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SPECIAL REPORT: Teens & Tats ... Paying the price
WSBT-TV Anchor/ReporterAs tattoos have become more mainstream in our culture, more and more teens at younger and younger ages are hitting up their parents to be inked. But there are so many considerations besides just age, including health considerations. And one of the...Tags: Family, Diseases and Illnesses, Hepatitis C , Health
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Hometown Health: Doctors encourage Hepatitis screening with first ever testing day
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are trying to get more people tested for Hepatitis C. More than 4-million Americans are living with the disease, and most of them don't even know it. Saturday is Hepatitis Testing Day in the United States. ...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Medical Procedures and Tests
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Former resident stabbed
swaltman@aberdeennews.comA former Aberdeen resident was one of two men stabbed Wednesday morning when a man with a knife broke into a Topeka, Kan., television station. Roger Brokke said the assailant stabbed him in the hip, bit him in the back and hit him. Brokke, 56, is the...Tags: Emergency Health Procedures, Tetanus, HIV, Television Industry, Health
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Who should be tested for Hepatitis C?
Baby boomer alert! The government has come out with a draft recommendation that all those born between 1945 and 1965 be tested for Hepatitis C. The virus that causes chronic infections in eight of 10 affected and leads to liver disease, was first...
Tags: Cirrhosis, Hepatitis A , Disease Prevention, Liver Cancer, Hepatitis C
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Free Hepatitis Testing and Vaccines Friday and Saturday
Hispanosphere - Orlando SentinelThe Orange County Health Department is recognizing May as National Hepatitis Awareness Month and May 19 as National Hepatitis Testing Day. The intent of these annual observances is to raise awareness about the global impact of viral hepatitis and the... -
Former Waynesboro resident claims he got hepatitis through reused needles in 2008
waynesboro@herald-mail.comA judge will make several key decisions in the coming weeks in a man’s lawsuit against Urology Associates of Chambersburg, which told patients last year it had reused prostate biopsy needles. Franklin County (Pa.) Court of Common Pleas Judge...Tags: Trials, Hepatitis C , Justice System, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Lawyers
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Valley health care professionals armed with virus information
Staff WriterCALEXICO – Imperial Valley health care professionals learned about treatment and prevention of the hepatitis C virus, the most common bloodborne infection in the country, at a half-day program hosted at the Imperial Valley Medical Clinic on...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Hepatitis C , Behavioral Conditions, Health
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Adult diabetics need hepatitis vaccination
Health districts serving the Peninsula are advising all primary care physicians that adults diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (Type 1 and 2) should be vaccinated against hepatitis B as soon as possible after diagnosis. The vaccine is particularly...Tags: Cirrhosis, Disease Prevention, Hepatitis B , Liver Cancer, Health and Safety at Work
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Proposal would add more exemptions for childhood immunizations
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA committee in the Kansas legislature is now looking at a bill on whether immunizations should be required for children in Kansas. House Bill 2094 would add a parent's personal beliefs to the list of childhood immunization exemptions. The current list of...Tags: Diphtheria , Hepatitis A , Rubella, Disease Prevention, Drugs and Medicines
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Hepatitis C deaths up, baby boomers most at risk
WASHINGTON (AP)— Deaths from liver-destroying hepatitis C are on the rise, and new data shows baby boomers especially should take heed — they are most at risk.
Federal health officials are considering whether anyone born between 1945 and 1965...Tags: Cirrhosis, Liver Cancer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, AIDS, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Science Connections: When Body Piercings Can Pose Major Health Risks
TribLocal - Evanstonby Lauren Hise/Medill News Service Those tiny little piercings can trigger big consequences that include allergic reactions, infection and hepatitis, according to a new research …... -
Can Sharks Cure Human Diseases?
FOX 17 NewsTalking to Tweens (Source: CNN.com) It happened overnight, which I hear is really quite typical. My 11-year-old, Aden, got in the car after basketball practice. I expected to hear the usual: whether he'd made any half-court shots, how Drake was a ball...Tags: Primetime Emmy Awards, Fox Broadcasting Company, File Sharing, Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses
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