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Tag: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

What’s Your Heart Age?

| September 29, 2015 Comment

What’s Your Heart Age? Your heart may be older than you are! Here’s how you can find out! As part of the Framingham Heart Study, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University have come up with a calculator that uses your actual age, systolic blood pressure, body-mass index (BMI), and other factors to […]

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Americans Overdose on Prescription Drugs More Than Heroin and Cocaine Combined

Americans Overdose on Prescription Drugs More Than Heroin and Cocaine Combined

| May 22, 2015 Comment

Americans Overdose on Prescription Drugs More Than Heroin and Cocaine Combined – The Drug Enforcement Agency recently wrapped up part of its largest-ever prescription drug trafficking investigation. In the same week, the agency finished its biggest heroin bust ever in the state of New York. Both kinds of drugs have killed more and more people […]

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Whooping Cough Vaccine Not Very Effective

| May 6, 2015 Comment

Whooping cough vaccine not very effective, a new study shows. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics found that the TDAP vaccine, though effective initially, starts waning after 2 to 4 years. There have been three whooping cough epidemics in the US in the past five years, in 2010 and 2014, when nearly 11,000 people […]

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