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News for the Carolinas
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Friday, May 31, 2013
More than 80,000 people in South Carolina over the age of 65 are currently living with Alzheimer's Disease, and that number is expected to increase to 100,000 by the year 2025.
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Friday, May 17, 2013
Researchers studied the water in pool filters, and found 58 percent of the samples tested positive for E. Coli, a bacteria normally found in feces and the human gut.
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Saturday, April 13, 2013
Saturday marked the first-ever Jazz for a Cure Walk and Run in Atlantic Beach. The event was held to raise money and awareness for multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease that affects the central nervous system.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The disease is a fungus that's deadly to bats and it's recently been discovered in South Carolina.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
A disease that has killed millions of bats in the eastern U.S. has reached South Carolina.
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Thursday, March 07, 2013
There's a new risk for anyone who has to go to the hospital. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there's been an alarming rise in "superbugs", deadly bacteria that are resistant to just about any antibiotic.
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Thursday, February 07, 2013
If doctors can not reduce the growing number of Alzheimer's disease patients, medical cost could reach up to $1 trillion per year, suggests a Journal of Neurology study.
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Friday, February 01, 2013
According to the American Heart Association since 1984, more women than men have died each year from heart disease. That's why many people are wore red Friday, to bring awareness to a national campaign highlighting the dangers of heart disease in women.
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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Be sure to show your support in the fight against Heart Disease Friday by wearing red.
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Flu season in the U.S. is off to its earliest start in nearly a decade - and it could be a bad one.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
A Grand Strand doctor says more people are getting sick with the flu virus because more people are becoming unhealthy.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
There are a number of diseases that are deadly, but a new survey show Alzheimer's is the one people fear the most, even topping cancer. More than half of the people surveyed by the Marist Institute say they feel unprepared to care for a loved one diagnosed with the disease.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
An increase of mosquito-borne disease activity in 2012 has prompted state health officials to remind the public of steps to protect themselves from mosquito-borne diseases, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control reported Wednesday.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Health officials say one of two North Carolina victims of the fungal meningitis outbreak has died, raising the nationwide death toll to 23.
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