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Recent articles

• NCPA encourages member pharmacists to consider refraining from selling tobacco products

• Survey: 40 percent of 8-year-olds in Illinois already overweight

• Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital

• Surgeon who did 1st US heart transplant dies

• Insurers make pitch for health coverage mandate

• Ginkgo fails to prevent Alzheimer's in large study

• Panel urges revised warning on facial filler risks

• Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells

• Family history can trump breast cancer gene test

• Doctors hoping for new era of artificial ankles

• Study puts a total on diabetes cost: $218 billion

• Study: Vitamin C or E pills do not prevent cancer

• W. Virginia town shrugs at poorest health ranking

• Burlington, Vt., is healthiest city, CDC says

• Reminder: Great American Smokeout is Thursday

• Champion Fitness helps return a champion to form

• H.O.P.E. December schedule

• Allergists' dander up about Obama quest for dog

• Gulf War vet health research lacking

• October food inspection scores

• Doctors say marrow transplant may have cured AIDS

• More countries make spreading HIV a crime

• Study: Brain stimulation may ease anxiety disorder

• Study: HPV vaccine prevents genital warts in males

• Experts: Paranoia may be more common than thought

• Key 'switch' found for popular breast cancer drug

• Study: Same-sex heart transplants are better

• Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds

• Ohio grandma gives birth to daughter's triplets

• Study: Deadly stomach bug more common than thought

• Study: Exercise offers little to heart failure patients

• Study: Concerns on mixing Plavix, heartburn drugs

• Local health departments seek to improve Smoke Free Illinois

• AMA acts against trans fats, texting while driving

• Studies: Elderly fare well in open-heart surgery

• Blood pressure gap leads to deaths of 8,000 blacks

• Massive malaria vaccine trial to begin in Africa

• Letter: State's inaction may lead to public health crisis

• November is Alzheimer's Awareness Month

• Studies: Vitamin pills don't prevent heart disease

• Music headphones can interfere with heart devices

• Study: Wider cholesterol drug use may save lives

• IEMA marks Lung Cancer Awareness Month

• Gov't seizes more contaminated heparin

For reference

• Flu shots available at Logan County Dept. of Public Health
  Shots available on H.O.P.E. Mobile

• 'U and the Flu' symptoms chart

• Flu season reminder

• November H.O.P.E. schedule

• December schedule

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