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Addictions

• Keys to Fighting Addiction
• Don't Be Fooled by Smokeless Tobacco
• Secondhand Smoke Poses Risk to Children's Health
• Shutting the Tap on Teen Drinking
• Quitting: Don't Give Up
• Quitting or Reducing Smoking
• Light Cigarettes as Harmful as Regular Ones
• Promising Treatment for Compulsive Gamblers
• What is Emphysema?
• What's the Big Deal about Second-Hand Smoke?

Adolescent Health

• Begin Alcohol Education Early
• Family Meals are Important: TV On or Off
• Mononucleosis: The Kissing Disease
• Study: Schools contribute to childhood obesity
• Building Bones at Young Age Key to Preventing Osteoporosis
• Shutting the Tap on Teen Drinking
• Teasing About Weight May Have Dire Consequences
• Preventing Youth Violence
• Are your child's vaccinations up to date?
• Summer Safety Tips for your Children
• The Importance of Family Meals for Adolescents
• Acne
• Vaccinations

Aging/End of Life

• Your Aging Brain
• Caring for the Caregiver this Holiday Season
• The Future for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Fall Prevention
• Caring for Aging Parents Can Present Confusing Choices
• The failure of long-term care
• Choosing a Nursing Home
• Building Bones at Young Age Key to Preventing Osteoporosis
• Forget your keys again?
• Caring for People with Dementia
• Living Wills Clarify Your Values, Wishes
• Senior Issues - Falling and Incontinence
• Older Drivers Should Take Extra Precautions
• Be Good to Your Bones
• Seniors and Driving

Allergies/Asthma

• Allergy Season Has Arrived
• Managing Childhood Asthma
• Scents can trigger emotions
• Breathless - Is It Asthma?
• Allergies

Alternative and Complementary Medicine

• Using Common Scents to Improve Health
• Achiness May be Due to Vitamin D Deficiency
• Dietary Supplements: What You Should Know
• Reducing Holiday Stress
• Using Complementary Therapies for Treating Cancer

Animal Health and Food Safety

• Eating Fish: Being Healthy and Safe
• Food Irradiation - An Underused Boon to Food Safety
• How can you prevent getting sick after going to a petting zoo?
• Summer Food Safety Tips
• Bird Flu in Asia--Looming Implications for Humans
• Be Vigilant About West Nile Virus
• The Risks and Benefits of Vaccinating Pets
• Mad Cow Disease in Canada Cause for Concern, Not Alarm
• Essential Facts on Chronic Wasting Disease
• Bacteria that Resist Treatment
• Mad Cow Disease

Cancer

• Sun Protection and Skin Cancer
• Another Weapon to Fight Ovarian Cancer
• Mesothelioma: A Rare and Deadly Cancer
• Early Detection Key to Surviving Oral Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer: Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
• Cervical Cancer: A New Vaccine and a Brighter Future
• Cancer screening can save lives
• Regular Pap Smears Help Ensure Women's Health
• Melanoma
• What are some of the challenges that cancer survivors may encounter after treatment for cancer?
• Light Cigarettes as Harmful as Regular Ones
• A Holistic Approach to Prostate Cancer
• What steps can you take to prevent yourself from getting skin cancer?
• What's the Big Deal about Second-Hand Smoke?
• Oral Cancer is a Major Cause of Death
• Understanding Cancer
• Advances in Breast Cancer Detection and Therapy
• Exploring Family History of Cancer
• Attacking Cancer With Radiation
• Screen for Prostate Cancer
• The Most Common Cancer Can Be Prevented
• Liver Cancer - A Growing Threat
• Easing the Pain Caused by Bone Cancer
• Focusing on Head and Neck Cancers
• Make a Resolution to Help Prevent Cancer
• Life With Cancer
• Cancer is Not Just an Adult Disease
• Reducing Your Risk of Cancer
• Battling Female Cancers
• The Country's Leading Cancer Killer
• Cancer Rates Drop

Cardiovascular

• Taking Charge of Your Heart Health
• Fast Treatment Key to Recovering from Stroke
• Awareness Is the First Step to Better Heart Health in Women
• Peripheral Arterial Disease -- Are You at Risk?
• Preeclampsia may be linked to heart disease
• Gum disease linked to heart disease, diabetes
• Sudden Cardiac Arrest is the No. 1 Killer
• Why does the air quality problem seem worse in warmer weather?
• What is Emphysema?
• Women's Health: Tips for a Healthy Heart

Children's Health

• Family Meals: Benefits and Challenges of Mealtimes with School-Age Children
• Making Healthy Choices in School Lunch Lines
• Temper Tantrum: What to Know, How to Manage
• Planning is key to healthy pregnancy
• Managing Childhood Asthma
• A Better Era for Children with Type 1 Diabetes
• Secondhand Smoke Poses Risk to Children's Health
• Parenting with Prevention in Mind
• Common Birth Defect is Very Treatable
• Study: Schools contribute to childhood obesity
• What is rotavirus?
• What to do when your child has an ear ache
• Helping Kids Manage Back-to-School Stress
• Team Effort
• Screening for Down Syndrome in Pregnancy
• Are your child's vaccinations up to date?
• Summer Safety Tips for your Children
• First Year Crucial for Detecting Hearing Loss in Children
• Preventing Infant Tooth Decay
• Parents Should Be Aware of Acne Facts, Myths, and Consequences
• Cancer is Not Just an Adult Disease
• Obesity in children: a growing problem

Dentistry

• Common Birth Defect is Very Treatable
• Pop and Tooth Decay
• Gum disease linked to heart disease, diabetes
• Seeking That 100-watt Smile
• Many techniques available for treating jaw pain
• Oral Cancer is a Major Cause of Death
• Preventing Infant Tooth Decay

Dermatology

• Quick Tips for Fighting Acne
• Skin Cancer
• Melanoma
• What steps can you take to prevent yourself from getting skin cancer?
• Parents Should Be Aware of Acne Facts, Myths, and Consequences
• Natural Remedies Ease Summertime Skin Irritations
• The Most Common Cancer Can Be Prevented
• Acne

Diabetes

• A Better Era for Children with Type 1 Diabetes
• Diabetes
• Hope for People with Type 1 Diabetes

Drugs/Pharmacology

• Dietary Supplements or Drugs: Know What You're Getting
• Educate yourself before choosing Medicare drug plan
• Dietary Supplements: What You Should Know
• Promising Treatment for Compulsive Gamblers
• What is the FDA Approval Process for Medications
• Physicians need to know which medications you are taking
• Monitoring Drug Interactions

Ears, Head, and Neck

• What to do when your child has an ear ache
• First Year Crucial for Detecting Hearing Loss in Children
• Focusing on Head and Neck Cancers

Eating Disorders Obesity

• Tis the Season to Overeat
• Getting to the Bottom of Eating Disorders
• School Lunch Lines Can Provide Children a Lesson in Making Healthy Choices
• Eating Disorders: Treating the Whole Patient
• Is There a Cure for Bulimia?
• Obesity in children: a growing problem
• The Atkins Diet
• Bariatric Surgery

Eye Conditions

• Maintaining Healthy Vision
• The Effects of Viagra on Vision
• The Thief of Vision - Glaucoma
• Seniors and Driving

Infectious Diseases

• Vaccines and Common Sense Measures are Best Defense Against the Flu
• Mononucleosis: The Kissing Disease
• Protecting Yourself Against Lyme Disease
• What is rotavirus?
• Food Irradiation - An Underused Boon to Food Safety
• Are your child's vaccinations up to date?
• What is Lyme Disease?
• Bird Flu in Asia--Looming Implications for Humans
• Toxic Shock Syndrome is on the Increase
• Flu Vaccine is a Good Option for Most People
• Be Vigilant About West Nile Virus
• Mad Cow Disease in Canada Cause for Concern, Not Alarm
• Essential Facts on Chronic Wasting Disease
• Tracking SARS
• Avian Flu
• Mad Cow Disease
• Vaccinations
• Monkeypox
• SARS

Internal Organs

• Brain Science 101
• What is Emphysema?

Men's Health

• Treating Male Sexual Dysfunction
• A Holistic Approach to Prostate Cancer
• The Effects of Viagra on Vision
• Screen for Prostate Cancer
• Extreme Makeover

Mental Health

• Meditation and Reducing Stress
• Maintaining a Healthy Work Environment in Stressful and Uncertain Times
• The Future for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Light Therapy Often Effective for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Forget your keys again?
• Helping Kids Manage Back-to-School Stress
• Minnesotans at Greater Risk of Seasonal Depression
• Screening for Down Syndrome in Pregnancy
• Depression Happens
• Teasing About Weight May Have Dire Consequences
• What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
• Finding Security in an Unsecure World
• Reducing Holiday Stress

Neurological Disorders

• Tips for Better Sleep
• Caring for People with Dementia
• Advances in Treating Parkinson's Disease
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Symptoms and Treatments
• Brain Science 101
• Dreaming of a Good Night's Sleep
• Scents can trigger emotions
• Sleep and Memory
• Seniors and Driving

Nutrition

• Cholesterol 101: What to Know and How to Control
• Family Meals are Important: TV On or Off
• Choose food products low in 'bad' fat
• Building Bones at Young Age Key to Preventing Osteoporosis
• Achiness May be Due to Vitamin D Deficiency
• Need a Diet Trend? Ask Uncle Sam
• Food Irradiation - An Underused Boon to Food Safety
• Teasing About Weight May Have Dire Consequences
• The Importance of Family Meals for Adolescents
• The Atkins Diet
• Be Good to Your Bones
• Obesity in children: a growing problem
• The Atkins Diet

Other Topics

• The Care that Never Stops: Five Stress Reduction Tips for Caregivers
• Fish Virus Threatens Minnesota's Lakes
• Keep Your Skin Safe from Frostbite
• National Pool of Eligible Blood Donors Smaller
• Treating Shingles
• Exercise Medicine: A Specialty that Complements Regular Health Care
• What Is a Clinical Trial and Who Participates?
• Hope for People with Type 1 Diabetes
• Why do some people sweat more than others?
• Living Wills Clarify Your Values, Wishes
• Summer Food Safety Tips
• Why does the air quality problem seem worse in warmer weather?
• Why is giving blood so important?
• The Risks and Benefits of Vaccinating Pets
• Donating Your Body to Medical Science
• Health Information on the Web
• Second Opinions

Sports Medicine

• Staying Hydrated and Fueled in Athletics
• Preventing Hockey Injuries
• Conventional Knee Replacement Might be Best

Stem Cells

• Advances in Treating Parkinson's Disease
• Getting to the Root of Stem Cells
• The Promise of Stem Cell Transplantation

Surgery

• 'Keyhole' surgery: less pain, faster recovery
• Why do some people sweat more than others?
• Conventional Knee Replacement Might be Best
• Extreme Makeover
• Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Bariatric Surgery

Womens Health

• Planning is key to healthy pregnancy
• Postpartum Depression Is Real and Responds to Treatment
• Awareness Is the First Step to Better Heart Health in Women
• Cervical Cancer: A New Vaccine and a Brighter Future
• Is it safe to take antidepressants during pregnancy?
• Regular Pap Smears Help Ensure Women's Health
• Preeclampsia may be linked to heart disease
• Building Bones at Young Age Key to Preventing Osteoporosis
• Women's Sexual Health
• Minnesotans at Greater Risk of Seasonal Depression
• Preventing Preterm Birth
• Screening for Down Syndrome in Pregnancy
• October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
• What key screenings are important for women to have?
• Exercise During Pregnancy is Beneficial
• Women's Health: Tips for a Healthy Heart
• Toxic Shock Syndrome is on the Increase
• Is hormone therapy still an option for menopausal women?
• Advances in Breast Cancer Detection and Therapy
• Be Good to Your Bones
• Battling Female Cancers
• Extreme Makeover
• Menopause and HRT
• Female Viagra