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Extended breastfeeding linked to higher IQ and income in study (CNN) "Breast is best" -- you could call it a mantra of sorts that sums up much of today's research on breastfeeding.
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Industry makes $7000 for each tobacco death: health campaigners LONDON (Reuters) - The tobacco industry makes $7,000 for each of the more than 6 million people who die each year from smoking-related illness, the health campaign group World Lung Foundation (WLF) said on Thursday.
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Two more US healthcare workers repatriated for Ebola monitoring (Reuters) - The last two members of a group of U.S. healthcare workers whose colleague is being treated for the Ebola virus returned on Wednesday from Sierra Leone to the United States, where they are being monitored for possible exposure to the deadly ...
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New global fund to help countries defend tobacco control A new global fund is being launched to help developing countries fend off challenges to tobacco control measures by cigarette makers.
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Some Malaria Deaths in Children Linked to Brain Swelling When children die from a severe form of malaria, swelling of the brain is often what kills them, a new study finds. This insight will not change medical practice immediately, but it may lead to improved treatments, researchers said.
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Sierra Leone: How Ebola Fools Even the Experts Everyone knew the three-year-old boy was at high risk. His mother had died from Ebola and the young children of victims are very likely to catch the virus.
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Breast-feeding pays: Babies who nursed earn more as adults, study says It pays to breast-feed - for babies. When they grow up, that steady diet of breast milk may boost their monthly income by up to 39%, according to a new report.
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Bloomberg, Gates Launch Antitobacco Fund Two of the world's billionaire philanthropists are stepping up their war on tobacco. Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates have created an "antitobacco trade litigation fund" to help developing countries ward off legal action from the tobacco industry over ...
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Key to a good sex life? More sleep Women looking to jump-start their sex life may want to spend more time in bed. Sleeping. That's the conclusion of a new study that suggests that each additional hour of sleep increased by 14 percent the likelihood a woman would engage in sexual activity ...
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Tuberculosis Outbreak At Kansas High School Infects 27 Twenty-seven people tested positive for tuberculosis infection at Olathe Northwest High School in Olathe, Kansas on Mar. 18, after a single case of tuberculosis disease prompted testing of the 300-plus community of students and staff.
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Gates and Bloomberg create $4 million fund to fight Big Tobacco LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - Developing countries facing potentially pricey legal challenges from big tobacco firms are to get help from a new $4 million fund created by the philanthropists Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg.
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Why Loneliness May Be the Next Big Public-Health Issue Loneliness kills. That's the conclusion of a new study by Brigham Young University researchers who say they are sounding the alarm on what could be the next big public-health issue, on par with obesity and substance abuse.
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Drinking diet soda linked to a widening waistline with age (Reuters Health) - - People over age 65 who drink diet soda daily tend to expand their waistlines by much more than peers who prefer other beverages, possibly contributing to chronic illnesses that go along with excess belly fat, according to a new study.
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Gates, Bloomberg set up fund to help poor countries fight big tobacco Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have set up a $4 million fund to help poor countries resist pressure from big tobacco companies desperate to offset falling sales in mature economies by expanding elsewhere.
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Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg launch anti-tobacco legal fund Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, shown in 2014, teamed with former New York City Gov. Michael Bloomberg to launch an anti-tobacco legal fund.
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TB Tests Positive for 27 Students at Kansas High School Health officials reported that 8 percent of the students and staff at a Kansas high school have tested positive for a tuberculosis infection.
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Questioning This Week's Heath Scare Linking Diet Soda To Belly Fat Alarming headlines ran this week claiming that diet soda causes accumulation of belly fat and an increased risk of strokes, heart attacks and diabetes.
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Charity attacks Gilead over hepatitis C drug restrictions March 18 (Reuters) - Charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has accused U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc of restricting access to its breakthrough hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in developing countries as it tries to protect profit margin in wealthier nations.
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Polite note leads to crude reply on amputee's car A simple request that someone stop parking in a spot reserved for an Ohio woman with a prosthetic leg drew a reply that's raising eyebrows.
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Study: Breastfeeding May Be Linked To Higher IQ Later In Life The benefits of breastfeeding for a child, physically and intellectually, have been increasingly well-illustrated in recent years, with some studies finding connections between breastfeeding and IQ throughout childhood.
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Ebola crisis: Sierra Leone lockdown to hit 2.5m people Sierra Leone is to enforce a three-day lockdown of key parts of the country to try and contain the Ebola epidemic. There have been 3,325 confirmed deaths from Ebola in the West African nation.
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Bloomberg Joins Bill Gates To Help Poorer Countries Fight Tobacco Industry Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg gives a speech during a ceremony to attribute "Philanthropies Awards for Global Tobacco Control" on the second day of the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health on March 18, 2015 in Abu Dhabi.
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Is there too much 'oversharenting' on social media? What do you get when your social media feeds fill up with other people's kids? Oversharenting. According to a new poll, parents think some of their peers share too much.
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Tuberculosis infects dozens at Kansas high school OLATHE, Kan. -- More than two dozen people have been infected with tuberculosis at a high school in eastern Kansas, CBS Kansas City affiliate KCTV reports.
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Health Highlights: March 18, 2015 More than two dozen people have tested positive for tuberculosis at a Kansas high school. More than 300 students and staff at Olathe Northwest High School were tested last week after a reported case of TB at the school.
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'Hey Handicap' Note Left On Car Of Woman With Prosthetic Leg An Ohio woman with a prosthetic leg who asked a neighbor not to park in her apartment building's handicap spot found a nasty note on her car calling her a "cry baby one leg.
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Liberia: Families of health workers killed by Ebola get $5k MONROVIA, Liberia - Liberia's government has begun making payments to the families of health workers who died of Ebola in the world's worst ever outbreak.
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There Are Now More Than a Dozen People Being Monitored for Ebola in the U.S. NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) - Health officials say two more American aid workers arrived in the United States Wednesday night to be monitored for Ebola, bringing the total brought back to the country since Friday to 17.
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Study prompts Brazil to boost breastfeeding campaign The Brazilian government said it will bolster campaigns to promote breastfeeding after the release of a study showing that the practice increases intelligence.
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Michael Bloomberg And Bill Gates Launch $4 Million Legal Fund To Fight ... Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg gives a speech at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. (Photo credit: Getty Images).
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In Sierra Leone, Ebola virus means 'school is not safe' For the children of Sierra Leone, the threat of the Ebola virus has brought fear, boredom and alienation. Nine months without school has left most children sitting at home with only parents and siblings for company, as the deadly disease spreads across much ...
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The Skinny on Diet Soda Subscriber content preview. or Sign In. Is it time to kick artificial sugars out of the can? Popular Among Subscribers. Star Track: Amy Schumer's movie Trainwreck · Amy Schumer: Class Clown of 2015 · Subscribe · Cuba Libre · Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are ...
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Why Malaria Kills Babies, and a Path to Finding New Treatments Dr. Terrie Taylor (left) and Dr. Karl Seydel (center) take a child's vitals in the pediatric malaria ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre.
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Read the Nasty Note a Neighbor Left an Amputee About a Handicapped Spot A cruel note calling an Ohio amputee a "cry baby one leg" has gone viral following a struggle between neighbors over an apartment building's designated handicapped spot.
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'Groundbreaking' malaria discovery holds hope for new treatments Malaria was responsible for approximately 584,000 deaths in 2013, the majority of which were among children in Africa. Now, researchers from Michigan State University claim to have made a groundbreaking discovery about cerebral malaria, a deadly form ...
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Vitamin D 'ineffective as treatment for hypertension' A new study has concluded that vitamin D supplementation is ineffective in lowering blood pressure and should not be used as an antihypertensive agent.
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Study: Diet Soda May Be Making You Fat You are wrong if you thought diet soda was healthier as they use artificial sweeteners. A new study found that people who regularly drink diet soda gain about triple the abdominal fat compared to non-drinkers.
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Diet soda sweeteners may lead to bigger be... Participants in a study have given Texas researchers some interesting data on diet soda drinkers - elderly individuals who went for the "healthy" option put on much more weight than those who abstained.
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Gates and Bloomberg create $4 million fund to fight Big Tobacco LONDON (Reuters) - Developing countries facing potentially pricey legal challenges from big tobacco firms are to get help from a new $4 million fund created by the philanthropists Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg.
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Folic Acid May Help Prevent Stroke New findings published in the Journal of the American Medical Association show evidence that folic acid may be helpful in preventing strokes, particularly among those with high blood pressure.
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Study Finds Link Between Diet Soda And Belly Fat People who drink diet soda amass almost triple the amount of belly fat as those who don't drink it, according to a new study. The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, analyzed, over the course of a period of nine years, data from ...
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Antipsychotic Drugs Hasten Death In Dementia Patients Even though practitioners can prescribe several other medications for dementia patients, many physicians still resort to antipsychotics - despite the known increase of potentially damaging side effects.
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Vitamin D Supplements Ineffective At Lowering Blood Pressure Vitamin D (Photo : Harvard) Vitamin D won't do much to lower high blood pressure, according to a recent study. Vitamin D won't do much to lower high blood pressure, according to a recent study.
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Study: Antipsychotic drugs can be deadly in dementia fight Medicating dementia patients may ease the demons that trigger aggression and other behavior problems, but it also boosts their risk of dying early - even more so than previously believed, according to a new study.
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Study on Folic acid suggests reduction of stroke risk for hypertensives Folic acid suggests reduction of stroke risk for hypertensives A study on Folic acid combined with enalapril the medication for hypertension, involving over 20,000 adults having high blood pressure and no history of heart attack or stroke, and compared to ...
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Discovery of How Malaria Kills Children Will Lead to Life-Saving Treatments Malaria kills a child every minute. While medical researchers have successfully developed effective drugs to kill the malaria parasite, efforts to treat the effects of the disease have not been as successful.
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Breastfed babies grow up smarter and richer: Study People breastfed as infants have higher intelligence scores in adulthood, and higher earnings, according to a study published Wednesday that tracked the development of 3,500 newborns over 30 years.
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Researchers Resolve Medical Mystery of Cerebral Malaria A group of researchers from Michigan State University found an anti malaria compound which can kill cerebral malaria in only 48 hours.
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Could Ultrasound be the New Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease, which is characterized by loss of memory, remains one of the most concerning health conditions today, and now, a team of researchers have discovered a new non-invasive ultrasound technology that could be used to treat it and even ...
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Vitamin D Supplements Ineffective For High Blood Pressure A latest research printed in Journal JAMA shows that Vitamin D supplements are futile when it comes to lowering blood pressure. The analysis of examined blood pressure data of 4,541 people from 46 different clinical trials reveals that there is no connection ...
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