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Republicans Push Back Against Proposed Dietary Guidelines WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans are pushing back against proposed dietary guidelines that urge Americans to consider the environment when deciding what foods to eat.
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Republicans push back against proposed dietary guidelines FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2010 file photo, steaks and other beef products are displayed for sale at a grocery store in McLean, Va. Congressional Republicans are pushing back on proposed dietary guidelines that urge Americans to consider the environment when ...
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South Korea draws up $13 billion budget boost as MERS bites into growth SEOUL South Korea announced a financial package of more than 15 trillion won ($13 billion) on Thursday, including a supplementary budget, designed to boost growth as a deadly outbreak of the MERS virus adds pressure on the already shaky economy.
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S Korea unveils $18bn stimulus package South Korea has announced a 15 trillion won ($A18.18 billion) stimulus package to boost its troubled economy, hammered by the deadly MERS outbreak, which has dented consumer spending and business sentiment.
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Infant's Unusual Head Shape Reveals Dangerous Condition At 2 months old, Matthew Boler had bright eyes, chubby cheeks and an odd-looking head that was narrow and oblong. Matthew's mother Megan Boler just thought her new baby had bucked the trend of family trait of large round heads.
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Keep carbs for last: Eating food in order can help diabetics Eating vegetables and protein before carbohydrates lowered glucose and insulin levels in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes. By Stephen Feller | June 24, 2015 at 6:49 PM.
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Order in Which Food Is Eaten May Affect Type 2 Diabetics' Blood Sugar TUESDAY, June 23, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The order in which obese people with type 2 diabetes eat their food can affect their blood sugar levels, a small study suggests.
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Diet rich in fat and sugar leads to loss of cognitive flexibility It is being claimed that diet high in fat and sugar causes changes in gut bacteria, which leads to a significant loss of cognitive flexibility in comparison to a normal diet.
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CDC ruling on new meningitis vaccine disappoints grieving parents Atlanta (CNN) Parents who lost their children to meningococcal disease lined up for more than an hour waiting their turn to speak to the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
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Health Panel Recommends Cautious Approach to Meningitis B Vaccine A panel of health experts stopped short of recommending that all American adolescents and young adults be vaccinated against a dangerous strain of meningitis that has caused outbreaks at Princeton University and the University of California campus in ...
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Ebola crisis in Guinea 'has set back malaria fight' The continuing Ebola epidemic in Guinea has set back the country's fight against malaria, say experts. They estimate 74,000 cases of malaria went untreated in 2014 because clinics were either closed or patients were too scared to seek help.
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HIV infections: 'We must face hard truths' London - The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the Aids virus, the United Nations and disease experts said on Thursday.
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Drastic acceleration of HIV fight needed to stop AIDS resurgence LONDON, The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the AIDS virus, the United Nations and disease experts said on Thursday.
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Blood made in the lab will be given to humans in two years Man-made blood cells are set to be transfused into humans within two years, it has been announced. NHS Blood and Transplant said laboratory-produced red blood cells will be used in clinical trials in humans by 2017.
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NHS to trial plans to treat patients using 'artificial' blood grown from donated ... The NHS is to start using blood grown in the laboratory in trials on patients. Scientists have made it by using stem cells taken from umbilical cords and from adult donors.
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Order in Which Food Is Eaten May Affect Type 2 Diabetics' Blood Sugar (HealthDay News) -- The order in which obese people with type 2 diabetes eat their food can affect their blood sugar levels, a small study suggests.
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Live near noisy roads at risk of early death, warns study Living in an area with noisy road traffic may reduce life expectancy as well as increase the risk of strokes, scientists have warned.
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'Glowing' condoms could soon reveal if you have an STI: Students design smart ... A 'smart' condom that changes colour when it detects a sexually transmitted disease could help to cut the spread of the illnesses.
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CDC: Swimmers' red eyes are caused by urine not chlorine Health specialists from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Water Quality and Health Council and the National Swimming Pool Foundation (NSPF) say the issue of individuals urinating in swimming pools is so distressing that ...
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London deaths linked to noise pollution in study High levels of noise pollution in the capital have been linked to early death and a greater risk of stroke. A study led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) gathered data from 8.6m people across London's 32 boroughs.
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CDC reveals that swimmers' red eyes are caused by urine not chlorine Health experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Water Quality and Health Council and the National Swimming Pool Foundation (NSPF) say the problem of people urinating in pools is so distressing that they have launched ...
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Quiet, please! Researchers worry urban noise may be linked to belly fat, stroke ... The sounds of urban life may give you a headache, but could they also make your belly fatter, cause premature aging and lead to stroke?
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Americas Lead Highs, Sub-Saharan Africa Lows in Well-Being This article is the first in a series exploring worldwide perceptions of well-being in the five well-being elements of the Gallup-Healthways Global Well-Being Index: purpose, social, financial, community and physical.
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Teens develop condoms that change colors when exposed to STDs Three teenagers in England have come up with the concept for a "smart condom" that changes colors when exposed to sexually transmitted diseases.
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Woman loses sight in one eye after mud run A young woman went blind in one eye within 24 hours after catching a flesh-eating bacteria during a mud run in Dallas this month. "My eye started hurting, like maybe I've got mud or some debris in there," Brittany Williams, who finished her first mud run two ...
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Road traffic noise can reduce your life expectancy A new research has found that long-term exposure to road traffic noise may lead to an increased number of heart strokes and deaths.
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A condom that changes colour when it comes into contact with STIs has been ... A condom that changes colour when it comes into contact with sexually transmitted infections has been invented by a group of school children.
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Killer-wear: Skinny jeans and 3 other fashion items that may hurt you A new study, published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, revealed that it is possible for skinny jeans to cause nerve damage.
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Red eyes from swimming in pools cause by urine, not chlorine As someone who used to do 10 sessions of swimming training a week in a highly-chlorinated pool, followed by a university job of learn-to-swim teaching for children and adults, I've had my fair share of red eyes.
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Youngsters in Chandigarh swear by skinny jeans The focus is back on fashion maladies after an Australian model was hospitalised when she lost sensation in her legs due to squatting in a pair of skintight trousers.
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Arthritis drug restores skin pigment for US woman with vitiligo A drug normally used to treat rheumatoid arthritis has restored colour to a Connecticut woman with vitiligo, a skin disorder characterized by splotchy pigment that can be psychologically devastating.
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Texas mom loses sight in one eye from flesh-eating bacteria after mud run A young Texas mom went blind in her eye after flesh-eating bacteria seeped its way into a cut during a "Mud Run" earlier this month in Dallas.
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Man dies from bacteria after swimming at Florida beach A Lake County man died from a bacteria more than a week ago and there is still no warning from the Health Department. Loading… Post to Facebook.
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Google is making a medical wristband that tracks your health According to the Verge, the device measures vitals like heart rate, pulse and skin temperature continuously and it will also measure external information like sun exposure.
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Blood Test Might Detect Deadly Pancreatic Cancer in Early Stages With just a drop of blood doctors may one day be able to detect pancreatic cancer in its early stages, before it has become deadly, a new study suggests.
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Ebola virus death toll exceeds 11200 in West Africa – WHO GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) registered 38 Ebola-related deaths in West Africa since June 16 and 134 new Ebola cases, statistics data released by the WHO on Wednesday said.
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A blood test for pancreatic cancer may re-stack the odds in patients' favor Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have identified a large and readily detectable molecule that circulates in the blood and has detected, with perfect accuracy and no false positives, the presence of pancreatic cancer in a small group of ...
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Study analyzes how much pot impairs drivers DENVER -- Combined alcohol and marijuana use impairs drivers more than consuming just one or the other, according to a new study by federal scientists who last year got volunteers drunk and stoned and then put them behind the wheel.
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Guinea quarantines villages in reinforced bid to stamp out Ebola CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea will put four villages under a 21-day quarantine as part of a robust strategy to stamp out a lingering Ebola epidemic after new cases of the disease were discovered there.
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New study on Viagra and the risk of melanoma Could impotence drugs like Viagra, Cialis or Levitra raise a man's odds for melanoma skin cancer? A new review of data involving over 20,000 men does find a slightly higher risk of the disease in men who took erectile dysfunction drugs versus those who ...
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Meet the Health-Law Holdouts: Americans Who Prefer to Go Uninsured The Affordable Care Act has a perplexing problem: Many uninsured Americans prefer their old ways of getting health care. For millions, arranging treatment through cash, barter and charity is still better than paying for insurance.
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Panama Leads Well-Being for Second Year in Annual Gallup-Healthways ... WASHINGTON & NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jun 24, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Global well-being improvement leader Healthways, Inc. HWAY, -0.90% and world-leading management consulting firm Gallup have released their comprehensive analysis of well-being ...
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Tustin's Relay for Life raises $20000 Volunteers from Lion's Heart, a teen community service organization, participate in a three-legged race during Relay For Life at Currie Middle School on Saturday.
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Damien Center teaming up with Walgreens for National HIV Testing day The Damien Center will provide trained counselors to conduct the testing and will provide results on-site within minutes. In addition to on-site testing at its Joseph F. Miller Testing Center at 26 N. Arsenal Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46201, The Center will offer ...
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Behind On Health Insurance Premiums: What Happens? This Q&A column addresses questions from real patients about health care costs. Have a question you'd like to see answered?
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Panama tops, US falls in well-being ranking - Gallup Residents of Panama topped an annual ranking of well-being released on Wednesday, while Afghanistan ranked last and the United States took a tumble.
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Alzheimer's Will Not Be How My Grandmother's American Dream Ends My grandfather knew he was going to see my grandmother with his caregiver that morning. He was still living at home and my grandmother was living in a nursing home.
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FDA schedules announcement about Essure birth control device for 10 a.m. ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is poised to make an announcement about the controversial permanent birth control device called Essure.
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4 liquid nicotine sellers agree to use child-resistant packaging ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's attorney general says four companies have agreed to put their liquid nicotine in child-resistant packaging when sold in the state.
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Blood pressure medication may stop drug, alcohol addiction Hitoshi Morikawa and his team have discovered that an FDA-approved antihypertensive drug can stop cocaine or alcohol addiction in rats.
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