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Long hours put business leaders at greater risk of stroke: Four ways to have a ... Working more than 55 hours per week dramatically increases a person's risk of a stroke, according to research published today.
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Working 55 hours a week ups stroke risk by about 33%: Study People working long hours are more likely to have a stroke, according to research published Thursday. And the reasons might be connected to stress, physical inactivity, and higher alcohol consumption.
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Mutant Lice Grow Immune To Common Treatment In Majority Of US States Head lice are becoming immune to over-the-counter medications and common treatments, warn medical experts to the parents, as they prepare their child for the next school session.
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Treatment-resistant 'Super Lice' found in Texas and 24 other states Our Chief Health Editor Dr. Partha Nandi talks about how lice are becoming resistant to treatments. on.aol.com. Finding a solution for treating head lice may leave a lot of parents scratching their heads this school year.
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Lice With Drug-Resistant Mutations Found to Be Widespread in US, But Experts ... Researchers say they have found what every parent fears before the start of the school year: mutated lice that may be resistant to common treatments.
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e-Cigarettes can trigger smoking in teens While electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are generally assumed to be less harmful, new research has found that teenagers who use these cigarettes are more likely to smoke conventional cigarettes, cigars and hookahs over the next year compared with ...
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Working long hours raises stroke risk WORKAHOLICS beware - putting in the extra hours increases the risk of a stroke. WORKING 55 hours or more a week is linked to a 33 per cent greater risk of stroke than working standard hours, says new research from Australia, Europe and the USA.
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News Analysis: What lessons S.Korea learn from MERS outbreak SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- A 68-year-old South Korean man visited a small clinic in his hometown Asan, south of capital Seoul, as he coughed and had fever.
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Researchers can stimulate brain nerves of a mouse in future experiments The Bio-X team at Stanford University has found the ideal solution to unfettering the mice. Stanford University researchers have recently develop a new wireless device which combines optogenetics and wireless technology; and they say that this will ...
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Liraglutide may help some diabetes patients lose weight After a year, people who took the drug lost more weight than the placebo group, especially those who got the highest dose. Liraglutide most recently obtained FDA approval for the treatment of obesity in December 2014 (under the brand name Saxenda) and ...
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Diabetes Drug Might Also Help Some Patients Lose Weight TUESDAY, Aug. 18, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- High doses of the diabetes drug liraglutide seem to help patients with type 2 diabetes lose weight, a new study suggests.
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UPDATE 1-Valeant nears deal for "female Viagra" maker Sprout - WSJ (Adds details, comment from Valeant). Aug 20 (Reuters) - Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc is nearing a deal to pay $1 billion for Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the company that just won approval to sell the first drug that aims to boost a ...
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Experimental MERS-CoV vaccine shows promise in monkeys and camels National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and colleagues report that an experimental vaccine given six weeks before exposure to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) fully protects rhesus macaques from disease.
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Study Debunks Notion That Condoms Always Hamper Erections TUESDAY, Aug. 18, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Advocates for safe sex often run up against the notion that men's ability to maintain an erection will be compromised when condoms enter the scene.
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Cancer: LMWH Comparable to Warfarin for VTE Prevention savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. ▷. video-image. Alok A. Khorana, MD.
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Scientists call for review of herbicide Washington - US regulators have relied on flawed and outdated research to allow expanded use of an herbicide linked to cancer, and new assessments should be urgently conducted, according to a column published in the New England Journal of Medicine ...
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Pregnant? That Headache Might Not All Be In Your Head I am a freelance science journalist and photojournalist who specializes in reporting on vaccines, pediatric and maternal health, parenting, nutrition, obesity, mental health, medical research, environmental health and the social sciences.
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Scientists call for new review of herbicide, cite 'flawed' US regulations U.S. regulators have relied on flawed and outdated research to allow expanded use of an herbicide linked to cancer, and new assessments should be urgently conducted, according to a column published in the New England Journal of Medicine on ...
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In graphic detail, medical journal describes 'heavy overtones' of sexual ... If you were freaked out by the news in June that an anesthesiologist had talked trash about her patient while he was unconscious on the table in front of her, you'd better brace yourself.
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Respected Medical Journal Exposes Medicine's Dark Side Two shocking accounts of doctors behaving inappropriately came to light in an article published by a respected medical journal. According to the editors of the Annals of Internal Medicine journal, the reason for publishing these accounts is to ...
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Medical Journal Describes Sexual Misconduct In Operating Rooms A letter in Annals of Internal Medicine highlights two outrageous cases of doctors mistreating female patients who were under anesthesia.
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Experimental vaccine against MERS virus shows promise An experimental vaccine against MERS, has shown promise when tested on lab monkeys, researchers said. REUTERS. MIAMI: An experimental vaccine against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, has shown promise when tested ...
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Kite Pharma Provides Update, Death Not Related to KTE-C19 Kite Pharma, Inc.'s KITE shares, which were under pressure following rumors of a patient death in an ongoing study on KTE-C19, bounced back after the company issued a reassuring press release and held a conference call to allay concerns.
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Dad of 'Success Kid' Undergoes Successful Kidney Transplant The father of the boy made into a famous meme dubbed "Success Kid" is back at home after having a successful kidney transplant last week.
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No Difference Between Treatments for Major Blood Clots in Cancer Patients Both the vitamin K antagonist warfarin and tinzaparin, a low molecular-weight heparin (LMWH), reduced major blood clots to a similar extent in cancer patients treated for acute venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to the results of a clinical trial ...
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Index: FDA Approves Pill for Women to Help With Sex Drive To the index and late word coming in, the fda approving the first drug to boost a woman's sexual desire. The little pink pill to be marketed.
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Delhi docs find US-origin Flatbush diabetes in India NEW DELHI: You may have heard about Type-I and Type-II diabetes. But new findings suggest that a number of patients in India may be suffering from a third type - Flatbush diabetes - which has the characteristics of both.
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US approves 'female Viagra' with strong warning WASHINGTON: The first drug to treat low sexual desire in women won approval from US health regulators on Tuesday, but with a warning about potentially dangerous low blood pressure and fainting side effects, especially when taken with alcohol.
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Yuck! Vomit Machine Shows Why Norovirus Spreads So Fast Researchers have invented a "vomiting machine" that demonstrates just why the nauseating norovirus spreads so far and so fast.
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One year later, what the ice bucket challenge has done for ALS research Last Updated Aug 19, 2015 10:19 PM EDT. This time last year, Facebook feeds everywhere were inundated with videos of family, friends and former acquaintances of years past pouring buckets of ice water over their heads, all in the name of charity.
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Synthetic MERS Vaccine Works in Animal Tests WEDNESDAY, Aug. 19, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental vaccine protected monkeys against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, U.S.
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New study may change cancer patient treatment A new first of its kind study may change the way some cancer patients are treated. Three years ago Ivette Giancola was having abdominal and back pain.
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Did the ALS 'Ice Bucket Challenge' really help research? Scientists say yes ... Researchers, who published a groundbreaking new study on ALS, credit part of their success to funds from the Ice Bucket Challenge.
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Aussie professor defends Coke-funded obesity research An Australian professor is defending her involvement in an obesity research group accused of failing to properly disclose funding from Coca-Cola and downplaying the role of diet in obesity.
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First almost fully-formed human brain grown in lab, researchers claim The tiny brain, which resembles that of a five-week-old foetus, is not conscious. Photograph: Ohio State University. Helen Thomson.
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Kennedy Hospital Rules Out Ebola After Woman Treated For Travel-Related Illness STRATFORD, N.J., (CBS) - Kennedy University Hospital in Stratford, Camden County was temporarily on divert Tuesday evening, a hospital spokesperson tells Eyewitness News.
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How Doctors Cured This Woman's Brain Cancer In November 2013, MaryAnn Anselmo—who was on the cover of TIME in March—heard the words that most of us dread the most: she had cancer.
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When all else fails for their children, desperate parents drive national push ... Editor's note: This report is part of the project titled "America's Weed Rush," produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project involving top college journalism students across the country and headquartered ...
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Texas Deer Association holds successful convention Members of the Texas Deer Association gathered last weekend in San Antonio for their annual convention with the cloud of Chronic Wasting Disease hanging heavy over the industry.
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Colorblind man filmed seeing sunset for the first time goes viral The emotional video of a colorblind man seeing the sunset in color for the first time with the help of special glasses has gone viral.
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Report finds $1.2 billion in Iowa avian flu damage Iowa took an economic hit of about $1.2 billion stemming from the death of more than 30 million hens and 1.5 million turkeys because of avian flu this past spring, according to a report commissioned by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) released ...
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Patients Wait, Hope For Expanded Medical Marijuana Approval CHICAGO (CBS) - Hundreds of people in Illinois say Gov. Bruce Rauner now holds the key to whether they will be able to live pain free.
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Bangkok bomb: Uber offers free taxis to give blood following explosion in Thai ... Uber has offered customers in Bangkok free rides to and from hospital to donate blood in the wake of the pipe bomb attack that left 22 people dead.
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AHF 'StraightOuttaCondoms' ad campaign riffs film, but packs serious health ... LOS ANGELES >> Timed to coincide with the release of the widely anticipated new film, "Straight Outta Compton," AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is launching "StraightOuttaCondoms," a new safer sex media campaign that includes billboard and bus ...
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Mom searches for mystery child who looked past her son's disability Katie Myers had never seen someone take to her son the way one mystery child did and now all she wants to do is thank him. At 7 months old, Kaden Myers was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which affects the control of muscle movement ...
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For Immediate Result: Paper-Based Test Helps Diagnose Ebola In Remote Areas Rapid Ebola diagnostic tests (Photo : Reuters/Jean-Paul Pelissier) A researcher of the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) checks a rapid Ebola diagnostic test in Marcoule.
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