Health Basics
Mark Hooper

About Asthma

KEY POINTS Asthma is a disease that affects your lungs. It is one of the most common long-term diseases of children, but adults can have

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Health Tips
Mark Hooper

What Women Say About Migraine

January 25, 2019 Office on Women’s Health What’s a migraine headache like? Migraine headaches affect more women than men, and each woman who lives with this

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Health Basics
Mark Hooper

Facts About Falls

AT A GLANCE Each year, millions of older people—those 65 and older—fall. In fact, more than one out of four older people falls each year,

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Health Tips
Mark Hooper

About Healthy Weight and Growth

KEY POINTS Parents and caregivers can help children have healthy growth and a healthy weight. Achieving healthy growth and weight includes healthy eating, physical activity,

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Health Tips
Mark Hooper

Preventing Mosquito Bites

KEY POINTS Take steps to protect yourself and your family from mosquito bites that can make you sick. Use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered insect repellents.

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Health Basics
Mark Hooper

Positive Youth Development

“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt Address at the University

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Learning Center
Mark Hooper

About Transportation Safety

HIGHLIGHTS Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in the US. Deaths from crashes in 2020 resulted in over $430 billion in total

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Health Basics
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Older Adult Health

Print Data are for the U.S. Life expectancy at 65 years Both sexes: 18.9 years Men: 17.5 years Women: 20.2 years Source: Mortality in the

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Health Basics
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Kids and Their Bones

Osteoporosis is a bone disease that develops when bone mineral density and bone mass decreases, or when the quality or structure of bone changes. This

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