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Measles Cases Linked to Disneyland Rise, and Debate Over Vaccinations ... LOS ANGELES - A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland is spreading across California and beyond, prompting health officials to move aggressively to contain it - including by barring unvaccinated students from going to school in Orange County.
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Surgeon Slain in Boston Shooting Survived by Pregnant Wife, 3 Kids The doctor who died of his injuries after a lone gunman entered a Boston hospital and shot him Tuesday was expecting a baby with his wife, who is 7 months pregnant, the hospital said today.
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Ebola ebbing in West Africa but vigilance needed: WHO GENEVA (Reuters) - The Ebola epidemic in West Africa appears to be ebbing, with fewer than 150 cases reported in the past week, but efforts must be pursued to stamp out the deadly disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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Study Shows Brain Stores Seemingly Trivial Memories, Just in Case The surge of emotion that makes memories of embarrassment, triumph and disappointment so vivid can also reach back in time, strengthening recall of seemingly mundane things that happened just beforehand and which, in retrospect, are relevant, a new ...
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Scientists Work to Contain Modified Organisms to Labs Could genetically modified bacteria escape from a laboratory or fermentation tank and cause disease or ecological destruction? This is not known to have occurred.
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Smoking Can Cost You $1 Million to $2 Million in a Lifetime Your pack-a-day habit isn't just destroying your lungs, but your bank account as well—more than you ever imagined. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House John Boehner watch as U.S.
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Falling Ebola cases show 'turning point' There has been a "turning point" in the Ebola crisis, with cases falling in the three affected countries, World Health Organization officials say.
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Researchers debunk the idea that asthma is more common in inner cities For more than 50 years, the conventional wisdom about asthma has been that it thrives in poor, densely populated urban areas. Researchers have even gone so far as to declare an "inner-city asthma epidemic.
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Washington state attorney general seeks to raise smoking age to 21 SEATTLE Jan 21 (Reuters) - Washington state could become the only U.S. state to raise its legal age for smoking tobacco to 21 from 18 under a measure proposed on Wednesday by its top law enforcement official.
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As Disneyland measles outbreak spreads, OC bars students lacking proof of shots Struggling to contain a growing measles outbreak that started at Disneyland a month ago, Orange County health officials ordered about two dozen high school students without proof of immunization to stay away from campus.
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Novartis Wins US Approval for First of New Psoriasis Drugs Novartis AG (NOVN) won U.S. approval for the first in a new line of psoriasis drugs that aim to better treat the itchy, sometimes debilitating skin condition.
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51 measles cases linked to Disneyland (CNN) Happiness isn't the only contagious thing at Disneyland in California. There's a measles outbreak at Disneyland, and one of California's top public health officials recommended that children under 12 months and people who've never had a measles ...
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Study Questions Link Between Asthma and City Living Research has long connected living in urban areas with a high risk for asthma. And it makes sense: Cities are polluted and pollution exposure is linked to a greater risk for asthma.
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E-cigarettes can produce more formaldehyde than regular cigarettes, study says A preliminary study in the New England Journal of Medicine raises a new worry about electronic cigarettes - exposure to formaldehyde.
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Study finds protective link in coffee vs. melanoma Your morning coffee might do more than perk you up. Researchers suggest it also might help protect you against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
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When Patients Kill Doctors: The Horrifying Murder Of Michael Davidson They're stabbed. They're beaten by crowds. They're threatened if anything goes wrong - or at least, if the patient thinks something is going wrong.
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FDA approves Novartis's drug for painful skin disease Jan 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novartis AG's injectable drug, Cosentyx, to treat adults with a moderate to severe skin disease called plaque psoriasis.
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Disneyland measles outbreak spreads to Bay Area A large outbreak of measles that started at two adjacent Disney theme parks in December has now sickened people all over California, including a handful of Bay Area residents, and is prompting public health authorities to urge everyone to get vaccinated if ...
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Sleep Position Linked to Death Risk for Those With Epilepsy WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Sleeping on your stomach may boost your risk of sudden death if you have epilepsy, new research suggests.
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Washington state attorney general seeks to raise smoking age to 21 Washington state could become the only U.S. state to raise its legal age for smoking tobacco to 21 from 18 under a measure proposed on Wednesday by its top law enforcement official.
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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection 'no better than conventional IVF' A new study by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection - an assisted reproduction technique for male infertility - doubled between 1996 and 2012, though the method was no more ...
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BPA 'poses no health risk' says EU The EU food safety watchdog said Wednesday that bisphenol A, a chemical used in food can linings and other products, poses no health risk to consumers.
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Washington state attorney general seeks to raise smoking age to 21 SEATTLE Jan 21 (Reuters) - Washington state's top lawyer was set to unveil legislation on Wednesday seeking to raise the legal smoking age to 21 from 18 in a move that could make the state the first in the nation with such a threshold, his office said.
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Cardiac surgeon shot at Brigham and Women's Hospital dies The heart surgeon shot Tuesday inside Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston died from his injuries. Dr. Michael J. Davidson, 44, the director of endovascular cardiac surgery, was married and had three children.
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Sitting increases disease risk... and exercise may not reduce it OK, so you work in an office and you spend 8 hours sitting at your desk - plus a couple hours of TV in the evening - but all that gym time makes up for all that sedentary action, right?
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Washington state's attorney general proposes bill to lift smoking age to 21 Washington state's attorney general hopes to raise the legal smoking age to 21. Utah and Colorado have discussed a similar measure.
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Blue Shield, Sutter Health move toward accord Moving to resolve a bitter dispute over stalled negotiations that threatened health care plans for tens of thousands of patients, Blue Shield of California on Wednesday said it will extend its contract with Sutter Health through Dec. 31, 2016.
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Hospital staff mourns surgeon fatally wounded by gunman BOSTON (AP) - Administrators and staff at a leading Boston hospital are mourning the death of a cardiac surgeon who was fatally shot at the hospital by a man who then killed himself.
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Daily coffee drinkers cut risk of melanoma, study finds Daily coffee consumption may provide protection against malignant melanoma -- the worst form of skin cancer -- researchers have found in a statistical study involving tens of thousands of java drinkers.
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Health worker exposed to Ebola released from Omaha hospital OMAHA, Neb. - An American health care worker who has been under observation at an Omaha hospital after he was exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone did not develop the disease and has been released.
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US insurance study charts huge price gaps for hip, knee surgery WASHINGTON Jan 21 (Reuters) - Hip and knee replacements, two of the fastest-growing U.S. medical procedures, are subject to huge - and apparently random - price variations within the same geographical areas, a new insurance industry study said on ...
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Don't Go to Disneyland's California Parks If You Haven't Been Vaccinated for ... California state epidemiologist Gil Chavez is calling on anyone who hasn't had the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to avoid visiting Disneyland's two California theme parks "for the time being.
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Idaho confirms avian flu cases as Washington imposes new quarantine SALMON, Idaho Jan 21 (Reuters) - Idaho officials said avian flu was confirmed in backyard chickens in the southwest of the state on Wednesday as Washington state quarantined poultry and eggs in areas where the virus was detected in chickens, geese and ...
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Cosentyx Gets FDA Nod for Psoriasis savesaved; ">. author name. by Nancy Walsh Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today. The FDA today approved the monoclonal antibody secukinumab (Cosentyx) for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in adults who are candidates for systemic ...
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Coffee may protect against melanoma Coffee drinkers may face lower risk of melanoma, as a new study has suggested that it may have a protective effect against the skin cancer.
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BPA poses no health risk, European watchdog says Amid several recent studies on the health risks associated with bisphenol A, the European Food Safety Authority is now concluding that BPA is safe for all age groups at current exposure levels.
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Use of 'the Pill' Tied to Higher Risk for Rare Brain Cancer THURSDAY, Jan. 22, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The risk for developing a rare form of brain cancer known as glioma appears to go up with long-term use of hormonal contraceptives such as the Pill, new Danish research suggests.
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Don't worry - 20 minutes exercise a week is enough, say experts NHS guidelines which advise 150 minutes of exercise a week should be revised to take into account that even small amounts of activity have huge benefits, health experts have said.
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Study shows asthma is not more prevalent in the inner city For more than 50 years, researchers have described childhood asthma as a plague of the inner city - urban areas where 20 percent or more of the population lives below the poverty line.
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On Ebola front line, first glimpse of end to epidemic A health worker checks the temperature of a man arriving at Bata Airport, January 14, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh. Here at the front line of the Ebola epidemic, the tide seems to be turning against the disease.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital Trained for Active Shooter Scenario The shooting at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Tuesday morning was a cruel reminder of what can - and does - happen more often than we would like to think at our nation's hospitals.
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Four cups of coffee a day could save you from skin cancer Coffee lovers may be on to something. Aside from a necessary aid to wake up in the morning, a new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has found that drinking coffee could protect you from skin cancer.
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Disneyland measles outbreak strikes in anti-vaccination hotbed of California Sometime in early December, somebody who probably caught measles abroad visited one of the Disney theme parks in California and perhaps sneezed.
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Twitter reflects risk of heart disease better than other factors, study finds Researchers mining Twitter found it to be a good predictor of risk for dying of heart disease. (University of Pennsylvania). Print · Lynne Terry | The Oregonian/OregonLive By Lynne Terry | The Oregonian/OregonLive The Oregonian Email the author | Follow on ...
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'Something snapped,' brother of alleged Brigham shooter says The brother of the man implicated in the fatal shooting of a doctor inside Brigham and Women's Hospital on Tuesday said he believes Stephen D. Pasceri was upset over information he received recently about the November death of their mother.
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Washington state attorney general seeks to raise smoking age to 21 SEATTLE (Reuters) - Washington state's top lawyer was set to unveil legislation on Wednesday seeking to raise the legal smoking age to 21 from 18 in a move that could make the state the first in the nation with such a threshold, his office said.
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Could Nutrients in Fish Shield Fetus From Mercury's Harms? WEDNESDAY, Jan. 21, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Despite concerns over mercury exposure, pregnant women who eat lots of fish may not harm their unborn children, a new study suggests.
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First organ transplants from a newborn baby performed in UK The UK has performed its first successful organ transplants from a newborn baby. The donor was a 6-day-old baby girl who was born with severe brain damage.
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After Brigham shooting, area facilities revisit security On a typical, hectic day at Massachusetts General Hospital, as many as 60,000 people stream into the main building near the Charles River.
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Woman Repays Kindness of Adoptive Father by Donating Kidney to Him Brandi Hicks said she learned selflessness and the spirit of giving from her adoptive parents starting from when she was 6 months old and they took her in.
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