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Oral Health Expert Provides Tips to Achieve Optimal Oral Health

November 29, 2014

Near North Side, Chicago – Oral health expert shares tips on how to ensure optimal oral health as defined by the American Dental Hygienists’s Association (ADHA). The ADHA defines optimal oral health as the standard of oral health and related tissues that enable individuals to speak, eat, and socialize without discomfort, active disease, or embarrassment.

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Officials Require Increased Coordination Among Health Agencies

November 28, 2014

Austin, Texas – Health officials said state health authorities need better communication in order to deal with infectious diseases like the Ebola virus as well as coordination among health agencies of all levels is likewise necessary, implementing standardized protocols plus greater accessibility towards health protective gear. During the first meeting of the task force instigated

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Obama: Health Care Workers Should Not Be Discouraged, But Applauded

November 27, 2014

Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, President Obama said health care workers should not be discouraged in any way from traveling to West African countries, contrary to the actions of many governors who called for isolating nurses and doctors returning from the Ebola-stricken countries. Obama said the health care workers should not be discouraged from traveling

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NYC Volunteer Under Ebola Test After Report of Fever

November 26, 2014

New York, New York – A New York City (NYC) health worker is under Ebola test after feeling ill and reporting a fever. The NYC health worker has been in the Ebola-stricken country, West Africa, whereby volunteering in a medical relief group. Special unit paramedics who wore protective gear brought in the patient to Bellevue

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Nutrition on Weekends Receives $20K Grant to Serve More Children

November 25, 2014

Marshfiled, Wisconsin – The Nutrition on Weekends (NOW) program by the Marshfield Area United Way has been awarded $20,000 grant in order to serve more children the entire year. The NOW program was launched in October 2013 and has served 29 students. Last school year, it has served 113 students, and now serving 248. The

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Nutrition Labels Valued More by Mothers Than Fathers

November 24, 2014

Ann Arbor, Michigan – The latest National Poll on Children Health conducted by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital reported that mothers are more likely to read nutritional labels more compared to fathers when it comes to considering drink and food purchases. The latest poll indicated that 40% of mothers expressed that they read the details

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New Study: NY Critters Carry Several Diseases and Germs

November 23, 2014

Manhattan, New York – New research found that rats scurrying around New York carry some scary diseases and germs, including salmonella and E. Coli. The same study discovered that the critters could likewise become reservoirs of Seoul Hanta-virus, which causes Ebola-like hemorrhagic fever as well as kidney failure in humans that was never documented in

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New Medical Facility to Serve Aiken Communities

November 22, 2014

Aiken, South Carolina – South Carolina Representative Willian Clyburn knew there was something fishy going on, but did not know what was it exactly, thus, the construction of a new medical facility will be named for the Aiken district official. Many people have been asking the Aiken official about the newly constructed health service facility

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ND Supreme Court Upholds the Limited Use of Drugs for Abortion

November 21, 2014

Bismarck, North Dakota – On Tuesday, the limited use of drugs for abortion, a state law was supported by the North Dakota Supreme Court. The move, according to abortion-rights supporters said will totally eradicate the use of such medications eventually. The 103-page ruling of the state’s high courts reversed the previous year’s ruling by a

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Microscopic Particles Being Developed to Detect Diseases

November 20, 2014

Laguna Beach, California – Google is in the process of developing a pill that will allow to infuse microscopic particles in a body’s bloodstream to help identify imminent heart attacks, cancers, and other diseases. Google X research lab’s life sciences department head Andrew Conrad, revealed last Tuesday morning about the said project at a Southern

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Mental Health Crisis Training Provided to Zanesville Officers

November 19, 2014

Zanesville, Ohio – Aside from law enforcement officers, mental health crisis training is as important to those who don’t even have mental diseases or know someone who has it. For the past week, the Crisis Response Training (CRT) has been taking place in Zanesville. The CRT is a collaboration of the Zanesville Police Department with

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Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Disputed by Top US Disease Experts

November 18, 2014

New York, New York – The already heightened and sensitive issue politicians and scientists are currently discussing about Ebola amplified last Sunday as top infectious-disease experts warned that the existing 21-day mandatory Ebola quarantine of medical workers is inappropriate. Experts explained that such quarantining of health workers coming from West Africa can discourage other volunteers.

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