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Laughing all the way ... out of depression The dentist's office might be the last place you'd look to find a quick cure for an implacable bout of depression. But new research suggests that laughing gas -- the mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen that eases the pain and anxiety of having dental work -- may ...
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100 Times Higher Ebola Risk Faces Health Care Workers in Sierra Leone Health care workers have more than 100 times the risk of catching Ebola in Sierra Leone than the general public there does, according to a new report. And it's not necessarily down to failed protective measures in hospitals. Health care workers form their own ...
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WebMD Survey: 74% Say Menu Calorie Counts Helpful We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. {shareThisContent}. {fontSizerContent}. Font Size. A. A. A. Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker. By Kathleen Doheny WebMD Health News. Reviewed by ...
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FEATURE-Transgender women left behind as tide turns in fight against HIV - TRFN LONDON, Dec 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When she transitioned from a man to a woman at the age of 27, Cecilia Chung lost her friends, her family and her job. Ostracised from society for being transgender, and relying on sex work to survive on the ...
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US falls behind on exercise, gets fatter Americans got fatter last year and were more slothful too — two closely related outcomes reported in an annual analysis of the USA's health out Wednesday. After encouraging improvement in last year's report, this year's data returned to the steady increase in ...
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Metal test to help diagnose breast cancer at early stage: study LONDON, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- A British study has found the possibility to detect breast cancer at an early stage by monitoring the level of zinc in human bodies in simple blood tests. A research team led by Oxford University scientists used techniques for ...
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Prince William and Duchess Kate Get Royal Treatment in New York Health care workers have more than 100 times the risk of catching Ebola in Sierra Leone as the general public there does, according to a new report. And it's not necessarily down to failed protective measures in hospitals. Health care workers form their own ...
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Officials Hope To Use Ebola To Build Africa's Health Care Capabilities Ebola has killed thousands, caused hundreds of millions of dollars in economic devastation and set off a global panic. But aid officials are hoping it also may help to address long-festering shortcomings in West Africa's health care systems. Liberia, Sierra ...
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Hawaii is nation's healthiest state, Mississippi is unhealthiest Washington Hawaii has the nation's healthiest residents in 2014 and Mississippi has the most unhealthy, according to the 25th annual America's Health Rankings released Thursday by the United Health Foundation. Nationally, the annual report found that ...
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Study: Patients are using narcotic painkillers for longer, on higher doses Fewer people are taking potentially addictive narcotic painkillers. But a study released Tuesday also bears bad news: Patients who are prescribed those drugs are taking them for longer periods of time, and at higher dosages. Almost half of patients taking ...
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Malaria Death Rates Fall, Ebola Threatens West Africa Progress LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Malaria deaths have dropped dramatically since 2000 and cases are falling steadily as more people are properly diagnosed and treated and more get mosquito nets, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Junior Sierra Leone Doctors on Partial Strike Over Ebola Protection Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has assured junior doctors, who have been on a partial strike over the lack of proper care for local Ebola care givers, that their demands will be met. About 106 medical personnel have died from Ebola in Sierra ...
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Abortion complication rates are 'very low,' study says The report found 2.1 percent of abortions resulted in a complication, with 0.23 percent having a major complication like a blood transfusion or surgery that required hospitalization. By Danielle Haynes · Follow @DanielleHaynes1 Contact the Author | Dec.
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Report: Many US Medicaid doctors often unavailable A new federal report suggesting a substantial percentage of U.S. doctors who are supposed to see Medicaid patients are unable or unavailable to do so bolsters outgoing Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's claim that Pennsylvania's working poor could be better ...
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Americans think the flu shot can make them sick: study More than 40% of a sample of U.S. adults believe the myth that flu vaccines can give you the flu, and even correcting that misconception might not convince them to get the vaccine, a new survey suggests. "It is absolutely biologically impossible to get the flu ...
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Abortion Complication Rates Are 'Lower Than That For Wisdom Tooth Extraction ... People who get abortions are less likely to have complications than people who have their wisdom teeth removed, finds a new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. Researchers at University of California San Francisco wanted to ...
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This Is Not a Joke: Laughing Gas May Treat Depression Nitrous oxide, the "laughing gas" often used in dentists' offices, may be a cure for depression, scientists say. Patients inhaling nitrous oxide in research study reported an improvement in their depressive symptoms. (Photo : Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Images).
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| US test-tube births underreported by states, study finds ATLANTA (Reuters) - The number of test-tube babies born each year in the United States is underreported by states, a new federal study found on Wednesday, complicating efforts by researchers to understand the risks associated with pregnancies resulting ...
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Sierra Leonean Docs Strike Again Over Ebola Care Sierra Leone's junior doctors went on strike for a second day Tuesday, a move they dubbed a "tactical retreat" to demand better care for medical workers who catch Ebola after a spate of deaths. The Ebola outbreak has infected more than 17,800 people, most ...
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Are We Doing Enough? Some Questions for the San Antonio Breast Cancer ... This year, the National Breast Cancer Coalition posed a question to the world. Isn't it time we stop losing the women and men we love to breast cancer? The question is rhetorical, and the answer, at least on the surface, is easy. Yes. Yes, it is time we stop ...
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PREP Act declaration helps support development of Ebola vaccines Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell has announced a declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act to facilitate the development and availability of experimental Ebola vaccines. The declaration ...
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BPA in Canned Goods May Raise Blood Pressure, Risk for Heart Disease Manufactures use a chemical called bisphenol-A, or BPA, to make plastic bottles, thermal papers like receipts and as a lining in canned goods. The chemical has come under scrutiny because studies have shown that it's an endocrine disruptor, interfering with ...
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Ebola survivors crucial to containing the epidemic - experts - TRFN LONDON, Dec 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Ebola survivors with little to no risk of re-infection are critical to controlling the epidemic and training them has the potential to save thousands of lives and decrease the spread of the virus, ...
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Health Officials Research Opioid Abuse, Overlook Patient Overdose One of the biggest health industry problems is the abuse of opioid painkillers. This is not just an issue among people who have pain and might take a few more pills than recommended, but rather it has become a major study of addiction among regular people ...
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Abortion Complication Rates Are 'Very Low', According To Study A new study shows that major complications from abortions are extremely rare, occurring in less than a quarter of a percent of cases. (Photo : Reuters). A new study shows that major complications from abortions are extremely rare, occurring in less than a ...
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Prescribed Painkillers Are Being Used For A Longer Time, Study Says Although doctors across the United States have claimed to cut down on prescribing painkillers, a new study found that more people are taking these addictive medications for a longer amount of time. Around half of the people involved in the study used ...
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There is a very low complication rate in abortion according to a new study 3 A new study shows that there are very few complications associated with abortion. The researchers added that there are more complications during a colonoscopy than during abortion. Researchers from the University of California San Francisco analyzed ...
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Bluebird shares soar after gene therapy shows promise in treating inherited ... Shares of gene therapy startup Bluebird Bio Inc. shot up 72.4 percent Tuesday after the Cambridge biotech reported encouraging test results for an experimental blood disease treatment. Four patients with the potentially lethal disorder beta-thalassemia -- an ...
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Zinc level in human body can help diagnose breast cancer 1 A new British study found that a simple blood test to check the level of zinc in human bodies can possibly detect breast cancer at an early stage. For the study, the researchers from Oxford University used techniques for analyzing trace metal isotopes in ...
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bluebird bio Insider Sells $691500 in Stock (BLUE) bluebird bio logo bluebird bio (NASDAQ:BLUE) Insider David Davidson sold 15,000 shares of bluebird bio stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $46.10, for a total value of $691,500.00. The sale was ...
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BPA Found In Canned Goods Could Increase Your Risk Of Heart Issues Previous studies have examined how bisphenol A (BPA) can be hazardous to your health. For instance, drinking or eat from cans lined with this endocrine disruptor may increase your blood pressure, according to recent findings published in the journal ...
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Laughing gas may help treat depression Laughing gas or nitrous oxide could be used as a treatment for severe depression in patients whose symptoms don't respond to normal therapies. According to a pilot study conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, which is believed ...
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Malaria: 'Choose nets over insecticide' London - Spraying insecticides indoors offers children no additional protection from malaria when bed nets are used, a study said on Tuesday, as malaria cases and deaths worldwide continue to fall. A study by medical journal The Lancet said donors should ...
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SC's Healthy Connections program supports oral health Article Thumbnail Image December 10, 2014 -- In this Second Opinion, Rebekah Mathews, the regional director of DentaQuest South Carolina, examines the issues surrounding the far-too-frequent lack of adult dental care for many Medicaid programs and the ...
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Malaria death rates fall, but Ebola threatens West Africa progress: WHO Malaria deaths have dropped dramatically since 2000 and cases are falling steadily as more people are properly diagnosed and treated and more get mosquito nets, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Yet, progress against the ...
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Laughing gas could treat depression Most people who have suffered from clinical depression will say they wish there were an instant cure. The creation of a pill like that is probably years away at best, but now a team of scientists think they've found a promising alternative: laughing gas. Photo -.
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Malaria deaths fall world over, says WHO UNITED NATIONS: The number of people dying from malaria globally has fallen dramatically with more and more countries moving towards its elimination, a newly-released World Health Organisation report said on Tuesday. However, findings also ...
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BPA in Canned Soda Linked to Increased Blood Pressure Dr. Yun-Chul Hong: Because there are some reports showing Bisphenol-A exposure increase when we eat or drink canned food or beverage and at the same time it has been known that Bisphenol-A exposure is associated with blood pressure increase, we ...
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Zinc test can help diagnose breast cancer early London, Dec 10 (IANS) — Detecting changes in zinc in the body through a simple blood test could help diagnose breast cancer early, finds a research that holds promise of an easily-detectable biomarker of early breast cancer. "It has been known for over a ...
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Health officials research abuse of opioid painkillers "Not only are more people using these medications chronically, they are using them at higher doses than we would necessarily expect," reports Dr. Glen Stettin The senior vice president with Express Scripts, a pharmacy business management company, ...
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LA Unified to ban the purchase of chicken raised with antibiotics Aiming to bolster student health, Los Angeles Unified and five other major urban school districts announced plans Tuesday to ban the purchase of chickens that have been raised with antibiotics. The action by the Urban School Food Alliance -- which ...
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Over 111 crore Indians at risk of getting infected with malaria: World Malaria ... LONDON: As many as 111 crore Indians are at risk of getting infected with malaria of which 28 crore have been found to be at highest risk. The World Health Organization on Tuesday said India has 12.8 crore suspected malaria cases. However, India ...
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Could the chemical BPA raise your blood pressure? Korean researchers have found another small piece of evidence that the chemical BPA might affect health this time by temporarily raising people's blood pressure. People who drank out of cans lined with resins containing BPA had a brief increase in their ...
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Airport screenings haven't turned up any Ebola patients Airport screenings of travelers from West Africa haven't turned up anyone with Ebola, health officials announced Tuesday. U.S. officials screened nearly 2,000 travelers for Ebola symptoms over 31 days in October and November, according to a report Tuesday ...
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'MSSNG' Project, Partnership Between Autism Speaks and Google for Autism ... A research project by Google and Autism Speaks to sequence and study human genomes and seek a breakthrough for autism was officially launched today. News of the partnership between the tech giant and the science and advocacy organization was first ...
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'MSSNG' Project Connects Scientists to Help Look for Cure to Autism Autism Speaks and Google are coming together to radically change what we know about autism. 1:43 | 12/09/14. Share. Title. Description. Share From. Share With. Facebook. Tweet. </> Embed. Email. <br/><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/video">More ABC ...
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Walgreens app makes virtual doctor visits a reality You don't have to leave the cubicle — or your couch — to get checked out by the doc. Rather video chat with your doc about what ails you? No problem, says Walgreens. You might not have to leave your cubicle at work or your couch at home to get that sore ...
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Bluebird shares leap after gene therapy seen as cure for blood disorder (Reuters) - Shares of drug developer bluebird bio Inc shot up on Tuesday, after the company presented data that showed a cure for beta-thalassemia is within reach, prompting several brokerages to raise their price targets on the stock. The Cambridge ...
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The Other Reason Canned Food Is Raising Your Blood Pressure If your food or drink comes out of a can, chances are it's not the healthiest choice for your blood pressure (thanks to all that salt preserving your beans, for example.) But the latest research suggests there may be another reason to avoid canned goods.
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Malaria death rates fall, Ebola threatens West Africa progress LONDON Dec 9 (Reuters) - Malaria deaths have dropped dramatically since 2000 and cases are falling steadily as more people are properly diagnosed and treated and more get mosquito nets, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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