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The County Health and Human Services Agency is urging San Diegans to get their flu shot now to prevent getting the virus and making others sick. It takes about two weeks for immunity to develop.
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County Public Health Officer Wilma Wooten and city officials urged San Diegans to get vaccinated now before the flu starts to spread.
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How are you feeling today? It seems like a casual question, but the answer could give insight into the status of your mental health. We often overlook our mental health. Getting screened for depression should be an important part of your health care regimen, much like checking your blood pressure or getting screened for heart […]
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Drug abuse. Mental illness. School violence. If you’ve been affected or are concerned about these and other behavioral health issues, the County Health and Human Services Agency wants to hear from you.
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J.R. Martinez never wanted to be a motivational speaker. That was never in his plans. But the wounded U.S. Army veteran, actor, advocate and best-selling author found himself center stage at Tuesday’s Live Well San Diego Advance telling his story and inspiring the estimated 1,300 attendees to take control of their lives and use their […]
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Cases and rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in San Diego County continued to rise for the third consecutive year in 2017 and were at the highest level in the last two decades.
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For the second time this semester, a San Diego State University undergraduate student has been hospitalized with serogroup B meningococcal disease.