by Research Team | Aug 16, 2015 | Health News
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday called for more quality child care on college campuses and additional scholarships to help students who are parents as she pitched her plan to reduce higher education costs. Clinton also took swipes at...
by Research Team | Aug 16, 2015 | Health News
For that reason, a Duluth breast cancer survivor is making it her personal mission to make sure other patients have the support they need. “I knew the moment I felt the lump it was bad, but I was hoping that maybe through some fluke that it wasn’t...
by Research Team | Aug 16, 2015 | Health News
Nearly 32 percent of South Carolina adults are obese, up from 25 percent in 2004 and 12 percent in 1990. COLUMBIA, S.C.>> Poor, obese South Carolinians covered by Medicaid can get help slimming down through nutritional counseling sessions aimed at stemming...
by Research Team | Aug 16, 2015 | Health News
A statewide database is helping nurses keep track of students who need vaccinations before the new school year begins in Indiana. The state’s Children and Hoosier Immunization Registry Program has been used in the past by state and county health...
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
Calls to extend the smoking ban to outside areas of schools, pubs and restaurants have met with criticism, as Coleen Nolan claimed smoker s were being “treated like lepers”. The Royal Society for Public Health said the ban, introduced in 2007, had...
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s law even after the official enrollment season ended, helping push the share of uninsured Americans below 10 percent and underscoring how hard it could be for Republicans to...