Salmonella outbreak: One more case reported; hospitalized Muskegon County …

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MUSKEGON, MI – Janelle Wiersma hardly remembers her 40-mile trek to Grand Rapids after her boyfriend wrapped her in a blanket and rushed to Spectrum Health Blodgett Hospital earlier this month. Wiersma, who received treatment for a salmonella …
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Warnings on Children's Drugs Found to Help Curb Misuse

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In the new study, published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed data from 63 hospitals to estimate the number of emergency visits from 2004 to 2011 by young children who had taken cough and …
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New guidelines could have more people on statins

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Don't focus on your cholesterol numbers. That's the message being sent by the American College of Cardiology, which announced new guidelines yesterday, on cardiovascular-disease prevention. For nearly 30 years, doctors have looked to LDL cholesterol …
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For health care consumers, sticker shock leads to anger

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The administration says that about 12 million Americans, or 5 percent of the population, buy individual polices — they don't get coverage through their employers or programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Millions of them will be required … David …
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