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| Why Champagne Hangovers Are the Worst It's New Year's Day -- and for those that rang in 2015 with a little too much champagne, that can only mean one thing: a hangover. The bubbly New Year's Eve treat gets a bad reputation for bringing on a killer hangover the next day, and there may be some ... | |
| Most cancer types 'just bad luck' Most types of cancer can be put down to bad luck rather than risk factors such as smoking, a study has suggested. A US team were trying to explain why some tissues were millions of times more vulnerable to cancer than others. The results, in the journal ... | |
| `Bad luck` plays far greater role in cancer than faulty lifestyle LONDON: Two thirds of the world's cancer cases are a direct result of bad luck rather than faulty lifestyle or defective DNA. In a first such analysis, scientists say that cancers are driven by random mistakes in cell division which are completely outside human ... | |
| Coney Island infant born at midnight is true New Year Baby Coney Island: home of the Cyclone, Nathan's Famous — and the first New York City baby of 2015. An 8-pound, 8-ounce baby boy was delivered at Coney Island Hospital at exactly midnight, arriving simultaneously with the famous ball in Times Square. | |
| Boston's first baby of 2015 is born at Mass General A Revere couple are the proud parents of Boston's first baby of the New Year born at Massachusetts General Hospital. Spencer Weigman, 25, and Donna Hill, 31, welcomed their first born Rylee Margaret at 12:43 a.m. She weighs eight pounds and four ... | |
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| Most Types of Cancer Just 'Bad Luck,' Researchers Say Researchers have found that bad luck plays a major role in determining most types of cancer, rather than genetics or risky lifestyle choices such as smoking. The results, published in the journal Science on Thursday, found that random DNA mutations that ... | |
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| New Year's Hangover Cures for Your Credit Many Americans will wake up on New Year's Day nursing not only a headache from overindulging on New Year's Eve, but also worries about holiday bills that will arrive in January. If you can relate, it may be time to cure your holiday financial hangover. | |
| Legal weed brings tax boost, but it's modest DENVER — To see the tax implications of legalizing marijuana in Colorado, there's no better place to start than an empty plot of land on a busy thoroughfare near downtown Denver. It is the future home of a 60,000-square-foot public recreational center that's ... | |
| Two-thirds of cancer cases due to "bad luck": study WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The majority of cancer cases can be explained by "bad luck" rather than the result of environmental factors and inherited genes, a U.S. study said Thursday. The study, published in the U.S. journal Science, found that ... | |
| Achieving your New Year's resolution without going broke By Tara Struyk/GOBankingRates. About 40 percent of Americans make a New Year's resolution, according to Forbes. But what you probably don't hear -- and maybe don't want to hear -- is how few people actually succeed at their resolutions. That number is ... | |
| | Atlanta Journal Constitution | Flu season cranks up early Local hospitals have seen an influx of patients with flu-like symptoms recently, following a trend statewide. The CDC says the vaccine this season is not as effective against the most common strain of the virus due to a drift in the virus. THE ASSOCIATED ... | |
| New Year's Baby Born At Denver Health DENVER (CBS4)- The first baby of the new year in the Denver metro area was born at Denver Health. This baby girl made her appearance at 12:14 a.m. Thursday. She weighed in at just over seven pounds and is healthy. She is the first child for her mom and ... | |
| 8-pound, 8-ounce boy born at Coney Island Hospital at midnight Brooklyn is the home of New York City's first baby of 2015, as an 8-pound 8 ounce boy was born at Coney Island Hospital. But the race for the year's first newborn went down to the wire. Mom Olena Olenyukh gave birth to baby, Maxim, right at the stroke of ... | |
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| Tips to realise your New Year's resolutions in 2015 LOSING weight, quitting cigarettes and spending more time with family and friends rank among the top New Year's pledges Australians make each year — and they rarely change. With the New Year just a few days old research shows just 8 per cent of ... | |
| Walgreens closed deal with Alliance Boots 1 Walgreens closed a deal with Alliance Boots to become a part of the retail pharmacy industry. With the alliance, the company is now named Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) with a new symbol "WBA." With the deal, Walgreens will be acquiring 55 ... | |
| Winter weather alerts may signal greater fall risk for elderly (Reuters Health) - In Canadian winters, older people fall 20 percent more often after a freezing rain alert, according to a new study. That suggests a need for stronger cautions against going outside in icy conditions and more help from local governments, ... | |
| Is Fast Food Getting Healthier? Fast food is often perceived to be unhealthy. For that reason, fast food companies have said they're trying to make their meals healthier for their customers. An investigation of three major fast food chains revealed that between 1996 and 2013, there were little ... | |
| Concern as Japan's 2014 birth rate falls to record low Japan's birth rate slumped to a record low in 2014, health ministry figures show, dropping to 1,001,000 newborns in 2014 - 9,000 fewer than in 2013. The fall is the fourth in consecutive years and comes as the estimated number of deaths continues to rise, ... | |
| Judge: Florida's health care for needy kids violates US laws MIAMI A federal judge has ruled that Florida's health care system for impoverished and disabled children violates several U.S. laws. In a ruling Wednesday, U.S. Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan said lawmakers had for years set the state's Medicaid budget at ... | |
| Maintain your resolutions Fun to make, but difficult to maintain. That can be said of babies and New Year's resolutions. According to University of Scranton's research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology (1/1/2014), the number one New Years resolution for 2014 was to lose ... | |
| Judge: Florida's health care for needy kids violates US laws MIAMI (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that Florida's health care system for impoverished and disabled children violates several U.S. laws. In a ruling Wednesday, U.S. Circuit Judge Adalberto Jordan said lawmakers had for years set the state's Medicaid ... | |
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| Area fitness centers brace for new members Local fitness centers and gyms braced for new members as scores of New Year's resolutions involve stepping away from the eggnog and onto a treadmill. But as more fitness clubs offer increasingly fancy perks — including day care and movie theaters ... | |
| Possible measles exposure at Philly's touch museum State health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure this week at Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum and a suburban pharmacy. Officials say a person showing symptoms of the virus visited the hands-on learning museum Monday from 3:30 ... | |
| Possible measles exposure at Philly's touch museum PHILADELPHIA State health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure this week at Philadelphia's Please Touch Museum and a suburban pharmacy. Officials say a person showing symptoms of the virus visited the hands-on learning museum ... | |
| Fast food no healthier than a decade ago, researchers say While fast food restaurants have made some changes in an attempt to offer healthier menu options, researchers have not found those changes to have made much of a difference. WLS. Thursday, January 01, 2015 08:05PM. While fast food restaurants have ... | |
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| NJ Health Officials Confirm 2 More Hepatitis A Cases On Thursday, health officials in Hamilton, NJ, confirmed two more cases of Hepatitis A in the township about a month after a food service worker at Rosa's Restaurant and Catering in Hamilton first became infected with the virus. Health officials said that an ... | |
| Sierra Leone fasts against ebola Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma asked the country to begin a week of fasting and prayers yesterday to end the ebola virus that has killed more than 2,700 of his countrymen. The worst outbreak on record of the virus is still spreading in West Africa, ... | |
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| First valley baby of 2015 born at Mountain View Hospital Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- A little girl born at 12:52 a.m. on Thursday became the first baby of the New Year in the valley. Linda Rose Maravillas Gonzalez was the first baby born in the Las Vegas Valley in 2015. She was born at Mountain View Hospital. | |
| Resolving to Eat Better? Avoid Burger Chains Every January, countless people make diet related New Year's resolutions. Whether the plan is to eat more fruit and vegetable, cut out sugar or reduce caffeine consumption, those resolving to eat better should avoid burger chains, according to new research. | |
| If parent attempted suicide, kids more likely to try, too ISLAMABAD: The children of people who attempted suicide, regardless of whether they have a mood disorder themselves, have a four-to five- fold increased risk of trying to take their own lives, according to a new study. While mood disorders play a role in a ... | |
| Science behind 'terrible' champagne hangovers revealed Washington, Jan 2 (ANI): With the festive season at its end, the case of hangovers has an endless list, but there may be a reason why champagne hangovers are the worst, say the scientists. Boris Tabakoff, a pharmacology professor at the University of ... | |
| South first baby born at home Marsha Mills rang in the New Year with a bouncing baby girl – her third child and first girl – at 1.30am yesterday at her home in Moruga. The ambulance did not make it on time to St Mary's Village and Mills was forced to deliver, but thankfully, with her aunt and ... | |
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| Biological bad luck blamed in two-thirds of cancer cases WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Plain old bad luck plays a major role in determining who gets cancer and who does not, according to researchers who found that two-thirds of cancer incidence of various types can be blamed on random mutations and not heredity ... | |
| Walgreens Closes Deal, Begins New Era In Global Pharmacy Walgreens (WAG) closed its deal with Alliance Boots this morning, launching under a new holding company with its eyes on global expansion, a first for the retail pharmacy industry. As part of the deal, the new Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (WBA) begins ... | |
| Golden Downtown Smoking Ban Goes Into Effect GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4) - Starting Thursday, smokers in Golden needed to avoid the city's downtown if they wanted to light up. The ban also includes vaping and electronic cigarettes. Golden said it will issue a warning for the first offense, while a second ... | |
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| New Year's resolutions Ready or not, 2015 is here. But you still have time to make your New Year's resolutions. Why bother, you ask, when such a small percent of Americans are successful in achieving their goals. Because experts say the very act of making resolutions improves ... | |
| Here's how to turn your New Year's resolutions into reality So it's New Year's already, and you haven't lost the weight you'd committed yourself to losing. You still haven't straightened out the mess in the basement or gone through your piles of paper that clutter up the place like you promised yourself you would. | |
| Despite menu changes over 18 years, fast food is still bad for you Fast food has gotten a little better for you over the last 18 years -- except in cases where it's gotten worse. Among 27 menu items subjected to scrutiny by Tufts University researchers, eight of the offerings contained fewer calories in 2013 than in 1996 and nine ... | |
| Is fast food getting any healthier? An investigation into the nutrition offered in meals from three major fast food chains finds little change in calories, salt or saturated fat from 1996 to 2013. A team led by Alice Lichtenstein, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Cardiovascular Nutrition ... | |
| "Unprecedented": Flu now widespread in 36 states The flu is getting a fast start on 2015. It is now widespread in 36 states, an earlier and wider spread than usual. At least 15 children have died so far. This week in Minnesota, a record number of lab specimens were sent in for testing. Some hospitals in North ... | |
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