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February 2012 Health Current Events - Months Awareness Event Coverage Related Organization
Heart Month
Canada Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
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Source: Need A Break From Winter? Time For A Bargain Trip To PeruAre you feeling the post-holidays blues and the days stretching away before you can travel? Winter can be a tough time and there are so me...
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Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an acid-fast, rod-shaped bacillus. The disease mainly affects the skin, the peripheral nerves, m ucosa...
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Hospital-based physicians, physician employment, and other physician services, continue to be a source of much discussion in today’s healthcare news. As the debate and experimentation ensu es...
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide that resulted in the annihilation of 6 million European Jews, 2...
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(Reuters) - Jean-Claude Mas, the Frenchman who sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants, was arrested on Thursday as Marseille prosecutors build a case against him for mans laughter...
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Controversy over Arsenic in apple juice made headlines as the school year began when Mehmet Oz, M.D., host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” told viewers tha t...
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Source: Wearing Headphones Not Just Bad For Your EarsImage by James F Clay via Flickr It is pretty common knowledge that wearing headphones can be bad for your hearing, especially if you don’t t ake...
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Source: Does underarm deodorant contribute to breast cancer?Image via Wikipedia Previous studies of breast cancer have suggested that a class of chemicals called parabens may be considered a risk fact or...
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Dermatitis simply means skin inflammation, but it embraces a range of ailments. In most cases the early stages are characterized by red, itchy skin, although acute attacks may result in crusty scales or...
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