The head of a group that spearheaded a $1 increase in the state’s tobacco tax five years ago wants another increase to combat what he called stagnated smoking rates among adults and children.

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NEW YORK — Parents are reporting more skin and food allergies in their children, a big government survey found. Experts aren’t sure what’s behind the increase. Could it be that children are growing up in households so clean that it ...

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The Defense Department says a man whose organs were donated to four people before it was learned he had rabies was in the Air Force. Spokeswoman Cynthia Wright identified the donor as a 20-year-old North Carolina man who had been ...

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NEW YORK — The fungus found in tainted steroid shots matches the one blamed in the national meningitis outbreak that has killed 20 people, federal health officials said Thursday. The match confirms the link between the outbreak and the maker ...

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WASHINGTON — Maryland health department officials are now reporting 13 meningitis cases linked to a spinal steroid injection for back pain. The state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene updated its totals on Thursday. A spokeswoman says the number of ...

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A state work group on private laboratories that handle dangerous pathogens is holding its first meeting at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in Baltimore. Tuesday’s meeting could eventually lead to greater oversight of private labs with so-called bio-containment ...

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Just like any other non-flesh eating human, I have always had an interest in zombies. I hate to say it, but these days I am on the verge of OD’ing on them. The string of recent disturbing events has been ...

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ATLANTA — In a graphic new ad campaign announced Thursday, the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with the sometimes-gruesome stories of people damaged by tobacco products. The new effort confronts a hard truth: Despite increased tobacco taxes ...

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PITTSBURGH — One of the government’s top scientists says much more research is needed to determine the possible impacts of shale gas drilling on human health and the environment. “Studies should include all the ways people can be exposed, such ...

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WASHINGTON — Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam can rest easy. Government officials fine-tuning guidelines for marketing food to children say they won’t push the food industry to get rid of colorful cartoon characters on cereal boxes anytime soon. Allowing ...

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