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Valley Police Beat: First heat stroke death of the year occurs
EL CENTRO - The first case of heat stroke-related death occurred this week as an illegal immigrant was brought to El Centro Regional Medical Center about 12:30 p.m. Monday. Mayra Franco, 29, died after she was taken to the El Centro hospital’s...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Sour Cream, Physical Conditions
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Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to heart disease, strokes and death
Considering how many people eat too much and exercise too little, it's not surprising that nearly 67 million Americans have high blood pressure. But here's the asterisk: 36 million of them do not have it under control, even though most know they have...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Stroke, Weight, Atenolol (drug), Personal Income
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Officials educate, deal with first case of Chronic Wasting Disease
Staff reporterA new worry for hunters and farmers across the state as Pennsylvania deals with its first case of Chronic Wasting Disease. The first positive sample was discovered in a deer in Adams County. So far, animals at three farms including one in Adams, Lycoming...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Symptoms, Hunting, York (York, Pennsylvania), York County (Pennsylvania)
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Growing through grief
Almost four years after her husband's death from Parkinson's disease, former Sacramento County, Calif., supervisor Sandra Smoley has reinvented her life. She rented out the Fair Oaks home where she lived with her late husband, architect Walter Rohrer,...Tags: Research, Columbia University, Aneurysm, Social Sciences, Death and Dying Customs
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DSHS Urges Precautions to Reduce West Nile Exposure
Texas Department of State Health ServicesThe Texas Department of State Health Services is urging people to take precautions to reduce the risk of contracting West Nile virus, a mosquito borne illness. People should use insect repellent when outdoors and avoid going outside at dusk and dawn....Tags: West Nile Virus, Vaccines, Symptoms, Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses
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Battling Her Lung Cancer And Everyone Else's
The Hartford CourantThe stigma surrounding lung cancer bothers Diane Legg. "Most often the first question asked is, 'Did you smoke?'" she said. "No other disease, nobody asks such an in-your-face question. Most people who have a heart attack, they don't ask if they smoked....Tags: Heart Attack, Demographics, Lungs and Airways, Lung Cancer, Human Interest
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Insurance more predictive of death after heart attack than race
Health insurance was a better predictor of survival from health attacks and strokes than race, according to Johns Hopkins researchers who looked at health outcomes in some Maryland hospitals. Specifically, those who did not have coverage were more likely...Tags: Heart Attack, Internal Medicine, Stroke, Health and Medical Professionals, Diseases and Illnesses
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Growing obesity in Africa could worsen infant mortality
World NowAs obesity becomes a bigger problem in much of Africa, babies already at high risk in the region could face new and added dangers, a new study published Wednesday in the Lancet has found.... -
New city data to help improve health in neighborhoods
More than half of the deaths in recent years in a quarter of Baltimore's neighborhoods were avoidable, according to a new set of assessments from city health officials that were released Friday. The data were collected in 55 neighborhoods and showed in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Lung Cancer, Murder, Religion and Belief, Cancer
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42% of nation to be obese by 2030, study predicts
CNNAfter years of rising obesity rates in the United States, recent statistics show the rates may have steadied. But that may not be enough, according to a new report released on Monday - it estimates about 42% of the U.S. population will be obese by 2030....Tags: Demographics, Weight, Overweight, Medical Research, Healthy Diet
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Alligators
Most people come to the Everglades in search of one specific animal: the alligator. If you’re chomping at the bit to see an alligator, you’re in luck. The dinosaur’s distant cousins are easy to spot in all of South Florida, but especially in Everglades...Tags: Everglades, Everglades National Park, Florida, North Carolina, Animals
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OCC advances to state tourney
COSTA MESA — An Orange Coast College baseball team that had been larger than life most of the season, benefited from a healthy dose of mortality on Sunday to win the second championship game of the double-elimination Southern California Super...Tags: Baseball, Teaching and Learning, Pittsburgh Pirates, Foo Fighters (music group), Cancer
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