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- Paint-A-Can promotes environmental awareness
- Brightly decorated garbage cans lined the sidewalk in Linear Park on Saturday, each asking passersby to keep Brownsville beautiful. The cans were brought to the Brownsville Farmers’ Market to mark the end of the Healthy Communities of... Full story
- Tu Salud ¡Si Cuenta! (Your Health Matters!)
- Diabetes Causes Kidney Disease,Get a simple test to catch and treat it early
- Daniel Guerrero is one of the lucky ones. Although he discovered his diabetes late, he has successfully managed it without developing complications, including kidney disease. "I had not been to a doctor in 35 years. I felt fine, but yet I... Full story
- Paint-A-Can winners to be announced
- Healthy Communities of Brownsville will pick the winners in its Paint-A-Can Project today at the Brownsville Farmers’ Market in Linear Park. The contest, which challenged local businesses, schools and churches to decorate garbage cans,... Full story
Focus on Fitness
- Fine-tune workout to rule slopes
- Folks, ski season is coming. And more than a few of you have asked questions about getting in skiing shape. Even when we're in great shape there are things we can do to help improve our ability to ski better and, if you ski as badly as I do,... Full story
- U.S. needs czar to coordinate health efforts
- America needs a trainer.
- America needs a trainer. The country needs somebody qualified to help whip our butts into shape. That somebody would have the power to command, influence and draw resources from various aspects of the government to help us get in better shape.... Full story
- Gradual shift in habits helps avoid fitness-program rebellion
- Impatience can kill even the best fitness programs.
- Impatience can kill even the best fitness programs. Folks are aware that too many kids in the United States are overweight or obese. We even know how to reverse the situation and how to prevent it. We know that more physical activity helps. We know... Full story
Health News (AP)
- Guidelines for cancer screening differ by group Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer....
- Report: 20-somethings can go 2 years between Paps WASHINGTON (AP) -- First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears....
- Tamiflu-resistant swine flu cluster reported in NC ATLANTA (AP) -- Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported at Duke University Medical Center over six weeks make up the biggest cluster seen so far in the U.S....
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