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Making Kids Play Outside Reduces Rates of Myopia in Study Could making your kid play outside help prevent nearsightedness later? A Chinese study published Tuesday suggests it can. With 30 percent of Americans suffering from myopia, and closer to 40 percent of the population in Asia, it's a question worth ...
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Spending More Time Outside May Slow Kids' Myopia Progression Increasing the amount of time spent outdoors at school significantly reduced the progression of myopia in Chinese children over the course of 3 years, researchers show.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Linked To Accelerated Cognitive Decline In Older Adults Vitamin D (Photo : Flickr) New research suggests that older adults with vitamin D deficiency may experience cognitive decline and impaired performance faster than those with adequate vitamin D levels.
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NIMH director to leave for Google Life Sciences National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) director Dr Tom Insel said he will step down in November and join Google Inc's life sciences division.
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Restaurant report card grades on antibiotics in meat supply (CNN) A new report is sounding the alarm about the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry supply chains of the 25 largest U.S.
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Restaurant report card grades on antibiotics in meat supply (CNN) - A new report is sounding the alarm about the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry supply chains of the 25 largest U.S.
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Cardiologist Nominated to Be Head of FDA WASHINGTON - The Obama administration on Tuesday nominated Dr. Robert Califf, a cardiologist and clinical researcher long affiliated with Duke University, to be the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Glen Campbell Moved From Alzheimer's Care Facility Glen Campbell's wife Kim has opened up about coping with the late stages of her husband's battle with Alzheimer's disease, revealing that the legendary singer-songwriter returned home in late July from a medical facility.
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FDA halts sales of 4 RJ Reynolds cigarette brands The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday banned sales of four cigarette brands from R.J. Reynolds because they did not meet the agency's safety review requirements.
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Rx for violence? Crime risk rises for young people on antidepressants, study says Researchers have identified a troubling side effect of a widely prescribed class of antidepressants -- they may make some patients more likely to commit violent crimes.
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Study links marijuana use to poor blood sugar control in middle age New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that current and former users of marijuana are more likely to have prediabetes--the state of poor blood sugar control that can progress to ...
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CV Risk Greater for Diabetic Women than Men savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. ▷. video-image. Study Author: Giuseppe Seghieri, MD.
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Readmissions may say more about patients than care Hospital readmissions that Medicare penalizes under the Affordable Care Act are largely driven by patient characteristics such as income and education rather than the quality of care they receive, according to a new study.
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Obamacare punishes hospitals that see poor patients, study finds An Obamacare program that aims to improve American health care may have an unintended side effect: penalizing hospitals that serve the sickest and poorest patients.
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First Human Head Transplant Date Officially Set For 2017 It's finally happening. A controversial human head transplant operation now has a date and a team of neurosurgeons willing to undergo the procedure.
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Black children less likely to get pain drugs for appendicitis (Reuters Health) - Race appears to affect the odds that a child or teen with appendicitis, a painful condition requiring surgery, will get pain medication, particularly opioid medication, according to a new study.
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Jimmy Carter says he has no 'ill effects' midway through cancer treatments ATLANTA - Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday night that he has undergone his second of four treatments for cancer without any "ill effects.
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Poverty may increase odds of repeat hospitalizations (Reuters Health) - When patients are hospitalized more than once in the same month, it may have more to do with their income or education levels than the quality of care they received, a U.S.
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Study says Black Children with The Appendicitis Getting Less Pain Medications Black children with acute appendicitis - a clearly painful emergency - are less likely than white children to get painkillers in the emergency room, researchers reported Monday.
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Race May Play a Role in Treating Kids' Pain savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. ▷. video-image. Analyst: F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE.
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FDA bans sales of 4 RJ Reynolds cigarette brands WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday banned sales of four cigarette brands from R.J. Reynolds because they did not meet the agency's safety review requirements.
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FDA halts sales of 4 RJ Reynolds cigarette brands The Food and Drug Administration is ordering a ban on sales of four cigarette brands from R.J. Reynolds because they do not meet the agency's safety review requirements.
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FDA Bans Sales of 4 Cigarette Products by RJ Reynolds WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration halted the sale of four types of R. J. Reynolds cigarettes on Tuesday, saying the company failed to prove that they were not more harmful than products already on the market.
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Google Life Sciences Hires The Government's Top Brain Scientist Thomas R. Insel, who has been the director of the National Institute of Mental Health for 13 years, is leaving to join the Google Life Science group at Alphabet, the company formerly known as Google.
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Google hires top neuroscientist to lead mental-health project The director of the National Institute of Mental Health will join Google to explore how its life-sciences team can contribute to understanding, diagnosing and treating mental illness, the company said.
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Google poaches top U.S. neuroscientist to lead mental health project MOUNTAIN VIEW -- After visiting Silicon Valley this summer for a tour of tech companies including Apple, Google and IBM, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health is coming back -- this time to work here.
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Mosquito control, West Nile conference set to for Aberdeen PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota Department of Health is inviting representatives of mosquito control efforts to attend a conference on the West Nile virus and mosquito control.
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Only On 9: Family Of Victim Of Deadly West Nile Virus Speaks Out NORWALK (CBSLA.com) - LA County health officials have just confirmed the first West Nile virus death in 2015. Due to health privacy laws, the news media rarely learns anything about the people who die from this infection.
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Kids consume 12% of their calories from fast food, study shows At a time of growing concern over childhood obesity, a new report shows kids get 12% of their calories from fast-food restaurants.
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Liver disease: Another reason to avoid long 'chair hours' A new study has revealed that our chairs our killing us, suggesting that sedentary behavior and lack of physical activity are linked with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
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Care about air: Pollution exposure may boost death risk from heart disease You may want to start caring about the air you breathe, as a new study has linked air pollution to increased deaths from heart disease.
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Veterinarian explains: How do farmers use antibiotics? One of the most discussed topics now is antibiotic use in animals, and the latest "Glass Walls" video explains how, where and when they are used.
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State path to Obamacare alternative fraught with obstacles The Affordable Care Act is here to stay. While complaints about the law persist, political gridlock in Washington makes it unlikely that federal lawmakers will agree on an overhaul.
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Sanofi Reports LixiLan-L Topline Results; Says Combo Superior to Insulin Alone A combination of insulin glargine and the lixisenatide, a GLP-1 receptor agonist, showed superior results in helping patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) control glycated hemoglobin (A1C) in a phase 3 trial, Sanofi reported today.
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Prolonged sitting linked with fatty liver disease Prolonged sitting such as watching TV and using the computer and other devices as well as reduced physical activity may increase risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that may potentially lead to liver failure and death, new research has found.
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One-third of American kids still eat fast food every day, report says This Sept. 21, 2005, file photo shows a series of fast food restaurants near Saco, Maine. According to a report released on Wednesday, Sept.
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Mom in near-fatal coma saved by 1-week-old baby girl CHARLOTTE, NC - Every birth has a story. For Shelly Cawley, the story of the birth of her baby girl, Rylan , has medical personnel at Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast believing in miracles.
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Study: Obamacare hurting vulnerable hospitals Safety-net hospitals are getting hit by Obamacare's push to penalize poor quality, the latest evidence of problems with the law's effort to improve quality of care.
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Medicare unfairly penalizes hospitals treating sickest, poorest patients ... For the last four years, Medicare has wielded a big stick: It has fined hospitals if too many of their patients returned to any hospital within weeks of being released.
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Aspirin may help fight colorectal cancer: Experts For years, doctors have re commended daily aspi rin to lower cardiovascular risk in certain men and women. Now, for the first time, an expert panel is recommending aspirin therapy to prevent heart attacks and colorectal cancer.
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Report: One-third of US kids still eat fast food every day NEW YORK - About one-third of U.S. children and teens eat pizza or other fast food every day, a new government report shows. That's about the same as it was in the 1990s.
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How Healthcare.gov Botched $600 Million Worth of Contracts The public employees responsible for overseeing $600 million in contracts to build healthcare.gov were inadequately trained, kept sloppy records, and failed to identify delays and problems that contributed to millions in cost overruns.
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Houston Mom Arrested At Gynecologist's Appointment May Face Deportation Reproductive and immigration rights advocates have said that many undocumented Texans delay health care for fear of deportation. After her arrest in an exam room at her gynecologist's office in early September, a Houston mother of three remains in the ...
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Peninsula clinics receive Affordable Care Act funding Southeastern Virginia Health Services, SEVHS, has received more than $320,000 in federal funding to pay for a full-time primary care physician on the campus of the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board.
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National Park Service Bans E-Cigarettes in Certain Areas The National Park Service has decided to restrict the use of e-cigarettes on its lands, so that anywhere cigarette smoking is banned, vaping is now banned, too.
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Prosthetic hand restores sense of touch in 28-year-old WASHINGTON: A 28-year-old paraly sed man in the US has become the irst person to "feel" physical sensations through a prosthetic hand directly connected to his brain, US defence researchers have claimed.
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ACLU Protests Catholic Hospital's Decision To Deny Sterilization GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union says a Flint-area Catholic hospital won't allow a doctor to perform sterilization surgery on a woman who has brain tumors.
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ADHD May Mask Autism in Young Kids MONDAY, Sept. 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Symptoms attributed to attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may overshadow or mask autism spectrum disorder in very young children, a new study reveals.
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A biopsy may not reveal whether you have cancer If you're scheduled for a biopsy - a procedure that involves removing a small piece of tissue and examining it under a microscope - it often means that your doctor suspects cancer.
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Mexican woman's arrest at clinic 'may deter migrants from seeking healthcare' 'The sad fact is that many immigrant women in Texas, and across the country, already forgo needed healthcare,' the lawyer said.
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