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Thanks for visiting our Health Information page. The Savannah CW wants all of our viewers (and everyone else too, for that matter) to live healthy lifestyles. Through partnerships with St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital (see their video to the right) and others, we hope to help encourage healthy living.
Also check out the AJC's Health News feed below. It updates several times a day so keep checking back.
A closer look at macular dystrophy
Fox News pundit Glenn Beck's announcement that he is losing his vision shed light on an eye condition rarely discussed.
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Grady doctor reappointed to national advisory council
Dr. Jeffrey P. Salomone, deputy chief of surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, has been reappointed to the National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council by U.S.
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Mike Wood of Milledgeville loses 48 pounds
Former weight : 238 pounds Current weight: 190 pounds Pounds lost: 48 Height: 5 feet 10 1/2 inches How long he’s kept it off : He started in August 2009 and met his goal in November; he set a new goal and met that in May.
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Finding fitness in a fattening world
The best formula for weight loss is and always has been consuming fewer calories and burning more of them through exercise.
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Yolanda Adams brings hypertension message to Atlanta
Grammy-winning gospel singer Yolanda Adams will bring her hypertension awareness campaign to Atlanta this weekend.
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Snack attack: Schools try to get the junk out
SAN FRANCISCO - It's not hard to figure out that stocking school vending machines with sugary sodas and salty, fatty snacks is a bad idea.
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Proponents say raw foods deliver healing enzymes, nutrients
Jack Woods plans to stay healthy and alive by eating more foods that are, he says, healthy and alive.
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Some preventive care to have no out-of-pocket cost
WASHINGTON - From counseling for kids who struggle with their weight, to cancer screenings for their parents, preventive health care will soon be available at no out-of-pocket cost under consumer rules the Obama administration unveiled Wednesday.
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Alice Ann Hamilton, 79: Former DeKalb educator "got her life back" at Emory cardiac program
Alice Ann Hamilton had always walked for exercise. In 1991 those walks, and physical exercise in general, took on new meaning after the retired DeKalb County educator suffered a heart attack.
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Atlanta-based CDC at center of new U.S. HIV/AIDS strategy
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday released a national strategy aimed at reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 25 percent over the next five years, giving the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a lead role in the rollout of the plan.
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