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Too cute! Celebrities are going all out this holiday season, dressing their darlings in festive pajamas. Robin Thicke and April Love Geary didn’t waste any time putting their daughters Mia, 21 months, and Lola, 9 months, in themed outfits. On December 1, the model, 24, posted a selfie with her and the Grammy winner’s youngest, captioned, “Happy December y’all.” In […]
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(HealthDay)—It’s never too soon to take steps to safeguard your heart health, and that includes being aware of seasonal heart attack triggers. Researchers are trying to understand why, but studies done around the world have noted spikes in deaths from heart-related events during the holiday season. Unlike deaths from the flu, they don’t seem related to cold weather. As one […]
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In an investigation of head impact burden and change in neurocognitive function during a season of youth football, researchers find that sub-concussive impacts are not correlated with worsening performance in neurocognitive function. Each year, more than 3 million children in primary and high school play tackle football in the United States. Growing concern about the possible negative effects of repetitive […]
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In an era when for-profit companies collect a wealth of data about us, new research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that data collected by health care companies could—if made available to researchers and public health agencies—enable more accurate forecasts of when the next flu season will peak, how long it will last and how many people will […]
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Flu killed more U.S. children in the past year than during any other regular flu season in recent history. Health officials on Friday said they’ve received reports of 172 pediatric flu deaths since October. An average season sees about 110. There were more deaths in 2009-2010, when a rare flu pandemic occurred involving a new strain. More than 300 children […]
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