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Bill Clinton says must 'do whatever it takes' to fight Ebola WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - New initiatives from the United States, Britain, France and other countries to help fight the Ebola epidemic that has been spreading exponentially in West Africa marked a "good beginning," former President Bill Clinton ...
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Is Your Dog a Downer? Research Suggests Dogs Are Pessimistic, Optimistic Tangle, a cocker spaniel, attempts to sniff out bladder cancer from a patients' University of Sydney research suggests that dogs may be naturally disposed towards pessimism or optimism. AP. By Ellen O'Leary. Boston.com Staff. September 20, 2014 3:59 PM.
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U.S. Military to Fight Ebola: 'What Does Victory Look Like?' In an August 22 column on the Ebola crisis, I noted that the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa -- "the worst in recorded history" -- had claimed 1,350 lives. Less than a month later the World Health Organization reports that the number of people in West ...
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As Sierra Leone's Ebola lockdown draws to a close, questions remain Freetown: Sierra Leone's 72-hour nationwide shutdown has entered its final day, as criticism grew that the extreme action aimed at containing the spread of the deadly Ebola virus was no more than a publicity stunt. Most of the west African country's 6 million ...
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Sierra Leone burial team attacked despite lockdown FREETOWN (Reuters) - A team burying Ebola victims was attacked in Sierra Leone's capital on Saturday, a member of parliament said, as a small group defied a three-day lockdown aimed at halting the worst outbreak of the disease on record. In one of the ...
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Sierra Leone: Where a hug can bring 21 days of fear BATTLE AGAINST EBOLA: A health worker gives advice on how to stop the virus spreading and distributes soap in Freetown. Photo credit: AP Photo/Michael Duff. Hospital waiting rooms are miserable places at the best of times, but in the middle of an Ebola ...
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Severe respiratory ailment affecting children PORTSMOUTH – A severe respiratory illness is appearing in the country at an alarming rate, affecting primarily children and resulting in an increase of hospital admissions. Enteroviruses are typically what cause the common cold. In this case however, ...
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Walk to End Alzheimer's Saturday Every 67 seconds someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or dementia. The Alzheimer's Association Georgia Chapter continues to fight the escalating epidemic by raising awareness and funds and by partnering with local sponsors and other ...
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Planned Parenthood 'office visit' via app gets you birth control Turns out there is, if what you're after is birth control or a test for a sexually transmitted infection. In the latest example of fast-growing "telemedicine," video conferencing that virtually extends medical expertise, Planned Parenthood is rolling out a pilot project ...
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Sense of Fairness Evolved from Cooperation Your sense of what's fair and unfair is actually a human trait that evolved from the need people, and primates, had through generations to promote long-term cooperation, say researchers from two universities in Georgia. Fairness, explains Dr. Sarah Brosnan ...
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Antidepressants Cause Major Changes to Brain Function within Days Antidepressants start impacting the brain with the first dose itself and within a couple of weeks, the changes in brain functionality is dramatic, as per a newly released research published in journal Current Biology. The most commonly used antidepressants, ...
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Antidepressants act much quicker on Brain than previously thought A new study has found that antidepressants can affect our brain at much more higher pace than was actually thought by the doctors and medical professionals. An estimated 19 million Americans suffer from depression, a devastating and debilitating mental ...
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Alzheimer Walk Brings Awareness To Utah Community Walk to End Alzheimer's in Logan seeks to raise funds and awareness for the disease. Melissa Lee The Alzheimer's Association. 1 of 2. Alzheimer's run. View Slideshow. Walk to End Alzheimer's in Logan seeks to raise funds and awareness for the disease.
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Weighing In: Be wary of expanding waistlines We've probably all joked about potbellies, beer guts or muffin tops. Regardless what you call that layer of fat around the waist, the seemingly harmless love handles may be detrimental to your health. While obesity rates have begun to slow, researchers find ...
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Pat Bowlen's Family On Hand For Historic Walk To End Alzheimer's DENVER (CBS4) – The 2014 Walk to End Alzheimer's at Denver's City Park celebrated its biggest year in history on Saturday. The Bowlen family was there to honor one of their own — Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen after his recent diagnosis with ...
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Understanding Ovarian Cancer: Know The Facts (HealthNewsDigest.com) - Ovarian cancer, the eighth most commonly diagnosed and the fifth most common cause of cancer death for women in the United States , is sometimes called a “silent killer.” There is currently no reliable screening method to detect ...
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Planned Parenthood App to make parenting easier 10 With everyone having a smart phone and a technology that keeps them busy all the time, it is no surprise that teenagers and adolescents no longer pay attention to birth control seminars or sex education classes. For this reason, a new application was ...
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Ebola crisis ... A locked-down nation in the grip of disease, fear and panic IT was an eerie encounter. IT was an eerie encounter. Liberian nurses in protective gear carry a suspected ebola patient into the John F Kennedy treatment centre in Monrovia Photograph: EPA/Ahmed Jallanzo. Custom byline text: as the deadly disease ...
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ALS Association Puts Ice Buckets Aside In Annual Fundraising Walk MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Sunday morning, more than 3,000 people went beyond the ice bucket challenge and instead walked to defeat ALS. The walk is the ALS Association's biggest annual event. It raises money to allow local chapters to maintain care ...
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West Nile Deaths Reported The first West Nile deaths are being reported in Illinois. Two people from northern Illinois who tested positive for the virus have died. But as a whole, West Nile hasn't hit Illinois as hard this year, according to state Department of Public Health Spokesman ...
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No cure, watch for signs of Alzheimer's NEW DELHI: Alzheimer's disease affects nearly four million people in India. As life expectancy continues to rise, this figure is expected to almost double by 2030 and more than triple by 2050. On the eve of World Alzheimer's Day, doctors stress on the need to ...
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New App Lets You Have Birth Control Delivered to Your Door The Planned Parenthood logo is pictured outside a clinic in Boston, Massachusetts, June 27, 2014. Dominick Reuter/Reuters. Tweet. AA. Filed Under: U.S.. Whether you want food or furniture delivered to your front door, there's an app for it. If you live in ...
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Cumberland County Health Department to host flu clinics this fall BRIDGETON — The Cumberland County Health Department has set its schedule for fall flu vaccination clinics for 2014. The shots are free for Cumberland County residents. Health experts now recommend that everyone 6 months of age and older get ...
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Nurse adopts dying mother's 8-year-old son In a noble gesture, a nurse has agreed to take in the 8-year-old son of a dying mother. "If I die, can you take my son," Tricia Somers, a 45-year-old diagnosed with liver cancer had asked her nurse, Tricia Seaman, in a recent interview with WHTM-TV. According ...
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Former US President Bill Clinton says must 'do whatever it takes' to fight Ebola New initiatives from the United States, Britain, France and other countries to help fight the Ebola epidemic that has been spreading exponentially in West Africa marked a "good beginning," former President Bill Clinton said on Saturday, but said the world will ...
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Wyoming officials working hard to keep Wyoming a respiratory illness free state 7 The health officials of Wyoming have been on the lookout for any possible cases of the respiratory illness that's been hitting on children on other states of the US. There has been no reported case yet in the area but they want to be vigilant about it.
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Study: Migraines, Parkinson's linked Migraines in midlife may be associated with increased odds of developing Parkinson's disease or other movement disorders in later years, new research suggests. The study, which did not prove a cause-and-effect link between the two brain-based conditions, ...
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Sierra Leone Ebola burial team attacked despite lockdown An empty street is seen at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown September 19, 2014. Photo by Umaru Fofana, Reuters. FREETOWN - A team burying Ebola victims was attacked in Sierra Leone's capital on Saturday, a member of parliament ...
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Cutting the risk A recent Jerusalem scientific symposium focused on reducing the risks of breast and ovarian cancer through genetic testing and personalized treatment. PROF. EPHRAT LEVY-LAHAD. (photo credit:JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH). Share on Facebook Share on ...
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More choice, help coming to NH health care market CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire residents signing up for insurance under the federal health care overhaul law will have both more choices and more places to turn for help in November. For the last year, the only company selling health plans through ...
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Sierra Leone into massive Ebola isolation effort SummaryKargbo said the Freetown residents he'd visited were grateful for whatever information they could get. Related Articles. Ebola lockdown brings Sierra Leone capital to a haltMedha Patkar slams Narendra Modi government over dropping of a chapter ...
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Mysterious surgeons hit patients with fees Before his three-hour neck surgery for herniated disks in December, Peter Drier, 37, signed a pile of consent forms. A bank-technology manager who had researched his insurance coverage, Drier was prepared when the bills started arriving: $56,000 from ...
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Angelina Jolie effect has evolved for breast cancer checks Fans of Angelina Jolie were happy to hear of her recent marriage to her long time lover Brad Pitt. Jolie has developed an enormous following worldwide due to her natural beauty and her unusual talent as an actress. Jolie is also a very courageous woman ...
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U.S. waistlines just keep growing Despite the best efforts of health professionals, Americans' waistlines continue to expand, with women outpacing men. Slightly more than half of all Americans are now considered abdominally obese, according to a new study. “Waists are still expanding in the ...
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Dogs can be pessimists too! MELBOURNE: Dogs generally seem to be cheerful, happy-go-lucky characters, but according to a new study some pooches are distinctly more pessimistic than others. "This research is exciting because it measures positive and negative emotional states in ...
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Journal Poll: Voters down on Obamacare Nearly half of New Mexico voters say the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has been a failure, a Journal Poll found. At the same time, a strong majority of voters said Gov. Susana Martinez was right to take advantage of Obamacare provisions by ...
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New smartphone app for birth control launches in Seattle SEATTLE -- It's not as fast as buying a pair of shoes on Amazon.com, but a new app allows women to get a prescription for birth control pills by simply touching an icon on their smart phone. Planned Parenthood just launched the app for Android and Apple ...
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Curwensville Area High School takes part in ice bucket challenge CURWENSVILLE - As part of a recent pep assembly, the Curwensville Area High School administration and varsity coaching staff took part in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in order to raise money and awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known ...
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Happy 225! Celebrating the rich history of Delaware County Three hundred and thirty two years ago when Quaker William Penn disembarked from his ship, The Welcome, and first set foot on the shores of Chester to claim the colony granted him by England's King Charles II as payment of a debt to his father, his Holy ...
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Annual Walk to Defeat ALS Raised $420k, 'Ice Bucket Challenge' Helped ... This morning, more than 2500 walkers participated in the “Annual Walk to Defeat ALS” in the Twin Cities out at Lake Phalen. Our Ellen McNamara the event, that raised more than $420,000 dollars to help people and their families living with ALS, research, ...
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| Pantuosco to compete in BAA Half Marathon Lucia Pantuosco of Somers will be running in the 14th annual BAA Half Marathon presented by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund on Oct. 12 in Boston. Pantuosco will be competing as a member of the official Dana-Farber team. More than 570 ...
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Nurse goes above and beyond to fulfill dying mother's wish Last spring Tricia Somers was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer; on Thursday her amazing story was shared. As a single mother her biggest concern was not facing a vicious disease with equally vicious treatment nor was it coming to terms with her own ...
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'Apple-shaped' Americans more numerous now CHICAGO (AP) — The number of American men and women with big-bellied, apple-shaped figures — the most dangerous kind of obesity — has climbed at a startling rate over the past decade despite obesity rates leveling off, a government study reports.
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Walk To End Alzheimer's This Weekend Meteorologist Matt Scott spoke to Christy Kovel from the Alzheimer's Association's Connecticut chapter today about two important events taking place in Connecticut this weekend. A Middletown bakery called NoRa Cupcake Company is baking special ...
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WATCH: The Boy Who Danced In The Face Of Ebola This week has been tough. Maybe the toughest in the long, drawn-out battle against Ebola in West Africa. Cases are rising at an exponential rate. Families don't have any place to take sick loved ones. And researchers now say the epidemic could last for a 1 ...
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BarbWire: Miss America Winner Contributes To Violence, Destruction of The ... BarbWire columnist Luke Douglas is joining other conservatives who have expressed outrage that Kira Kazantsev, the recently-crowned Miss America, once worked as an education intern at a Long Island Planned Parenthood clinic. “The crusader of the ...
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Ebola Worst-Case Scenario Has More Than 500000 Cases The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could spread to hundreds of thousands more people by the end of January, according to an estimate under development by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that puts one worst-case scenario at 550,000 ...
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