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Skin Cancer & Sun Damage: Are You Safe in the Sun?

Skin cancer attacks one out of every seven Americans each year, and one American dies from the disease every hour. Exposure to the sun causes over ninety percent of skin cancers in the United States.
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Headache at Its Worst: The Pain of Migraines

Approximately 26 million American – 70% of them women – suffer from migraine headaches. These excruciating episodes can incapacitate the sufferer for hours or days, and can have a tremendous impact on his or her quality of life.
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Heart Disease: Get the Facts

With over one millions heart attacks occurring each year, heart disease has become the number one killer of men and women in the United States. Almost half of these heart attacks are fatal and occur within one hour of the onset of symptoms, and before the person can get to the hospital.
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TIPS TO TREAT COLDS AND FLU

Colds and flu are inevitable. With no cure available, it’s important to know how to treat your symptoms or shorten the duration of your illness. Although one can take a variety of medications over-the-counter, there are a number of other ways to manage these annoying illnesses.
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Child Vaccinations: Don’t Wait to Vaccinate

Before vaccinations became widely available, disease like measles, mumps, and whooping cough were common in childhood and thousands were left blind, deaf, brain-damaged, or dead. Today vaccines have almost completely wiped out several of those diseases in addition to smallpox, polio, diphtheria, and haemophilus (Hib) infections.
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