Health

New Jersey lawmakers will vote on a bill today that would create mold remediation and exposure standards for residential buildings.

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Every parent knows to store medicine out of the reach of small children and yet, each year more than 67,000 youngsters are treated in emergency rooms for unintentional poisoning, which is a 30 percent increase over the last decade.

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The definition of child abuse would expand to include a child subject to prenatal exposure to a controlled, dangerous substance under a new bill introduced by Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon.

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This is National Poison Prevention Week, and New Jersey health officials are reminding residents to beware of the dangers of "unintentional poisoning."

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Geriatric Depression is not new, but as Baby Boomer's continue to age we are going to see a whole lot more of it, so says Geriatric Psychiatrist Dr. Muralidhar Krishnaiah.

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A 20-minute nap twice a week is the standard at Nationwide Planning Associates Inc. in Paramus, where an old storage closet has been transformed into the office's "rejuvenation center."

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The New Jersey Health Department has declared a state-wide public health alert after identifying a third Garden State resident who is believed to have come down with measles and who possibly exposed hundreds to the illness. 

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When PepsiCo Inc. announced it would stop putting an obscure vegetable oil in its Gatorade right before the Super Bowl, one of the loudest cheers came from a high school student who had made it her mission to get rid of the ingredient.

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New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell wants Congress to reauthorize the Traumatic Brain Injury Act, which he says is crucial for helping war veterans and athletes afflicted with this condition.

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