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Adolescent care...

From peer pressure and bullying to the risk of teen pregnancy and suicide, adolescence can be a tricky and tumultuous time for youths and their parents.

Physicians can be assets during this time, but only if families make use of them.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends annual preventive health-care visits for adolescents between the ages of 11 and 21 as well as comprehens...

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Emergency vet clinic will provide extra cover for pets in trouble...

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Obesity Linked To Poorer Asthma Treatment Response...

Lab experiments indicate that people with asthma who are overweight or obese have a reduced response to steroid treatment, compared with their lean counterparts.

Inhaled steroids are the mainstay of asthma treatment, because they reduce airway inflammation that can lead to an asthma attack.

"This study identifies what could be a significant issue for the 20 million Americans with as...

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Is hospital's plan a good idea?...

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When Particles Are So Small That They Seep Right Through Skin...

Scientists are finding that particles that are barely there – tiny objects known as nanoparticles that have found a home in electronics, food containers, sunscreens, and a variety of applications – can breech our most personal protective barrier: The skin.

The particles under scrutiny by Lisa DeLouise, Ph.D., are almost unfathomably tiny. The particles are less than one five-thousandth th...

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Outdoor Recreation Led To 213000 ER Visits Between 2004, 2005...

WASHINGTON—Almost 213,000 people were treated each year in emergency departments for outdoor recreational injuries from 2004 to 2005, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study in the journal Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. Of those injured, about 109,000 (51.5 per cent) were young people between the ages of 10 and 24.

For both men and women of all ages, ...

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Race to save motorist in 40plunge...

Doctors set up a makeshift emergency department in a field as they fought to save the life of a seriously-injured motorist.

The man was trapped upside down in his crushed car after it plunged 40ft down an embankment, near Mountsorrel.

Firefighters took an hour and a half to free him while a GP, who had rushed to the scene from home, kept him stable.

A second team gave him emer...

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No trial for men who caught flesh-eating disease at BC hospital...

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House rejects bailout package...

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The Most Dangerous Job on Earth...

Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's new president and the widower of Benazir Bhutto, does not mince words about the growing Taliban insurgency.

"It is my decision that we will go after them, we will free this country," he told me in an interview. "Yes, this is my first priority because I will have no country otherwise. I will be president of what?"

After the massive bomb attack on the Mar...

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