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Latino HIV Awareness Day listen

10/19/09 Concetta DeLuco
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Tags: health care, Health, Latin Americans, Latinos, ymca

October 15 was Latino HIV Aids Awareness Day. The Highpoint YMCA in Clearwater helped raise awareness this past weekend by throwing a Fall Health Awareness Festival Fair.

Ebony Murray is a single mother who lives in the High Point community surrounding the YMCA. She said she recalls what it was like to not have the proper healthcare when she gave birth to her first child. Ebony now has insurance through her job. She said that most people in her community are not as lucky to have health...

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Local Health officials prepare for H1N1 virus listen

07/10/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: H1N1 virus, Swine flu, Health

Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today that though media coverage of the swine flu (H1N1) virus has fallen in recent months, the federal government is working hard on having a vaccine ready by mid October for what could be an expansion of the virus.

Sebelius says of particular interest to U.S. officials is the nature of the virus right now in the Southern Hemisphere.

On Thursday, some 500 state and local health officials met from around the country to talk about...

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David Kessler on 'The End of Overeating' - Part 2 listen

06/12/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Health, dieting, obesity

David Kessler is a professor at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine. He was also the commissioner for the Food & Drug Administration from 1990 to 1997 for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

He’s also the author of the new book, The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite, in which he tries to answer the question about why Americans overindulge and what they can do about it.

In the second part of our interview conduc...

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New book: go vegan to get buff listen

05/01/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Health

On Monday, the new vegan diet book "Skinny Bastard:A Kick in the Ass for Real Men Who Want to Stop Being Fat And Start Getting Buff" was published. Authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin's book "Skinny Bitch" was a #1 New York Times Best-seller.

We spoke with Rory Freedman yesterday, and asked her if the essential message about both books is the only way to ...

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Campaign begins for medical marijuana ballot measure listen

04/03/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Health, medical marijuana

Last month, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a law allowing the use of medical marijuana on a doctor's recommendation. If it were to be signed by the state’s Governor, they would become the 14th state to allow medical marijuana.

Now an Orlando woman is going to try to get a similar law passed in Florida.

Kim Russell is the founder of People United for Medical Marijuana . She’s working on circulating petitions for the 2010 electoral ballot asking residents to legalize m...

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Planned Parenthood, MTV team up for against STDs listen

04/02/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Health, STDs, Planned Parenthood, abstinence, sex

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated April as a time to raise public awareness about the impact STDs have on the lives of Americans and the importance of discussing sexual health with health care providers and sexual partners. The CDC estimates there are approximately 19 million new STD cases each year, almost half of them among young people between the ages of 15 and 24.

So today in St. Petersburg, Florida Planned Parenthood affiliates announced a nationwide partn...

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Castor hails stimulus funding for Tampa health clinic listen

03/30/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Health, politics, economic stimulus, economy

Congresswoman Kathy Castor spoke in front of a community health clinic in North Tampa today, where she announced that new federal stimulus money will allow the center and its Hillsborough affiliates to hire 9 new employees, including two family practice doctors.

Two billion in grants from the stimulus bill was set aside for community health centers nationally. Approximately three-quarters of that is for construction, renovation and equipment, with the other $500 million to go directly to c...

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New HIV vaccine debuts in Ybor City listen

03/02/09 Concetta DeLuco
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Tags: Health, LGBT, AIDS, HIV, vaccine

Amid the festivities at Southern Exposure, the nation’s first all-gay carnival held in Ybor over the weekend, a press conference was held on Saturday to announce the next steps in the development of a new HIV vaccination.

Referred to as the “GaYbor District,” Ybor currently hosts the nation’s highest gay population. At the Hampton Inn, the Atlanta-based GeoVax Labs Inc. educated some of the city’s residents and weekend visitors about the intended effects and next phase of their HIV vaccin...

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Clinical trial for Alzheimer's drug in Tampa listen

02/06/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Health, Alzheimer's, clinical trials, diabetes

According to a study published online this week by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, drugs used to keep diabetes under control may also shield memory-forming nerve connections from harmful Alzheimer’s related proteins.

The discovery that insulin may slow or prevent Alzheimer's-related memory loss fuels existing theories that the disease may be caused by a third type of diabetes.

Currently, more than 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's, which is characterized by an...

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Fibromyalgia support group to meet in Pasco listen

01/29/09 Mitch E. Perry
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Tags: Fibromyalgia, medicine, health

Fibromyalgia is often called an “invisible” illness because the people who have it typically do not look sick. But for them, something as simple as a hug or a handshake can be excruciatingly painful.

It’s the most common chronic widespread pain condition in the U.S., affecting more than six million Americans. It can have devastating effects on a sufferer’s life, impacting people’s ability to work and engage in everyday activities, as well as their relationships with family, friends and ...

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