Category: Prevention

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It’s no secret that reversing the childhood obesity epidemic in the U.S. will be a long slog. While obesity rates among children and teens appear to have leveled off in recent years, nearly a third remain overweight, and about 17% are obese.
And while many cities and towns have programs and events to attack […]

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To dissuade the “Jersey Shore” generation from excessive tanning now, show them how bad their sun-weathered faces will look later.
That’s the gist of the latest guidance from  U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which today issued draft recommendations advising doctors to counsel fair-skinned youths aged 10 to 24 about minimizing UV light exposure to […]

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The number of adult Americans who smoke is on the decline again after several years of little change, and those who smoke are puffing fewer cigarettes a day, new government stats show.
But smoking rates are still far higher than federal goals, U.S. health officials said.
An estimated 19.3% of U.S. adults (or 45.3 million […]

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A few weeks back, the Institute of Medicine recommended that contraception and seven other women’s preventive health services be covered by insurers with no out-of-pocket costs.
Today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services signed off on those recommendations, saying the requirements would apply to new plans starting  starting on or after Aug. […]

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The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the advocacy arm of the ACS, says it knows the best three-pronged strategy for getting more people to quit smoking: increasing tobacco taxes, passing laws that ban smoking at bars, restaurants and in the workplace and funding state tobacco cessation and prevention programs.
Two new reports from […]

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Researchers recruited 18 full-time workers, most of them female, and let them use the machine as much or as little as they wanted for four weeks.
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A survey by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health covered 147 companies with between 1,000 and 100,000 employees.
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Under the new health law, 45 preventive services graded as A or B by the USPSTF must be offered free by Medicare and new private policies.
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One program getting attention is taking place in Albert Lea, Minn., which launched an initiative known as the AARP/Blue Zones Vitality Project in May 2009.
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Overall, women’s health gets an “unsatisfactory” rating, according to a new report.
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