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Governor promotes workplace health program
Gov. Martin O’Malley is looking for ways to trim his workforce – not the number of people, but their waistlines. The administration has launched a wellness program aimed at state workers. The governor known for his statistical analysis of...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, Healthy Diet, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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CDC to launch anti-smoking campaign
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an ad campaign to show the damage done from smoking to smokers and their families. The ads began March 19 on television, radio, online and billboards, as well as in theaters, magazines and...Tags: Throat Cancer, Stroke, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Heart Attack, Kathleen Sebelius
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Hopkins researchers aim to uncover which mobile health applications work
Those looking to lose weight, quit smoking or keep tabs on a malady have a lot of choices in the smartphone app stores. Choosing one that's beneficial is more of a problem.
Science is still trying to catch up to the market for mobile health applications,...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Cell Phones, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Food and Drug Administration, Television Industry
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Wildfire risk: Don't toss lighted cigarettes from cars
I travel from Linthicum to College Park via the Baltimore-Washington Parkway every weekday between the hours of 5:20 a.m. to 5:45 a.m. to catch a metro train to my office in Washington. Daily, I see motorists toss lit cigarettes out of their moving...Tags: Fires, Linthicum, Terrence Ross
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Treating menopause symptoms
Every woman will experience menopause, some in the normal course of aging and some before. It can bring on a host of symptoms in addition to hot flashes. But there are things that women can do, from improving their diet and exercising to finding the right...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Menopause, Infertility, Physical Fitness and Exercise, High Blood Pressure
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Quitting smoking is tough, but not impossible
Many people pick quitting smoking as their New Year's resolution. But if quitting smoking was easy, most smokers would have already done it. Tobacco is highly addictive and the process isn't easy, but quitting is possible for those who really are ready...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lung Cancer, Heroin
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Cut spending instead of raising taxes
Why does the government not understand it is running out of other people's money? Politicians think the answer is not to cut spending but to increase taxes. The state of Maryland subscribes to the same cure. It cranks up the tax on cigarettes saying...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Human Rights, Ellicott City
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For the smoking ban
Regarding the letter to the editor published Dec. 9 in the Open Forum, "Steaming over smoking ban:" I find all of your arguments faulty. First let me speak to "how would enforcement work?" It's simple, when someone, who is not a smoker, sees a person...Tags: WebMD Corporation, Civil Laws, Lung Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Laws
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The power of sleep
Are you tired, run-down, listless? The answer to your problem is probably not in a little brown bottle. It could be as simple as a good night’s sleep. But for 45 million Americans, that’s an elusive dream. Even worse, sleep deprivation,...Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Sleep Apnea, Hospitals and Clinics, Behavioral Conditions, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Anne Arundel County health briefs
Free cookbook The Learn to Live program of the Department of Health has a new healthful eating kit that features a free cookbook and tips that will help you select foods high in fiber and low in fat and sodium. Recipes are also quick, easy and...Tags: Stroke, Mental Health, Recipes, Preventative Medicine, Diabetes
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Sympathy for the smokers
Editor: Regarding the letter by Phil Brainard, of Aberdeen, in response to my previous letter entitled "Steaming Over Smoking Ban," thank you for your rebuttal. That's the way democracy is supposed to work. I do,however have to take issue with some of...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Addiction, Chantix (drug), Lung Cancer, Behavioral Conditions
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Baltimore aims to stop smoking around pregnant women and babies
In the continued effort to reduce infant mortality in Baltimore, health officials and the Family League of Baltimore City have launched an effort to reduce secondhand smoke near babies and pregnant women.
The campaign, called "Just Hold Off," is the...Tags: Prince George's County, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Family, Demographics
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