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High schoolers use e-cigarettes to vape marijuana: US study NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly one in five high school students who said they used electronic cigarettes to vaporize nicotine also used them to vaporize pot, according to a survey of nearly 4,000 Connecticut teens.
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In Face Of Increasing Cases, Legionnaires' Disease Is Now A Major Health Issue Legionnaires' disease hugged the news headlines over the past few years. Now, federal health officials expressed their concern on the much higher cases of the disease than decades in the past.
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Deadly Legionnaires' has killed 7 in Illinois Seven people have died and 32 sickened in a Legionnaires' disease outbreak at a veterans home in Quincy, Illinois, state veterans and health officials said in a statement on Tuesday.
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A Health Officials Still Concerned Over A Legionnaire's Disease Outbreak Recently there has been some concern over an increase in cases of Legionnaire's disease and an official outbreak in New York, California, and Illinois has been confirmed.
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Legionnaires' disease deaths are on the rise: CDC CDC has issued an alert as the number of cases of Legionnaires' disease has increased gradually over the past few years. The reported cases in till August have more than doubled from expected levels for that period.
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Infants' whooping cough source likely siblings, study finds CHICAGO - Infants are more likely to catch whooping cough from their siblings than their moms, says a study with implications for how to protect them.
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Infants' whooping cough source likely siblings, study finds Infants are more likely to catch whooping cough from their siblings than their moms, says a study with implications for how to protect them.
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Workplace Stress As Bad As Secondhand Smoke And Poor Diet A recent scientific review, from Harvard University Business School in conjunction with Stanford University, tells us that workplace stress may be just as harmful as secondhand smoke.
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Exercise benefits from vitamin C supplements? WASHINGTON: Taking vitamin C supplements daily may have similar cardiovascular benefits as regular exercise in overweight and obese adults, a new study has claimed.
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Pfizer's stop-smoking drug Chantix not linked to depression or heart risks Pfizer's stop-smoking drug Chantix does not raise risks of heart attack or depression, contrary to previous reports, and should be recommended to more smokers wanting to quit, scientists said on Monday.
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Blood test could identify dementia risk A blood test for healthy ageing has been developed that could identify people who are growing old too fast and at risk of dementia.
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FDA investigates multi-state outbreak of salmonella linked to cucumbers The FDA is investigating a multi-state outbreak of salmonella poona linked to cucumbers. The type of cucumber is often referred to as a "slicer" or "American" cucumber and is dark green in color.
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San Diego firm recalls cucumbers after salmonella outbreak A California company is recalling its cucumbers after a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 285 people in 27 states and killed a San Diego woman.
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The Latest: Whole Foods: We didn't stock recalled cucumbers BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The latest about Louisiana's possible ties to a salmonella outbreak in 27 states (all times local). 9:30 p.m.. Whole Foods Market says it did not carry the brand of cucumbers recalled after nearly 300 people in 27 states became ...
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More Kids Kept Safe From Household Medicines, ER Trend Says New research suggests parents are doing a better job of keeping household medicines out of the hands of young children. Emergency room visits by children who swallowed medicine while unsupervised have declined substantially, reversing an earlier trend, ...
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September is the Childhood Cancer Awareness Month September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, where the hope is to bring understanding to kids' health and to possibly catch cancer in a child before it worsens.
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One Doctor's Campaign To Pay Those Who Risked Their Lives As the Ebola crisis raged in West Africa last year, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia of Boston University traveled to Sierra Leone several times.
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Hope on Wheels Helping to Fight Against Childhood Cancers "My own daughter was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in 2007 and prior to that I was completely unaware of childhood cancer". Curing Kids Cancer raises money and awareness to fund innovative research that provides cutting edge treatments to children ...
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September is Suicide Prevention Month With this in mind, different institutions across the country aim to raise awareness on suicide prenvention, improve education on the subject and lower the stigmatization about the topic.
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New Ebola case in Sierra Leone quarantine village: president Another woman has tested positive for Ebola in a village in northern Sierra Leone already under quarantine after the death of a 67-year-old woman a week ago, President Ernest Bai Koroma said on Sunday.
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New Ebola case in Sierra Leone quarantine village: president Another woman was tested positive for Ebola in a village in northern Sierra Leone already under quarantine after the death of a 67-year-old woman a week ago, President Ernest Bai Koroma has said.
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Soon, smartphone app may cure travel sickness A smartphone app that applies a small electric current to the scalp through a headset may soon be used to alleviate sea sickness and other kinds of motion nausea, scientists say.
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DPH: Dry summer may worsen West Nile virus risk With Hudson's announcement this week that mosquitoes trapped in town had tested positive for West Nile virus, it marked the first town in MetroWest this year to discover infected mosquitoes.
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Anti-seasickness device comes closer to reality A team of researchers believe that they could develop a new treatment for seasickness within five to ten years, thanks to a breakthrough in the area of concern.
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More kids kept safe from household medicines, ER trend says CHICAGO (AP) - New research suggests parents are doing a better job of keeping household medicines out of the hands of young children.
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Final MDA Labor Day event at Zandri's in Wallingford WALLINGFORD - The spirit of the now defunct national Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon was alive and well Sunday evening at Zandri's Stillwood Inn, where the Labor Day weekend fundraising tradition was carried on locally.
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The 'Jerry Lewis Telethon Tradition' is gone! (Celebrity Videos) MDA said on May 1, 2015, that the Labor Day television fundraising tradition that went on for decades, is ending. In the 1960s and '70s, the TV had just a few options and having a charity show air all day kept people glued to the idiot box.
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Autism is diagnosed mostly in boys compared to girls California - A recent study published by the journal Molecular Autism and made by the Stanford University School of Medicine found that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is diagnosed much less in girls compared to boys.
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Global Leaders Look To Improve Diabetes Care Diabetes is now becoming a major problem in many countries and as such there is a global need for better—and more affordable and accessible—management.
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Utah Department of Health wins over $3M in grants to fight painkiller overdoses SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah Department of Health won a $3.76 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to fight prescription painkiller overdose deaths.
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Red Cross blood drives planned in remembrance of 9/11 The American Red Cross is partnering with 9/11 Day to offer individuals a chance to help others and commemorate the events of Sept.
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Suicide Prevention Month Starts In September: Here's How You Can Help September is National Suicide Prevention month, so it's important to know the signs associated with suicide. (Photo : Cam Evans).
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Roche hemophilia drug wins fast-track FDA designation Roche Holding AG announced on Friday that it had won breakthrough therapy designation from the U.S. FDA for an experimental haemophilia medicine, that could potentially earn it a $11 billion chunk of haemophilia drug market.
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Norovirus sickened over 60 at Ventura Chipotle restaurant, say officials Officials said the sickening of dozens of patrons at a Ventura County Chipotle restaurant earlier this month happened because of a norovirus outbreak.
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Souderton Area School Board OKs second reading of proposed suicide awareness ... Joe and Patti Dille, parents of the late Souderton Area High School student Matt Dille, advocate for a district Suicide Awareness, Prevention and Response policy.
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Eradicated from India, back in Europe: WHO confirms two cases of polio in Ukraine A 10-month-old baby and a four-year-old child have been diagnosed with the polio virus in Ukraine's southwestern Zakarpattya region, which borders four European Union member states.
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