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A few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups and less frequent trips to the ER, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center published in the December issue of Pediatrics.
Here are some thoughts on how to decide if you should go to the emergency department.
Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., is one of the nation’s top 20 Medicare plans, and offers the 37th best commercial health plan, according to U.S. News & World Report/NCQA America’s Best Health Insurance Plans1 2009-10.
Everyone thinks they have a handle on the issue of tour bus traffic on the West Side. Change the routes, critics say, and simply send them to other neighborhoods.
Ste. Genevieve County exceed the 2008 eight-hour ozone standard of 75 parts per billion on one day this year, and received an air quality violation for 2009, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced on Thursday.
Clearing the air was the subject of discussion at the St. Francois County Commission Tuesday. Commissioners have approved a voluntary clean air resolution as a proactive response to continued indications that environmental officials may try to pull the county into St. Louis' non-attainment designation.
The Beverly Health Department is running an H1N1 flu clinic this Saturday.
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Telluride’s first medicinal marijuana dispensary opened last Wednesday, but no medicine has gone out the door yet.
HARRISBURG -- The Department of Health reminded Pennsylvanians they can begin making appointments today to be vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus.
After Heather Hudzik graduated from Edwardsville High School in 1999, she set off to Edgewood College in Madison, Wisc., to pursue a degree in social work.
The Madison County Health Department today will administer the H1N1 vaccine nasal mist to students in Madison County Schools.
Jean and Enele Purcell and their 7-year-old daughter, Evangeline, were living in American Sämoa in 2007 when Jean, 31, gave birth to a second baby girl, Eros, who was born two months premature.
The Telluride Town Council on Tuesday passed a six-month moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries within town limits. But since a handful of potential pot purveyors have already obtained business licenses with the town, the moratorium doesn’t mean dispensaries won’t appear in Telluride in the next half-year.
The Winnebago County Health Department will be providing seasonal flu shots for those who have not been vaccinated this year.
Lower east central Missouri organizations interested in improving health care in their communities are invited to upcoming meetings hosted by the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH). The meetings are an excellent opportunity for attendees to hear about MFH funding available in 2010, and learn more about the foundation, which awards a total of $50 million in grants each year to nonprofits ...
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