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May
May 15, 2012 - 
"Older people, new experiences" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: You’re Never Too Old To Play (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
May 14, 2012 "Working down the risk" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Healthy Weight (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
May 11, 2012 - "Seniors vaccinations" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Vaccines.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
May 10, 2012 - "Overeating, aging and memory loss" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Understanding Memory Loss (National Institutes of Health)
May 9, 2012 - "Getting real about fitness" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Fitness.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
May 8, 2012 - "Talking quality before the ICU" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Patients in the ICU (National Institutes of Health)
May 7, 2012 - "You are what you eat" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Choose My Plate (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
May 4, 2012 - "What’s worked in weight loss" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Fitness.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
May 3, 2012 - "The Peter Pan drinker" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Binge Drinking (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
May 2, 2012 - "Calories and memory loss" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease (National Institutes of Health)
May 1, 2012 - "A grieving heart" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Symptoms of a Heart Attack (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
April
April 30, 2012 - "Cyberbullying" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: StopBullying.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 27, 2012 - "Quality care, quality schooling" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Helping Your Preschool Child (U.S. Department of Education)
April 26, 2012 - "Toddlers, smoke and allergies" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Secondhand Smoke (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 25, 2012 - "Changing over the generations" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Food Groups (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
April 24, 2012 - "The light sheds on melanoma" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Your Melanoma Risk (National Cancer Institute)
April 23, 2012 - "The effects of bullying" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: StopBullying.gov U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 20, 2012 - "Asleep" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Your Guide to Healthy Sleep (National Institutes of Health)
April 19, 2012 - "Fully vaccinated" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Vaccines.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 18, 2012 - "Getting our vitamins" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Vitamins (Food and Drug Administration)
April 17, 2012 - "Calling out Medicare scams" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Fraud Alert for People with Diabetes (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 16, 2012 - "Preventing bullying" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: StopBullying.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 13, 2012 - "It gets ugly with ducklings" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Salmonellosis (National Institutes of Health)
April 12, 2012 - "Tiny turtles" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Salmonellosis (National Institutes of Health)
April 11, 2012 - "Being active feels good" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 10, 2012 - "Mom’s ecstasy, Baby’s problems" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Pregnancy (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 9, 2012 - "Stop bullying" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: StopBullying.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
April 6, 2012 - "Fish oil and polyps" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Colonic Polyps (National Institutes of Health)
April 5, 2012 - "Watching out for glaucoma" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Glaucoma (National Institutes of Health)
April 4, 2012 - "How’s your A1C" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: The A1C Test and Diabetes (National Institutes of Health)
April 3, 2012 - "Growing away from the roots" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Choose My Plate (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
April 2, 2012 - "Kicking cancer to the curb" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Cancer Rates Decline (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
March
March 30, 2012 - "Breathing easy" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Breathing Better. Learn more about COPD (National Institutes of Health)
March 29, 2012 - "Oranges and strokes" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Stroke (National Institutes of Health)
March 28, 2012 - "Raw milk" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Got Raw Milk? Don’t Drink It (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 27, 2012 - "Active games, less-active kids" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Let’s Move! (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 26, 2012 - "Exercising this week" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Fitness.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 23, 2012 - "Seeing the doctor together" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Talking With Your Doctor (National Institutes of Health)
March 22, 2012 - "Working toward better health" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: My Family Health Portrait (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 21, 2012 - "Active brains" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: About Alzheimer’s Disease (National Institutes of Health)
March 20, 2012 - "Vitamin D and prediabetes" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Diabetes and Prediabetes (National Institutes of Health)
March 19, 2012 - "Close in on smoking" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Tips from Former Smokers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
March 16, 2012 - "Caring moms" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Parenting (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
March 15, 2012 - "No kidding with tobacco" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 14, 2012 - "Nurturing the brain" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Nurturing Moms (National Institutes of Health)
March 13, 2012 - "Cold and snowy" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Heart Diseases (National Institutes of Health)
March 12, 2012 - "Vitamin D and stroke" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Vitamin D (National Institutes of Health)
March 9, 2012 - "Good eating" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: The DASH Eating Plan (National Institutes of Health)
March 8, 2012 - "Missing the screen" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Cancer Screening (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 7, 2012 - "Sharp old thoughts" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Go4Life (National Institutes of Health)
March 6, 2012 - "Big shots" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Vaccines.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 5, 2012 - "Sugar-sweetened teens" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: What Is High Blood Pressure? (National Institutes of Health)
March 2, 2012 - "The host drinks the most" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: College Drinking (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
March 1, 2012 - "Staying afloat" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Drowning (National Institutes of Health)
February
February 29, 2012 - "On the binge" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Binge Drinking (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
February 28, 2012 - "Down and Eating" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Depression (National Institutes of Health)
February 27, 2012 - "Kids on salt" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Where’s the sodium? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
February 24, 2012 - "Pets, people and illness" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: AIDS.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
February 23, 2012 - "Slow carbs, fast carbs" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Carbohydrates (National Institutes of Health)
February 22, 2012 - "Screening, early and often" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Screening and Testing to Detect Cancer (National Cancer Institute)
February 21, 2012 - "Oversalted America" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Where’s the sodium? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
February 20, 2012 - "Sleeping and shift work" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Sleep Apnea (National Institutes of Health)
February 17, 2012 - "Working off the soda" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Physical Activity (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
February 16, 2012 - "Fighting stressful eating" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Managing Stress (National Institutes of Health)
February 15, 2012 - "Activity and amyloid" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Alzheimer ’s disease (National Institutes of Health)
February 14, 2012 - "Future mommies, cut the fat" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Gestational Diabetes (National Institutes of Health)
February 13, 2012 - "How much fun is safe" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Let’s Move Outside (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
February 10, 2012 - "The BMI app" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Calculate Your Body Mass Index (National Institutes of Health)
February 9, 2012 - "Vitamin D and older women" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Vitamin D (National Institutes of Health)
February 8, 2012 - "Baked, broiled, not fried" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Alzheimer ’s disease (National Institutes of Health)
February 7, 2012 - "Watching weight gain" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: ChooseMyPlate.gov (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
February 6, 2012 - "Minding meals out" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Enjoy your food, but eat less (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
February 3, 2012 - "The midlife heart crisis" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: High Blood Pressure (National Institutes of Health)
February 2, 2012 - "The little heart that could" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Pregnancy (National Institutes of Health)
February 1, 2012 - "Learning and waiting" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Healthy Marriage Initiative (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January
January 31, 2012 - "Fewer years for teens?" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: ChooseMyPlate.gov (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
January 30, 2012 - "Eat what? Fruits and veggies!" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: ChooseMyPlate.gov (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
January 27, 2012 - "Fighting diabetes" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Diabetes (National Institutes of Health)
January 26, 2012 - "Up to scale" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Let’s Move (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 25, 2012 - "Babies’ iron balance" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Iron (National Institutes of Health)
January 24, 2012 - "Text4baby" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Text4baby (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 23, 2012 - "Still time left" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Flu.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 20, 2012 - "Obese and HER2" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Breast Cancer (National Institutes of Health)
January 19, 2012 - "Smoke-free teen texts" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Smokefree.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 18, 2012 - "High numbers on high blood pressure" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: What is High Blood Pressure? (National Institutes of Health)
January 17, 2012 - "Children attempting suicide" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Suicide Prevention (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
January 16, 2012 - "No time to play" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Let’s Move (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 13, 2012 - "Planning and managing diabetes" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Eat Healthy (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 12, 2012 - "Fighting breast cancer risk young" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Breast Cancer: Prevention, Genetics, and Causes (National Cancer Institute)
January 11, 2012 - "Even bigger" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Fitness.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 10, 2012 - "Coffee up, depression down" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Depression (National Institutes of Health)
January 9, 2012 - "Commit to quit" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Smokefree.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 6, 2012 - "The coffee-only break?" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Eat Healthy (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 5, 2012 - "Keeping up with the medications" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Your Medicine: Be Smart. Be Safe. (Agency for Health Care Research and Quality)
January 4, 2012 - "Safe kids’ activities" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Let’s Move: Get Active (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
January 3, 2012 - "A sweet risk" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Healthy Snacks: Quick tips for parents (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
January 2, 2012 - "Losing and staying lost" [read tip]
- Take the Next Step: Healthy People (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)