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Column: Foster care fails to solve child obesity problem
Childhood obesity is becoming an epidemic. Despite some improvements, the numbers are still high. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 17 percent of American children are obese. This is triple the rate from one generation ago.
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Editorial: Maintain money for Medicaid
Despite all the talk of cutting entitlements, one program remains particularly popular among Americans. Many Americans agree that Medicaid makes a big difference in people's lives, according to a new study cited by National Public Radio.
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Survey: 14.5% of med students mistreated
Twenty-one percent of U.S. medical students who took a national 2010 survey said they’d been required to go shopping or babysit for a supervisor — and 5 percent said they’d experienced unwanted sexual advances in school. Most didn’t report it for fear of retaliation. At U.
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Study links binge drinking to ads
Advertising effectively promotes alcohol brands to teenagers, researchers from Dartmouth Medical School and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found in a study published in the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
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Column: Texas sonogram bill contradicts party ideals
Texas House Bill 15, effective Sept. 1 of this year, features a host of requirements for women considering having an abortion.
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Study: Drinking coffee could help protect against Alzheimer’s disease
Making multiple trips to the coffee pot may improve health, according to U. South Florida researchers who say an unknown compound in the beverage may protect against Alzheimer's disease.
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Doctors warn that form of HPV linked to oral cancer
Doctors have been trying to spread the news that cervical cancer isn’t the only harmful consequence of the Human Papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Dr.
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Study shows eating breakfast as a family improves nutrition
A recent U. Nebraska-Lincoln study found that more than 70 percent of low-income families don't get the recommended levels of nutrition in their diets. One way to improve nutrition intake, the study found, was for the whole family to eat together more often, especially at breakfast.
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Brains suffer from binge drinking culture
Bruises, cuts, nausea and a throbbing headache are some of the physical pains caused by binge drinking. The most severe injury, though, is one you cannot see or even feel: the trauma inflicted on your brain.
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