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Health coalition announces leader Eileen Wasserbach is the new chairwoman of the Community Health Action Coalition board. Wasserbach, who also is the executive directo...

Look at how much weight we've gained since the 1960s

The average American woman weighs 166.2 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As reddit recently pointed out, that’s almost exactly as much as the average Amer...

Guess what, baby! We’re coming back

U.S. births pick up after seven years

Campers enjoy front-row seat to emergency-response drama

Health camp gives kids look at medical careers

FDA tells food industry to phase out artificial trans fats

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is ordering food companies to phase out the use of heart-clogging trans fats over the next three years, calling them a threat to public health. ...

Helping out mothers

Event raises postpartum depression awareness

Oregon women soon can get a year’s supply of birth control

SALEM, Ore. – It’s like a ritual for women across the nation: frequent treks to the pharmacist to refill birth control prescriptions. It’s a hassle for busy students, a headache...

Cervical cancer vaccine might work after just 1 shot, not 3

LONDON – Protecting girls from cervical cancer might be possible with just one dose of the HPV vaccine rather than the three now recommended, a new analysis suggests. The authors...

Common heartburn medications linked to greater risk of heart attack

A novel data-mining project reveals evidence that a common heartburn medication taken by more than 100 million people every year is associated with a greater risk of heart attacks, Stanford ...

Study: Rape prevention training works, cuts sex assault risk

A program that taught college women ways to prevent sexual assault cut in half the chances they would be raped over the next year, a Canadian study found. It was the first large, scientific ...

Course focuses on first aid for mental health

Training lay people could save lives

Beyond Lyme, new illnesses, more reason to watch for ticks

WASHINGTON – Lyme disease makes the headlines, but there are plenty of additional reasons to avoid tick bites. New research highlights the latest in a growing list of tick-borne threats – a ...
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