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2 Studies Back Guidelines for Wider Use of Statins Two studies published Tuesday lend support to controversial new cholesterol guidelines that could vastly increase the number of Americans advised to take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins.
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Study Asserts Efficacy of Noninvasive Prenatal Testing for Detecting Cancer in ... Noninvasive prenatal tests for fetal chromosome abnormalities have been claimed to additionally assist in detect underlying conditions like maternal cancer in a study published online on Monday in JAMA.
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Funeral directors may face greater risk of ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) Male funeral directors who routinely work with embalming fluid might be at increased risk of developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a new study finds.
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Paul Allen Takes On Alzheimer's With $7M In New Research Grants Paul Allen, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft Microsoft, has devoted many millions of dollars to unlocking the mysteries of the brain, and today he's taking on a new challenge: Alzheimer's disease.
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Particularities May Help Identify Alzheimer's Risk Dealing with Alzheimer's disease is particularly difficult, especially since patients are often unaware of their condition. Alzheimer's disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of all dementia cases and those suffering from this neurodegenerative disease ...
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Alzheimer's develops years before symptoms appear, study finds A new study suggests that certain biomarkers could signal the early development of Alzheimer's disease, years before any symptoms appear.
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Planned Parenthood says secret video distorts tissue donation program (+video) Planned Parenthood said that a secretly recorded video was edited to falsely portray the group's fetus tissue donation program.
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Managing Financial Turmoil in the Face of Alzheimer's Disease Financial turmoil and Alzheimer's disease are inextricably connected. The mishandling of finances can be one of the first signs of cognitive impairment, and can have a monumental impact on people with Alzheimer's that must be addressed early on.
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Study: Silent cancer in moms a rare result in prenatal tests CHICAGO - For pregnant women, abnormal results from certain prenatal tests may signal that something is wrong - with the moms-to-be, not the fetus, a preliminary study suggests.
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Abortion: 95 Percent Of Women Don't Regret Their Decision Ninety-five percent of women who have had an abortion do not regret their decision when asked three years later. By Julie Sabino julie.
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Douching may expose women to harmful chemicals (Reuters Health) - Feminine hygiene products for vaginal douching may expose users to potentially harmful chemicals known as phthalates, a small study suggests.
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95 Percent Of Women Do Not Regret Having An Abortion Approximately 95 percent of women who have had an abortion report that doing so was the right decision for them. Those are the findings of a new study conducted by researchers at the University of California San Francisco.
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Study finds less than 5% of women regret their abortion Some of America's most onerous abortion restrictions are premised on the idea that women are likely to regret terminating their pregnancies - an idea that has no basis in reality, according to a new study by the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive ...
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Hardly Any Women Regret Having an Abortion, a New Study Finds Abortion Bush Abbott Eric Gay—AP Pro-life supporters try to disrupt anti-abortion supporters as they march to the Texas Capitol during a Texas Rally for Life in Austin on Jan. 24, 2015.
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Vaginal Douches May Expose Women To Dangerous Chemicals Women (Photo : Flickr) Feminine care products could expose users to harmful chemicals, according to a recent study. New research suggests that some feminine care products could expose users to harmful chemicals, Reuters reported.
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Another Reason Why Women Should Avoid Douching New research adds yet another reason to the list of why women should reconsider douching. Douching—defined as the washing of the vagina with water or a fluid mixture—is widely discouraged by medical groups, including the U.S.
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Bill named for Steve Gleason slated for House vote on Wednesday WASHINGTON -- Steve Gleason's signature legislation may soon be on the way to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature.
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Young Adult Cancer Survivors More Likely to Be Hospitalized MONDAY, July 13, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Young adult cancer survivors are more likely to be hospitalized than people who never had cancer, a new study finds.
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Cancer survivors may face barriers to adoption Cancer survivors, who are often left infertile by the disease or treatment, may face unexpected hurdles if they later turn to adoption to start a family, a study suggests.
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Video Accuses Planned Parenthood of Crime WASHINGTON - Abortion opponents on Tuesday renewed their campaign against Planned Parenthood, with immediate impact among Republicans in Congress and the presidential race, after the release of a video that surreptitiously captured an official ...
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New HIV infections down by 20 per cent in India: UN report UNITED NATIONS: India has been able to achieve a more than 20 per cent decline in new HIV infections between 2000 and 2014, reversing the spread of the virus, according to a UN report that says the world is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
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Ebola: 'Fear, denial and fatigue fuelling outbreak' Health officials leading the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone say fear, fatigue and denial are allowing the virus to continue to spread.
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Breast Cancer Survivors Gain More Weight, Study Finds Survivors of breast cancer with a family history of the disease gain more weight than similar women. without cancer, a new study finds.
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Why Breast Cancer Survivors Gain More Weight Studies have hinted that breast cancer survivors tend to gain weight after their diagnosis and treatment, but it's not yet clear why.
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A vaccine that can be inhaled developed to fight Ebola WASHINGTON: The first needle-free Ebola vaccine that can be inhaled protects non-human primates against the deadly virus and may advance to human clinical trials soon, scientists say.
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Ebola cases rise in Sierra Leone capital Health officials in Sierra Leone have warned that new cases of Ebola are continuing to emerge, more than year after the major outbreak was first declared.
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Only three US states mandate recommended HPV vaccine (Reuters Health) - Only Virginia, Rhode Island and Washington D.C. have laws requiring kids to have the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to attend school, according to a new study.
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Toward an Ebola Vaccine You Can Inhale Many are wary of needles used to inject vaccines; a new inhalable variety that's been shown to work in macaques would get around some of these fears.
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HPV Vaccine: Only Two U.S. States And The Capitol Require HPV Vaccine ... Only Virginia, Rhode Island and Washington D.C. have created laws that require young adults to have the human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Why Funeral Directors May Be at Higher Risk for ALS Men who have jobs where they're exposed to high levels of the chemical formaldehyde are at much greater risk of dying from ALS—amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and widely publicized by the Ice Bucket Challenge—than ...
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Psychiatric care unavailable to much of world's population, UN report finds Rich and poor countries alike must invest more in mental health care, especially during economic crises when rates of depression and suicide tend to rise, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Shop for your surgeon using formerly confidential data (CNN) Two new, unrelated search tools opened to the public Tuesday promise to make elective surgery planning easier and more transparent.
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Older Residents of Delaware Have Largest Well-Being Edge WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In all 50 states, residents aged 55 and older have higher well-being than the state's population as a whole.
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Ultrasound technology captures life-like heart images Traditional ultrasound allows doctors to see patients' hearts, but those photos are nowhere as detailed as they would like. Now, GE Healthcare has developed advanced software called "cSound" for its new cardiovascular ultrasound machines that can ...
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Teen athletes seek an edge through early "Tommy John" elbow surgery Teen athletes who overtax their throwing arms are increasingly turning to surgery to get back in the game. Male teens between ages 15 and 19 now account for the majority of "Tommy John" surgeries to reconstruct elbow ligaments, usually a result of a ...
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Study: Early clue to why some children may have reading woes WASHINGTON - New research suggests it may be possible to predict which preschoolers will struggle to read - and it has to do with how the brain deciphers speech when it's noisy.
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Study: Funeral Directors More Likely To Develop Lou Gehrig's Disease Researchers found funeral directors who are exposed to the formaldehyde found in embalming fluid were three times more likely to develop ALS as those not exposed to the chemical.
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Study finds early clue to why some children may have reading woes This undated handout photo provided by the Auditory Neuroscience Lab, Northwestern University, shows scalp electrodes to pick up how children's brains react to sounds such as speech in a noisy background.
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Hawaii and Montana Lead the Nation in Gallup-Healthways State Well-Being ... WASHINGTON & NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jul 14, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- For the first time, global well-being improvement leader Healthways HWAY, +0.08% and world-leading management consulting firm Gallup, in conjunction with the Massachusetts ...
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Administration Proposes Rules To Modernize Nursing Home Safety Proposed federal rules would aim to minimize the use of antipsychotic drugs and increase training for nurses in dementia care. Jiri Hubatka/imageBroker/Corbis.
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Chicken recall affects products across Canada More than 1.7 million pounds of frozen, stuffed chicken products are being recalled across Canada and the U.S. because they could be contaminated with Salmonella.
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First human case of West Nile for 2015 reported in ND BISMARCK - The North Dakota Department of Health has confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus in 2015 in North Dakota. Additionally, two mosquito pools from Grand Forks County have tested positive for West Nile virus.
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Syphilis cases increasing in California women and newborns Cases of syphilis among women and newborns in California have increased over the past two years, state officials announced Monday.
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UN: 1 in 10 people worldwide have mental health disorder Nearly 1 in 10 people worldwide have mental health disorder, but only one percent of the global health workforce is working in the area, the WHO said today with a top official underlining that a country of India's size needs about ten times more ...
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Mosquito season off to safe start in Lake Zurich Culex Pipiens species mosquito, the carrier of the West Nile Virus, at the University of Notre Dame. Culex Pipiens species mosquito, the carrier of the West Nile Virus, at the University of Notre Dame.
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Cocaine abuse affects areas that control emotions and decision making Women are more affected by long-term drug abuse than men, a new study has revealed. Prolonged use of cocaine and amphetamines wither parts of the brain responsible for decision making, emotions, reward processing and habit formation.
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Steve Gleason committing to 2015 Ice Bucket Challenge New Orleans-based Team Gleason is one of six organizations selected to spearhead the 2015 Ice Bucket Challenge. Team Gleason is the campaign's main supplier of technology and equipment for ALS patients.
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Confederate flag vigilanties take flags down in #NoFlagginChallenge A new challenge hitting social media is encouraging people to film themselves and others tearing down Confederate flags from other people's properties and vehicles.
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Smoking tobacco linked to risk of developing psychosis, says study WASHINGTON, DC: Researchers in the United Kingdom have suggested that smoking tobacco is linked to an increased risk of developing psychosis, while people who develop illnesses like schizophrenia are three-times more likely to smoke than the ...
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US Sens. Warren, Markey: Ease medicinal marijuana research BOSTON (AP) - Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey are urging federal regulators to make it easier for researchers to investigate the medicinal use of marijuana.
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