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Pediatricians Are Asked to Join Fight Against Childhood Hunger The American Academy of Pediatrics on Friday urged pediatricians to screen all patients for food insecurity and to refer parents to appropriate agencies so children do not go hungry.
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You may be a pizza-holic: Research says some foods addicting (CNN) Pizza, French fries and ice cream may be the kinds of foods many of us love to indulge in after a night of drinking. But research earlier this year suggests we can actually have benders on these foods all by themselves, and it may even be a sign ...
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US drug prices should reflect value to patients: expert panel BOSTON/NEW YORK A panel of medical experts said on Friday the prices of prescription medicines in the United States need to be brought in line with the value they bring to patients instead of continuing to let drugmakers set any price they choose.
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Common shoulder dislocation can heal well without surgery Dislocation of the AC joint is often fixed by surgical placement of a plate and screws, however patients who wore a sling and had rehabilitation instead recovered from their injury faster.
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Common Shoulder Injury Heals Well Without Surgery: Study THURSDAY, Oct. 22, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A common shoulder injury that is usually repaired with surgery can heal just as well with nonsurgical treatment, a new study suggests.
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New simple test detects post-pregnancy diabetes risk A team of researchers has come up with simple test that can detect diabetes risk after pregnancy. By: ANI | October 23, 2015 10:49 AM.
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FDA Advisory Committee Recommends the Approval of Lesinurad for Gout Patients WILMINGTON, Del., Oct 23, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Arthritis Advisory Committee (AAC) voted 10-4 to recommend the approval of lesinurad 200 mg tablets for the treatment ...
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Some doctors and midwives don't know postpartum diabetes risk (Reuters Health) - Some doctors and midwives may underestimate the risk for postpartum diabetes among women who develop a version of the disease during pregnancy, a small British study suggests.
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Fukushima: the First Cancers Emerge The Japanese government has made its first admission that a worker at the Fukushima nuclear plant developed cancer as a following decontamination work after the 2011 disaster.
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Plague: Bringing Death For More Than 5700 Years Plague's been infecting people for thousands of years longer than any previous record shows - but it may not have always looked like the Black Death of medieval times or even earlier plagues, scientists reported Friday.
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Pricey generic drugs to get competition from Imprimis Imprimis is operating as a compounding pharmacy, which doesn't require approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its products.
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Sesame Street character with Autism gets praise COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) -. Sesame Street is an iconic children's show, and now a new song and cause are propelling the company into the spotlight.
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Health: Autism Advocates Say New Sesame Street Character Is Making Big Impact PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - With autism numbers continuing to sky-rocket, advocates say a new sesame street character, just introduced is making a big impact.
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Texas Orders Health Clinics to Turn Over Patient Data The fight over Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood moved to Texas this week. Three days after Gov. Greg Abbott announced his decision to end Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, state health department investigators showed up on Thursday at ...
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Walgreens Halts Theranos Testing Center Expansion Walgreens won't be going forward with any plans to open up more Theranos Wellness Centers until it can "understand the truth," behind recent questioning of the blood work startup's technology, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Nurse Kaci Hickox sues Gov. Chris Christie over Ebola quarantine A little over a year ago, Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie essentially dared a nurse to sue him after she was placed under mandatory quarantine in Newark, even though she tested negative for Ebola.
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The US Government Must Continue to Lead Efforts to End Polio In the past 27 years, the global community has made enormous progress toward seeing a world without polio. Today, on World Polio Day, we celebrate that fewer children than ever before must live with the scourge of this disease.
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World Closes In on Eradicating Polio October 23, 2015 7:56 PM. Never before have so few children in the world had polio. Yet, as World Polio Day is observed Saturday, those who are trying to rid Earth of the virus say it's time to step up vaccination campaigns.
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Cheese addiction? New study says it's a real thing! (KWWL) - Have you ever been eating pizza and blindly ate one more piece? Well now there is a reason. A new study conducted by the University of Michigan says cheese crack is a real thing.
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Nurse quarantined over Ebola fears sues Gov. Chris Christie A nurse who had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa and was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital when she returned sued Gov.
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Walgreens Scrutinizes Theranos Testing Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. WBA 1.50 % won't open any new Theranos Inc. blood-testing centers until the startup company resolves questions about its technology, according to a Walgreens official.
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Don't worry your pretty little head about cancer In an 1882 presentation to the New York Obstetrical Society, surgeon Theodore Gaillard Thomas defended the removal of benign breast tumors by invoking the emotional fragility of the weaker sex.
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Number of cases grows in Bay Area shigella outbreak Over a hundred people are now sick from the Shigella bacteria infection that has spread to several counties. Over a hundred people are now sick from the Shigella bacteria infection that has spread to several counties.
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Spectrum says FDA declines to approve Evomela for injection Biotechnology company Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration declined to approve its Evomela injection to treat patients with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer that arises from plasma cells found in bone marrow.
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Woman smelled husband's Parkinson's years before diagnosis Joy Milne, 65, told researchers that she had noticed a change in the odor of her late husband, Les, years before he developed symptoms of Parkinson's.
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Arthritis drug doubles as hair-fertilizer A class of drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treating rheumatoid arthritis is raising hairs in the research community—literally.
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Progress reported on drug to regrow hair Researchers are reporting progress in the quest for a drug that can regrow hair. In a study published Friday in the journal Science Advances, Dr.
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Cancer Drug Could Be Baldness Remedy, Too Drugs developed to fight cancer and rheumatoid arthritis might work as creams to stimulate hair growth —offering a potential baldness cure, researchers reported Friday.
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Healthcare Providers Optimistic but Losing Confidence in ACA According to New ... MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- While over three-quarters of healthcare providers express optimism about the future of U.S.
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CMS to test performance-based Medicare Part D program, targets rising drug prices The Part D Enhanced Medication Therapy Management model will give selected Medicare Prescription Drug Plans more flexibility. Susan Morse, Associate Editor.
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Applebees Stiffs Autistic Employeeand Its Hardly Alone An Applebee's in Rhode Island failed to pay an autistic young man for a year—making it just the latest U.S. company to profit off disabled workers.
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The Polio Capital of the World As the world prepares to mark World Polio Day on Oct. 24, Pakistan remains at the center of the global effort to eradicate the virus.
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There might be meat in your vegetarian hot dogs The report found human DNA in 2 percent of samples, two-thirds of which were vegetarian-labelled hot dogs. (iStock). If you're already suspicious about what's in a hot dog, drilling down to the molecular level may be even more shocking.
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Two years after FDA letter, 23andMe finally relaunches consumer genetic ... 23andMe Almost two years after the FDA first told 23andMe to halt sales on its mail-order direct-to-consumer genetic testing service, the company has relaunched a version of its new Personal Genome Service (PGS), which now meets FDA standards.
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Fresenius Medical Care buys dialysis specialist Nephromor -paper FRANKFURT Oct 23 Kidney dialysis specialist Fresenius Medical Care is buying Israel-based peer Nephromor for about 350 million shekels ($90.23 million), German business paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday, citing industry sources.
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KC civic leaders call on area cities to raise the legal age for buying ... Kansas City civic leaders want to make it just as hard to buy a pack of cigarettes as it is to buy a six-pack of beer. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, and other organizations Thursday morning ...
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Scientists Have Found a Way to Make Red Blood Cells We generally only hear about blood shortages during a natural disaster, but the truth is that blood banks are often in short supply.
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Black Men May Get Worse Prostate Cancer Care, Study Contends THURSDAY, Oct. 22, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Older black men with prostate cancer seem more likely to receive poorer quality of care that costs more compared to white men, a new study found.
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