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- No Yuma illnesses in beef recall
- Lean ground beef in Yuma-area Fry's Food stores was recalled this week due to E. coli contamination, but there are no reported local cases of food poisoning.The recall for Kroger Co. beef took place in Fry's stores across Arizona and in grocery stores... Full story
- West Nile found in new mosquito samplings
- Five new samples of mosquitoes collected in the Yuma area have found to be infected with the West Nile virus, according to the Yuma County Pest Abatement District.Two additional samples have been sent to the Arizona Department of Health Services for further... Full story
- Health care sensitivity learned firsthand
- Imagine lying on a hospital bed alone and isolated, with no idea when the nurse is coming back. The next generation of health care workers are striving to understand such a scenario and make sure it doesn't happen in the future.During a summer camp at... Full story
Focus on Fitness
- Fine-tune workout to rule slopes
- Folks, ski season is coming. And more than a few of you have asked questions about getting in skiing shape. Even when we're in great shape there are things we can do to help improve our ability to ski better and, if you ski as badly as I do,... Full story
- U.S. needs czar to coordinate health efforts
- America needs a trainer.
- America needs a trainer. The country needs somebody qualified to help whip our butts into shape. That somebody would have the power to command, influence and draw resources from various aspects of the government to help us get in better shape. This... Full story
- Gradual shift in habits helps avoid fitness-program rebellion
- Impatience can kill even the best fitness programs.
- Impatience can kill even the best fitness programs. Folks are aware that too many kids in the United States are overweight or obese. We even know how to reverse the situation and how to prevent it. We know that more physical activity helps. We know... Full story
Health News (AP)
- Mexico wins praise for swine flu response CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health....
- Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people WASHINGTON (AP) -- With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science....
- Advocates are back with real health care stories CHICAGO (AP) -- When carpenter Greg Douglas crashed his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000....
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