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Scientists: Random gene mutations primary cause of most cancer types (CNN) -- Ever marvel at someone who smoked and still lived to be 90? Just plain good luck, researchers say. And those who live like Puritans and get cancer anyway? That's bad luck -- and it's the primary cause of most cancer cases, says a Johns Hopkins ...
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| New York City Requiring Flu Shots for Preschoolers New York City preschoolers will be heading back to class next week with memories of new holiday toys, vacation adventures, and, health officials hope, a flu shot. In fact, because of a new city requirement, young children can, for the first time in the city's ...
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UK passengers on Ebola flights traced All the UK-based passengers and crew on two flights taken by a British nurse who contracted Ebola have now received health advice, officials say. Pauline Cafferkey was diagnosed with Ebola after returning from Sierra Leone and is receiving specialist ...
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Iraq's Peshmerga desperate for US arms in fight against ISIS At left, a Peshmerga fighter examines the damage from ISIS artillery hitting close to their frontline position near Mosul Dam. At right, another proudly displays Kurdish flag. (FoxNews.com). MOSUL, Iraq – Under a gloomy late November sky that dumped cold ...
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New Diet Guidelines Might Reflect Environment Cost For years, the government has been issuing guidelines about healthy eating choices. Now, a panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are better for your own health, but for the environment as ...
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Montana boy gets $500 for giving up sodas for a year LIVINGSTON, Mont. — If you think you can't stick to a New Year's resolution, maybe this 11-year-old's story will inspire you. At Christmastime last year, Jonathan Sarisky's parents, mother Renee Shifley and stepfather Rick Shifley, of Livingston, and father ...
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Measles Scare Ends at Children's Museum Health officials in Pennsylvania announced the end to a measles scare this week at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia and in a nearby pharmacy. The health department initially announced that person who "likely has the measles" may have exposed ...
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Kaiser mental health staff plans California strike Hundreds of Kaiser Permanente's mental health professionals plan to go on a weeklong strike in California starting Jan. 12 to protest what they say is the health care provider's failure to offer timely, quality mental health care. The Contra Costa Times reports ...
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Kaiser mental health staff plans California strike SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of Kaiser Permanente's mental health professionals plan to go on a weeklong strike in California starting Jan. 12 to protest what they say is the health care provider's failure to offer timely, quality mental health care. The Contra ...
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Scientists explain how stem cells and 'bad luck' cause cancer Why are some types of cancer so much more common than others? Sometimes it's due to faulty genes inherited from one's parents and sometimes to behaviors like smoking a pack of cigarettes every day. But in most cases, it comes down to something else ...
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Avian flu found in SE Wash. backyard flock Avian influenza has been found in a backyard poultry flock in southeast Washington after previously showing up in wild birds in the northwest part of the state, but there is no immediate public health concern, state officials said Friday. The virus has not been ...
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Outgoing UN Ebola Chief: Crisis Could End in 2015 The outgoing head of the U.N. mission to combat Ebola said Friday that the worst outbreak of the disease could be ended this year. Anthony Banbury, delivering his final address as head of the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in Accra, Ghana, ...
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Health Officials: Lab Test Results Negative For Measles In Potential Case In ... "Based on initial information received from those involved in the treatment of the individual and based on initial investigation by the department, it was believed this was a likely case of measles and public notification was made out of an abundance of caution.
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new diet guidelines might pull back from meat n this Oct. 15, 2013 file photo, a cow eats in a feedlot at Suwannee Farms in O'Brien, Fla. Dietary guidelines released by the government every five years lay out recommendations for healthy eating. Next year's version may look at what is healthy for the ...
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Italian doctor who got Ebola is declared cured in Rome ROME (AP) - An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola in November while working in Sierra Leone has been declared cured and been discharged from a Rome hospital. A smiling Fabrizio Pulvirenti told reporters at Spallanzani hospital Friday that while he was ...
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9 people die of flu in NC during Christmas week RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — State health officials say nine people died of complications from the flu during Christmas week, bringing the death toll for this season to 17. Of the 17 people who died, nine were 65 years old or older. Older people are generally more ...
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New diet guides may reflect how food is grown, not just how it's eaten, and ... When the latest version of the government's dietary guidelines comes out, it may push even harder than it has in recent years for people to choose more fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains and other plant-based foods — at the expense of meat. Photo: Star ...
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Flu outbreak is now an epidemic; how bad will it be? The flu is now so widespread across the USA that it's officially considered an epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it's too soon to tell how particularly bad it will be, says Michael Jhung, a medical officer with the CDC's influenza ...
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New diet guidelines might reflect environment cost WASHINGTON — For years, the government has been issuing guidelines about healthy eating choices. Now, a panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are better for your own health, but for the ...
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Montana boy completes no-pop challenge, wins $500 "I might have just one pop, but I'm not going to overdo it," the 11-year-old no-pop challenge winner said. By Brooks Hays | Jan. 2, 2015 at 2:36 PM. Comments 0 Comments. share with facebook. share with twitter. share with google. 1 of 2. An 11-year-old is ...
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New diet guidelines might reflect environment cost WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, the government has been issuing guidelines about healthy eating choices. Now, a panel that advises the Agriculture Department is ready to recommend that you be told not only what foods are better for your own health, but ...
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2014 Was The Year Of 41 New Drug Approvals In The U.S. The year of 2014 can be remembered for many things. From a medical prescription standpoint, it might be remembered for numerous approvals by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which hit the highest approval rate in 18 years, ...
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Fast Food Still as Unhealthy as Ever Despite some improvements, fast food remains a less-than-healthy habit for many Americans based on calories, fat and salt. Between 1996 and 2013 little changed when it came to fast nutrition -- or lack of it, researchers say. (Photo : Jeff J. Mitchell, Getty ...
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Chanko Family to Appeal Case Against "NY Med" and NY Hospital For Showing ... The Chanko family vowed to appeal the case of the family's patriarch who died in the emergency room of a New York hospital and incident was showed over at ABC's "NY Med" without the family's permission. Mrs. Anita Chanko was watching an episode of ...
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Chanko family filed $5 lawsuit against ABC for broadcasting their father's death ... 2 A regular episode of ABC's NY Med featuring Dr. Mehmet Oz shocked widow Anita Chanko after recognizing her husband in one of their clips. According to Mrs. Chanko, she was horrified to see her late husband on TV as he undergoes treatment in attempts ...
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FDA drug approvals reach 18-year high in 2014 WASHINGTON: The Food and Drug Administration approved 41 first-of-a-kind drugs in 2014, including a record number of medicines for rare diseases, pushing the agency's annual tally of drug approvals to its highest level in 18 years. FDA drug approvals ...
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Flu season turns deadly in Michigan The flu has turned deadly in Michigan this season, as hundreds cram into emergency rooms and doctor offices seeking relief from vomiting, diarrhea, coughing, sneezing and body aches. At least four adults have died in Washtenaw County. And 78 residents ...
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11-year-old wins parents' no-pop challenge....and $500 Jon Sarisky, 11, of Livingston, Mont., won a challenge from his parents, going without sweet drinks for a year. Posted: Friday, January 2, 2015 9:00 pm. 11-year-old wins parents' no-pop challenge....and $500. LIVINGSTON, Mont. - As people across the United ...
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Elke Shaw-Tulloch: Hey smokers, make 2015 your year to quit You know the risks of using tobacco. And, if you are a smoker, you've probably even tried to quit a time or two. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that nearly 70 percent of all smokers want to quit. The most common reason most people ...
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Fast Food Menus Are as Unhealthy as they were in 1996, New Study Shows A new study shows that sodium levels, calories and saturated fat in fast food menus have very little changed from 1996 to 2013. Scientists say that the news isn't good for people watching their weight or daily sodium intake. The study was conducted by Alice ...
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FDA Approves Record Number of Drug Treatment in 2014; But Who Wins? 2014 was a big year in the medical industry. Cancer research has yielded some amazing discoveries. So has Alzheimer's Disease research. But the thing that all the research points to is prevention and treatment, and this the area of medicine that 2014 will ...
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Two-thirds of adult cancers largely due to bad luck, study suggests Lifestyle choices and genetics are big risk factors for certain cancers, but a new study concludes that the majority of cancer incidence is due mostly to bad luck when our cells divide. The study comes from scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center ...
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2014 New Drug Approvals Hit 18-Year High 2014 was a good year for pharmaceutical innovation – the best, in fact, since the industry's all-time record of 1996. FDA approved a total of 44 drugs – 39 by CDER, and 5 by CBER (Exhibit 1). As usual, this total excludes imaging agents (i.e., Lumason and ...
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Cancer Deaths in US Drop by 22 Percent in 20 Years Cancer Deaths in US Drop by 22 Percent in 20 Years According to the American Cancer Society's annual statistics report, cancer death rate has dropped by 22 percent in last the 2 decades in the United States. The report states that there has been a ...
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Mark Chanko's widow reveals horror of watching husband's death on Dr Oz show Mark Chanko, 83, a Korean War veteran and father-of-five, was killed by a truck in 2011. His death was featured on ABC show NY Meds without his family's permission. A widow whose husband died after being hit by a truck has revealed the horrifying moment ...
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Meat may be targeted in new federal nutrition guidelines A steer grazes Monday outside of Oroville, oblivious the birds around him. New dietary guidelines that may downgrade beef as a food are creating controversy. Emily Bertolino — Mercury-Register. By Mary Clare Jalonick, The Associated Press.
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Most Cancers Are Not Under Our Control: Important Study (Photo : REUTERS/Jason Lee) Heshan is rich in realgar, or arsenic disulphide, and is given the grim label 'cancer village'. Some things can certainly help us to avoid cancer, if we are careful to avoid smoking, getting exposed to the sun or inhaling polluted air ...
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Not all obese people prone to poor health: Study MIAMI - US scientists encouraged 20 obese people to eat extra fast food for several months, and found that about a quarter stayed in good health despite the additional pounds they gained. The study in the January 2 edition of the Journal of Clinical ...
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Avian flu found in SE Wash. backyard flock; 2nd appearance in state; no public ... OLYMPIA, Wash. – Avian influenza has been found in a backyard poultry flock in southeast Washington after previously showing up in wild birds in the northwest part of the state, but there is no immediate public health concern, state officials said Friday.
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Avian flu found in SE Wash. backyard flock OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Avian influenza has been found in a backyard poultry flock in southeast Washington after previously showing up in wild birds in the northwest part of the state, but there is no immediate public health concern, state officials said Friday.
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US Declares Flu 'Epidemic' (KFYI News) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared an "epidemic" of influenza due to a recent surge in cases reported around the country. The agency has received reports that the flu has killed 15 children in nine states, and ...
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ISIS fighters may have come down with Ebola: report Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul in this June 2014 photo. Photo: AP. MORE ON: ISIS · Italian women kidnapped by ISIS appear in new video · Joining fight ...
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Mutation in flu virus to affect vaccine MT. VERNON — Federal health officials say a mutation in the influenza virus has rendered the flu vaccination only 50 percent effective. Nida Subhani, M.D., infectious disease specialist with St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital of Mt. Vernon, stated in a ...
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Pet Reptiles Create High Risk for Severe Salmonella Infections in Children Turtles, a common pet reptile, could carry a high risk of severe Salmonella infection. Courtesy of ShutterStock. Comment. Share on facebook. 0. Share on twitter. 0 · Share on google_plusone_share; Share on emailemail; Share on printprint; More Sharing ...
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Health Officials Urging Smokers To Quit It's part the Tobacco Cessation Collaborative. It's an effort between Blue Cross Blue Shield, the Michigan Department of Community Health and the Michigan Cancer Consortium. The state recently announced 32 oncology practices and cancer centers around ...
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| Pet Reptiles Create High Risk for Severe Salmonella Infections in Children - (full ... (Reuters Health) - One in four children younger than age five who were infected with Salmonella got the disease from a pet reptile in a recent UK study. One in four children younger than age five who were infected with Salmonella got the disease from a pet ...
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Italian doctor declared ebola-free An Italian doctor who contracted ebola in November while working in Sierra Leone has been declared cured and discharged from hospital in Rome. A smiling Fabrizio Pulvirenti told reporters at Spallanzani hospital that while he was gravely ill, he tried to ...
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Good news for fatties: obesity not always a path to ill health Obesity is known to be one of the biggest risk factors for ill health and premature death. The findings of a small new study could help scientists understand why some obese people are more prone to health problems than others. MS. Obesity. La monstrua ...
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7 ways to fulfill resolutions: Column It's that time of year when we make promises to ourselves and others that we do not keep. Most people fail to complete their New Year resolutions. But this year, you can be among the exceptions. I want to share seven tips from modern psychology and 10 ...
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| Children with pet reptiles risk severe Salmonella infections (Reuters Health) - One in four children younger than age five who were infected with Salmonella got the disease from a pet reptile in a recent UK study. The children with reptile-associated infections were significantly younger than other kids with Salmonella ...
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