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	CDC: Pregnant Women Should Avoid Southeast Asia Due to Zika 1 in 10 Stroke Rehab Interruptions May Be Preventable Queen Latifah Puts Heart Failure Center Stage Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Less Safe for Men With Prior Heart Attack It May Be Time to Punt on Your Favorite Football Fare 'Mindfulness'-Based Approach Could Help You Stay Slim Smoking Bans May Keep Young Men From Heavy Smoking More Health Care Workers Need Flu Shots: CDC Encouraging Surgical ICU Patients to Get Moving Pays Off A Doctor's Words Key to Whether Child Gets HPV Vaccine When Indoor Temps Rise, So Do COPD Symptoms Health Highlights: Sept. 30, 2016 Health Tip: Make Sure Eggs Are Thoroughly Cooked Health Tip: Avoid These 5 Pre-Bedtime Don'ts HPV Vaccine More Effective Than Thought: Study Flagging Flu-Shot Rate Worries CDC 'Entitled' People May Be Pursuing an Unhappy Path 2nd Antibiotic Halves C-Section Infection Rate: Study Can You Blame Your Headaches on Your Thyroid? Concern About Dialysis Safety Spurs CDC Action Knowing Their Breast Cancer Risk May Empower Teens High Blood Pressure Might Affect Some Kids' Thinking Ability Acne's Silver Lining: Slower Aging of the Skin? Scientists ID Key Fetal Cells Vulnerable to Zika Exercise May Not Lower Women's Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Cancer Patients in Poorer Countries Often Go Without Radiation Health Highlights: Sept. 29, 2016 Health Tip: Health Risks of Childhood Obesity Health Tip: Why Can't I Stop Sweating? Could Prescribed NSAID Painkillers Raise Heart Failure Risk? FDA Approves 1st 'Artificial Pancreas' for Type 1 Diabetes Congress Agrees to More Zika Funding: Reports Zika May Be Passed on Through Tears, Sweat: Report Hurdles Ahead for Zika Vaccine: Experts 'The Pill' May Raise Depression Risk U.S. Teen Births Hit Another Record Low: CDC Homeless, Mentally Ill Youth Benefit From Housing Program FDA Asks Public: What Is 'Healthy Food'? Study Links Pot Use to Relapse in Psychosis Patients Hot Flashes, Mood Woes? Your Biological Clock: Why Some Age Faster Than Others A Happy Spouse May Keep You Healthy Secondhand Smoke More Insidious Than Thought 'Artificial Pancreas' Approved for Type 1 Diabetes Health Highlights: Sept. 28, 2016 Health Tip: Add Veggies to Most Any Meal Health Tip: Let Kids Make Breakfast 1st Baby Born With DNA From 3 Parents Doctors Often Neglect Their Own Mental Health Are There Alternatives to Statins? FDA's Cancer-Drug Reviewers Often Join Industry Later: Study Food Flavors May Come From Surprising Sources Babies With Cleft Lip Likely to Have Normal Adulthood: Study Kidney Stone? Try a Roller Coaster Ride How Much Video Gaming Is Too Much for Kids? Countless Opioid Pills Unused by Dental-Surgery Patients To Help Prevent Colon Cancer, 'Listen to Your Gut' Common Culex Mosquitoes Don't Transmit Zika Virus: Study High Utility Bills Strain More Than the Budget Nanoparticles Ease Aching Joints in Mice Farm Kids Get Fewer Allergies, International Study Finds Health Highlights: Sept. 27, 2016 Health Tip: Managing Daily Stress Health Tip: Remember Eye Protection at Work Study: Colonoscopy After 75 May Not Be Worth It 'Spare Tire' May Be Tougher on Your Heart Than 'Love Handles' Is Morning Sickness a Good Thing? Can Pregnancy Problems Foretell Future Health Risks? New Type of Radiation Treatment May Up Survival for Older Lung Cancer Patients Exercise Speeds Seniors' Recovery From Disability 9 of 10 U.S. Teens Don't Get Enough Exercise The Phenomenon of Sleep Paralysis Many Patients Enter Cancer Trials With Unrealistic Expectations Cancer Treatment More Likely to Leave Blacks in Debt Always Feeling Lonely? Maybe It's in Your DNA Eliminate Sweetened Drinks, Cut Kids' Sugar Intake Amjevita OK'd to Treat Inflammatory Diseases Health Highlights: Sept. 26, 2016 Health Tip: Prepare Kids for School Emergencies Health Tip: Tingling in Your Fingers? More Hispanics Treated at Breast Cancer Center After Obamacare How Older People Can Head Off Dangerous Drug Interactions Insecticide Spraying Working Against Florida's Zika Mosquitoes: Officials Drug-Resistant Germs Thrive in America's Corroding Water Systems 'Medical Tattoos' Help Hide Surgical Scars Smart City Planning Can Cut Deadly Diseases, Improve Air Quality Healthy Diet as Teen, Less Weight Gain as Adult How to Protect Yourself From the Seasonal Flu Tips for Avoiding Back-to-School Germs, Illnesses New MRSA Strain Found in Denmark Gardening May Give Kids' Diets a Boost Health Highlights: Sept. 23, 2016 Health Tip: Get a Safe Car for a Teen Driver Health Tip: Choose the Right Shoes for Sports DNA-Based Vaccine Guards Against Zika in Monkey Study Heavy Drinking Can Harm the Aging Brain Falls a Growing and Deadly Threat for Older Americans Can Brain 'Pacemaker' Improve Lives of Head Trauma Patients? The 'Love Hormone' May Quiet Tinnitus Flavorings Boost Toxicity of E-Cigarettes in Lab Study Smoking Losing Its Cool With Kids, CDC Says Do Open Floor Plans Invite Overeating? Arthritis Drug May Help With Type of Hair Loss Scientists Zero In on Cause of Rare, Disfiguring Skin Disorder Health Insurance Hikes Ease But Workers Pay a Price, Survey Finds Software Speeds Up Analysis of Breast Cancer Risk: Study Tamoxifen OK for Breast Cancer Patients Without Uterine Abnormalities: Study Health Highlights: Sept. 22, 2016 Health Tip: Kids Should Learn Microwave Safety Health Tip: Stay Safe on a Motorcycle Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea a Growing U.S. Threat: CDC Experimental Immune Cell Rx Shows Promise for Leukemia More Breast Cancer Patients Should Consider Radiation, New Guidelines Say Drug Shows Promise Against MS in Mouse Study Alcoholics May Lack Key Enzyme Cat Scratch Can Sometimes Lead to Serious Illness: CDC Why the Teen Years May Not Be Lean Years Organ Transplants Linked to Higher Skin Cancer Risk Opioid Epidemic Costs U.S. $78.5 Billion Annually: CDC 'Obesity Gene' Doesn't Affect Ability to Lose Weight: Report Siblings of Schizophrenia Patients at Greater Risk for Same Diagnosis: Study Daily Baths Not a Must for Kids Around the World, Holidays Bring Added Pounds Smoking Tied to Shorter Survival With ALS Health Highlights: Sept. 21, 2016 Health Tip: Make Time for Family Dinners Health Tip: Climb a Ladder Safely More Must Be Done to Fight 'Superbugs': U.S. Gov't Report Can Stress Lower a Woman's Fertility? Stress Might Undercut Benefits of Healthy Diet for Women More Cancer Patients Gaining From Immune-Based Treatments Smoking Leaves Lasting Marks on DNA: Study Even at Cancer Centers, Finding Relief for Pain Can Be Tough Shedding Light on Low Male Libido Early Introduction of Eggs, Peanuts May Cut Kids' Allergy Risk: Study Obese Kids Have Different Germs in Their Gut Annual Checkups Are Becoming Wellness Visits Close Bond Between Kids, Parents Has Long-Term Health Benefits Think Telecommuting's the Way to Go? Maybe Not for the Boss Obamacare Tied to Rise in Mammograms Another Mosquito-Borne Virus Moves North From the Amazon Health Highlights: Sept. 20, 2016 Health Tip: Be Open With Your Doctor Health Tip: Exercise a Painful Knee CDC: Too Many Antibiotics Still Being Prescribed in U.S. Vasectomy May Not Raise Prostate Cancer Risk After All Codeine Not Safe for Kids, Pediatricians Warn CDC Ends Zika Travel Advisory for Miami Neighborhood FDA OKs 1st Drug to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy H1N1 'Swine Flu' Vaccine Unlikely to Raise Birth Defect Risk Suicide Can Strike Children as Young as 5: Study Surprise! Beer Makes You Happier, Friendlier Sleep Troubles, Heart Troubles? Carrot-Stick Approach: A Way to Get Folks to Eat More Veggies, Fruits 'Baby-Led' Weaning Doesn't Raise Choking Risk: Study Healthy Diet May Be Key to Kids' Reading Skills 2 of 3 Parents Want Schools to Expand Health Education For College Freshmen, Four-Legged Friends Chase Away Homesickness Canada's First Nations People Face Greater Diabetes Risk First Drug Approved for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Health Highlights: Sept. 19, 2016 Health Tip: For a Healthier Diet, Plan Ahead Health Tip: Fill Up On Low-Calorie Foods Internet Addiction May Be Red Flag for Other Mental Health Issues: Study Not All Dogs Are Man's (or Kids') Best Friend Childhood Cancer Death Rates Continue to Fall: CDC Sound Waves: An Rx for High Blood Pressure, Migraine? A New Roadway Danger: Drivers Chasing 'Pokemon Go' For Kids Playing Pokemon Go, Catch These Safety Tips Could Fish Oil Fatty Acids Raise a Woman's Risk for Diabetes? Marriage May Help Diabetics Keep Weight Off Parents' Use of Outdated Advice May Slow Concussion Recovery Tourette Threat Surges for Babies When Mom Smokes in Pregnancy Severe Obesity and Heart Failure Kids With Bipolar Disorder More Likely to Abuse Drugs, Alcohol: Study Aggressive Drivers: An Accident Waiting to Happen Overweight Kids Often Shunned, Bullied Balloon Device Approved for Eustachian Tube Problems Health Highlights: Sept. 16, 2016 Health Tip: Motoring Safely After Dark Health Tip: Know Your Family Health History

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