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'Take a Loved One to the Doctor' is a community-wide healthcare event that provides valuable medical attention to citizens that do not have health insurance or who do not have a primary care physician.

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By Amy NortonNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoking during pregnancy appears to affect children's birthweight, and possibly their risk of becoming overweight, but it may not directly harm other aspects of physical and cognitive development, a large study suggests.The findings, from a study of nearly 53,000 U.S. children born in the 1960s, found that those whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were at higher risk of low birthweight -- a link that studies have long noted.There was also evidence, albeit weaker, that these children were more likely than children of non-smoking women to be overweight by age 7.

As many as half of mental health patients may not have a treatment program. The Finnish Central Association for Mental health MTK says if patients have no statutory treatment plan, they will also be e...

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Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister says urology patients are being sent to Nova Scotia because of a lengthy waiting list.

In response to reports of contaminated milk-based infant formula manufactured in China, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a health Information Advisory. This is to assure the American public that there is no known threat of contamination in infant formula manufactured by companies that have met the requirements to sell infant formula in the United States.

Washington, September 13 : An Indian-origin researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health has unveiled a gene that acts as a "master switch" to turn on numerous antioxidant and pollutant-detoxifying genes to protect the lungs from environmental pollutants, such as cigarette smoke.

The ACT Government says its investment in the health system is starting to pay dividends.