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Chemicals in Personal Products May Stimulate Cancer More Than Thought A group of chemicals commonly used in cosmetics and other personal-care products may stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells at doses much lower than previously thought, a new study finds.
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American doctors urging change in football safety practices The American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its recommended guidelines for football. There are more than 1.1 million high school football players, in the U.S.
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New Study Says Bacon Causes Cancer, But the Internet Refuses to Believe It Hey, girl. How you doin'? Bacon GIFs. You're looking sexy as hell today. Bacon GIFs. Mmmmmmm. Oh, sorry. We didn't mean to make everyone uncomfortable.
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Eating Bad Things Bad for You Eating bacon every day can give you colorectal cancer, if you don't die from every single other disease first, says a groundbreaking new study from the World Health Organization.
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Old drug may help keep Alzheimer's patients out of nursing homes LONDON A cheap off-patent drug that relieves some symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may also help keep people at an advanced stage of the illness out of nursing homes, at least for a while.
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Pediatricians urge stronger regulation of tobacco, e-cigs Though tobacco use among teens has decreased since the 1970's, smoking remains a major public health threat and e-cigarettes are a growing concern.
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Scientists: New method may allow for 3-D printed organs Researchers 3-D print an artery using a technique of layering gel in a specially designed support gel that keeps soft objects from collapsing during printing.
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Lincroft Dental Office to Host Halloween Candy Buy-Back Event LINCROFT, NJ, Oct 26, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- Newman Springs Dental Care, a comprehensive family Lincroft dental office, is encouraging local children to put their money where their mouth is by surrendering their hard-earned Halloween candy ...
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Study: For many, DCIS treatment unnecessary Nearly 65,000 women a year - about 22 percent of those with breast cancer - are diagnosed with DCIS, also known as Stage 0 breast cancer.
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New breast cancer guidelines: Creating clarity or confusion? The American Cancer Society's new guidelines say women at average risk of breast cancer should start getting mammograms at age 45, and get them annually until age 55, when they should be screened every other year.
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Watertown specialist: new mammogram guidelines are not universal A radiologist at Samaritan Medical Center looks at a mammogram on a digital mammography unit when it was first installed in 2009. ARTICLE OPTIONS.
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Whole Foods recalls 234 pounds of curry chicken salad due to possible listeria On Saturday, a Whole Foods Market establishment in Everett, Mass., announced a recall of approximately 234 pounds of curry chicken salad that may contain Listeria monocytogenes.
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Telling their story: 3 Tallahassee women fight breast cancer Unless you haven't left your house, read a newspaper, watched TV or logged on to social media, you undoubtedly know Tallahassee has been plastered in pink since the first of the month.
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Methodist Willowbrook hospital celebrates women during Paint The Night Pink event Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital treated more than 150 women to a night of relaxation and education at the Paint The Night Pink event.
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Former Chiefs cheerleader has a spirited team to help her fight breast cancer It was halftime, and pink and white balloons floated above Arrowhead Stadium, filling the sky with hope. Regardless of who we were rooting for at this Chiefs game a couple of Sundays ago, we were all clapping for the same cause: breast cancer survivors.
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Catching up with breast cancer research, findings and recommendation Women with an average risk of breast cancer now have three different recommendations on when to start regular mammograms: at 40, 45 or 50.
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San Jose Shigella outbreak reaches six counties Mariscos San Juan restaurant, at 205 N. 4th Street in San Jose, is the restaurant at which dozens of patrons ate, then later fell ill.
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Nearly 200 sickened by Shigella outbreak in San Francisco area: officials SAN FRANCISCO Nearly 200 people in the San Francisco area have been sickened by an intestinal disease caused by the highly contagious Shigella bacteria since an outbreak began at a Mexican seafood restaurant 10 days ago, health officials said on ...
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New mammogram guidelines: what you need to know A lifetime of exposure to estrogen, the female sex hormone, "may lead to a higher risk of breast cancer", says Dr. Port.
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Theranos Chief Yields to Calls for Proof of Blood Test's Reliability Bowing to criticism, the founder and chief executive of the beleaguered medical testing company Theranos said on Monday that the firm would publish data validating the accuracy and reliability of its tests.
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Maryland to test all 1- and 2-year-olds for lead The state of Maryland will expand its testing for lead poisoning to all one- and two-year-old children in the state, regardless of where they live, the administration of Gov.
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All Md. toddlers to be tested for lead at ages 1 and 2 Governor Hogan announced a new testing plan that requires all toddlers to be tested for lead poisoning. WMAR. Hundreds of children in Maryland are diagnosed with lead poisoning each year.
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4 Deaths Linked To Bacterial Infection At Pa. Hospital As many as 1,300 people who underwent surgery at a Pennsylvania hospital may have been exposed to a potentially life-threatening bacteria.
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Whole Foods Forced to Recall Curry Chicken Salad and Classic Deli Pasta Salad ... It looks like the highly reputed brand, Whole Foods, isn't finished jumping through hoops to 'preserve' its brand and goodwill, as the company is forced to make yet another recall due to listeria contamination.
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Why People With Metastatic Breast Cancer Want To Get Counted The number of people living with stage 4, metastatic breast cancer is unknown. A journalist or doctor might be surprised by this lack of information, as I was surprised a few years back.
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Two types of flu vaccines delayed this year Two drug companies have reported delays in shipping flu vaccines for children this season, leading some doctors to run out of the needle-free, nasal variety that are especially popular with kids.
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'Blue Pumpkins?' Teal Pumpkin on front porch means safe Halloween treats Amelia Holbrook, 2, holds a teal colored pumpkin that will alert people that her Baxter household will have candy and non-food treats for trick-or-treaters.
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Teal pumpkins promise treats for kids with food allergies Ava Kenyon, 4, and her sister Kya, 3, of Vacaville show the many pumpkins they have painted teal for Halloween. The teal-colored pumpkins mean that the Kenyons are offering non-food treats for trick-or-treaters who have food allergies like Ava.
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Teal Pumpkin Project One organization is urging families to start a new Halloween tradition that keeps kids with food allergies in mind. "Growing up as a gluten free kid, I was allergic to a lot of things and it wasn't long ago that I even found a candy I could eat.
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US Task Force advises blood sugar tests for overweight adults (Reuters Health) - The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends blood sugar testing for all overweight adults ages 40 to 70 even if they don't have symptoms of diabetes.
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Dementia-patient care more costly than for other diseases On average, the out-of-pocket cost for a patient with dementia was $61,522 - more than 80 percent higher than the cost for someone with heart disease or cancer.
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Lead poisoning prevention stressed The Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 office is urging parents, teachers and media to join federal, state and local agencies to spread the word on National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week.
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Girl severely burned in 1972 Vietnam napalm attack aided by new laser therapy Kim Phuc, now 52, hopes new laser therapy will take away the pain inflicted by an errant South Vietnamese napalm attack in 1972. By Doug G. Ware | Oct. 27, 2015 at 2:26 AM.
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Costs for Dementia Care Far Exceeding Other Diseases, Study Finds Three diseases, leading killers of Americans, often involve long periods of decline before death. Two of them - heart disease and cancer - usually require expensive drugs, surgeries and hospitalizations.
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You may be a pizza-holic: Research says some foods addicting 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 of an ...
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Company Shares of Weight Watchers International Inc (NYSE:WTW) Rally 131.96% Shares of Weight Watchers International Inc (NYSE:WTW) rose by 131.96% in the past week and 145.33% for the last 4 weeks. In the past week, the shares have outperformed the S&P 500 by 127.26% and the outperformance increases to 128.33% for the ...
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First Brain Surgery Aired Live on American TV Goes Smoothly "I never expected this," says a Parkinson's patient whose hand tremor went away for first time in 10 years. Picture of brain scans.
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AAP Issues Guidelines To Protect Young Football Players' Bodies And Brains The football community has had some pretty negative publicity in recent years, as the realities of brain injuries have surfaced again and again.
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Ghost DNA of Unborn Twin Causes Chaos in the Paternity Test The DNA of an unborn person repeatedly failed the paternity of his 34-year-old twin brother, who was forced to become uncle of his own biological son, because he was a human chimera.
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College students lax about washing their hands (Reuters Health) - College students may not be washing their hands properly, according to researchers who found that more than half of the students tested had large amounts of different types of bacteria on their hands.
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Hospitals Mess Up Medications in Surgery—a Lot Half of all operations involved some kind of drug error in a study at an elite medical center. John Tozzi jtozz. October 25, 2015 - 4:00 PM PDT.
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Study explores economic impact of cancer diagnoses on families A new analysis by University of Wyoming researcher Anna Zajacova indicates that when American adults are diagnosed with cancer, they experience significant decreases in the probability of working, in the number of hours they work and, correspondingly, ...
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Couple with viral pregnancy announcement welcomes baby 16 weeks early "He was my miracle an I had to give him a fighting chance to make it". It's always been in His Hands, so we hold on to Him.
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Man fails paternity test because of unborn twin's DNA A 34-year-old Washington man's unborn twin caused confusion for a couple seeking the results of a paternity test. The parents, who wish to remain unnamed, went to a fertility clinic and welcomed a healthy baby boy in June 2014.
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Study describes HPV vaccination rates among adolescent males 1. In U.S. adolescent males, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination uptake of ≥1 dose and series completion of ≥3 doses were 34.6% and 13.9%, respectively, with significantly higher rates of completion among non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics, ...
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Company Shares of Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMY) Rally 1.89% Shares of Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:IMMY) rose by 1.89% in the past week and 3.09% for the last 4 weeks. The shares are however, negative as compared to the S&P 500 for the past week with a loss of 0.17%.
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Black Death Bacterium Found in 5000-Year Old Teeth: What This Reveals About ... Researchers came up with new discoveries about the black death bacterium that causes plague. Through the study of ancient human teeth, new insights about human history were revealed.
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Patient-Centered Team Treatment of Schizophrenia Works Best BU's Kim Mueser has spent decades studying and developing humanitarian, patient-centered treatment to help people with severe mental illnesses recover and reclaim their lives.
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'What's Underneath' Features Elly Mayday Dicussing Body Positivity & Ovarian ... In StyleLikeU's October 19 episode of the What's Underneath Project - an empowering series of videos run by mother and daughter team Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum meant to celebrate body diversity - Canadian model Elly Mayday is talking all ...
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Surgery alternatives also helpful People with knees worn out by arthritis will get more pain relief from joint replacement surgery, but it has more risks, and there's a good chance that less drastic approaches also would help.
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