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Health News AUDIO National Event Pushes Smokers To QuitIn an effort to encourage smokers to quit the cancer-causing habit, the American Cancer Society is holding their traditional Great American Smoke Out today. |
| Children's Doctor Named "Pediatrician Of The Year" The Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics has named John Duby, MD, a developmental behavioral pediatrician as its Elizabeth Spencer Ruppert Outstanding Pediatrician of the Year for 2009. |
| Local Hospital Gets Recognition SummaCare's has been recognized in the U.S. News/NCQA listing of America's Best Health Plans 2009. |
| Children's Hospital, ABJ Charity Funds Helped Akron Children's Hospital and the Akron Beacon Journal Charity Fund are among the nearly dozen local groups getting community grants from Kaiser Permanente. |
| Family Urges Teams To Focus On Victory The parents of injured Highland High School football player Kory Wiita have a message for all high school players going into play-off games tomorrow night. |
| Free H1N1 Infant Clinic Free H1N1 shots for infants and children 6 months through 35 months of age only will be held on November 17 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Medina County Health Department. |
More Health NewsFired therapist: Stressed Marines get shoddy care
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist....
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- Fallout continues from the summer controversy over the University of Notre Dame awarding an honorary degree to President Barack Obama, who supports abortion rights....
Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC
ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday....
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SEC accuses 4 people in alleged Ponzi scheme
DENVER (AP) -- Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors nationwide in purported eco-friendly investments....
AP IMPACT: Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound
ATLANTA (AP) -- When the nation's swine flu vaccination program began in early October, health officials predicted it was going to be "messy." They were right....
US survey shows southern counties most obese
ATLANTA (AP) -- The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
China to punish those concealing swine flu info
BEIJING (AP) -- China's health ministry said it will punish officials who underreport cases of swine flu after a doctor famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 SARS epidemic said he believes the true number of swine flu deaths is being covered up....
Cost of child vaccines fall, more kids saved
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the reaction to the sting was never pretty....
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