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Americaā€™s Opioid Crisis Complicates Effort to Stop HIV: Solutions Explored in Indiana Pave the Path to Success

As CDC Director and U.S. Surgeon General, weā€™ve been crisscrossing the United States in recent months, meeting with local public health leaders and community...

Cultural, historical, economic factors drive Black breast-feeding gap

Tahwii Spicer is all about being natural. With the help of a midwife, she had an unmedicated home birth with her son Reece, now...

Make Sure Vaccines Are On Your Back-To-School List

Itā€™s back-to-school time, and Indiana health officials are reminding parents to make sure their children are up to date on their immunizations.ā€œWith the new...

Track fitness progress in style

Pedometers are a thing of the past now that high tech fitness bands have taken over the health market. While much of society finds...

Hospital-acquired infections exert deadly toll

More than 262 years ago, the Pennsylvania Hospital, which was the nationā€™s first hospital, was established in Philadelphia.The hospital, which is still standing today,...

HIV awareness involves both young and old

ā€œItā€™s Your Turn to Prevent HIV/AIDS: Individual Call to Action,ā€ was the theme of the 10th Annual Statewide HIV Awareness Program that recently took...

People are ‘called to action’ at state HIV awareness event

INDIANAPOLISā€”Singer and HIV activist Jamar Rogers spoke recently at the 9th Annual Statewide HIV Awareness Program at Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet School, in an...

Health officials confirm one fungal meningitis death

INDIANAPOLISā€” Health officials have confirmed 21 cases of fungal meningitis in Indiana, including one death. The deceased person was not an Indiana resident but...

2011 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey results released

INDIANAPOLISā€” Indiana high school students have made significant improvements in behaviors associated with alcohol consumption over the past eight years, according to the results...

Fewer Americans are smoking cigarettes

A new "Vital Signs" report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable...
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