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Open enrollment season: Don't ignore your healthcare options

Open enrollment season: Don't ignore your healthcare options

CLEVELAND -- Chances are you may have noticed your healthcare costs have jumped. Nationwide, they're up an average of 10 percent.

Food for Thought: Gluten-free

Food for Thought: Gluten-free

Maybe you've noticed some label changes on products at the grocery store. But do you know what "gluten-free" means, and who needs these products? 

State relaxes flu face mask recommendation

CLEVELAND -- State health officials have agreed to ease their recommendation that health care workers wear snug-fitting respirator masks when dealing with swine flu.

Food for Thought: Dye intolerance

Food for Thought: Dye intolerance

Food dyes add no nutritional value or flavor to foods, but you will find them listed among ingredients in hundreds of store-bought products. Dyes are used to make foods look more appetizing.

Food For Thought: Fructose Intolerance

Food For Thought: Fructose Intolerance

A diet rich in fruits and vegetables sounds like the perfect prescription for good health. But for a growing number of people, the foods that are supposed to help keep them well are actually making them sick.

Cuyahoga County: Daily update on flu shots available

Cuyahoga County: Daily update on flu shots available

CLEVELAND -- Three health departments in Cuyahoga County have teamed up with United Way's 2-1-1 Call for Help to bring you daily updates on available flu shots.

Ohio's Sherrod Brown introduces extended health coverage bill for unemployed

Ohio's Sherrod Brown introduces extended health coverage bill for unemployed

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Robert P. Casey (D-PA) introduced a bill Thursday to extend the "COBRA" subsidy which helps unemployed workers and their families afford temporary health care cover

Majority leader: House will pass health bill

WASHINGTON -- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation Saturday to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and ban insurance companies from turning people away.

FDA launches plan to curb accidental overdoses

FDA launches plan to curb accidental overdoses

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors, misuse and other problems.

Food For Thought: Weston Price Diet

Food For Thought: Weston Price Diet

It's not the Atkins or South Beach diet, but you will find eggs, dairy, and high fat meats like bacon on its "accepted eating" list.

Lawmaker wants sick pay for workers with swine flu

WASHINGTON -- A senior House lawmaker is asking Congress to guarantee paid sick leave to workers if their employer asks them to stay home with swine flu or a similar contagious illness.

Friend to Friend: Survivor starts business to help others

Friend to Friend: Survivor starts business to help others

BAINBRIDGE -- We met Melissa Pantel-Ku four years ago, right after her breast cancer treatment.

Couple buys prosthetic leg off of Ebay and gets woman back on her feet

Couple buys prosthetic leg off of Ebay and gets woman back on her feet

ORVILLE -- There is an ironic benefit to war. So many veterans are surviving horrific explosions that it's prompted prosthetic companies to put new devices on the fast track. 

NIH official vouches for safety of flu vaccine

WASHINGTON -- A leading government health figure says tests on millions of people who have received the H1N1 flu vaccine show that it's safe and effective.

1 dose of flu vaccine working in pregnant women

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials say pregnant women get good results from just a single dose of swine flu vaccine, but young children still need two treatments.

WKYC: 'Food for Thought' series looks at evolving food choices

WKYC: 'Food for Thought' series looks at evolving food choices

Just like any other workplace, we have some great watercooler conversations here at WKYC.

More swine flu vaccine being distributed in Ohio

More swine flu vaccine being distributed in Ohio

COLUMBUS -- State officials say nearly 390,000 more doses of swine flu vaccine are on the way to replenishing local health departments and hospitals around Ohio.

Ohio Dep't. of Health: Additional doses of H1N1 ordered

Ohio Dep't. of Health: Additional doses of H1N1 ordered

COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Department of Health has requested an additional 398,500 doses of the H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Ground beef recalled over E. coli illnesses

Ground beef recalled over E. coli illnesses

ASHVILLE, N.Y. -- A New York meat company has recalled almost 546,000 pounds of ground beef because, according to health officials, contaminated meat has caused illness and one death.

Compromise health reform bill gaining liberal dems

WASHINGTON -- Liberal Democrats appear to be coalescing around the compromise health care bill that's set to go before the House this week.

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