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TMA Health Tips are news releases that TMA issues about important public health topics. The tips are distributed to newspapers, radio stations, television stations, and employee publications.
Topics have included the importance of immunizations, the dangers of fad diets, increasing HIV infection rates among minority populations, and tips on how to avoid skin cancer by protecting yourself from the sun's harmful rays. TMA Health Tips also are available in Spanish for Spanish-language media.
Reporters and editors can receive the health tips via e-mail by contacting the TMA Media and Public Relations Department at Brent Annear.
Para más avisos de TMA sobre la Salud en Espanol, oprima aquí.
See below for links to the complete set.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Spotting a Drinking Problem in Your Child
Teens and Tobacco: A Troubling Trend
Know Your Risks Concerning Smokeless Tobacco
Cancer
Prostate Cancer Risk Factors The Lowdown on Prostate Cancer
Teens and Tobacco: A Troubling Trend
Know Your Risks Concerning Smokeless Tobacco
Good Nutrition May Help Prevent Cancer
Be Sensible in the Sun to Prevent Cancer
Working on a Killer Tan?
Communicating With Your Doctor About Alternative Therapies
Children's Health
Topping Parents’ Pre-Summer Checklist: Properly-Fitting Bike Helmets
Parents Can Better Protect Children’s Health
Giving a Bike? Then Give a Helmet, and Fit it Right, Physicians Urge
One’s Not Enough: Second Chickenpox Shot Now Recommended
Physicians Urge Bike Helmet Use: Safe Riding PrePrevents Head Injuries - May is Bike Safety Month
Parents Can Now Better Manage Their Tot’s Shots
Physicians Encourage Bicycle Helmets for Holiday Gifts
Texas Medical Association Doctors Urge Children to Wear Bicycle Helmets
Physicians Hope Vaccinations Replace Chickenpox Parties
Hard Hats for Little Heads, Safe Riding Habits Help Prevent Bicycle Injuries
Physical Inactivity, Bad Diets Harm Kids — English Spanish
ADHD: What Is It? — English Spanish
Baking Baby
Chicken Pox Can and Should Be Prevented
Heart Disease Can Begin in Childhood
Protect Your Children's Future With Health Insurance
Can Genetic Testing Help You or Your Family?
Getting Ready for a Health Pregnancy
Child Abuse is a Virus Poisoning Texas Children
Teens and Tobacco: A Troubling Trend
The Truth About Vaccines — English Spanish
Should Your Child Get the Chickenpox Vaccine?
Spotting a Drinking Problem in Your Child
Nourish Your Baby the Way Nature Intended
Adolescents at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Protect Your Child with Immunizations
Use Your Head When Riding a Bike
Antibiotics: When Are They Necessary?
Chronic Illnesses
Don't Be in the Dark About Hepatitis C
Protect Yourself from Osteoporosis
Good Nutrition Best Bet Against Disease
Heart Disease: It Kills Women, Too
Can Genetic Testing Help You or Your Family?
When Is It a Cough and When Is It Something More?
Osteoporosis Can Lead to Broken Bones
Prostate Cancer: Treatable With Early Detection
Texans and AIDS
Make Prevention a Partnership
Infectious Diseases Make Unwanted Comeback
Good Nutrition May Help Prevent Cancer
Protect Your Child With Immunizations
Know Your Risk Factors to Prevent Stroke
Environment Can Affect Your Health
Exercise Will Improve Your Life
Communicating With Your Doctor About Alternative Therapies
Immunizations: They Aren't Just for Children
Diet and Nutrition
Good Nutrition Best Bet Against Disease
Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
Diet Pill Safety
Getting Ready for a Healthy Pregnancy
Shed Pounds Safely
Nourish Your Baby the Way Nature Intended
Good Nutrition May Help Prevent Cancer
Sick at Your Stomach -- A Lesson in Food Safety
Exercise Will Improve Your Life
General Health
RadioTMA: Easy Way to Help Thwart MRSA? Hum a Tune When Washing Hands, Texas Physicians Say
Easy Way to Help Thwart MRSA? Hum a Tune When Washing Hands, Texas Physicians Say
Last Year’s Hurricanes Improving This Year’s Disaster Preparations
The best way to care for yourself? Get a “medical home”
Texas Physicians Fight for Flu Vaccine for Their Patients
After Mumps Outbreak, Physicians Call Vaccines “First Line of Defense”
Knowing Your Medicine Can Be a Matter of Life and Death
Season of Renewal Also Celebration of Life
Look Carefully Online before You Leap to Medical Conclusions
Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions
Beating the Holiday Blues
Elder Abuse: The Silent Epidemic
Don't Get Stressed Out
Immunizations: They Aren't Just for Children
Small Injuries Can Mean Big Problems
This Holiday Season, Give the Ultimate Gift
Prevent Heat Stroke
Depression Often Goes Untreated
Domestic Violence Hits Home for Many
Summer Is Time for Heat-Related Illnesses
Prevention Key to Avoiding Eye Injuries
Be Prepared For Flu Season By Getting Immunized Early
Environment Can Affect Your Health
Exercise Will Improve Your Life
Communicating With Your Doctor About Alternative Therapies
Heart Disease and Stroke
Physical Inactivity, Bad Diets Harm Kids —English Spanish
Good Nutrition Best Bet Against Disease
Heart Disease: It Kills Women, Too
Can Genetic Testing Help Your Family?
Stroke Prevention
Know Your Risk Factors to Prevent Stroke
Exercise Will Improve Your Life
Communicating With Your Doctor About Alternative Therapies
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Adolescents at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Health Officials Seek to Eliminate Syphilis
Women's Health
Protect Yourself from Osteoporosis
Breast Cancer and Minorities
Good Nutrition Best Bet Against Disease
Be Sensible to Prevent Skin Cancer
Heart Disease: It Kills Women, Too
Can Genetic Testing Help You or Your Family?
Beating the Holiday Blues
Getting Ready for a Healthy Pregnancy
Diet Pill Safety
Don't Get Stressed Out
Osteoporosis Can Lead to Broken Bones
Working on a Killer Tan?
Shed Pounds Safely
Nourish Your Baby the Way Nature Intended
Domestic Violence Hits Home for Many
Exercise Will Improve Your Life
Communicating With Your Doctor About Alternative Therapies
Antibiotics: When Are They Necessary?
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