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Data Doctors: What are Google Beacons? 10/26/2018 12:32am • Q: Why did Google send me a Beacon and what will it do for my business? A: Beacon technology designed to help the retail industry has been around since 2013, but it’s just now becoming more mainstream. It can do many things but the most common use case is to transmit information to visitors 5 Places to Get Health Care That Aren't a Clinic 10/25/2018 08:00pm • Not 'just a trim' A man walked into a barbershop to get a haircut and walked out understanding, for the first time, that he had high blood pressure. This is not a punchline: It's the story of some of many African-American men who've participated in barbershop-based health interventions. 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So while other new graduates enrolled in university courses, Cham took full-time jobs. Over the next seven years, she worked at a movie theater, as a nanny and at a colle 12 Things You Should Know About Stomach Flu in Children 10/24/2018 08:00pm • It's the middle of the night. You're sound asleep -- or you were. You slightly arouse to a bit of rustling, and nearly fall back asleep, when you hear a small voice. You snap awake, heart racing. Then your child clearly repeats one of the most horrifying phrases a parent can hear in the middle of t Questions to Ask When a Loved One Is Diagnosed with Alzheimer's or Dementia 10/23/2018 08:00pm • It starts out slowly, almost imperceptibly. The misplaced keys. The forgotten birthday or anniversary. Using the wrong word or losing the thread in mid-conversation. These are often dismissed as typical signs of aging, but in some people, they may be the earliest signs that something bigger is at w Polio-Like Illness Appears Among Children Again 10/23/2018 08:00pm • It starts with everyday cold or flu-like symptoms that appear to go away. Soon after, however, harsher symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis show up with a vengeance. Right now, the seasonal illness is more prevalent than in previous years. AFM causes severe muscle weakness or paralysis, primarily in t 10 Colleges With the Most Undergraduates 10/22/2018 08:00pm • The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: Concerns About the Flu Shot: Answered 10/22/2018 08:00pm • Around this time every year, I'm faced with the task of explaining to patients and their families why it's important to get an annual influenza vaccine. I am an infectious diseases physician at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, New York, and I care for children who are especially Who Can Help Me With Kidney Problems? 10/21/2018 08:00pm • If you were to think of your body as a city, the kidneys could be considered the municipal wastewater treatment plant. Our bodies generate waste products. They're shunted into the blood, which then travels to the kidneys for filtration. The waste products are removed and the clean blood is ushered Weigh an Online Master's Program to Study International Business 10/21/2018 08:00pm • Ed Galasso may be 67 years old, but he has no plans to stop working completely. The South Carolina resident, who describes himself as semi-retired, owns a telecommunications consulting firm, and he just recently earned an online international MBA from Southern New Hampshire University. For Galasso, Slap happy: One physical therapist wants to smack your chronic pain away 10/19/2018 02:00pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '6ee51e3c-1b33-4cee-8699-e78b58d38c71' }).render("346615364798cad7");}); WASHINGTON – Slapping and prodding mi Which is best for iPhone users: Apple Maps or Google Maps? 10/19/2018 08:20am • Q: Which mapping app is best for iPhone users, Apple Maps or Google Maps? Google Maps has been the standard-bearer since its launch in 2005 and was the default mapping program on the iPhone until Apple launched their own navigation platform in 2012. Anyone that was using an iPhone when they in 'Farther beyond that finish line': Md. woman's first marathon part of her weight loss journey 10/19/2018 04:46am • WASHINGTON — If just a few years ago you had told Constance Roberts of Montgomery Village, Maryland, that she’d be running a marathon, and be excited to do it, she probably not only wouldn’t have believed you, she’d probably have called you a jerk or something worse. Growing up, Roberts w