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| Appetite-Curbing Implant for Severely Obese TUESDAY, June 17, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A new implant designed to curb the appetite by electrically stimulating stomach nerves is under review Tuesday by a key advisory committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The device is aimed at ...
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| Chimerix to Present at the JMP Securities Healthcare Conference DURHAM, N.C., June 17, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chimerix, Inc. (Nasdaq:CMRX), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, oral antivirals in areas of high unmet medical need, today announced that M. Michelle Berrey, M.D., M.P.H., President, ...
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| Could ignorance of illness be better for mental health? NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who don't know they have health problems rate their own health as good, according to a new study, but their self-image worsens when they're aware of their diagnosis. Based on a large population survey in Norway, the ...
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Dr. Oz scolded by lawmakers at Senate hearing over weight loss products Even Dr. Oz might need a doctor after the beating he took on Capitol Hill. Famed television doctor Mehmet Oz sparred with lawmakers Tuesday when he testified before a Senate panel to defend his frequent claims that certain products can cause “miracle” ...
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Bill That Would Have Made California First State to Require Warnings on Sugary ... Bill that would have made California first state to require warnings on sugary drinks fails. Join the Discussion. You are using an outdated version of Internet Explorer. Please click here to upgrade your browser in order to comment. Please enable JavaScript to ...
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Stress hormone cortisol linked with short-term memory loss "Stress hormones are one mechanism that we believe leads to weathering of the brain," said co-author Jason Radley. By Brooks Hays | June 17, 2014 at 11:51 PM | Comments. share with facebook. 0. share with twitter. 0. share with linkedin. 0. share with ...
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Chronic Stress Can Impair Your Memory Cortisol is the hormone associated with stress that increases the brain's ability to encode and recall traumatic events. Excessive release of this hormone can cause chronic stress, which can then lead to memory impairment or mental illness. (Photo : Becky ...
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Burned Ukrainian boy jubilant over ability to walk In this Wednesday, May 28, 2014 photo, Ihor Lakatosh crawls out of a cloth tunnel as therapist Katherine Hartigan watches at Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston. Ihor had been burned in Ukraine, where his mother abandoned him at a hospital in 2011.
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Low Vitamin D Levels May Lead to Cancer Researchers found that not having enough sun may increase the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease. The latest study involved 26,018 patients. Study data revealed that during the study there were 6,695 deaths, of which 2,624 were from cardiovascular ...
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FDA Seeks to Have Food Companies Reduce Salt in Products Due to the prevalence of heart disease and stroke in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue guidelines for food companies and restaurants to reduce sodium in their products and meals in the near future. (Photo : Rowan ...
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| Mixed Results for Thrombolysis in Pulmonary Embolism The role of thrombolytic therapy for the treatment of pulmonary embolism has been unclear, as it has been difficult to measure the precise balance between enhanced clot-dissolving efficacy and greater bleeding risk produced by thrombolysis when compared ...
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USDA Offers First Conditional License for PEDV Vaccine USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service this week issued the first conditional license for a vaccine that may aid in the control of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus. The license was issued to Harrisvaccines, Inc. of Ames, Iowa. It will be used to ...
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Mammograms May Cut Breast Cancer Deaths by 28% Recent studies into whether the dangers of mammograms outweigh the benefits reveal that the tests can decrease the chances of dying from breast cancer by nearly 30 percent. Debates have raged in recent years over whether or not mammograms are a safe ...
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Study suggests 'healthy' food labels are misleading Food labels could be misleading shoppers into thinking that they are eating well, research has found. Words such as 'organic, 'antioxidant', and 'gluten-free' trick health conscious shoppers into buying them. There are also fears that some of the food claims ...
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Hospital admits Schumacher outcome uncertain The hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, has admitted F1 legend Michael Schumacher could be there for the "long haul". News that the great German had left Grenoble, where he has been in intensive care since his skiing fall in late December, and is no longer ...
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Health buzzwords on food labels are misleading consumers, study finds As part of a study, researchers gauged subjects' assessments of pairs of products that were identical except that one of the pair's label included words such as "organic" or "whole grain." As part of a study, researchers gauged subjects' assessments of pairs of ...
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6/16 - 5pm - Americans Test Positive for Chikungunya Virus NEVADA -- HAVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS. A MOSQUITO-BORN ILLNESS THAT WAS LIKELY CONTRACTED OUTSIDE OF THE U-S. PAUL NELSON TALKED TO WASHOE COUNTY HEALTH OFFICIALS AND JOINS US LIVE ...
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Hypertension medication may develop metabolic-related adverse events to older ... Adults over 65 who have recently begun thiazide diuretics are at a greater risk for developing metabolic-related adverse events, researchers at UT-Southwestern Medical Center have found. More than two-thirds of older adults have high blood pressure in the ...
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Vt. Seeks Solution to Opiate Epidemic Recovering addict Raina Lowell speaks in the House Chamber during a forum on opiate addiction Monday, June 16, 2014, at the State House in Montpelier, Vt. The daylong event, sponsored by the Health Department and United Way of Vermont, was held to ...
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Healthy habits linked to lower stroke risk NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study confirms that people who maintain a healthy weight, exercise, eat well and abstain from smoking and heavy drinking have a reduced risk of stroke. Previous studies have identified individual risk factors for stroke.
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A Bolder Effort by Big Tobacco on E-Cigarettes Electronic cigarettes, promoted as a healthier alternative to tobacco, are getting powerful new backers with an unhealthy reputation: big tobacco companies. The development points to ways Big Tobacco is moving to turn the young e-cigarette market to its ...
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UPDATE 2-West Africa Ebola outbreak spreads to Liberia's capital, four dead ... * Virus spreads from remote far north to capital. * Woman brought Ebola from Sierra Leone to Monrovia. * More than 200 dead in the region from Ebola (Adds context, colour). MONROVIA, June 17 (Reuters) - At least four people have died from Ebola in ...
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Minnesota doctor bit by emerging virus A pediatrician providing charitable maternity care in Haiti is one of the first Minnesotans to contract a mosquito-borne virus that is being monitored by federal health officials after migrating from Africa and spreading rapidly in the Caribbean. Dr. Jennifer ...
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2nd North Allegheny student diagnosed with whooping cough A second North Allegheny student has been diagnosed with pertussis, more commonly known as whooping cough, the school district announced on Monday. The student attended North Allegheny Intermediate High School — for grades 9 and 10 — during ...
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