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    May 1, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  1. Tick population increasing in Michiana

    <span style="font-size: small;">Ticks are pretty bad this year, especially for dogs, according to a veterinarian who has been pulling them off pets every day for the past few weeks.</span>
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    Ticks are pretty bad this year, especially for dogs, according to a veterinarian who has been pulling them off pets every day for the past few weeks. “Just since it's warmed up the past couple or few weeks the number of ticks have gone up...

    Tags: Vaccines, Pets, Disease Prevention

    2. Apr 15, 2013 |Story| AP Indiana

  2. Half of Indiana's smokers tried to quit in 2011

    <span style="font-size: small;">MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) &mdash; Indiana has the nation's seventh-highest percentage of smokers, with more than a quarter of the state's population smoking, but more than half of those people tried to quit in 2011, according to a study.</span>
    MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana has the nation's seventh-highest percentage of smokers, with more than a quarter of the state's population smoking, but more than half of those people tried to quit in 2011, according to a study. "Most people...

    Tags: Quitting Smoking, Heroin, Health Insurance Cost

    3. Apr 13, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  3. 3rd Annual Indiana Black Barbershop Health Initiative held Saturday

    Barber shops... They're places where men go to keep up with their looks and even socialize, but on this weekend in South Bend and across Indiana, they were much more than that. Every other week, you'll find Jamhal Black here at Cutrageous Barbershop....

    Tags: High Blood Pressure, Prostate Cancer

    4. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  4. More gun laws = fewer deaths, 50-state study says

    <span style="font-size: small;">CHICAGO (AP) &mdash; <span id="fbPhotoPageCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{&quot;type&quot;:45}"><span class="hasCaption">It's a study everyone is talking about today because the statistics are so dramatic: States with the most gun control laws have a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of gun control laws, according to a 50-state study that suggests sheer quantity of measures might make a difference.</span></span></span>
    CHICAGO (AP) — It's a study everyone is talking about today because the statistics are so dramatic: States with the most gun control laws have a 42 percent lower gun death rate than states with the least number of gun control laws, according to a...

    Tags: Daniel Webster, U.S. Congress, Politics, Suicide, Internal Medicine

    5. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  5. Oregon lawmakers advance ban on young teen tanning

    SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Across the nation, lawmakers are debating where to draw the line on young teen tanning, considering proposals that would make it illegal to expose minors to ultraviolet rays from sunlamps. Those who support such a ban say the...

    Tags: Health Organizations, Politics, Business, Science and Technology, Basal Cell Carcinoma

    6. Mar 4, 2013 |Story| AP Broadcast

  6. 7 new infections in Michigan from steroids

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan health officials are reporting seven more infections linked to contaminated steroids supplied by a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company. The Michigan Department of Community Health said Monday that at least 256...

    Tags: Steroids, Meningitis, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines

    7. Feb 12, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  7. Obesity and cancer

    <span style="font-size: small;">How much you weigh could put you at major risk of developing cancer.</span>
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    How much you weigh could put you at major risk of developing cancer. In fact, doctors treat 100,000 cases every year, and those are only cancers linked to obesity. Body weight can determine who gets cancer, how you treat it and how likely you are to...

    Tags: Weight, Genetics, Healthy Diet, Health Treatments, Cervical Cancer

    8. Feb 12, 2013 |Story| AP Broadcast

  8. Ind. yanks license of meningitis-linked pharmacy

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pharmacy Board has revoked the state license of a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has killed 10 people in Indiana, including 3 in Elkhart County, and sickened about 70 others....

    Tags: Steroids, Meningitis

    9. Feb 3, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  9. 2 new infections in Michigan from bad steroids

    LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan health officials have reported two more infections in the past two weeks linked to contaminated steroids supplied by a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company. The Michigan Department of Community Health says at least...

    Tags: Steroids, Meningitis, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines

    10. Jan 28, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  10. Stomach flu season is here

    <span style="font-size: small;">800 hundred people die from it every year in the U.S.</span>
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    800 hundred people die from it every year in the U.S. We're talking about the stomach flu. It's sounds like a simple illness, but the Indiana Department of Health has detected a new, serious strain of it in our area. It's also known as norovirus and...

    Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Flu Vaccine, Advil (drug), Flu, Calicivirus

    11. Jan 28, 2013 |Story| AP Broadcast

  11. 16 sick in 5 states; linked to ground beef recall

    NEW YORK (AP) — Federal health officials say at least 16 people in five states have been sickened by salmonella food poisoning linked to ground beef. No one has died, but half were hospitalized. Most of the illnesses have been in Michigan, but a...

    Tags: Salmonella Infection

    12. Jan 23, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV

  12. Indiana's flu deaths rise to 40, most victims over 65

    INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Flu deaths in Indiana have climbed to 40 this season and it's too soon to tell if the spread of the illness is slowing statewide, state health officials said Wednesday. Marion County health officials said visits to the...

    Tags: Asthma, Flu Vaccine, Preventative Medicine, Diabetes, Flu

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