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Scientists discover potentially powerful antibiotic Scientists have discovered a potentially powerful antibiotic that can kill some of the most dangerous "superbugs" -- serious infections that are resistant to standard medications. Superbugs, which can't be killed by antibiotics, are a growing threat to public ...
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Connecticut Supreme Court upholds ruling that teen must undergo chemo The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld a prior ruling Thursday that a 17-year-old cancer patient cannot refuse chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. The state argued that the teen lacked competency extended to maturity and that they did not ...
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Connecticut Teen With Curable Cancer Must Continue Chemo: Court A 17-year-old Connecticut girl with a highly curable cancer is not mentally competent to make her own medical decisions and will continue to receive the chemotherapy treatments she's battled to halt, the Connecticut Supreme Court ordered Thursday.
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Sanofi, Regeneron announce positive trials of cholesterol drug PARIS (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical groups Sanofi and Regeneron announced on Friday that two clinical trials showed that a monthly dose of experimental drug alirocumab was effective in patients with high cholesterol. In both trials, the drug administered ...
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| FDA Approves New Oral Anticoagulant From Daiichi Sankyo Late Thursday the FDA announced that it had approved edoxaban, the new oral anticoagulant manufactured by Daiichi Sankyo. The drug will be marketed under the brand name of Savaysa and joins three other new drugs in the large and important new oral ...
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| US FDA approves Daiichi anti-clotting drug (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the use of a drug made by Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd to reduce the risk of stroke and blood clots in patients with an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. The new drug, Savaysa, will compete ...
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Docs suggest HPV screening first for cervical cancer (Reuters Health) - Two medical organizations have recommended testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) to screen women for cervical cancer before using a Papanicolaou – or Pap – smear for screening. The new guidance is not universally accepted by ...
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Has Antibiotic Resistance Been Solved? A collaborative research team from universities, research institutes, and industry in Boston and Bonn, Germany, reported yesterday on their discovery of a new antibiotic that holds promise – cautious and restrained promise – for not only overcoming antibiotic ...
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Advisers Endorse HPV Test for Cervical Cancer Checks THURSDAY, Jan. 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- An HPV test recently approved by U.S. health officials is an effective way to check for cervical cancer, two leading women's health organizations said Thursday. The groups said the HPV test is an effective, ...
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| US FDA approves Daiichi anti-clotting drug Jan 8 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday approved the use of a drug made by Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd to reduce the risk of stroke and blood clots in patients with an irregular heartbeat not caused by a heart valve problem. The new drug, Savaysa, will ...
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Ebola Vaccines: Here's a Look at the 3 Front-Runners A vaccine against the Ebola virus is urgently needed, and several companies are racing to test their experimental vaccines in an effort to halt the spread of the deadly viral disease. Ebola has sickened more than 20,000 people in West Africa, and killed at least ...
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Harsher flu season claims life of fourth Minnesota child Raqiyo Dahir, 14, of St. Paul, received the nasal flu vaccine administered by registered nurse Kellie Xiong. Photo: Kyndell Harkness, Star Tribune. Camera Star Tribune photo galleries. Camera view larger. decrease font size resize text increase font size ...
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Flu season turns deadly Registered nurse Julietta Losoya administers a flu shot to a seven-month-old child at the county's North Central Public Health Center on Dec. 18. — Peggy Peattie. Share Photo. · · Reddit; ✉. Registered nurse Julietta Losoya administers a flu shot to a ...
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Genetic Testing Company 23andMe Finds New Revenue With Big Pharma The past two years have been a rough and transformative time for the controversial DIY genetic testing company 23andMe. At the end of 2013, the Food and Drug Administration requested that the company shut down its main service, an analysis of a person's ...
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APNewsBreak: Girl says she knows she'll die without chemo A 17-year-old girl being forced by state officials to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer said Thursday she understands she'll die if she stops treatment but it should be her decision. The state Supreme Court ruled earlier in the day state officials aren't ...
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APNewsBreak: Girl says she knows she'll die without chemo HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 17-year-old girl being forced by state officials to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer said Thursday she understands she'll die if she stops treatment but it should be her decision. The state Supreme Court ruled earlier in the day ...
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IMF Prepares New Aid in Ebola's Wake MONROVIA—. The International Monetary Fund is preparing around $150 million in additional support to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the countries at the heart of the Ebola epidemic, the fund's representative in Liberia told Reuters on Thursday.
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Russia Bans Trans People And Those With 'Disorders Of Sexual Preference ... Russia has reportedly banned transgender people, as well as those who suffer from "disorders of sexual preference," from obtaining driver's licenses. The BBC reports that the Russian government has released a legislative document which outlines a revised ...
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Improve Your Cholesterol with Avocado Cholesterol is not created equal: there's good, there's bad. The bad one, LDL (low-density lipoprotein), can build up plaque on the blood vessels and arteries. As they thicken, they can cause these blood pathways to be inefficient. Over time they lead to stroke ...
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Trim down your fat belly by eating these 9 foods 2 Having a rock hard abs is a dream for everybody, including me. And yet there are people out there who made it a lifelong mission to fight belly fat. Belly fat is basically what medical experts call as the "visceral fat." It is the fats that gathers in our guts and ...
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9 Foods that Help you Trim Excess Belly Fat Obesity has been blamed for several potentially dangerous conditions, and belly fat, in particular, is thought to be the worst for health, and is linked to several other lifestyle related disorders. Belly fat is nothing but visceral fat-it is thought to gather around the ...
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Women Turning to Natural Methods Instead of Hormones For Birth Control Like many working women in their 20s, Aisha Mukooza "can't afford to get pregnant." That's a responsible way of looking at parenting and it begs the question, "What are you going to do about it?" Obviously, the answer to this is "birth control." But Mukooza has ...
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9 foods to help you beat belly fat For a lot of people, fighting belly fat is part of their New Year's resolution. But for me it's a lifelong mission. Growing up as a fat kid in the 1980's, I figured there was nothing I could do about my growing girth. My dad was obese, and I was well over 200 pounds ...
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Men who take a lot of selfies 'show strong links to psychopathic tendencies' As if we needed another reason to put a stop to selfies. A new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences has revealed that men who take a lot of selfies will score much higher on tests looking for signs of psychopathy. Conducted by ...
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New Antibiotic Teixobactin Offers Hope Against Drug-Resistant Illnesses A new antibiotic known as Teixobactin made by Eleftheria terrae could be the new antibiotic that's won't lose a battle against dangerous infections, unlike the medical epidemic of bacterial resistance for a growing number of once treatable illnesses. Like Us on ...
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Tri-County sees 3 flu deaths The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) reports influenza-like illness is on the rise in Ohio, and the number of associated hospitalizations are significantly higher with 202 through Nov. 29 compared to 89 last year. According to the US Centers for Disease ...
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New guidelines could change cervical cancer screening In Alabama, more than one million women should be screened for cervical cancer. For the last 70 years, the Pap smear has been the primary screening method. In recent years, a co-testing method was added to the arsenal it combined a Pap smear and a ...
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Russia Bans Trans People and Others With "Disorders" From Driving Unless you live in South Dakota or are currently watching that smutty Alfa Romeo 4C ad, you probably don't associate sex with driving. However, those two things are apparently very closely intertwined in Mother Russia. According to the BBC, a new law in ...
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For birth control, what's old is new again Many experts caution that Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) is one of the least successful methods to use, because it can be so complicated to do correctly. "I can't afford to get pregnant," says 25-year-old Aisha Mukooza. So every morning, for the past two ...
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IMF to provide new funds to help three main Ebola-hit nations Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are at the centre of the Ebola outbreak that has killed 8,235 people out of 20,747 infected over the past year, WHO said on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters. Monrovia: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is preparing around ...
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23andMe, Genentech signs $60 mn deal for research on Parkinson's cure Genetic testing company 23andMe Inc and Genentech has teamed up to work in direction of finding new and effective treatment methods for people with Parkinson's disease. The companies on Tuesday entered into a USD 60 million deal over generating ...
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Study links lifespan, solar activity Talk about a rough start in life. Being born when the sun is stormy might cut around five years off of it, if a new study of Norwegians is any guide. The study reports that historically, people born when there was low solar activity lived longer on average than ...
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Report Confirms: Fourth Child in Minnesota Dies with Flu The Minnesota Department of Health reported another death associated with influenza. It is the fourth pediatric death in the state, according to the official health department report. The health authorities of Minnesota confirmed that up till now 77 people are ...
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Here's a Breakthrough That May Beat Paralysis Hundreds of people suffer from spinal cord injuries every year. While others are able to retain most of their functions, most are left paralyzed or quadriplegic. Thus, the new invention called e-dura is an exciting breakthrough we can all look forward to. Like Us ...
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Missouri baby born with teeth: Mom talks about shocking discovery (+Video) A Missouri baby born with teeth caused quite an excitement in the delivery room when dad was the first to discover that his baby girl came into this world with two healthy and shiny white bottom front teeth. Jaklina Bailey, the baby's mom, recalls that "it was ...
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Men who click selfies may have psychopathic tendencies Ok guys, time to stop posting five selfies on Facebook daily. It is not doing you any good. In fact, if a study recently published in a journal called Personality and Individual Differences is to be believed, these selfies may even indicate you not only have ...
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Monkeys can be trained to recognize themselves in mirrors Washington: A new study has demonstrated that monkeys can learn to see themselves in the mirrors. The study that experimented with rhesus monkeys suggested that rhesus monkeys don't realize when they look in a mirror that it is their own face looking ...
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23andMe: See How This Company Is Making Millions Selling Customer DNA ... The leading privately-held personal genetics company, 23andMe, has found a new source of revenue after the Food and Drug Administration asked it to stop providing health-related information based on customer's DNA. With services limited to ancestry data ...
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Just feel cold to stay slim A new study has revealed that exposure to cold temperatures increases levels of a newly discovered protein that is critical for the formation of brown fat, the type of fat in our bodies that generates heat. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
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Pharmaceutical groups Sanofi, Regeneron announce positive trials of ... PARIS: Pharmaceutical groups Sanofi and Regeneron announced on Friday that two clinical trials showed that a monthly dose of experimental drug alirocumab was effective in patients with high cholesterol. In both trials, the drug administered every four ...
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Russia Lifts Driving Rights For People With 'Sex Disorders' Russia Lifts Driving Rights For People With 'Sex Disorders' Three years ago a car deadly hit five orphaned young kids and their foster parents in Russia.The victims were waiting at a bus stop. Now Russia introduces a new driving license regulation. But this ...
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More Reasons To Marry Your Best Friend A recent investigation into the causal relationship between marriage and life satisfaction found that people who regard their partner as their best friend derive more satisfaction from their marriages than others.
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For birth control, what's old is new again "I have my thermometer under my pillow. I take it, and then take the reading and put it in Kindara," Mukooza says. Kindara is an app on her phone that helps her chart her temperatures. As Mukooza explained, "the temps, when I ovulate, it rises." She is part of ...
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Mom has baby an hour after learning she's pregnant On Tuesday morning, Katherine Kropas woke up complaining of sharp pains in her stomach. It was supposed to be a typical day at work for the 23-year-old, but a surprise was coming. That surprise weighed in at 10 pounds, 2 ounces and was 23 inches long: ...
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Rare smile: Baby born with two front teeth BRANSON, Mo. -- Alyssa Bella Bailey is only a week old but she's already making headlines with her smile. The little girl from Branson, Missouri, was born with two lower front teeth. The doctors and nurses who delivered her at Mercy Hospital Springfield on ...
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Is arrhythmia at the heart of Beethoven's music? Whether or not music stirs inside, each of us bears a living metronome at our core. It may tick at 40 or 100 beats per minute, in three-quarter time or in six-eight, erratically or like a Swiss clock. Hear it or not, the human heart quietly marks the rhythm of our lives.
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Sanofi, Regeneron announce positive trials of cholesterol drug PARIS Jan 9 (Reuters) - Pharmaceutical groups Sanofi and Regeneron announced on Friday that two clinical trials showed that a monthly dose of experimental drug alirocumab was effective in patients with high cholesterol. In both trials, the drug ...
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Biotech's Price Wars Are Just Beginning The two drugmakers that last year introduced $1,000-a-day hepatitis C treatments said there wouldn't be a price war over their breakthrough drugs. Instead, that's exactly what's starting to happen between AbbVie Inc. (ABBV:US) and Gilead Sciences Inc.
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Flexible Spinal Implants Put Paralyzed Rats Back on Their Feet Researchers have created an ultra-flexible brain implant that may help restore injured spinal cords and nervous systems without inflammation or infection. "E-dura," named after the dura mater protective layer of the brain and spinal cord, is composed of soft ...
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Gilead Strikes Hepatitis C Deal With Anthem Anthem Inc. (ANTM:US), the biggest provider of health coverage to U.S. businesses, chose Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD:US)'s hepatitis C drug as the primary option for patients with the most common type of the disease, jilting AbbVie Inc. (ABBV:US)'s rival ...
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