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5 Health and Wellness Rules to Live by this School Year and Beyond

(StatePoint) At school, kids are exposed to an influx of germs that can cause a number of preventable ...

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How to Reduce Sugar in School Lunchboxes

(StatePoint) At a time when even yogurt has come under scrutiny for its sugar content, it’s hard to ...

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What to Know about Your Gut Health

(StatePoint) Your gut health affects more than just how your stomach feels. Recent scientific breakthroughs have uncovered links ...

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Tips to Prevent Blood Clots During Hospital Stays

(StatePoint) Each year, dangerous blood clots affect about 900,000 people nationwide, and about half of all blood clots ...

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Keep Your Family Healthier this Back-to-School Season

(StatePoint) Back-to-school season can be fun and exciting for kids and parents alike. With your kids coming home ...

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Tips to Prevent the Spread of Back-to-School Germs

(StatePoint) Back-to-school is an exciting time of year for families, but it also means new exposures to germs. ...

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Smart Mom Solutions to Reduce Back-to-School Germs

(StatePoint) Most moms today are armed with a germ-fighting arsenal of anti-bacterial wipes and gels, and are constantly ...

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Back-to-School Checklist for Families with Asthma

(StatePoint) For the more than six million children living with asthma nationwide, gearing up for another school year ...

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Sign up to be an organ donor

Christopher Ennis needed a new heart, and soon. The doctors at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia knew this ...

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Getting your greens – how to keep them fresh

(ARA) - Greens are a staple in any health-conscious household. But keeping them fresh might not seem like ...

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Sleepy over shift work? How to stay awake with a nontraditional work schedule

(ARA) - Working shifts outside a traditional schedule can impact your body's sleep-wake cycle, or circadian rhythm, leaving ...

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Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: One of the most common birth defects you’ve never heard of

Jenni Pappas stared at the perinatologist, a specialist in maternal-fetal health, anxiously watching him perform her ultrasound. She ...