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| What Snake Caused That Bite? New DNA Test May Tell TUESDAY, Nov. 4, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- DNA tests can reliably identify the type of snake that has bitten a person and could save the lives of many people in countries with deadly venomous snakes, new research reports. Experts found that if snake DNA ... | |
| | International Business Times UK | 'Kissing Bug' Now Spreading Tropical Disease in U.S. TUESDAY, Nov. 4, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Residents of the southern United States may be at risk for a parasitic infection that can lead to severe heart disease and death, three new studies suggest. Chagas disease, which is transmitted by "kissing bugs" ... | |
| | International Business Times UK | 'Kissing Bug' Now Spreading Tropical Disease in US We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. {shareThisContent}. {fontSizerContent}. WebMD News from HealthDay. By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Nov. 4, 2014 (HealthDay ... | |
| Election Results 2014: The Effect on Medicaid Expansion Elections in six states on Tuesday could decide whether as many as 1.3 million more people get health coverage in the years ahead. There are 15 governor's races this year in states that have declined to expand their Medicaid programs as part of the ... | |
| Risk for Silent Stroke Twice as High With Afib Cardiovascular. Risk for Silent Stroke Twice as High With Afib. Published: Nov 4, 2014 | Updated: Nov 4, 2014. By Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE; Assistant Professor, Section of Nephrology, Yale ... | |
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| Amgen ovarian cancer drug fails to improve overall survival (Reuters) - Amgen Inc said its experimental ovarian cancer drug did not show statistically significant improvement in overall survival rate in a late-stage trial. Patients given the drug, trebananib, along with a chemotherapy agent paclitaxel, experienced overall ... | |
| Thousands break Ebola quarantine to find food DAKAR, Senegal: Thousands of people in Sierra Leone are being forced to violate Ebola quarantines to find food because deliveries are not reaching them, aid agencies said. Large swaths of the West African country have been sealed off to prevent the ... | |
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| Working nights or odd hours can sap mental function, study finds Working an irregular schedule that includes afternoon and night shifts can seriously sap your brain power, new research shows. For people who spent more than a decade on this type of rotating shift schedule, the effects were equivalent to 6.5 years of normal ... | |
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| WHO: Overdose Antidote Should Be Easier to Obtain Countries should increase access to the overdose antidote naloxone in order to lower deaths from opioids around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) says in recently released guidelines. Naloxone is used in an emergency when an individual is ... | |
| California Propositions 45 and 46 losing in early returns California voters soundly rejected two hotly contested propositions Tuesday night -- one that would have halted excessive health care insurance rates and another that would have raised the state's 39-year-old cap on medical malpractice damage awards. | |
| Study: Long-term shift work lessens brain power (CNN) -- It's not the news that any shift worker wants to hear. Not only is working irregular hours bad for your social life and likely your health, but it has a chronic effect on your ability to think, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal ... | |
| When it comes to catcalls, New Zealand is no New York Last week, a video of a woman who received a large number of catcalls walking the streets of New York City proved wildly popular, and controversial. As of Wednesday morning, it had been viewed almost 33 million times — and sparked a debate about ... | |
| Tanishaa Mukerji launches breast cancer awareness drive Tanishaa Mukerji launched the 'Go Pink' initiative in support of her fight against breast cancer recently in the city and took to social media to garner support for this cause. Throughout the week, she shared facts on her page about breast cancer in an attempt to ... | |
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| Parent-infant communication differs by gender shortly after birth Mothers are more likely to respond to their infant's vocal cues than fathers, and infants respond preferentially to mother's voice, according to a new study. Researchers also found that mothers may be more likely to vocalize back and forth with female babies ... | |
| Apes Have Better Gut Bacteria Than Humans It's no secret that microbes living in our guts play an important part in our overall health, and now new research show that apes - humans' closest relative - have better, more diverse gut bacteria than we do. (Photo : Flickr: William Warby). It's no secret that ... | |
| California Voters Decline to Raise Medical Malpractice Cap Californians Tuesday voted down Proposition 46, an initiative that would have raised a cap on medical malpractice awards and required routine drug and alcohol testing for hospital doctors. With 14% of the state's precincts reporting, he Associated Press ... | |
| Millions Without Health Coverage Hang on Gov Races The results of today's midterm elections could have enormous implications for the president's health care law—especially in states that have not expanded their Medicaid programs. Since a 2012 Supreme Court ruling gave states the right to choose whether to ... | |
| Scientists Want To Use DNA To Classify Snakebites Scientists are currently theorizing that they may soon be able to rapidly determine if a snakebite is venomous. Dr. Ulrich Kuch, of the Institute of Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine at Goethe University, in Frankfurt Germany, believes that the ... | |
| Chagas Disease Spreading In United States According to the three latest studies, people of southern United States are on higher risk of getting a parasitic infection that may cause heart disease and death. Chagas disease was thought to be restricted to Central America, Mexico and South America but ... | |
| Breast Cancer Patients Might Prefer 'Invisible Tattoo' Using "invisible" tattoos instead of permanent dark ink ones when breast cancer patients undergo radiation therapy could help improve how patients feel about themselves, according to a new study presented at the National Cancer Research Institute's ... | |
| It's time for that flu shot, health officials say LEWISBURG — Scared of the Ebola virus? Health officials say Valley residents should be more worried about the flu as the influenza season gets under way. Every year, the flu kills up to 49,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ... | |
| Kaci Hickox's boyfriend: 'You can guess who we voted for' "We encourage all the good people of Maine to join us in returning decency to Blaine house," says boyfriend Ted Wilbur. By Matt Bradwell · Follow @mckb26 Contact the Author | Nov. 4, 2014 at 6:38 PM. Comments. share with facebook. share with twitter. | |
| Flu season looms, vaccinations recommended "A lot of people don't think they need to get one but they should." That's what Summit County Health Department Nursing Director Carolyn Rose says about flu immunization shots. As a general rule, she says everyone over six months old should get ... | |
| 'Catcalling' insulting, and certainly no compliment They say they are going to rape Shoshana Roberts. She's the star of a hidden camera video that has gone viral. Posted by Hollaback!, a group that campaigns against the street harassment of women — "catcalling" — it shows Roberts taking a silent stroll ... | |
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| Researchers Say Mothers Talk To Babies More Than Fathers Mothers are more likely to speak to their children than fathers, according to research conducted at the Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, surveyed conversations recorded by 33 families. | |
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| Working irregular shifts can damage your memory Picture for representational purposes onlyIrregular shift work can damage a person's long-term memory and cognitive abilities, a French study has shown. Symptoms like jet lag, heart problems and some cancers are already linked to shift work as it disrupts ... | |
| Researchers Look At Why Autism Cases Are Increasing The percentage of children with autism worldwide has increased in recent years, but it's not clear whether this rise is due mainly to changes in how doctors diagnose autism and report cases, or if there is some factor in children's environment that is affecting ... | |
| Hospital encouraging everyone to get a flu shot It's that time of the year when people start sniffling and sneezing. Flu season is upon us, and because of that, the Lehigh Valley Health Network is encouraging everyone to get a flu shot this year. When it comes to health concerns many people are focused on ... | |
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| Fear of Ebola more contagious than the disease You did the world a service in traveling to Sierra Leone to care for Ebola patients. Then you did your country a service in standing up for rationality. It might have been easier to go along with the unnecessary quarantine. After all, as New Jersey Gov. | |
| The politics of the Ebola scare Now that the dust has settled a bit on the Ebola panic of 2014, it's instructive to stand back from the misinformation and examine the facts. There are currently three countries in the world considered to have "widespread transmission of the disease" – Guinea, ... | |
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| Amgen's Ovarian Cancer Drug Fails Overall Survival Trials As reported by Amgen Inc. the ovarian cancer drug 'trebananib' has failed to improve the survival rate of patients who are in the late stage of an ovarian cancer. The drug is an anti-tumour treatment drug that is to be taken with chemotherapy drug paclitaxel. | |
| Election results and their effect on Healthcare With four Republican governors being re-elected, it is unlikely that the envisioned course of Medicaid expansion will change in the near future. The current elections have been under close scrutiny as they are going to have a huge influence on healthcare in ... | |
| Ebola: Isolating Hysteria From Facts How dramatic is the fear of an Ebola epidemic in the US? The virus has killed four people outside of West Africa since March 2014, with 4,922 deaths in West Africa alone, and mainstream American media has blown the possibility of a US outbreak out of ... | |
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| New Tool Can Test Prostate Cancer Drug Potential A novel tool is being developed to test the potential for prostate cancer drugs, according to a new study published in Chemical Communications. Scientists from the University of Bath, funded by Prostate Cancer UK and with the support of the Movember ... | |
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| To prevent more kidney stones, drink water NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have had a kidney stone should drink enough fluids to produce two liters of urine per day in order to prevent more kidney stones from forming, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians. | |
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