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Napping helps infants form memories, study shows Babies are champion learners: Born with just a few basic reflexes, they quickly teach themselves to navigate their world by observing, remembering and making sense of their surroundings, the language spoken around them and the nature of such elusive ...
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Colorado Group Helps Breast Cancer Survivors Get Tattoos For women who have survived breast cancer, breast or nipple reconstruction can be a first step toward looking like their old selves. A Colorado organization is helping some of those women, and others who don't choose reconstruction, in their emotional ...
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Denver patient tests negative for Ebola DENVER — The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced Monday evening that a patient at Denver Health tested negative for the Ebola virus. The patient was transported in a specialized ambulance to Denver Health Sunday night.
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New Study Suggests End of Ebola in Liberia by June A new study found Ebola could come to an end in Liberia by June, if the trend toward better hospitalization and preventive care continues. The study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, looked at factors such as the location of infection and treatment, the ...
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Gene Mutations and Colon Cancer in Black Patients TUESDAY, Jan. 13, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who discovered new gene mutations linked to colon cancer in black Americans say their findings could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment. In the United States, blacks are significantly more ...
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Why the US Is Losing Its Edge on Medical Research Limited funding is one of the reasons there was no Ebola vaccine approved when the current outbreak got so bad and it's why already hard-to-fund research for infectious diseases and addiction don't often make it to clinical trials. For decades the U.S. was ...
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Regeneron, Amgen are targets of next Express Scripts price war After igniting a price war over hepatitis C medicine that has roiled the pharmaceutical industry, Express Scripts Holding Co. is looking to reap savings from expensive new treatments for cancer and high cholesterol. A highly anticipated set of medications that ...
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Vaginal Cutting During Childbirth Is on the Decline It is becoming less common for doctors in the U.S. to make incisions in a woman's vagina and pelvic floor muscles during childbirth, in the wake of 2006 recommendations against the procedure, new research finds. Episiotomies, deliberate cuts in the ...
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'I began to wake up': How a man spent 12 years trapped in comatose state ... At age 12, Martin Pistorius suddenly turned from a healthy boy obsessed with electronics into a virtual vegetable after falling into an inexplicable comatose state. He would spend the next dozen years trapped inside his weakened, helpless body, unable to ...
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Ebola survivors in Sierra Leone key in training health providers Mohamed Turay lies on a hospital cot, surrounded by health care workers. They are covered head to toe in full biohazard suits. In a quiet, pained voice, Turay tells the doctors about his symptoms – vomiting, diarrhea and excruciating pain in his muscles and ...
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| HEB issues recall for tortillas HEB has issued a recall for two of their tortilla products and expanded a recall for some items containing questionable seasonings. The recall, which they characterized as "voluntary and precautionary" is for 12- and 30-count packages of HEB Homestyle ...
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CDC Lab Worker Has No Sign of Ebola Infection, Agency Says TUESDAY, Jan. 13, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab technician who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus in an agency laboratory in Atlanta last month did not get sick, agency officials said Tuesday.
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CDC Director: 'zero cases' of Ebola in West Africa possible America's top infectious diseases official says he thinks "zero cases" of Ebola can be achieved in West Africa. In an interview with BBC World News America's Katty Kay, Dr Tom Frieden was keen to stress he was optimistic, not confident, that this could be ...
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The Chemical In 'BPA-Free' Water Bottles May Be Just As Unhealthy As BPA Many of us have read the studies about bisphenol-A, and know the chemical is best avoided when it comes to drinking containers, baby bottles, canned foods and thermal paper. The chemical, also known as BPA, has been linked to everything from obesity ...
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Ebola health workers face life or death decision on pregnant women: experts A pregnant woman suspected of contracting Ebola is lifted by stretcher into an ambulance in Freetown, Sierra Leone September 19, 2014 in a handout photo provided by UNICEF. Credit: Reuters/Bindra/UNICEF/handout via Reuters ...
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Pizza Hut to Offer Gluten-Free Crust on 2 Pies Pizza Hut, one of the world's largest pizza purveyors, is adding gluten-free pizza to its lineup this month. Customers will be able to order 10-inch cheese-only and pepperoni pizzas made with dough supplied by Udi's, a gluten-free baking company owned by ...
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Disneyland measles outbreak: Infected woman took 2 flights before diagnosis A wave of measles cases traced to Disneyland threatens to spread farther. An unvaccinated California resident infected in the outbreak traveled by plane between Orange County and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport during the holidays, health officials ...
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The spread of Disneyland measles outbreak The measles outbreak traced to Disneyland has led to 22 cases of the disease in California and several in other states. Read full story: Disneyland measles outbreak: Infected woman took 2 flights before diagnosis ...
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Facing widespread flu, health officials encourage antiviral drug use This year's flu season is shaping up to be one of the worst in recent years. Judy Woodruff talks to Dr. Tom Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about this year's influenza strain and the benefits and limitations of using antiviral drugs for ...
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Colorado group helps breast cancer survivors get tattoos to cover scars Dec. 17, 2014: Breast cancer survivor Mari Jankowski takes a photo of her new tattoo that covers a scar in West Allis, Wis. (AP). WEST ALLIS, Wis. – For women who have survived breast cancer, breast or nipple reconstruction can be a first step toward looking ...
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Stroke Rounds: Aspirin Overused for Primary Prevention savesaved; ">. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. author name. by Crystal Phend Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today. This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today® and: Medpage ...
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10 Percent Of Heart Clinic Patients Misuse Aspirin Statistics show that close to 10 percent of patients are abusing aspirin when it comes to primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention. Findings published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology revealed that over 72 percent of patients had ...
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Liberia's Ebola epidemic could be eliminated by June, researchers say A new analysis of Ebola cases in West Africa predicts that the epidemic in Liberia could be eliminated by June if medical workers can hospitalize 85% of those infected. "That's a realistic possibility but not a foregone conclusion," wrote lead author John Drake, ...
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Man Escapes Living Hell After Being Locked Inside His Body For 12 Years Imagine being trapped inside your body, unable to move or communicate with the outside world, yet your thoughts were still intact. Nothing but your mind to keep you going. How would you survive? Could you survive? This experience was all too real for ...
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Why Facebook Knows You Better Than Your Friends Do In the movie Her, Joaquin Phoenix's character falls in love with his computer's operating system, which through the magic of machine learning — and Hollywood — comes to know and understand him better than anyone else. It's a futuristic critique of human ...
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Contaminated Cooling Tower at Co-op City May Be Linked to Bronx ... A contaminated cooling tower might be the source of the potentially deadly bacteria. Rob Schmitt reports. (Published Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015). Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015 • Updated at 10:14 PM EST. Hundreds of residents in Co-op City gathered for a meeting with ...
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One Third Of Americans Are Suffering From Chronic Pains Unnecessarily Approximately 31 percent of Americans suffer from chronic pain. That's about 100 million people. An independent panel convened by the National Institutes of Health has made some suggestions on how to deal with the present situation. "We learned that ...
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Naps May Help Babies Retain Memories, Study Finds Taking naps after learning new information may help increase a baby's memory, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on tests of six- and 12-month-old babies to see how they retained ...
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Co-op City towers contaminated with Legionnaires' Disease Potentially deadly bacteria has been found in a cooling tower at Co-op City, where eight residents have been diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease, city officials announced on Tuesday. A preliminary Health Department study found the bacteria that is the ...
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Episiotomy Appears To Be On The Decline In The U.S. Between 2006 and 2012 there was a decline in episiotomy, which is a surgical procedure in which the birth canal is surgically widened in order for the mother to have an easier birth. Share This Story ...
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Aspirin May Do More Harm Than Good for People Seeking to Prevent Heart ... How many times have you heard how aspirin is good for people seeking to prevent a heart attack? Today, this has become common knowledge, and aspirin is often taken by people suffering from heart disease that want to try to prevent a heart attack.
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Chronic Pain Is Suffered By 100 Million Americans: But Are They Being ... An estimated 100 million Americans live with chronic pain, but new research suggests that many of these patients receive insufficient treatment. Share This Story. Researchers found a need for multidisciplinary approaches to pain treatment that involves both ...
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Pizza Hut to offer gluten-free pizzas Customers will be able to order 10-inch cheese-only and pepperoni pizzas made with dough supplied by Udi's, a gluten-free baking company owned by Boulder Brands. Pizza Hut, one of the world's largest pizza purveyors, is adding gluten-free pizza to its ...
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At least 100 million Americans suffer chronic pain, are they properly treated? 1 A new research revealed that at least 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain yet received insufficient or no treatment at all. According to the researchers, there is a need for a multidisciplinary approaches in treating chronic pain that would be coming ...
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Liberia can be Ebola free by June according to a new analysis 2 A new study says that there is a high possibility that by the end of June, Liberia can be Ebola free if the medical workers in the country can hospitalize at least 85 percent of those infected. John Drake, a computational ecologist and epidemiologist at the ...
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Study Reports Inappropriate Consumption of Aspirin by Too Many People A number of people believe that aspirin is helping them to avoid stroke and heart attack but they are not aware about the negative impacts of the drug which may overshadow its benefits, a new study suggests. The researchers noted that among 68,808 ...
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Timing of naps in infants important for learning and memory The notion of trying to teach a young child a new skill while they are sleepy is somewhat counterintuitive, however, according to a recent study that is precisely the best time. The study, led by researchers at the University of Sheffield and Ruhr University ...
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BPA-free? Plastic alternative BPS may not be safer, after all CALGARY -- A University of Calgary study has found that a common ingredient in consumer products can cause hyperactivity in zebrafish. Bisphenol A, a chemical used to make household plastics and epoxy resins, is produced in large quantities around the ...
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Aspirin misused in U.S. A recent study shows that many Americans are simply misusing the drug aspirin in order to avoid risk of heart attacks or strokes. The research was conducted by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and found that more than 1 out of 10 users in ...
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New Analysis Challenges Arguments for Repealing Tax on Medical Devices WASHINGTON — A tax on medical devices, imposed by the Affordable Care Act, has become a prime target for Republicans, some Democrats and a small army of lobbyists for the industry. But a new report from the Congressional Research Service ...
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Study: Brain scans could help better predict behavior Researchers say the results of brain scans could tell doctors whether patients would respond better to drugs or to behavior modification. (Source: CNN). (CNN) - Could routine brain scans help doctors better predict your behavior? A new study says they could.
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Man wakes up after 12 years of coma, says he knew what was happening 1 Martin Pistorius was 12 years old when he contracted a mysterious disease. He was a healthy young boy before he got sick and doctors have no explanation on what happened to him. At first, Martin was unable to move his limbs, to make eye contact then to ...
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BPA, BPS, BPD(uh) Fear, Inc. is having a very big day on the New York Stock Exchange. It is up 45 percent on heavy volume. How could it not be? After all, the plastic component BPS (bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl) sulfone) — supposedly a safe replacement for bisphenol A (BPA) ...
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Routine Brain Scans Supported Routine brain scans may help doctors treat behavior issues ranging from depression to cigarette addiction. A new study suggests the scans could tell whether patients would respond better to drugs or to behavior modification, or whether they might have a bad ...
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Babies have better memory-retention if they nap after they learn At the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany new research and experiments on the correlation between napping and memory-retention in infants have had results that suggest napping may in fact increase a baby's memory.
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Research Proves: Daytime Naps Increase Memories of Babies These Daytime nap is pretty significant for memory of a baby. Babies' minds preserve memories during these naps. This is the main cause why babies usually sleep a lot in the early stage of their life. They are born with merely few fundamental reflexes. Hence ...
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Ebola epidemic in Liberia may end by June: Study Washington: The deadly Ebola epidemic in Liberia could likely be eliminated by June if the current high rate of hospitalisation and vigilance can be maintained, according to a new model developed by scientists. Representational image. AFP. The model ...
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AstraZeneca: PEGASUS-TIMI 54 Trial Meets Primary Efficacy Endpoint - Quick ... (RTTNews.com) - British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC (AZN, AZN.L) reported that the PEGASUS-TIMI 54 study achieved its primary efficacy endpoint. The study, a large scale outcomes trial involving more than 21,000 patients, evaluated BRILINTA tablets at ...
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Living in the hills lowers lung cancer risk New York, Jan 14 (IANS) — People who live at higher altitudes are less likely to suffer from lung cancer than those who live in the plains, finds a promising research. As lower pressure at higher elevations results in less inhaled oxygen, this new study ...
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People working more than 48 hours a week more prone to binge drinking Washington, Jan. 14 (ANI): A new study has revealed that people who work more than 48 hours per week are more prone to binge drinking or risky alcohol consumption than those who work standard weeks. Risky alcohol consumption has been considered ...
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