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OHA: Check Your Home For Radon
OHA: Check Your Home For Radon
OHA: Check Your Home For Radon
The Oregon Health Authority wants you to check your home for a potentially cancer-causing gas.  Radon can build up in your home and you'd never know it.  The OHA’s Brett Sherry says it's invisible and doesn't smell.   "Radon is a natu...
WSU Extension Works To Address Food Safety
WSU Extension Works To Address Food Safety
WSU Extension Works To Address Food Safety
Billions of dollars in the economy and the health of millions of people in Washington depend on safe-to-eat foods in grocery stores, farmers markets and restaurants.  Three Washington State University Extension professions are working to ensure that meals and snacks are safe to consume, locally, nationally and even internationally.  Claire ...
Expanding Food Access for Students
Expanding Food Access for Students
Expanding Food Access for Students
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it is giving an estimated 3,000 more school districts in high-need areas the option to serve breakfast and lunch to all students at no cost, by expanding the availability of the Community Eligibility Provision, commonly known as CEP.
COVID Vaccine May Be Like Flu Shot In The Future
COVID Vaccine May Be Like Flu Shot In The Future
COVID Vaccine May Be Like Flu Shot In The Future
It's looking more and more likely that COVID vaccinations will be similar to flu shots.  Oregon State Health Officer Dr. Dean Sidelinger said the COVID vaccines are effective.   "The current COVID-19 bivalent booster that we got, it seems to be holding up and offering effective protection against severe disease and death."   Side...
COVID Continues To Linger In Rural America
COVID Continues To Linger In Rural America
COVID Continues To Linger In Rural America
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to linger even as society and rural communities are ready to move on.  Dr. Michael Stevens, West Virginia University System Health Care Epidemiologist, Morgantown, West Virginia, said rural communities have seen disproportionate levels of COVID   “Rural communities have been disproportionately affected and impacted by the pandemic in terms of having more severe COVI
Farmers Must Think About Skin Care
Farmers Must Think About Skin Care
Farmers Must Think About Skin Care
Whether temperatures climb above 90 degrees or remain relatively cool, it’s important that everyone in the farming community thinks about skin care this summer and protecting the body’s largest organ.  One in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, and Melissa Ploeckelman with the National Farm Medicine Center says for farmers it’s incredibly important they think about sun safet

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