Hundreds of students at the University of Southern Maine have been barred from its campuses over mumps vaccinations.
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The New Jersey Public Health Council is expected to vote Monday on a rule that would require flu vaccines for any child entering day care or preschool.
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A child may be the first in the family to be evaluated.
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Can self-awareness do as much good for a woman’s waistline as the elliptical trainer?
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A study says that at least 46,600 children along the Gulf Coast are still struggling with mental health problems and other serious aftereffects of hurricanes in 2005.
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If going green isn't on your mind, it should be. The fitness industry is in a strategic position to tackle global warming.
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Facility operators share their best ideas to motivate members and increase facility usage.
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The 'solution' is to look back at the year's events and trends, and use these to plan for the future direction of your fitness-services business.
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Entertainment, personalization, results tracking and easy-of-use are all trends that emerged or gained momentum in 2007 for cardio, strength and Pilates equipment and accessories.
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Is your fitness center cutting-edge or falling behind? Eight experts look back at 2007 programming trends in four major areas: aquatics, strength, cardiovascular and group programming.
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A controversial effort to stop malaria zeroes in on mosquitoes and the parasites that live inside them.
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A new movie brings anesthesia awareness, a rare phenomenon that doctors are still struggling to understand, to life.
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Well-designed studies suggest several ways to improve the brain’s viability.
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The ritual of showing how much we care also makes us feel good.
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Mistletoe has a legendary reputation for romance, but it is also widely considered as lethal as it is festive.
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Thousands of patients with failing hearts must decide whether to heed a warning from Medtronic and replace a defibrillator in their chest that has a potentially faulty wire.
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The small business lobbying group that had a big part in derailing Hillary Clinton’s effort to overhaul health care in the early 1990s has staked out its position for the 2008 political season.
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A provocative public service campaign on children’s psychiatric disorders has raised hackles as much as awareness.
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An abrupt move by the federal government has clouded the future of a national treatment program for ground zero workers outside the metropolitan area.
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Federal officials are trying to cut down on aggressive or deceptive sales pitches for Medicare Advantage plans.
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What you learn about people — and yourself — when you need them to donate an organ.
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More than winter blahs, seasonal depression is recognized and treatable.
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Frederic Riccardi is an attack dog disguised as a health insurance counselor.
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The new Merck/Merial Manual for Pet Health: Home Edition is a 1,345-page book likely to find readership in an animal-crazed nation.
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Why is risky behavior so common among teenagers and what might be done to curtail it?
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A new book suggests that among other things, eating ice cream and cutting back on meat may help raise your fertility.
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The insurance industry plans on Wednesday to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals obtain coverage.
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“Overtreated,” by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve — but is so often misunderstood.
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Responding to concerns in the food industry, companies developing cloned livestock have come up with a system to track the animals as they move through farms and slaughterhouses.
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The Frenchwoman who received the world’s first partial face transplant regained nearly full use of her facial muscles within 18 months.
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Genentech appears to have resolved a dispute with ophthalmologists over use of the company’s drug Avastin to treat eye diseases.
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A debate over an unproven hypothesis, which says cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells, could affect the direction of research.
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Giving credence to the long-held belief that orphanages stunt children’s mental development, a study shows that infants placed with foster families have higher IQs on average than those who remain in institutions.
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Several plaintiffs’ lawyers have asked that some of their clients be allowed to reject the $4.85 billion Vioxx settlement as others accept it.
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New evidence shows that drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough never published several studies that raised questions about a cholesterol drug’s risks to the liver.
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