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Ebola is most deadly among babies, young children, study finds LONDON (Reuters) - The Ebola virus causing a devastating epidemic in West Africa is far more deadly in children than in adults, killing around 90 percent of babies under one who become infected, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Simple Rice Cooking Method May Drastically Cut Calorie Count, Scientists Say A simple method for cooking rice could someday reduce its calorie count by as much as 60 percent, the authors of a new research study say.
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Indiana Governor Declares Public Health Emergency Amid HIV Epidemic Indiana Gov. Mike Pence declared a public health emergency Thursday in Scott County amid an HIV epidemic that's infected at least 79 people in that southern, rural swath of the state.
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Ultrasound Study Reveals How Some Fetuses React to Smoking Moms Smoking has long been known to cause complications in pregnancy but a new study aims to show how the unborn baby of a smoking mother reacts differently.
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Leah Still's Cancer In Remission, NFL Player Dad Says The cancer-stricken 4-year-old daughter of Cincinnati Bengals player Devon Still is in remission, Still announced today. Doctors diagnosed Leah Still with stage 4 neuroblastoma on June 2, but they told Still today that Leah was in remission, he said on his ...
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Indiana Governor Declares Public Health Emergency to Battle Worst HIV ... Indiana Gov. Mike Pence today declared a public health emergency for an Indiana county battling what is believed to be the worst HIV outbreak in the state's history.
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New Ebola infections continue to drop, Guinea still a concern ABIDJAN (Reuters) - The three nations hardest hit by West Africa's Ebola epidemic recorded the lowest weekly total of new cases so far this year in the week leading up to March 22, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.
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DNA of 'an entire nation' assessed The genetic code of "an entire nation" has effectively been deduced, say researchers in Iceland. The feat was performed by combining DNA data with family trees.
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Indiana to declare health emergency over HIV outbreak INDIANAPOLIS - Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday morning is expected to reveal details of an emergency plan to address an HIV epidemic in southeastern Indiana linked to intravenous drug use.
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Amy's Kitchen Recall: What to Know About Spinach Listeria Outbreak Amy's Kitchen and at least three other organic food companies have recalled products this week because of listeria found in organic spinach, which may cause you to think twice before you reach for foods containing Popeye the Sailor Man's favorite ingredient ...
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Why Cigarette Usage Is At Record Lows And Dropping Cigarettes used to be everywhere in American society. Fifty years ago, 42.4 percent of U.S. adults smoked. Since then, that figure has declined by more than half, reaching a record low 17.8 percent in 2014.
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I Am a Talking Head on the New Ken Burns Cancer Documentary: Not I received the e-mail in May 2012. Would I be willing to be interviewed for an upcoming Ken Burns' Public Broadcasting System (PBS) documentary based on the book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer"?
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'We Need Help': HIV 'Epidemic' Slams Small Indiana Town An HIV "epidemic" fueled by needle-sharing opiate addicts has infected at least 72 people in one southern Indiana county as Gov.
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CDC anti-smoking ads target e-cigarettes for first time, highlight tobacco's links to ... The latest round of government anti-smoking ads targets e-cigarette use for the first time and highlights links to a variety of diseases that aren't typically associated with tobacco use.
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Devon Still announces his daughter's cancer is in remission Bengals defensive tackle Devon Still's 4-year-old daughter Leah was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, but after months of treatment Still was able to share some very good news on Wednesday.
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DNA quest scans Icelanders' genes for clues to disease Researchers now know more about the DNA of Icelanders than any other nation on earth. To find new drugs and understand human evolution, scientists at Amgen's DeCode Genetics have sequenced the genomes of more than 1 in every 100 people in the ...
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Indiana to declare public health emergency over HIV outbreak Indiana is preparing to declare a public health emergency Thursday in a country in the southern part of the state over an HIV outbreak.
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Sculpture pays tribute to Vietnam War service. Then it became a jungle gym. When sculptor Glenna Goodacre designed the Vietnam Women's Memorial on the Mall in 1993, she purposely designed it without barriers so people could touch, interact and physically connect with it.
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Ebola Hits Youngest Victims the Hardest, Report Finds Ebola takes hold quicker in the very youngest patients and kills more of them, a new report finds. The death rate among babies ranges from 85 to 90 percent among babies under age 1, the World Health Organization's Ebola Response Team, led by ...
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Angelina Jolie's Round Two With Mutated BRCA1: Solid Science Sprinkled With ... Two years ago, film actress, writer, director and global humanitarian, Angelina Jolie, wrote in The New York Times about her decision to have a preventive, bilateral mastectomy.
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In Iceland's DNA, New Clues to Disease-Causing Genes Scientists in Iceland have produced an unprecedented snapshot of a nation's genetic makeup, discovering a host of previously unknown gene mutations that may play roles in ailments as diverse as Alzheimer's disease, heart disease and gallstones.
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What we can learn from Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie's decision to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent cancer sends a clear message to all women - know your family history and the treatment options available for your risk factors.
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New Anthrax Treatment Helps Even After Infection The Food and Drug Administration has okayed a treatment designed to help anthrax victims even after they've started showing symptoms - a time that's usually too late for patients with the inhaled form of the infection.
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Osbourne reveals she has same high cancer risk as Jolie Kelly Osbourne revealed Wednesday that she has the same cancer gene as Angelina Jolie and that she, too, plans to get her ovaries removed as a precaution in the future.
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Angelina Jolie, my mother and her influence on difficult BRCA surgery choice My mother battled breast and ovarian cancer for years. The chemotherapy sessions, surgeries and radiation were a full-time job that gradually weakened and debilitated her.
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Ebola May Hit Young Children Hardest, Study Finds WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Ebola appears to do its damage faster in young children than it does in adults, a new study reports.
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NFL's Devon Still shares more good news about daughter Leah's condition Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle Devon Still is sharing more good news about his daughter Leah's battle with cancer. In an Instagram post Wednesday, Still said doctors have declared her cancer "officially in REMISSION!
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UPDATE 3-FDA approves Emergent BioSolutions' inhaled anthrax treatment ... * Approval triggers $7 mln in milestone payments from HHS. * Drug to be used in combination with other antibacterials. * Drug already being stored in U.S.
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Cancer Experts Weigh In On Angelina Jolie's Decision To Remove Her Ovaries By Patricia Reaney and Sharon Begley March 24 (Reuters) - Two years after a double mastectomy, actress Angelina Jolie has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer, a move cancer experts described as courageous ...
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Indiana Governor Declares Public Health Emergency in County After HIV Spike The governor of Indiana has declared a "public health disaster emergency" after a spike of HIV cases in southern Indiana has alarmed health officials.
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Passage of 'Doc Fix' Bill Edges Closer WASHINGTON—Lawmakers on Wednesday closed in on passage of a measure to permanently replace an 18-year-old formula for reimbursing doctors for Medicare patients, as support in the House swelled ahead of a vote Thursday and resistance faded ...
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Miami-Dade ranks in top 5 healthiest Florida counties Miami-Dade County took the No.5 spot among the healthiest counties in the Sunshine State, according to an annual County Health Rankings report released Wednesday.
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Ebola Cases in West Africa Reach Low for 2015 The number of new Ebola cases in West Africa last week was the lowest it has been in 2015, health officials said today. Between March 15 and March 22, there were 79 new Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to a new report from the ...
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Angelina Jolie Can't Raise Cancer Awareness Alone Dina Borzekowski is a research professor of behavioral and community health at the University of Maryland. People may have heard about the BRCA mutation from Angelina Jolie, but that doesn't mean they properly understand the risks.
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Posthumous Brittany Maynard video calls for new legislation In a video taken 19 days before her assisted suicide death, Brittany Maynard tells California lawmakers that no one should have to leave home to legally kill themselves under a doctor's care.
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UK leader Cameron apologizes for tainted blood scandal LONDON - British Prime Minister David Cameron has apologized to patients who were infected from a contaminated blood scandal during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Angelina Jolie's openness will 'save lives': expert In addition to detailing the surgery she underwent, Angelina Jolie, 39, revealed her hormone replacement plan now that she's in menopause.
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Report: Arlington, Montgomery Among Healthiest Counties in US The most healthy counties are shown in yellow, while the least healthy counties are shown in orange. (Credit: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).
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Leah Still officially in remission It all began with a fist bump. And for now, it has ended with one, too. Nearly 10 months to the day that 4-year-old Leah Still was diagnosed with a rare pediatric cancer that gave her a 50-50 chance of surviving, doctors informed her and her father, Cincinnati ...
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New Anthrax Drug Approved by FDA March 25, 2015 -- A new drug to treat inhalation anthrax has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Anthrasil was approved to be used in combination with appropriate antibacterial drugs.
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Landmark DNA study in Iceland reveals new insights into evolution and disease In a genetic first, scientists have sequenced the largest ever set of human genomes from a single population. The epic undertaking involved sequencing the DNA of 2,636 Icelanders and comparing them with the partial sequences of another 104,000.
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Indiana to Declare Public Health Emergency Over HIV Outbreak Faced with a growing HIV outbreak tied to intravenous drug use, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Wednesday he's considering a needle-exchange program as part of a public health emergency he's preparing to declare in a county that's at the epicenter of the ...
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Actelion says wins Japanese approval for heart and lung drug ZURICH, March 26 (Reuters) - Actelion said on Thursday the Japanese health regulator approved Opsumit, its new treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
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Actelion says wins Japanese approval for heart and lung drug ZURICH (Reuters) - Actelion said on Thursday the Japanese health regulator approved Opsumit, its new treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).
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Families of NHS patients given infected blood slam 'whitewash' report The families of thousands of patients given contaminated blood by the NHS have condemned an inquiry into the scandal as a whitewash and a waste of time.
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Guinea starts testing Merck vaccine in Ebola hotspots ... * WHO begins administering vaccines in western Guinea. * Violent reaction to campaign possible - MSF. * Death toll in West African epidemic exceeds 10,000.
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Report: Ebola Far Deadlier for Young Children Ebola appears to do its damage worse in young children than it does in adults, killing 90 percent of children under the age of one who become infected, a new study has found.
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Smog may be raising anxiety levels in cities around the world The research showed higher rates of anxiety for those living within roughly 150 to 650 feet of a major road. By Brooks Hays | March 25, 2015 at 12:50 PM.
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Family sues Publix claiming boy died from cookie NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The family of a deceased 11-year-old Alabama boy has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Publix Super Markets claiming he died as a result of severe allergic shock from eating a cookie after a store employee misled them about ...
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Young children 'at highest risk of death from Ebola,' study finds Ebola is more deadly for children under the age of 5 years than for older children and adults. This is the finding of a new study led by researchers Imperial College London in the UK and the World Health Organization.
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