: Addiction, Health, Chemicals, Heart Attack, Hospitals and Clinics
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University Sells 'Plan B' Pill in Vending Machines
KTLA NewsSHIPPENSBURG, Pa. -- Students at a college in Pennsylvania can now buy Plan B -- the so-called "morning-after pill" -- as easily as they buy sodas or a bag of chips. The emergency contraceptive is now available in vending machines at Shippensburg...Tags: Plan B (drug), Teaching and Learning, Drugs and Medicines, Health, Colleges and Universities
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Chronic conditions' toll tallied
The sunny fact that Americans are living longer, more productive lives has a dark side: More of us than ever live with chronic illnesses that are not only a drag on sufferers' time and energy, but on the nation's pocketbook. The Institute of Medicine on...Tags: Schizophrenia, Health, Diabetes, Cancer, Obesity
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Why we're fat, Part 2: Heredity plays role in how easily we gain — and lose — weight
For the many Americans genetically programmed to add pounds, the effort to lose weight can seem doomed from the get-go. Mix in other factors no one can change — age, race, birth order — and the struggle becomes even tougher.
Though innate...Tags: Health, Diabetes, Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Genes and Chromosomes
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Philharmonic's 20th season: Broadway, opera, Swingerhead and the circus
Next season, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra will offer two operas, welcome back Andrew Lane and Michael Andrew, collaborate with Orlando Shakespeare Theater and turn its attention to Broadway.
And hang on to your programs: The Phil will also...Tags: Arts, Health, Duke Ellington, Orlistat (drug), Comedy (genre)
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Alternative therapies for PTSD
When you think of soldiers, you probably don't picture a group of men doing yoga. But it's one of the interventions for veterans with PTSD.
The Veterans Administration is trying alternative therapies like yoga and acupunture to help patients rely less...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Health, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Small Wonders: Morality just a matter of chemistry?
Good and Evil. Nurture versus Nature. Survival of the nicest or survival of the fittest. Morality: our conformity to the rules of right conduct and virtue. It’s long been territory only for philosophers, theologians and newspaper columnists...Tags: Health, Religion and Belief, Polio, Ethics, Preventative Medicine
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