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HEALTH MATTERS: Early detection increases odds of beating lung cance The Princeton Packet Tue, 08 May 2012 22:37 PM PDT Perhaps you break a rib during a fall or have trouble breathing because of an infection. UConn women's notebook: Stokes has surgery on injured foot Greenwich Time Tue, 08 May 2012 22:36 PM PDT FINAL OPTION: The initial plan was to avoid surgery and treat the injured right foot of rising sophomore Kiah Stokes through rehabilitation. When the foot was not responding as well as the UConn medical staff had hoped, Stokes underwent surgery last Friday at the UConn Health Center in Farmington. Santa Cruz High addresses physical education, lack of student health awareness The Eloy Enterprise Tue, 08 May 2012 22:32 PM PDT Childhood obesity is an epidemic in this country. Arizona, alone, is one of the higher ranking states with nearly 18 percent of its children being either overweight or obese. Shelby County remains one of theHEALTHY communities The Harlan Tribune Tue, 08 May 2012 22:30 PM PDT COUNTY -- For the second consecutive year, Shelby County is considered one of the healthiest counties in Iowa, according to a report released this month by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The county ranks 13th out of all counties in the state for being one of the healthiest in Iowa, and has some of the healthiest residents in the ... Kenya: No Official Should Have NHIF Clinic AllAfrica.com Tue, 08 May 2012 22:29 PM PDT [The Star] THE circus at the National Health Insurance Fund in the past week was farcical. The chairman was suspended, reinstated, and suspended again. Senior officials were suspended and reinstated. Board members fought at a press conference. Liberty hit hard by rain Tribune Chronicle Tue, 08 May 2012 22:29 PM PDT LIBERTY - Monday's downpour played havoc in Liberty At 8:30 p.m. Joe Cilone knew he had to make the 45-minute drive to Campus Health Nursing Home when one of his employees called to say the water in the rear parking lot was up to their ankle. A day for law: IU Health's Maria Fruth receives Liberty Bell award The Michigan City News-Dispatch Tue, 08 May 2012 22:28 PM PDT MICHIGAN CITY â€" Usually a day in court is about vindication and justice. Friday, it also embodied celebration. Cara Health’s low-cost phone calls could reduce high price of readmissions MedCity News Tue, 08 May 2012 22:28 PM PDT Cara Health believes that a high-tech analysis of a person’s answer to “How are you?” can predict the chance of readmission to the hospital. The company is hoping to help elderly people who have multiple health problems with their high touch, low cost system. Their solution for reducing readmissions relies on phone calls and linguistic analysis. A [...] Health fair held to keep teens ‘above the influence’ The Michigan City News-Dispatch Tue, 08 May 2012 22:27 PM PDT MICHIGAN CITY â€" Michigan City High School students received access to information designed to keep them healthy and safe during the Open Door Adolescent Health Care Center’s health and social service fair. 'Obese' label may offend - warning Press Association via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News Tue, 08 May 2012 22:26 PM PDT Telling overweight patients they are obese could be seen as "derogatory", a health watchdog has warned.

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