LIVING HEALTHY

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• Many more girls are using the morning-after contraceptive pill now that they don’t need a prescrip…

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• Jul 22, 2015 06:56 PM EDT

• More than one in five teen girls who are sexually active say they have used the morning-after emergency contraceptive pill. In 2002, only about one in twelve teen girls who were sexually active used the morning-after pill.

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• Fathers Are Prone to Getting Fat

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• Jul 21, 2015 10:59 PM EDT

• Fatherhood may be fun, but it may also not be good for the health, according to a longitudinal study.

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• Women who develop slight loss of memory or mental acuity decline faster than men who do

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• Jul 21, 2015 07:48 PM EDT

• A new study found that women lose cognitive function faster than men once the first signs of memory loss and impairment in thinking are noticed.

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• Anti-vaccine movement still making inroads in Washington State

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• Jul 21, 2015 07:32 PM EDT

• Only about 81% of children entering kindergarten in Seattle have been vaccinated for polio. This is lower than the polio vaccination rates of many developing countries according to statistics from the World Health Organization.

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• The heat of summer can get to you, with dangerous results.

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• Jul 20, 2015 10:57 PM EDT

• Hazy, Hot, and Humid. It is not just uncomfortable. A bad heat wave can become a slow-motion weather catastrophe, killing many people, especially elderly and poor people.

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• Want two tickets to a hot music festival in Transylvania? That will be two pints of blood, please

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• Jul 20, 2015 10:14 PM EDT

• A music festival is using one of Romania’s favorite sons, Dracula, to help boost blood donations in that country. Posters feature the world’s most famous vampire with a blood donation bag.

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• Pill May Help People with Celiac Disease Eat Gluten

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• Jul 19, 2015 11:20 PM EDT

• People with diagnosed celiac disease usually have a hard time eating out of fear they get to eat food with gluten. This designed pill, however, may solve that problem.

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• Americans are not eating enough fruits and vegetables-=-still

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• Jul 19, 2015 04:16 PM EDT

• Americans are still not eating enough vegetables and fruit. Few Americans eat enough fruit and even fewer eat enough vegetables.

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• Rudeness Can Spread Like a Plague in the Workplace

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• Jul 18, 2015 08:09 PM EDT

• Do you judge your office colleagues as rude? Well, don’t be hasty. There’s a good chance you’re becoming impolite as well.

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• Asthma Patients May Need to Get on a Treadmill

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• Jul 18, 2015 08:08 PM EDT

• Are you suffering from asthma? Here’s one treatment that can cost you less and is just as effective or is a good complement to your current medication: aerobic exercise.

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• Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms And Awarenes, Key To Early Management

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• Jul 27, 2015 08:22 PM EDT

• Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

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• People with schizophrenia are three times more likely to smoke, but which came first?

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• Jul 17, 2015 06:23 PM EDT

• A large review and analysis of the medical literature has found that people who have schizophrenia are three times more likely to smoke than those who do not. The study found that 57% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia for the first time were smokers and …