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New Cholesterol Guidelines Focus on Personalized...

December 25, 2018

New cholesterol guidelines released by the American Heart Association recommend a "personalized" approach to fighting bad cholesterol.

tags: american-heart-association , cholesterol , cholesterol-guidelines , december , exercise , newsletter , obesity

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Even a 2-minute Walk Counts in New Physical Activity...

December 18, 2018

New guidelines suggest physical activity lasting as little as two minutes still counts toward a person’s weekly activity goals. Previously...

tags: american-heart-association , december , exercise , newsletter , physical-activity-guidelines , walking

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Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Polio-Like Illness Affecting...

December 11, 2018

What do parents need to know about AFM, the polio-like virus that’s left hundreds of children across the U.S. partially paralyzed?

tags: acute-flaccid-myelitis , adenovirus , afm , december , newsletter , non-polio-enteroviruses , poliovirus , west-nile-virus

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New Study Finds That Smoking and Diabetes May ...

December 4, 2018

Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure: all bad for the heart, but perhaps worse for women's hearts than men's.

tags: december , diabetes , heart-attack , heart-disease , high-blood-pressure , newsletter , smoking