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3rd Annual Sickle Cell Disease Education Symposium

September 1, 2010
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Share The Office of Civic Engagement is partnering with Center of Disease Control and Prevention to host the 3rd Annual Sickle Cell Disease Education Symposium. The evening will include presentations from a historian that will provide an overview of the first two case histories of sickle cell disease, a CDC scientist will discuss the public [...]

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March: The National Nutrition Month

March 13, 2010
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Share You’ve probably heard the phrase “you are what you eat”. It’s true that food is broken down and transformed into cells, hormones, muscles and YOU! When you think of food in this way, it can be easier to make healthy and nutritious choices for your body. March is the National Nutrition Month and today [...]

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Increasing school-based health centers with an oral health component

December 15, 2009
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Share Author: Dr. Arana “Dental caries is the single most common chronic disease of childhood, occurring five to eight times as frequently as asthma, the second most common chronic disease in children. Despite the reduction in cases of caries in recent years, more than half of all children have caries by the second grade, and, [...]

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