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	Treatment For Depression 3 Comments Last Updated: 3:32 PM 01/27/10 - There are a number of different treatments for depression, but do they all work for all types of the disease? Doctor Nancy Van Vessem, M.D. takes a look. (Full Story)
	Superbugs and Antibiotics Be the first to comment! Last Updated: 3:41 PM 12/30/09 - What is a superbug and why is it a threat? Doctor Nancy Van Vessem explains. (Full Story)
	Cervical Cancer Screenings & HPV Be the first to comment! Last Updated: 4:16 PM 11/25/09 - Recommendations for cervical cancer screening have changed recently. Are the changes safe and what is the reason behind them? Local doctor Nancy Van Vessem explains. (Full Story)
	FSU Celebrates Great American Smokeout Be the first to comment! Last Updated: 6:31 PM 11/18/09 - Music and laughter filled the air at Florida State University. Games and interactive exhibits were on hand to encourage students to clear the air of cigarette smoke. (Full Story)
	Man's Lung Ailment Caused by Fragment of Fast Food Spoon 1 Comment Last Updated: 6:33 PM 09/19/09 - "I know I didn't chow down on a spoon!" declared John Manley, who recently discovered that an eating utensil was the source of his two years of ill health, coughing, vomiting and pain. (Full Story)
	Health Care-Primary Care 2 Comments Last Updated: 6:18 PM 09/13/09 - 50 million new patients? More primary docs a must. (Full Story)
	Flu Drugs 1 Comment Last Updated: 6:12 PM 09/13/09 - New drug fights flu as well as Tamiflu does. (Full Story)
	Stop Calling it Swine Flu! 4 Comments Last Updated: 11:25 PM 09/12/09 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture symbolically slapped the news media on the hand Thursday for perpetuating the term “swine” flu in reports about the new H1N1 strain of influenza that’s spreading across the world. (Full Story)
	Southwest Health District launches toll-free Flu Hotline Be the first to comment! Last Updated: 9:48 PM 09/11/09 - Southwest Health District launches toll-free Flu Hotline in English and Spanish. (Full Story)
	30 Day Hospital Readmissions Be the first to comment! Last Updated: 3:54 PM 07/29/09 - Almost one fifth of Medicare beneficiaries who had been discharged from a hospital went back into the hospital within 30 days and 34% were rehospitalized within 90 days. Most of these rehospitalizations were unplanned and represented a cost to taxpayers of $17.4 billion dollars in 2004. (Full Story)
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