Walking is medicine? It helped high-risk seniors stay mobile and other top stories.

• Walking is medicine? It helped high-risk seniors stay mobile

  Walking is medicine? It helped high-risk seniors stay mobile WASHINGTON — It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity — mostly walking — helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes.One health policy specialist said the study released Monday suggests prescribing exercise may be just as important as prescribing medications."Once you lose that mobility piece of your life, then you really lose indep..

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• Americas becomes first region to eliminate measles: health agency

  

  The Americas has become the first region in the world to be free of measles, following a 22-year vaccination drive against the disease which continues to infect tens of thousands of people globally, the Pan American Health Organization said on Tuesday. The milestone was confirmed after no cases of the highly contagious disease originating in the Americas were recorded in at least three years, the PAHO said. "This is truly a historic deed," said Carissa Etienne, director of the PAHO, which serve..

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• Health & Fitness File

  

  Ascension All Saints HealthcareBRIDGING THE GAPS IN MENTAL HEALTH SYMPOSIUM: MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY IS REAL: The event will feature four personal mental illness recovery stories and a panel discussion on the status of mental health in Racine County. An individual will be honored with the first annual Luann Simpson Commitment to Recovery Award. 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6, Ascension All Saints Hospital, 3801 Spring St. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Free. Registration is required, go to http://goo.gl/4F9Bb..

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• 4 new non-travel-related Zika cases reported in Miami-Dade County

  

  MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - The Florida Department of Health announced four new non-travel-related cases of the Zika virus on Tuesday.All of the cases are in Miami-Dade County though it is unclear where within the county the exposure occurred. According to the DOH, one of the newly infected people is not a Florida resident. The DOH also announced five new travel-related cases in the state. Two of those cases are in Miami-Dade County, one is in Osceola, one is in Clay and the last case involves a ..

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• More talks planned in effort to end Minnesota nurses strike

  

  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - More negotiations are planned in an effort to resolve a nurses’ strike at five Twin Cities-area hospitals that began over three weeks ago.A federal mediator called both sides back to the bargaining table Tuesday for the first time since the walkout began Labor Day in a dispute over health insurance, workplace safety and staffing levels.A statement issued by Allina Health says both sides agreed to adjourn late Tuesday night and to reconvene Wednesday morning to continue their d..

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• Simplifying Healthcare Is The Best Way To Take Care Of Workers

  

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• A US doctor went to Mexico to help a Jordanian couple conceive a baby with 3 genetic parents. What's next?

  

  (iStock) Thanks to a new in vitro fertilization process, a baby has been born with genetic information from three adults. In what some fertility scientists are hailing as a breakthrough, a boy with donated mitochondrial DNA is healthy at 5 months old, according to a New Scientist report. The experimental — and controversial — process involved parties from across the world. A U.S. fertility doctor, New York-based physician John Zhang, assisted a mother and father from Jordan during a procedur..

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• If You're Nauseated And Pregnant, There's A Reason To Celebrate

  

  (Reuters Health) - For women with a history of miscarriage, experiencing nausea and vomiting during subsequent pregnancy attempts is linked to higher odds of success, a U.S. study suggests. “This study came from the long-standing idea that nausea and vomiting in pregnancy indicated that a woman was still pregnant,” said lead study author Stefanie Hinkle, a scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. As many as 80 percent of pregnant women experience nausea, vomiting, or..

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• Cracks Appear In Blue Cross' Obamacare Fire Wall

  

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