HHS HealthBeat

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Welcome to HHS HealthBeat. Launched on July 11, 2005, this service provides health promotion and disease prevention tips 5 days a week in audio and text formats.

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March

March 04, 2009 - speaker icon

"Success from losing weight" [read tip]

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Weight Loss in Women Can Reduce Urinary Incontinence (National Institutes of Health)

March 03, 2009 - speaker icon

"Cold and the old" [read tip]

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Hypothermia: A Cold Weather Risk for Older People (National Institute on Aging)

February

February 27, 2009 - speaker icon

"The 3,000" [read tip]

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Why Folic Acid is So Important (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 26, 2009 - speaker icon

"Exercising the relaxing heart" [read tip]

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Heart Contraction and Blood Flow (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

February 25, 2009 - speaker icon

"Mediterranean eating" [read tip]

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Heart Disease Prevention: What You Can Do (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 24, 2009 - speaker icon

"Spirituality, teens and chronic illness" [read tip]

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Mind-Body Medicine: An Overview (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 23, 2009 - speaker icon

"Smokers’ brains and strokes" [read tip]

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Cerebral Aneurysm Fact Sheet (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

February 20, 2009 - speaker icon

"Higher risk, lower knowledge" [read tip]

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What You Need to Know About Stroke (National Institutes of Health)

February 19, 2009 - speaker icon

"Tired and a cold" [read tip]

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Sleep and Sleep Disorders (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 18, 2009 - speaker icon

"Smoking and parents’ examples" [read tip]

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Youth and Tobacco Use Fact Sheet (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 17, 2009 - speaker icon

"Someone else’s smoke " [read tip]

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Second Hand Smoke Fact Sheet (National Cancer Institute)

February 16, 2009 - speaker icon

"Needing follow-up" [read tip]

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Risk Factors for Breast Cancer (National Cancer Institute)

February 13, 2009 - speaker icon

"The Smoking Habit" [read tip]

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Quit Smoking with our Online Guide to Quitting (Smokefree.gov)

February 12, 2009 - speaker icon

"Accidental Infant Suffocation Deaths" [read tip]

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 11, 2009 - speaker icon

"Teen Disabled Athletes" [read tip]

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Kids’ Quest on Disability and Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 10, 2009 - speaker icon

"Winter Can Kill" [read tip]

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Winter Weather: Hypothermia (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 09, 2009 - speaker icon

"Peanut Safety" [read tip]

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Recall of Peanut-Containing Products: Salmonella Typhimurium (Food and Drug Administration)

February 06, 2009 - speaker icon

"Still Time" [read tip]

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Key Facts About Seasonal Flu Vaccine (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 05, 2009 - speaker icon

"Practiced Walking" [read tip]

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Living With Peripheral Arterial Disease (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

February 04, 2009 - speaker icon

"Spreading Happiness" [read tip]

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Being Happy Affects Even Those You Don't Know (healthfinder.gov)

February 03, 2009 - speaker icon

"Walk Away from the Buffet" [read tip]

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Walking: A Step in the Right Direction (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

February 02, 2009 - speaker icon

"Apples, Pears, Livers and Hearts" [read tip]

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Cutting Calories (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January

January 30, 2009 - speaker icon

"Caregivers’ activities" [read tip]

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Caregiver Tip Sheet (Administration on Aging)

January 29, 2009 - speaker icon

"Teens and marijuana " [read tip]

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Marijuana (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

January 28, 2009 - speaker icon

"Bad mixes" [read tip]

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Drug Interactions: What You Should Know (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research)

January 27, 2009 - speaker icon

"The bond of breastfeeding" [read tip]

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Breastfeeding (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

January 26, 2009 - speaker icon

"Walking, talking kids" [read tip]

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Kids With Cell Phones Not as Safe Crossing Streets (healthfinder.gov)

January 23, 2009 - speaker icon

"Transitioning care" [read tip]

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Better Information Helps Patients When They Leave the Hospital (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

January 22, 2009 - speaker icon

"Kids and media " [read tip]

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Helpful Ways to Reduce Screen Time (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

January 21, 2009 - speaker icon

"Ripples of weight" [read tip]

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Physical Activity and Weight Control (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

January 20, 2009 - speaker icon

"Maybe later" [read tip]

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Heart Diseases--Prevention (National Library of Medicine)

January 19, 2009 - speaker icon

"Better family history" [read tip]

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My Family Health Portrait (U.S. Surgeon General)

January 16, 2009 - speaker icon

"Trying the alternatives" [read tip]

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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

January 15, 2009 - speaker icon

"Why eat broccoli" [read tip]

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Vegetable of the Month: Broccoli (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 14, 2009 - speaker icon

"Health care in hard times" [read tip]

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Find a Health Center (Health Resources and Services Administration)

January 13, 2009 - speaker icon

"Exercise and heart failure" [read tip]

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Living With Heart Failure (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

January 12, 2009 - speaker icon

"Now and later" [read tip]

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Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 09, 2009 - speaker icon

"Bad air" [read tip]

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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 08, 2009 - speaker icon

"Kids and lead" [read tip]

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Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 07, 2009 - speaker icon

"Can you believe it?" [read tip]

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healthfinder.gov (healthfinder.gov)

January 06, 2009 - speaker icon

"Active enough?" [read tip]

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How much physical activity do you need? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 05, 2009 - speaker icon

"Thirdhand smoke and kids" [read tip]

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Free Help to Quit Smoking (National Cancer Institute)

January 02, 2009 - speaker icon

"Spiritual living" [read tip]

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Religion May Help Extend Your Life (National Library of Medicine)

January 01, 2009 - speaker icon

"Masked and cleaned" [read tip]

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Good Health Habits for Prevention (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Last revised: February 03, 2009