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The Reality of Traffic Injuries
August 19, 2010We all want to keep our children safe and secure and help them live to their full potential. Knowing how to prevent leading causes of child injury, like road traffic injuries, is a step toward this goal.Every… read more
Learning About Fragile X Syndrome
August 12, 2010Fragile X is a group of genetic disorders that can affect individuals and their families in many ways because they are all caused by changes in the same gene, the Fragile X Mental Retardation 1 (FMR1)… read more
Handling the Heat of Summer
August 5, 2010Getting too hot can make you sick. You can become ill from the heat if your body can't compensate for it and properly cool you off. Heat exposure can even kill you: it caused 8,015 deaths in the United… read more
Whooping Cough Epidemic
July 29, 2010Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits California: Six Babies DieIn several of Dr. Walt Larimore's past blogs, including two earlier this week (Low immunization rates linked to epidemic spread of whooping cough… read more
Preventing Diabetes
July 22, 2010Preventing DiabetesMore than 20 million people in the United States suffer from type 2 diabetes and tens of millions more are at risk. This video, from the CDC, offers simple steps that can prevent or… read more




