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Planet Fitness Letting Teens Work Out For Free This Summer
Teens who sign up will be entered into Planet Fitness' Scholarship Sweepstakes, where 15 teens across the United States will be randomly selected to receive a $500 scholarship. More than 50 teens will be randomly selected to receive a $500 scholarship and one grand prize victor will be randomly selected to receive a $5,000 scholarship. [Full Article...]
CDC: U.S. measles cases reach highest level in almost 20 years
Vaccines are a safe, highly effective public health solution that can prevent this disease. The vote comes as the number of measles cases nationwide this year has passed 600. A week later, 38 people in MI had measles. "It's a very hard, isolated time". While the Senate had first sought a bill that would have removed the philosophical exemption for all required childhood vaccines, both chambe... [Full Article...]
6,000 non-smokers die of lung cancer every year, warn Public Health England
While smoking remains the largest modifiable risk factor for lung cancer in the United Kingdom - accounting for 86% of cases - pollution and second-hand smoke are also linked to its development. In order to speed up diagnosis and improve health outcomes, he said health professionals need to be more aware of the fact that people who have never smoked are also at risk of lung cancer. [Full Article...]
Study debunks the association of lung cancer with non-smokers
An estimated 6,000 "never-smokers" - those who have had less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime - die from the disease every year in the United Kingdom, higher than deaths from other cancer types, according to a paper in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine . [Full Article...]
Peanut allergy tolerance treatment may increase the risk of anaphylaxis
He recommends the same course of action to his patients, both because of practical concerns - immunotherapy can involve a daily dose of peanut that cannot be taken too closely to bedtime, exercise or a hot shower - and because the treatment remains at the experimental stage. [Full Article...]
Everything you need to know about the deadly 'kissing bug'
The Triatoma sanguisuga is a blood-sucking insect that stays alive by feeding on animals and humans. Health officials, doctors and insect specialists have all told the FOX31 Problem Solvers that they don't see the sighting of the bug as a huge threat. [Full Article...]
CDC Reports Largest U.S. Measles Outbreak Since Year 2000
That beats the previous high of 667 in 2014. Symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, red and watery eyes, tiny white spots in the mouth and a red rash on the face that spreads to the extremities. "The first of two routine childhood measles vaccine doses is given at 12-15 months of age". A case in point is the 43-year-old Israeli flight attendant for El Al who remains in a coma afte... [Full Article...]
Gunmen kill polio vaccine worker, wound another in Pakistan
Authorities have suspended anti-polio campaign in all Union Councils (UCs) of Chaman after sorrowful attack on campaigners by unidentified assailants, killing one female worker in suburban part of the city on Thursday, ARY News reported. It is pertinent to mention here that an investigation report of an incident, in which hundreds of reportedly fell sick after being administered anti-polio drops, ... [Full Article...]