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The Gross-Out Politics of Abortion Why the Planned Parenthood "sting" video and the emotions it inspires, shouldn't be dismissed by those of us who believe in the right to choose.
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Va. gov rejects calls for Planned Parenthood investigation RICHMOND, Va. - Gov. Terry McAuliffe is rejecting calls from Virginia House Republican leaders for an investigation into how Planned Parenthood clinics handle fetal organs.
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Your Phone Knows If You're Depressed Most of us are pretty attached to our phones, and researchers are starting to figure out what that connection can tell us about our health, including our mood.
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Miniature brain in a dish reveals an outsized secret about autism Scientists hoping to uncover the origins of autism have grown a passel of miniature proto-brains in a lab, using reprogrammed skin cells to rewind the clock to the brain's earliest days of development.
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Cannabis May Be Able To Treat Bone Fractures Researchers at Tel Aviv University conducted a rat study and found that cannabis significantly helps heal bone fractures, Medical Daily reported.
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Frozen Chicken Recalled After Reports of Illnesses Aspen Foods is recalling nearly two million pounds of frozen chicken products after three people in Minnesota became ill with infections from salmonella.
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Aspen Foods recalls select Oven Cravers chicken products Giant Food is recalling select Oven Cravers frozen, raw stuffed and breaded chicken products because of potential Salmonella contamination.
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Smoke from wildfires may trigger heart issues June 29, 2015: Smoke from burning commercial buildings that were ignited by the Sleepy Hollow fire rises above Wenatchee, Washington.
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67% of adults should do this to avoid heart attacks A new Harvard study suggests it would be cost effective to treat up to 67% of all U.S. adults aged 40 to 75 with statins, expanding the pool of candidates for these cholesterol-fighting drugs beyond controversial 2013 guidelines that also increased the ...
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New Dumb-But-Deadly Trend: Sunburn 'Art' THURSDAY, July 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Sunburns are painful and potentially cancer-causing, but that hasn't stopped them from becoming an increasingly popular means of artistic expression.
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Study: Cannabis helps to heal bone fractures A non-psychotropic compound found in the plant sped up the healing process in rats with mid-femoral fractures. By Stephen Feller | July 16, 2015 at 6:30 PM.
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Air pollution from wildfires may heighten risk of heart-related incidents Air pollution from wildfires may increase risk of cardiac arrests, and other sudden acute heart problems, researchers have found. Lead author, Dr Anjali Haikerwal, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University, said while ...
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Sunburn: how to treat the effects of prolonged sun exposure After spending a weekend away enjoying the sun, you want to bring back happy memories and perhaps a souvenir. What you don't want to return home with is angry-looking and painful skin, prone to blistering or peeling.
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Smartphones can now detect depression You can hide it from everyone around you, but your phone knows when you are upset and can even detect you depression. According to a research conducted by the Northwestern University, depression can be detected from smartphone sensor data by ...
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Obese patients 'unlikely' reach healthy body weight, study finds The chances of an obese person achieving normal body weight are very low, a study in the UK has found. Losing 5% to 10% body weight is often recommended as a weight loss target, but researchers also found the chance of this being achieved was just ...
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How your cellphone knows if you're depressed. It has to do with how you move ... Mobile phones are the modern American's most faithful companion. They follow us from home to work, the gym and grocery store, and back again.
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Slim chances for overweight dieters LOSING weight is a hard slog for anybody, but a new study confirms that if you are obese, it is a nearly impossible task. In fact, the chances are so slim for an obese man, there's only a one in 210 likelihood that he will manage to drop to a healthy ...
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Recent study concludes that smartphone usage can help identify depression All of us already know that our smartphones track our activity. But there is a new study which is claiming that the way you use your cellphone and your geographical location can help scientists determine if some cellphone users are depressed.
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South Korea reports no new Mers case for 11 days, no death for 5 days SEOUL - South Korea on Thursday reported no new infection of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) for 11 days and no death for five days.
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S. Korea Hospital in MERS Outbreak to Resume Services SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—. A South Korean hospital at the center of an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) will resume normal operations on Monday, the health ministry said, as a health scare that rattled the economy wanes, with no new ...
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S.Korea hospital at centre of MERS outbreak to resume normal operation SEOUL, July 17 A South Korean hospital at the centre of an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) will resume normal operations on Monday, the health ministry said, as a health scare that rattled the economy wanes, with no new cases ...
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MERS: Samsung Medical Center could reopen Tuesday Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul is expected to reopen Tuesday, as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome shows signs of abating.
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How Accurate Are Symptom Checkers? Hundreds of millions of times every year many of us turn to online symptom checkers to try to self-diagnose our symptoms and to get advice on whether we should seek further medical care or just rest at home until we feel better.
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Tau May Be Link Between TBI and Neurodegeneration savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. author name. by Kristina Fiore Staff Writer, MedPage Today.
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A second FDA approval frees Theranos to do a blood test outside lab The surprise move signals a sea-change in the company's business model. And our reporter takes the firm's experimental Ebola test.
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Planned Parenthood Chief Defends Controversial Fetal-Tissue Donations Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards delivered a stern reply on Thursday to a controversial undercover video that purports to show the reproductive health organization profits from selling tissue from aborted fetuses.
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New study shows cannabinoid cannabidiol can help heal bone fractures Cannabis -- marijuana, hashish -- was used as a go-to medical remedy by societies around the world for centuries. But the therapeutic use of marijuana was banned in most countries in the 1930s and '40s due to a growing awareness of the dangers of ...
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How the brain processes a scream Washington - If you feel like a human scream jolts the deep recesses of your brain, there's a good reason for it. That is precisely what is happening, scientists say.
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Why screams are scary (hint: It's not because they're loud) You know it when you hear it -- the blood-curdling peal, the hair-raising shriek -- but for years scientists have not fully understood what makes a scream a scream, says one team of researchers who believe they have figured out the secret ingredient ...
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Consumer reports: Laundry detergent pods are a poison risk for children Consumer Reports is urging that households where children younger than 6 years old live or visit avoid liquid detergent pods, warning that the youngsters may mistake them for candy or toys and bite them or otherwise become exposed to the chemicals ...
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Laundry Detergent Pods Poisoning Children (ABC News) -- To some kids, the bright colors and bite-size packaging of single-doss packets of laundry detergent simply look too much like candy.
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Star Of Viral Catcalling Video Sues Director For $500k The star of a viral video that was used to demonstrate the severe catcalling women experience while out and about is now suing the video's director for $500,000, according to TMZ, claiming everybody involved with the video has made money except for her.
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Another Ebola Fatality Is Reported in Liberia MONROVIA, Liberia - A young woman who died hours after being admitted to an Ebola treatment unit on Sunday became the second Ebola fatality since Liberia was declared free of the virus on May 9, government officials said on Wednesday.
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Scientists use "therapeutic cloning" to fix mitochondrial genes CHICAGO, July 15 U.S. researchers have used a controversial cloning technique to make new, healthy, perfectly matched stem cells from the skin of patients with mitochondrial diseases in a first step toward treatment for these incurable, life ...
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Here's the Amount of Exercise That Lowers Breast Cancer Risk More than 100 studies have found that physical activity can lower breast cancer risk; the most active women tend to have a 25% lower chance of developing the disease than the least active women.
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Website makes data on surgeon performance public (CBS) - A non-profit group is making millions of records on surgeon performance available to the public. The consumer advocacy group Consumers' Checkbook launched the website SurgeonRatings.
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Ebola is Still Lurking, and Killing, WHO Says The Ebola virus is still lurking and spreading undetected until it kills people in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday - and survivors may be helping to keep the epidemic going.
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Lyme disease a growing threat in Pittsburgh region FILE - This March 2002 file photo shows a deer tick under a microscope in the entomology lab at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, R.I.
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Medicare billing, hospital medications put patients in sticky situation John Kohler must take many medications for a variety of ailments. When he was recently admitted to the hospital for suspected pneumonia, he wasn't allowed to bring any of his medications from home and had to purchase those same medications from the ...
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Mental health disorders disrupt children's transition to adulthood, study finds Common childhood mental health disorders - such as anxiety, depression and behavioural problems like ADHD - are associated with a disrupted transition to adulthood, even if the disorders don't persist into adulthood, new research from Duke University ...
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Bell & Evans gluten-free chicken nuggets recalled due to contamination WASHINGTON (FOX) - Approximately 20,232 pounds of chicken nugget product are being recalled after testing positive for Staphylococcal enterotoxin, the U.S.
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ObamaCare's Prices Will Keep Surging Americans who purchase health insurance on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges should buckle up. Within the month, state regulators will begin approving premium hikes for plans sold in every state.
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Mitochondrial disease research makes progress Scientists have made significant advances in the quest to treat mitochondrial disease, an incurable genetic malady that afflicts thousands of U.S.
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Restaurant food not much healthier than fast food Sept. 8, 2013: Fish and chips are seen in a sea front cafe in Blackpool, northern England. (Reuters). Home cooking is still the best way to control the calories, fat, sugar and other nutrients that families consume, a new U.S.
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99 Percent of Women Dont Regret Their Abortions A recent study says 99 percent of women feel having an abortion was the right choice. Four women tell their stories here. Shop ▾.
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"Very light" smoking a dangerous trend among women, experts say While overall smoking rates are falling in the United States, a new study points to one exception: Young women who often opt for "very light" smoking.
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Don't kiss your chickens: Backyard flocks spread Salmonella, CDC warns Beware: Kissing a chicken could make you sick. As a growing number of Americans embrace the back-to-nature trend of raising their own backyard poultry, federal health officials warn that unsafe (and overly affectionate) handling can spread Salmonella.
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Public Health and CDC tackle tobacco use in Southwest Georgia Public Health and the center for Disease Control (CDC) are joining forces to prevent tobacco use in Southwest Georgia. / Tosin Fakile.
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Health Highlights: July 15, 2015 One-third of young adults in the United States are too fat to be in the military, according to a report from a group of retired military leaders.
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