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Do you know the top risk factors for heart attack and stroke?

In a recent study, 1,000 people — half of whom had experienced either a heart attack or stroke — were asked what they thought were the most important risk factors for both.

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HEALTH

Consumer group flags high SPF ratings on sunscreen

Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially...
HEALTH

Fate of LA pot shops left to voters

Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.
HEALTH

What do we eat? New food map will tell us

Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.
HEALTH

Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation

While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply.
HEALTH

Mice return from a month in space

A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind.
HEALTH

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.
LOCAL NEWS

Land deal to create HealthFirst's new clinic raises questions

Most agree a $11.7 million public health clinic that could help thousands of poor people get medical and dental treatment would be positive for Lexington. But opinions vary dramatically about benefits of the land deal between developer Ted J. Mims and HealthFirst Bluegrass to create the clinic at...
HEALTH

More than 3,000 participate in Heart Walk at Keeneland; $300,000 raised

And they were off — more than 3,000 participants in Saturday morning's Central Kentucky Heart Walk at Keeneland Race Course. The record crowd for the walk at the historic Thoroughbred race track in Lexington raised more than $300,000 to fight heart disease, America's No. 1 killer, said Matt...
FAMILY

Take care of your skin in the sun

As the weather turns warmer and children and adults spend more time outside, preventing sunburns becomes important. A sunburn occurs when the skin becomes burned from exposure to invisible light called ultraviolet (UV) light. UV light comes from the sun and can cause a sunburn when a person is in...
HEALTH

Learning about arthritis can help ease its pain

For most people, joint pains equate to arthritis, a part of the rite of passage for getting older. There is more to arthritis than meets the eye.