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Pennsylvanians Most at Risk for Lyme Disease

Pennsylvania has the most tick-borne diseases in the country, according to the Center for Disease Control. In 2017 there were 11,900 reported cases of Lyme disease in Pennsylvania, according to data from lymedisease.org. Ticks that carry Lyme disease have been found in each county. (more…)

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Protecting Your Children from Measles Outbreak

More than 1,00 people have contracted measles in the U.S. in 2019, according to the most recent Center for Disease Control and Prevention report. This is the largest measles outbreak in 25 years, a dramatic increase from the 372 cases in 2018. (more…)

Suicide Rate Doubles for Children of Opioid Users

Children of parents who use opioids have twice the suicide rate of other children, according to researchers from the Universities of Chicago and Pittsburgh. Nearly 700 children whose parents had filled opioid prescriptions in the last year attempted suicide while only 212 children whose parents had not used opioids tried to commit suicide, out of the 330,000 total children in the study, published in Psychiatry, an American Medical Association journal. These findings demonstrate that, independent of age, sex, location, or parental history of suicide attempts, parental opioid use doubles the risk for suicide attempts by their children. (more…)

Why Fentanyl is Leading to More Deaths than Ever

Today, America is facing a disturbing opioid phenomenon. Between 2011 and 2016, the rate of fentanyl-overdose fatalities shot up more than 1,000 percent. Starting in 2014, deaths due to fentanyl overdosing began to double, reports CNN. More than 4,223 deaths turned into 8,251 by 2015, and then a whopping 18,335 the following year. So, the question is, why has the death toll for this drug surpassed that of heroin, and who are the main victims? (more…)

Know your HPV ABC’s

What if you could prevent your children from getting cancer? Can you imagine having this superhero-like power? Well, you can stop imagining because this power is real. By giving your children the HPV shot—Gardasil 9—you can mitigate their risk of acquiring Human Papillomavirus (HPV), and thus, cancer. (more…)