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Northeast health department receives $100,000 grant
The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $100,000 grant to the Northeast District Department of Health to conduct The Heart Truth Community Action Program, a women’s heart health awareness and action campaign that warns women about heart disease and provides tools to help them take action against its risk factors, according to a press release from the department.
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Go Red for Women: Surgeon on the front lines of fighting heart disease
OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- Heart disease is the number one killer of women, but cardiac surgeon Dr. Richard Eubanks said risk factors can be mitigated. If a heart attack does occur, treatment in the Singing River Health System bests the national average.
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Health Discovery Corporation Launches Android Version of Popular MelApp, Melanoma Risk Analysis Mobile Phone App
Health Discovery Corporation , the molecular diagnostics company that launched MelApp, the first SVM-based image analysis iPhone app for melanoma risk assessment, today debuts its popular MelApp mobile app for Android™ devices.
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Sunny Skies Linked to Lower Stroke Risk
Title: Sunny Skies Linked to Lower Stroke Risk Category: Health News Created: 2/2/2012 11:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 2/2/2012
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Fear dementia? Your diet, weight more important risk factors than genes, experts say
Fear dementia? Your diet, weight more important risk factors than genes, experts say By Marni Jameson The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) Published Feb 1, 2012 01:12PM MDT Anyone who has a close relative with Alzheimer’s shares the same worry: Am I next? A growing body of research indicates that our lifestyles — particularly what we eat and whether we’re obese — play a greater role than our genes in ...
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Inherited Risk Factors for Childhood Leukemia are More Common in Hispanic Patients
Results from a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Children's Oncology Group study pinpoint genetic basis for increased leukemia risk facing Hispanic children and provide new hope for closing survival gap
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Elevated risk factors linked to major cardiovascular disease events across a lifetime
( NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute ) In one of the largest-ever analyses of lifetime risks for cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers have found that middle-aged adults who have one or more elevated traditional risk factors for CVD, such as high blood pressure, have a substantially greater chance of having a major CVD event, such as heart attack or stroke, during their remaining ...
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Poor, minority residents face most health risks with climate change
Poor, urban and minority residents are most at risk for health problems linked to climate change, according to a new California Department of Public Health analysis of Los Angeles and Fresno counties. The department examined social and environmental factors ranging from the rising sea level to public transportation access and found that African Americans and Latinos living in these counties are ...
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Huge Study Finds Risk Factors Do In Fact Predict Risk
An enormous new meta-analysis confirms the important role that risk factors play over a lifetime in the development of cardiovascular disease. In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Jarett Berry and colleagues report on the new meta-analysis from the Cardiovascular Lifetime Risk Pooling Project, which contains data from 18 epidemiological studies including more than one ...
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Smoking tied to higher psoriasis risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding to the list of possible health consequences from smoking, a large study suggests that smokers have an increased risk of developing the chronic skin condition psoriasis. People with psoriasis develop thick, red, scaly patches on the skin, which are often itchy or sore. Experts believe the disease is caused by an abnormal immune system attack on the body's own ...
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