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TIME
Here's the Difference Between MERS and Ebola
The news sounds familiar: a virus with no treatment or cure is spreading abroad. But while Ebola dominated the infectious disease news over the last year, the latest infection making headlines is the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which has most ...
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NBCNews.com
MERS Outbreak Worsens in South Korea
South Korea on Monday reported its sixth death from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as authorities were bolstering measures to stem the spread of the virus that has infected 87 people.
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USA TODAY
Health Highlights: June 7, 2015
A fifth person has died in South Korea from the Middle Eastern Respiratory (MERS) virus, and government officials there are taking additional steps to control the spread of the virus.
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Irish Independent
Fifth Mers death in South Korea
Tourists wear masks as a precaution against Mers on a subway train in Seoul, South Open Gallery 1 Tourists wear masks as a precaution against Mers on a subway train in Seoul, South Korea.
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The Hindu
South Korea to track cellphones to prevent MERS spread, reports 23 new cases
SEOUL South Korean authorities will track the cellphones of more than 2,300 people under quarantine to prevent the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) as the Health Ministry on Monday reported 23 new infections, bringing the total to 87.
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Telegraph.co.uk
South Korean man with MERS virus sixth to die in outbreak: officials
SEOUL An 80-year-old South Korean man who had tested positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has died, officials from the city of Daejeon said on Monday, taking the number of deaths from the outbreak to six.
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USA TODAY
South Korea reports 23 new cases of MERS virus, total rises to 87
SEOUL South Korea confirmed 23 more cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, the country's health ministry said on Monday, bringing the total to 87 in the country of the often-deadly illness.
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TIME
6 Dead, 87 Infected, 2300 Quarantined: South Korea's MERS Crisis
South Korea's ongoing outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) claimed its sixth victim on Monday, with an 80-year-old man dying while being treated at a hospital there.
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Wall Street Journal
South Korea MERS Outbreak Began With a Cough
SEOUL—A week after returning from the Middle East last month, a 68-year-old South Korean man visited a doctor in Asan, a provincial city about 50 miles south of Seoul.
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NBCNews.com
Sixth Person Dies of MERS Virus in South Korea
South Korea on Monday reported its sixth death from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome as authorities were bolstering measures to stem the spread of the virus that has left dozens of people infected.
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Fox News
South Korea finance minister: concerned about MERS impact on economy
SEOUL South Korea is concerned over the impact on its economy from the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and will take countermeasures swiftly if an economic impact is confirmed, the finance minister said on Monday.
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CNN
S. Korea MERS outbreak: 6 dead; 2500 quarantined; 1800 schools closed
CNN
People wear masks as a precaution against the MERS virus at the Incheon International Airport on Saturday (June 6) in Incheon, South Korea.
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News Quench
Is your toothbrush really covered in poop? Study says yes
Is your toothbrush really covered in poop? Study says yes. A new study presented to the American Society for Microbiology has shown that fecal coliform bacteria is present in up to 60 percent of toothbrushes, and what this means for your overall health.
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Science World Report
Is Your Toothbrush Contaminated With Other People's Poop?
Researchers at Quinnipiac University have made a bit of a gross discovery. Turns out that our toothbrush is probably covered in poop, especially if we're leaving it out in the bathroom, despite how means of storage.
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National Monitor
Study Says Your Toothbrush Is Probably Covered In Poop
Your bathroom is a place where you clean your teeth, face, and body, so most people think of it is a relatively clean room. It is also where you evacuate your bowels and a new study says that this actually means that you probably have fecal matter on your ...
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STGIST
Toothbrushes In Shared Bathrooms May Be Contaminated By Poop
You may be putting some grams of feces of other people each time you brush your teeth. According to a new research, at least 60 percent of toothbrushes in communal bathrooms were contaminated by poop, including grams of feces of other people.
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UPI.com
Your toothbrush may be covered in poop
HAMDEN, Conn., June 7 (UPI) -- You may want to stop worrying about the filth in your boyfriend's beard and pay a little more attention to the toothbrush you stick in your moth twice a day.
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Tech Times
You Might Be Using Toothbrush With Poop If You Leave It In Bathroom: What ...
People who share communal bathrooms may cross-contaminate their toothbrushes with fecal matter, which poses risks of infection by bacteria known to cause illnesses.
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The Silver Ink
Toothbrushes are likely to be covered with fecal matter in communal bathrooms
toothbrush People who are using communal bathrooms with many others beware; there could be traces of fecal matter on your toothbrush.
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Benchmark Reporter
High risk of fecal matter contamination on toothbrush in shared restrooms
If you are using a shared bathroom there is a 60 % chance your toothbrush is covered in fecal matter from someone else, a new research has found.
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UPI.com
Noninvasive prenatal testing used to detect cancer
While testing fetal DNA for abnormalities, researchers detected early-stage cancer in women long before symptoms could be seen. By Stephen Feller | June 8, 2015 at 9:57 AM.
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The Silver Ink
Scientists found direct connection between brain and immune system
lymphatic-system A team of researchers from the University of Virginia have found that the brain is directly connected to the immune system via vessels previously believed not to exist.
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Times Gazette
Newly Found Link Between Nervous And Immune Systems, Will Alter Textbooks ...
It has been said that all our body systems work hand in hand to create a balanced and healthy living. However, a direct correlation between the immune and nervous systems has never been established just yet.
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Times Gazette
Kidney transplant – Doctors at UCSF perform rare 9 way Kidney Transplant ...
On the afternoon of Friday, Doctors at the UCSF and California Pacific Medical Center busy finishing the last of 18 surgeries in a rare 9 way two-day kidney transplant at the two hospitals in San Francisco.
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News Quench
This extraordinary technology allowed a 9-way kidney transplant in California...
The technology that made a 9-way kidney transplant in San Francisco possible will absolutely amaze you. It was an absolutely stunning breakthrough: doctors at two San Francisco hospitals performed 18 surgeries, allowing for an unbelievable nine-way ...
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Tech Times
Rare Nine-Way, Two-Day Kidney Transplant Involving 18 People Successfully ...
A kidney transplant chain involving 18 patients has been successfully completed in San Francisco. Kidney transplant chains - which help match compatible donors and recipients - are becoming increasingly popular.
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Dispatch Times
UCSF and CPMC doctors perform 36 hours long rare 9-way Kidney transplant ...
SF. - Team of doctors at two hospitals, UCSF and California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco performed 18 surgeries, allowing an unbelievable nine-way kidney transplant that took place over two days, last week.
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CBS Local
UCSF Surgeons Successfully Performed 36 Hour Long Kidney Transplant Chain
Total 18 surgeries were completed in 36 hours at California Pacific Medical Center and San-Francisco Medical Center. 10 of them were carried out on Thursday, whereas 8 on Friday.
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National Monitor
That stunning 9-way kidney transplant in California? This new invention made it ...
Thousands of people die every year waiting for a kidney transplant, so this new technology could save a lot of lives. By now you've probably heard of the amazing 18-surgery, two-day ordeal between two hospitals in California that managed to pull off a ...
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Uncover California
Two Days, 9-way Kidney Transplant Aced by Two San Francisco Hospitals
In a breakthrough medical procedure, surgeons at two hospitals in San Francisco, the UCSF and California Pacific Medical Center, performed 18 surgeries in a 9-way kidney transplant in a record 36 hours.
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Bidness ETC
FDA weighs best patient group for Amgen cholesterol drug
WASHINGTON - Federally health regulators say a highly-anticipated, experimental drug from Amgen significantly lowers bad cholesterol.
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Bidness ETC
FDA asks experts to weigh in on PCSK9 drugs' market reach for Amgen ...
After years of jockeying in the clinic with multiple trials aimed at carving out a lead role in developing a new class of LDL-lowering drugs, the blockbuster race between Amgen and a team from Regeneron and Sanofi for cutting-edge PCSK9 drugs comes down ...
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News 10NBC
RPT-UPDATE 1-Amgen's Repatha effective; question is for which patients--FDA
(Updates with details from FDA review). By Toni Clarke. WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - Amgen Inc's experimental drug Repatha lowered cholesterol in clinical trials and did not cause a marked disparity in deaths or serious adverse events but showed ...
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The News Ledge
Your Anatomy Class Upended. Brain and Immune System Link Discovered
Ready for a new textbook? It has been common teaching the brain lacked any immune vessels of its own. A University of Virginia School of Medicine study highlighted by Neuroscience News changes that.
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Empire State Tribune
Our immune system has a 'highway' that leads directly to our brain, study
A previous unknown direct link between the brain and the immune system was uncovered by neuroscientists, a recent study published in the Nature journal said, which might have significant implications for brain disorder treatment like Alzheimer's disease, ...
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Channel News Asia
More than one in four US kids exposed to weapon violence
(Reuters Health) - - More than one in four U.S. children are exposed to weapon violence before their eighteenth birthday, either as victims or witnesses, a large study suggests.
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TODAYonline
UPDATE 4-Hong Kong sets "serious" response to South Korea's MERS outbreak
(Adds comment from Hong Kong, detail). By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim. SEOUL, June 8 (Reuters) - Hong Kong upgraded to "serious" on Monday its response to an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea, where the number of ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
World's first "feeling" artificial leg offers hope for wounded soldiers
The world's first "feeling" artificial leg could boost life for wounded soldiers and help them stay in the military, experts said.
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Philly.com
Eww! Toothbrush is covered in fecal matter? A hub for range of deadly diseases
You are at:Home»Health»Eww! Toothbrush is covered in fecal matter? A hub for range of deadly diseases. toothbrush-bathroom-br4. Eww!
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RTT News
Your Toothbrush Is Probably Contaminated With Fecal Matter
Toothbrushes kept in a communal bathroom are likely to have fecal matter on them, according new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans.
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RT
World's 1st 'feeling' prosthetic leg unveiled in Austria
RT
Researchers in Vienna have pioneered the first artificial leg capable of transmitting feelings to the brain like a real limb. It also stops phantom pain, a condition that many amputees suffer from.
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Times of India
Hong Kong sets "serious" response to South Korea's MERS outbreak
SEOUL: Hong Kong upgraded to "serious" on Monday its response to an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea, where the number of cases jumped and fears grew about the economic impact of the disease.
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WTNH
There's Poop On Your Toothbrush
(WTNH) Readers have recently been criticizing my choice of headlines for some of my web articles; they claim they're designed to make people click on the link without the story actually living up to the headline.
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USA TODAY
Watch Rob Gronkowski shave his head to honor kids battling cancer
The Buzz Off for Kids with Cancer foundation encourages people everywhere to shave their heads in "a show of solidarity and support for those courageously fighting cancer.
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Chicago Tribune
Array of New State Laws Target Access to Abortion
Legislatures in 31 states have adopted a total of 267 restrictions since 2011 aimed at limiting access to abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion rights.
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CBC.ca
Huge tobacco fines could set stage for more aggressive anti-smoking efforts
The recent Quebec court decision that ordered three tobacco companies to pay $15 billion in damages could be a catalyst for more aggressive actions to reduce smoking rates in Canada, activists hope.
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Telegraph.co.uk
Anti-Tobacco Advocate Says Electronic Cigarettes Are Potential Life-Savers
While several heavyweight health organisations including the WHO feel that endorsing e-cigarettes is premature when not enough is known about their effects, some medical experts think the electronic devices are potential life-savers.
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Chicago Tribune
Hundreds walk for life at cancer fundraiser
Hundreds of bags representing those who have fought or are fighting cancer lined the path that ran through Lake Zurich's Paulus Park on June 6, where the Lake Zurich Area, Wauconda and Island Lake Relay for Life was held this year.
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Fox News
RPT-Bird flu vaccine, under development, divides US poultry industry
CHICAGO, June 8 (Reuters) - The death of more than 46 million chickens and turkeys in a bird flu outbreak is opening a rare fissure within the usually tight-knit U.S.
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CBSSports.com
WATCH: Rob Gronkowski shaves his head for kids with cancer
Rob Gronkowski's busy summer is still going full throttle. Next up for Gronk? Shaving his head. On Sunday, that's exactly what Gronk did, shaving off his hair to support kids with cancer.
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