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• National Briefing | Immigration: Vaccine Requirement to Be Ended

  
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  Immigrant girls and women will no longer have to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus to get their green cards.
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• CDC Report Finds Comprehensive Sex Education Programs Effective

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 145
  Sex education programs that advise students to delay sexual activity while also offering instruction on ways to avoid unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections effectively reduce risky sexual behavior, increase condom use and decrease spread of STIs, according to a Centers for Disease Control and ...
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• UT Southwestern scientist begins to unravel what makes pandemic H1N1 tick

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  DALLAS -- Nov. 16, 2009 -- As the number of deaths related to the pandemic H1N1 virus, commonly known as "swine flu," continues to rise, researchers have been scrambling to decipher its inner workings and explain why the incidence is lower than expected in older adults.
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• Tennesseans urged to join millions of Americans in saying “no” to cigarettes

  
  Clarksville, TN Online — Authority: 548
  Call the Tennessee Tobacco QuitLine for Great American Smokeout Nashville − The Department of Health urges Tennessee smokers to take part in this year’s Great American Smokeout on November 19, 2009. The goal of this annual health observance is to encourage smokers toquit for one day in the hope they may ...
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• Shire announces publication of open-label study on coadministration of INTUNIV with stimulants

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  PHILADELPHIA -- November 16, 2009 -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced new study results on INTUNIV? (guanfacine) Extended-Release Tablets published in the October Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.
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• AIDS patients to president: Send more money south

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  (Jackson, Miss.) When Robin Webb lived in New York City, he was treated by HIV specialists and had access to counseling and nutritional programs. Now he lives in Mississippi, where few of those services exist. Mississippi is just one of several mostly rural states across the South with a dearth of resources for HIV ...
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• Chemicals used in plastics may feminize boys

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 567
  Chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics may disrupt hormones in baby boys causing genital defects or feminization says new research. A study out of the University of Rochester Medical Center has found that young boys that are exposed to chemicals called phthalates in utero have a lower likelihood of typical ...
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• Pilot study relates phthalate exposure to less-masculine play by boys

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, such as trucks and play fighting. The University of Rochester Medical Center-led study is ...
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• Schizophrenics, psychotics more likely to die of heart disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Washington, Nov 16 (IANS) People with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders are more likely to die of heart disease than normal people, says a new study.Moreover, smoking and physical inactivity - behaviours that individuals potentially can change - significantly contribute to this increased risk of death, says ...
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• CA: Immigration status not a barrier for swine flu vaccine, officials say

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 167
  County officials have begun airing public service announcements urging at-risk Latinos, including people who are in the country illegally, to get vaccinated against the swine flu, also known as H1N1. Local health officials said their priority is public safety, not politics. "When it comes to public health, it doesnt ...
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• People with severe mental disorders more at risk of dying from heart disease (Re-issue)

  
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  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): People suffering from severe mental disorders, like schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, are 25 percent to 40 percent likely to die from heart disease than those without such illness, according to a new study. The research, led by Dr. Amy Kilbourne, also found that smoking and physical ...
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• Smoking ban leads to drop in heart attacks, finds US study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Washington, Nov 15 (ANI): Smoking ban has resulted in a 27 percent decrease in heart attacks in the city of Starkville in United States, reveals a new study.Researchers, led by Robert McMillen and Dr. Robert Collins, have also recommended a statewide public ban on smoking.The study-that focussed on Starkville ...
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• Where We Really Need Vaccine Development

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 127
  Your Friendly Neighborhood Amoeba has just found out that, since April 2009 in the Untied States of America, about 4,000 people have died, and about 98,000 have been hospitalized, from influenza virus 2009 H1N1 (“swine flu”) and related illnesses. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released ...
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• People with severe mental disorders more at risk of dying from heart disease

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 717
  Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): People suffering from severe mental disorders, like schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, are 25 percent to 40 percent likely to die from heart disease than those without such illness, according to a new study. The research, led by Dr. Amy Kilbourne, also found that smoking and physical ...
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• New CDC estimates show what toll swine flu is taking in U.S.

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 144
  About 22 million Americans have become ill with pandemic H1N1 influenza in the past six months and 3,900 have died, according to new estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The number of pediatric deaths — about 540 — is four times as high as the number that physicians, hospitals and health ...
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• Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape gets funding

  
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• Vaccinations of Swine Flu

  
  Health Tips — Authority: 126
  Vaccine against seasonal influenza strain H1N1 is not believed to protect us. Vaccines against the Swine Flu to cope with seasonal flu to minimize infection rates are typically developed, and yet annually it still kills around half a million of…
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• New CDC estimates show what toll swine flu is taking in U.S.

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 137
  About 22 million Americans have become ill with pandemic H1N1 influenza in the past six months and 3,900 have died, according to new estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of pediatric deaths — about 540 — is four times as high as the number that physicians, hospitals and health ...
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• Cigarette Smokings Decline Levels Off

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  The prevalence of adult American cigarette smokers, which dropped below 20% in 2007, leveled off in 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in a new report.
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• US swine flu deaths ‘near 4,000′

  
  Ya devi sarvabhuteshu matri rupena samsthita, Namas tasyai, Namas tasyai, Namas tasyai namo namah. — Authority: 129
  Swine flu has killed nearly 4,000 people in the US, including 540 children, officials said after devising a new counting method.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the new system is based on more precise figures provided by 10 states. The previous estimated death toll from the H1N1 virus in the ...
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