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| An Easy Money Saver: the Flu Shot With illnesses from Ebola to enterovirus making headlines this fall, many health experts say one of the best ways to protect yourself--and your wallet--is to steer clear of an old holiday bug, the seasonal flu. Flu season is just around the corner. Cases of ... | |
| More breast cancer patients removing healthy breasts Evidence is mounting that too many women with early-stage breast cancer are opting for mastectomies instead of having breast-conserving surgeries that offer the same odds of survival. A new analysis of more than 1.2 million breast cancer patients in the ... | |
| State issues fine for deadly Winters crane accident The state division of Occupational Safety and Health fined Disney Construction of Burlingame $106,110 last week for "serious violations" that led to the deaths of two workers on May 30 in a horrific crane accident. The workers plunged 80 feet to their deaths ... | |
| U-Md. Ebola Vaccine Study Progresses BALTIMORE (AP) — The University of Maryland School of Medicine says it has administered an experimental Ebola vaccine to 20 volunteers in Baltimore. Officials said Friday they expect preliminary results in four to eight weeks. The clinical trial will evaluate ... | |
| 8 common myths about diabetes Recently, Dr. Alyson Meyers helped to identify (and debunk) a few myths about this prevalent disease, setting the record straight. (Credit: iStock). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 21.9 million people in the United States are ... | |
| Report: Global obesity costs hits $2 trillion An overweight person is shown eating Oct. 17, 2007, in London. A new report by the McKinsey Global Institute released Thursday says that the global cost of obesity has risen to $2 trillion annually — nearly as much as smoking or the combined impact of ... | |
| Nestle's next food frontier: Exercise in a bottle ZURICH — Tucked away near Lake Geneva, a handful of Nestle scientists are quietly working on realizing every couch potato's dream: exercise that comes in a bottle. The world's biggest food company, known for KitKat candy bars and Nespresso capsules, ... | |
| NHS Ebola volunteers will miss 'human touch' Surrounded by Christmas lights and holiday makers, more than 30 NHS volunteers prepared to board a flight to Sierra Leone on Saturday to join the fight against Ebola. After nine days of intensive Ministry of Defence training, the healthcare professionals are ... | |
| Mali confirms new case of Ebola, tests two others Mali on Saturday confirmed a new case of Ebola and said two more suspected patients are being tested, raising concern about a further spread of the disease which has already killed at least five people in the country. The patient who tested positive "was ... | |
| Nestle's next frontier: Exercise in a bottle ZURICH - The world's biggest food company, known for KitKat candy bars and Nespresso capsules, says it has identified how an enzyme in charge of regulating metabolism can be stimulated by a compound called C13, a potential first step in developing a ... | |
| A Gluten Free Diet Isn't Necessarily a Healthy Diet If you don't need to be on a gluten free diet, are there health benefits to a gluten free diet? Researchers assert that only seven percent of the population need to be on a gluten free diet for some health reason relating to Celiac disease or gluten intolerance, ... | |
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| Gluten-Free Isn't the Best Choice for Everyone gluten-free Gluten allergies have been incriminated in many cases as the culprit for a variety of gastrointestinal (and non-gastrointestinal) issues. Gluten-free solutions, however, aren't the best way to go for everyone, a recent study shows. Scientists with ... | |
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| Depression More Amongst Women with Workplace Power Against Men As per a latest research amongst the women in leadership positions, those who have power and high responsibility tend to face more depression against the men with the same position and power in the industry. It particularly speaks about the role of women ... | |
| Madagascar plague outbreak kills 40 people, more infected JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A plague outbreak has killed 40 people on the island nation of Madagascar, with 119 people diagnosed with the bacterial disease since August. Two people have been diagnosed and one has died in the capital, ... | |
| Is Gluten-Free Right For You? A recent study from Consumer Reports indicates that a gluten-free diet is not necessarily the healthiest diet, as many people assume. And the problem is not that a gluten-free diet is bad for you—though it could be—but it is that people make the wrong ... | |
| Strong preventive measures urged to reduce global obesity New study indicates that nearly 30% of the global population is obese or overweight and the costs of medical bills in this field are as high as that for smoking, alcoholism, climate change or even armed conflict! A research on "How the world could better fight ... | |
| NHS staff travel to Sierra Leone to help fight Ebola A group of NHS medical staff has left for Sierra Leone to help in the fight against the Ebola outbreak.. Around 30 GPs, nurses and emergency medicine consultants who have been through intensive training in the UK, are the first co-ordinated group from the ... | |
| | North Country Public Radio | Running improves muscle efficiency in the elderly Running may be the fountain of youth for muscle-energy utilization efficiency according to a study conducted at the University of Colorado in Boulder and published in the journal PLOS One. Researchers at the university recruited 30 healthy, older adults with ... | |
| Help is on hand at Munroe for federal health care sign-ups As the Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace swings open its doors to allow new and returning enrollees to select the coverage they want, Munroe Regional Medical Center is offering help. Staff from the 421-bed hospital will help area residents ... | |
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| Study: Women in High Heels Exudes Powerful Influence Over Men Men are not only attracted to women in high heels but they are also more helpful to them than those in flats, a new study shows. French researcher Nicholas Guéguen, from the Université de Bretagne-Sud in France, said women in tall shoes exert a powerful ... | |
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| Geneva hospital: Cuban doctor with Ebola stable In this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, Cuban doctor Felix Baez Sarria, second from left, who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone, is helped off an airplane to a specially outfitted ambulance before being transported to the Geneva University Hospital (HUG) ... | |
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| | South China Morning Post (subscription) | No time to lose in battle against Ebola, says UN's Ban Ki-moon The UN chief has warned that Ebola might be easing in parts of West Africa but is still hitting hard in other areas and outpacing the international response. "If we continue to accelerate our response, we can contain and end the outbreak by the middle of next ... | |
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| Leadership Roles More Likely to Make Women Depressed It is lonely at the top, as the old saying says. For women, however, it is also depressing. Recent studies show the difference in pay is not the only gender gap for women in executive roles, women with leadership positions are far more likely to be depressed ... | |
| Gluten free diet far from a healthy diet Gluten free diet is far from a healthy diet for those people who not facing any threat from celiac disease. For ninety percent people on earth this is good. Many people believe that a gluten free diet is a healthy diet. But a latest study claims that though it is true ... | |
| Plague outbreak kills 40 people in Madagascar A plague outbreak has killed 40 people on the island nation of Madagascar, with 119 people diagnosed with the bacterial disease since August. Two people have been diagnosed and one has died in the capital, Antananarivo. The World Health Organization ... | |
| Journey through the Ebola heartland in Sierra Leone and Guinea The current Ebola outbreak is the worst the world has ever seen. One reason it's been able to spread so quickly is because of where it first emerged: in the porous remote border area between Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. We have just made the journey ... | |
| In Many Cases, Heavy Drinking Does Not Make You an Alcoholic One might be surprised to find that only nine out of ten Americans who drink excessively meet the standards for alcohol dependence. Instead, they fall under the category known as "binge drinkers." A recent study on alcoholism reveals that while 30% of ... | |
| Use Of Hookah Tobacoo Boost Up The Risk Of Leukemia Individuals who go to hookah parlors register larger amounts in their body of benzene — a substance linked with an increased risk for leukemia, whether they smoke or not, as indicated by the results of a study reported Friday by San Diego State University. | |
| Saturated Fats are not so bad after all, says study The findings of a new research have indicated that the much hated (and avoided) saturated fats do not contribute towards raising the level of fatty acids on the blood, as was previously thought. Carbohydrates play a much greater role on doing that, it has now ... | |
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| Is gluten-free really healthier for you? Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Consumer Reports takes a look. WEWS. Show Caption Hide Caption. Previous Next. CLEVELAND - About seven percent of ... | |
| Text neck is new curse IN the 20th century we had housemaid's knee and miner's cough — or, if you were from a different social stratum, tennis elbow. Now it seems there is a new work affliction for a new age, and it troubles all classes equally. It is born of a peculiarly modern habit: ... | |
| Plague Outbreak In Madagascar Spreads To Its Capital An outbreak of the plague has sickened at least 119 people and killed 40 in Madagascar, the World Health Organization reports Friday. The outbreak started back in August in a rural village, WHO said. Then it spread to seven of Madagascar's 22 regions. | |
| Obama's immigration action could cost state millions ALBANY — President Obama's immigration overhaul could be expensive for New York — putting the state on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in added health-care costs. Obama's executive order would make as many as 300,000 undocumented ... | |
| | North Country Public Radio | To Stay Energy Efficient As You Age, Keep On Running People in their 60s who run for exercise use energy as efficiently as much younger people. That... 0 Comments. by Katherine Hobson. People use energy less efficiently as they age. Running seems to help prevent that slowdown. | |
| To Stay Energy Efficient As You Age, Keep On Running People use energy less efficiently as they age. Running seems to help prevent that slowdown. iStockphoto. Walking is a simple thing that becomes really, really important as we age. Being able to get around on our feet for extended periods of time not only ... | |
| British volunteers head to Sierra Leone to battle Ebola Freshly dug graves at a cemetery at the Kenama Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone. Image by: FRANCISCO LEONG/AFP. A first group of volunteers from Britain's state National Health Service were to depart Saturday for Sierra Leone to join the Ebola ... | |
| Plague in Madagascar has killed 40 out of 119 cases: WHO GENEVA (Reuters) - An outbreak of the plague has killed 40 out of 119 confirmed cases in Madagascar since late August, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The WHO said there is a "risk of rapid spread" of plague in Madagascar's capital ... | |
| Car jackers steal suspected Ebola blood samples in Guinea Health workers from Sierra Leone's Red Cross Society Burial Team 7 remove a corpse from a house in Freetown on November 12, 2014. Health workers from Sierra Leone's Red Cross Society Burial Team 7 remove a corpse from a house in Freetown on ... | |
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