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19 people ill in E. coli linked to Costco chicken salad SEATTLE (AP) - The strain of E. Coli linked to Costco chicken salad that has sickened 19 people in seven states is more likely to be life-threatening than a recent foodborne illness that led to the closure of some Chipotle restaurants in the Northwest ...
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New Studies Show How Moms Also Benefit From Breastfeeding Two new studies are adding to a growing body of evidence that breast-feeding is both good for the baby and for the mother. The studies, which focused on diabetes and cancer, found that women who breast-feed cut their risk of diabetes and cancer ...
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FDA Panel: BioMarin Muscular Dystrophy Drug Trials Didn't Prove Effectiveness SILVER SPRING, Md.—A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel concluded that a new drug from BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. hasn't been proven to effectively treat the fatal disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy, saying studies simply didn't ...
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FDA Advisors Paint Bleak Picture for DMD Drug savesaved. author name. by Kristina Fiore Staff Writer, MedPage Today. An FDA advisory committee said the evidence supporting BioMarin's application for drisapersen is weak and that the drug doesn't appear to be effective in Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...
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Activists raise awareness of HIV pill that lowers risk A breakthrough HIV treatment that could slash infection risks has eluded thousands of primary care doctors and nurses, frustrating national efforts to stop the virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday.
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A daily pill can prevent HIV infection, but few take it Although a daily pill can prevent HIV infection, very few people actually take it. About 1.2 million Americans are at high risk for HIV and could benefit from taking the pill, sold under the brand name Truvada, in a strategy that doctors call "pre ...
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Your Gut Bacteria May Be Controlling Your Appetite Hear that little voice in your head telling you to skip a second slice of pumpkin pie? It might be coming not from your conscience, but from the masses of bacteria in your stomach.
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Simply Eating Walnuts May Improve Your Diet Overall There are a slew of studies supporting the benefits of nuts in the diet, but since nuts are also high in calories, it can sometimes end up on the skip list of people trying to lose weight.
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Health News: Infant Death Linked to Crib Bumpers Dangerously Increasing Researchers warned that the number of infant deaths related to bumpers installed on cribs have spiked through the past years. Based on their findings, the researchers are calling for a nationwide ban on crib bumpers to avoid additional accidents and ...
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Deaths related to crib bumpers increasing (Reuters Health) - Infant deaths attributed to crib bumpers may be increasing despite media coverage of the risks and industry regulation, according to a new analysis.
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Cancer-Stricken Infant Who Was Kissed by Pope Is Responding to Treatment ... An infant battling brain cancer, who famously was kissed by Pope Francis during the pontiff's historic visit to the U.S. this year, is responding to treatment, according to her parents.
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Babies Born On The Weekend Face A Higher Risk For Dying Within 7 Days Of Birth Most new moms will do anything to protect their babies, but what you do when something as arbitrary as the day of the week your child is born on poses a risk?
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Scientists Produce New Strain of Mosquitoes That Can Block Transmission of Malaria The technique used in this study, gene drive technology, is so powerful that it has prompted leading experts to urge caution. Normally, genes have a 50-50 chance of being inherited.
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Is HIV prevention pill right for you? CDC outlines how to tell whether you ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is making a big push to get more people at "substantial" risk of getting HIV to start on a daily pill that has been shown to dramatically reduce their risk of infection.
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Osborne Pledges $9 Billion More to U.K. Health Service Next Year Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will pledge an extra 6 billion-pound ($9 billion) investment in Britain's state-run National Health Service in the next fiscal year, as the government seeks to show it's prioritizing health, days after junior ...
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Babies more likely to die if born in NHS hospitals at weekend Babies born at the weekend are more likely to die that those on a weekday, a new study suggests. Nearly 800 babies die each year because NHS hospitals are not performing consisently through the week, according to Imperial College London,.
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Utah girl, 8, is diagnosed with rare form of breast cancer An 8-year girl in Utah learned earlier this month she has a rare form of breast cancer - a shocking discovery local doctors reportedly said is the youngest such diagnosis they've ever seen.
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8 Year Old Breast Cancer Patient Has A Treatment Plan In Place MURRAY (ABC4 Utah News) - 8 year old Chrissy Turner's day began with an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America and ended with creating her own Build-A-Bear with the help of Grizzbee and Felix from the Mascot Miracles Foundation.
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Girl Fights Rare Case of Breast Cancer at Age 8 An 8-year-old Utah girl was diagnosed earlier this month with secretory breast carcinoma, a rare form of breast cancer. According to a report in the Pediatric Surgery International Journal, secretory breast carcinoma is extremely rare.
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Weekend Childbirth Riskier, British Study Suggests TUESDAY, Nov. 24, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Weekdays may be the safest time to have a baby, at least in British hospitals, a new study finds.
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Novartis heart failure medicine Entresto wins EU approval ZURICH The European Commission has approved Novartis' Entresto drug for the treatment of adult patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, the Swiss drugmaker said on Tuesday.
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Turing Refuses to Lower List Price of Toxoplasmosis Drug Turing Pharmaceuticals, which sparked a fury two months ago by sharply increasing the price of a 62-year-old drug, said on Tuesday that it would not reduce the list price of that drug after all.
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Loneliness Destroys Physical Health From The Inside Out, According To New Study Loneliness can increase the risk of premature death in older adults by 14 percent, claims a major new study supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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Agency: E. coli outbreak linked to Costco chicken salad sickens 19 people in 7 ... SEATTLE - The strain of E. Coli linked to Costco chicken salad that has sickened 19 people in seven states is more likely to be life-threatening than a recent foodborne illness that led to the closure of some Chipotle restaurants in the Northwest ...
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Walnuts Help Lower Cholesterol and Keep Heart Diseases At Bay: Study Consuming two handfuls of walnuts a day could help lower cholesterol levels and keep heart diseases at bay, a new study suggests. According to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, consuming tree nuts, such as walnuts, ...
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Holiday Glitter Beards Are A Thing & We Need To Discuss All that glitters is not gold, but sometimes things that glitter are worth more than their weight in gold. One example: glitter beards.
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Can loneliness make us sick? Loneliness isn't just a sad state of mind - it may actually trigger changes in our cells that can make us sick, a new study suggests.
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Report targets dangerous toys Vtech's Go! Go! Smart Animals, made by Vtech Electronics was singled out by the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group Education Fund's 30th annual Trouble in Toyland report, a survey of potentially hazardous toys available for sale.
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UNAIDS: millions receiving HIV treatment globally through accelerated and ... Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, displays a copy of a new UN report, 'Focus on location and population: on the Fast-Track to end AIDS by 2030,' launched ahead of World AIDS Day.
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Male and female drinking patterns becoming more alike in the US In the United States, and throughout the world, men drink more alcohol than women. But a recent analysis by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, indicates that ...
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At Thanksgiving, Pet Owners Just Can't Say 'No' to Fido For Bella Walters, Thanksgiving begins the season of culinary splurge. From now until New Year's Day, she eats what she wants, no matter the normal rules.
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Behind the scenes of the most extensive facial transplant to date Last week, NYU Langone Medical Center announced that its surgeons had performed the world's most extensive facial transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids.
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Popular New York City Dentist Booked on Child Porn and Meth Charges Dr. John Wolf, also a former AIDS activist, also allegedly intentionally spread HIV and had a taste for bestiality-fueled, underground Brooklyn orgies.
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Activists promote opiate antidote as U.S. overdoses surge (Reuters) - Scared that her 25-year-old son might die from a heroin overdose, Jennifer Stepp said she took the unusual precaution of teaching her 8-year-old daughter Audrey how to administer naloxone, an opiate overdose antidote.
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Give Thanksgiving an Italian spin by taking your time while eating photo - Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Food Service Assistant Brian Johnston serves up a healthy Thanksgiving Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Food Service Assistant Brian Johnston serves up a healthy Thanksgiving meal the Italian ...
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The Glitter Beard Is Taking Over Social Media, Just In Time For The Holidays ... For anyone who's looking to celebrate No-Shave November and the start of the holiday season all at once, the Glitter Beard trend is the answer.
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A Thanksgiving throwdown: Stuffing vs. dressing I have a newfound friend who grew up somewhere above the Mason-Dixon Line and the other evening we were discussing our relative menus for Thanksgiving Day.
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STD cases hit All-Time High in the US: CDC More individuals in the United States have been developing Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD), as per a report of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Women Want Over-the-Counter Birth Control. California and Oregon Are Listening. New laws in California and Oregon will soon allow pharmacists to prescribe hormonal contraceptives—including the patch, the ring, and the pill—enabling women to access more effective forms of birth control without a trip to the doctor's office ...
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A Peek At Brain Connections May Reveal Attention Deficits A look at the brain's wiring can often reveal whether a person has trouble staying focused, and even whether he or she has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD.
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Face Transplant Recipient Receives Warm Welcome at Home in Mississippi Pat Hardison, the former volunteer firefighter who received the most extensive face transplant ever performed, was given a hero's welcome when he returned home Sunday night to Senatobia, Miss.
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States To Use Medicaid Money To House Homeless People <span class='image-component__caption' itemprop="caption">CHICAGO George Rose via Getty Images CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 10: A homeless man begs for money in front of the Wrigley Building on October 10, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Men eat more when they're around women, study says At an all-you-can-eat Italian buffet with a lady friend, men ate "92% more pizza compared with those who ate exclusively with men" and "86% more salad", the study reveals.
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How hard is it to get a medical marijuana card in Nevada? RENO, Nev. (MyNews4.com & KRNV) -- Medical marijuana is legal in the state of Nevada, but it's still a topic of debate among many residents in the Silver State.
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A government panel said drinking coffee is harmless. Why that might be wrong. When an expert federal panel concluded earlier this year that drinking five cups of coffee a day can be part of a "healthy lifestyle," even hinting that coffee is good for you, the announcement prompted a glut of headlines extolling the national habit ...
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Practical Diabetes Care, 3rd Ed., Excerpt #39: Psychological Aspects of ... Much of the literature concerns the important problem of type 2 diabetes and depression and, in comparison with type 1 diabetes, little about the psychological disturbances associated with specific phases of type 2 diabetes.
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Red Cross Urges Travelers To Put Blood Donation On Holiday To-Do List BALTIMORE (WJZ) - The American Automobile Association (AAA) estimated that 98 million Americans would travel more than 50 miles during the holiday season, and Airlines for America is predicting that 25.3 million passengers will fly during a 12-day ...
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Planet Fitness must end offer of unlimited tanning service State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reached a settlement with one of four fitness and tanning franchises that he sought to sue in April over alleged violations related to tanning safety.
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Lifehacker covers the science of Thanksgiving Lots of folks like to say that food safety in the home is simple. It isn't. There are a lot of variables and messages have historically been distilled down to a sanitized sound bite.
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