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  Deer Lodge County resident diagnosed with Hantavirus

  Posted 11:38 AM 3/22/2013

  A Deer Lodge County resident has been diagnosed with Hantavirus in what the Butte-Silver Bow Health Department says is the first case for 2013.

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  Pre-packaged foods for toddlers too high in sodium, says study

  

  Posted 8:40 PM 3/21/2013 by Ryan Jaslow - CBS News

  Now, a new study suggests toddlers also may be getting far too much salt if they're eating pre-packaged foods. Researchers tested random products and found 75 percent of pre-packaged meals and savory snacks for toddlers were high in sodium. The authors fear taking in too much salt at such an (More)

  
  

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  Sugary drinks kill 180,000 people around the world, study suggests

  

  Posted 8:55 AM 3/21/2013 by Ryan Jaslow - CBS News

  Sugary drinks are often in the crosshairs of public health advocates, with studies and campaigns often spotlighting the links between drinking soda and risk for diabetes and obesity.

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  Group: Kids get hands on wrong medication 500,000 times a year

  

  Posted 9:08 PM 3/20/2013 by Michelle Castillo - CBS News

  The organization discovered that each minute of the day, a poison control center receives a call about a potential medicine poisoning for a child age 5 and under. Every eight minutes, a child goes to the emergency room for medicine poisoning. Also alarming, is that the numbers have increased 30 (More)

  
  

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  Gallatin County healthiest in the state: but more work to do

  Posted 5:25 PM 3/20/2013 by Judy Slate

  For the 4th year in a row Gallatin County is ranked the healthiest county in Montana.  The rankings looks at physical activity, smoking and infant marotality rates and much more.  While its good news, Matt Kelley, health officer with the Gallatin City County Health Department says many (More)

  
  

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  Mammograms for women ages 50 to 74 may not be needed every year

  

  Posted 9:02 PM 3/18/2013 by Michelle Castillo - CBS News

  A new study shows that women between the ages of 50 to 74 that get mammography screenings every two years may be at no more risk for advanced-stage breast cancer and at a lower risk for false positives, than those who get tested annually.

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  CDC: Maryland rabies death caused by organ transplant, not animal bite

  Posted 9:05 AM 3/15/2013 by Ryan Jaslow - CBS News

  A Maryland patient who died of rabies did not get the disease from an animal, but rather an organ transplant done more than a year earlier, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday morning.

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  World Kidney Day: Kidney disease a "silent epidemic" in U.S.

  

  Posted 8:45 PM 3/14/2013 by Ryan Jaslow - CBS News

  Kidney disease is a major health burden in the United States, affecting more than 26 million people.

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  Neurologists warn against prescribing ADHD drugs to kids as "study drugs"

  

  Posted 8:20 PM 3/13/2013 by Ryan Jaslow - CBS News

  The American Academy of Neurology is warning doctors around the country to stop prescribing ADHD medications to healthy children to give them a boost in their schoolwork.

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  Breast-feeding may not stave off childhood obesity like previously thought

  

  Posted 8:13 PM 3/13/2013 by Michelle Castillo - CBS News

  A study conducted in Belarus of 14,000 healthy infants showed that encouraging mothers to breast-feed their children did not lower children's incidence of being overweight or obese by the time they were pre-teens.

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