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Feeling like a Grinch? At least it won't shorten your life A woman smiles as she takes pictures of the window displays at a department store on Oxford Street, in London, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015.
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Being happy won't make you live longer, study finds Oxford professor Richard Peto's study involved a million middle-aged women in Britain over 10 years. (Tom Jamieson/NYT). A new study concludes that "happiness and related measures of well-being do not appear to have any direct effect on mortality.
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Happiness Doesn't Bring Good Health, Study Finds Go ahead and sulk. Unhappiness won't kill you. A study published on Wednesday in The Lancet, following one million middle-aged women in Britain for 10 years, finds that the widely held view that happiness enhances health and longevity is unfounded.
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World's First Test-Tube Puppies Are Born The world's first puppies have been conceived using IVF - the same test-tube method that leads to the births of tens of thousands of human babies every year.
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Optimism Trumps Gratitude for ACS Patients savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. by Nicole Lou Contributing Writer, MedPage Today.
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Optimistic Outlook May Boost Recovery After Heart Attack TUESDAY, Dec. 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Having an optimistic attitude after a heart attack may be good for your health, Harvard researchers report.
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Aspirin use does not improve outcomes for cancer patients, but may lower ... SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - Whether aspirin may help prevent or reduce the risk of breast cancer remains a hotly debated research question.
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Life Expectancy In The U.S. 79 For Third Year In A Row A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that life expectancy for a newborn is about 79 years old for the third year year in a row.
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U.S. life expectancy flat for third straight year at almost 79 NEW YORK - Life expectancy in the United States has stalled for three straight years, the government announced Wednesday. A child born last year can expect to make it to 78 years and 9½ months - the same prediction made for the previous two years.
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New Study Shows that Dental Fillings are Useless Let's face it, nobody likes getting fillings for cavities. It is something that nobody enjoys and everyone would be fine avoiding.
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First penis transplants in the US to go to wounded veterans Doctors at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have announced that they will soon begin offering a life-changing experimental surgery to wounded military veterans: penis transplants.
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Mexican Safety Agency Approves First Use of Dengue Vaccine MEXICO CITY - Mexican health authorities approved the first vaccine to gain official acceptance for use against the dengue virus, which sickens about 100 million people every year, mostly in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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A 'Major, Major Finding' in Managing Residual Breast Cancer SAN ANTONIO - What should clinicians do when a patient with HER2-negative breast cancer undergoes neoadjuvant chemotherapy but, disappointingly, residual disease is found at surgery?
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7 half-pound mutts become first test-tube puppies in world LOS ANGELES - A team of veterinarians, scientists and lab workers gathered around a surrogate hound and watched her give birth to seven half-pound puppies, the first dogs ever conceived in a test tube.
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First ever test-tube puppies born; Merkel named Time's Person of the Year (10 ... This Sept. 29, 2015, photo provided by Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine shows seven week-old puppies born by in vitro fertilization at the Baker Institute for Animal Health in Ithaca, N.Y.
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Half-pound mutts become first test-tube puppies in world This Sept. 29, 2015, photo shows 7-week-old puppies born by in-vitro fertilization at Baker Institute for Animal Health in Ithaca, N.Y.
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There's a crisis at Chipotle Chipotle became the darling of the fast-food world by attracting millennials, blue-collar workers and even whole families with its promise of high-quality, sustainably sourced Mexican cuisine.
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A sponge-filled syringe could save you from bleeding out RevMedx's sponge-filled syringe, the XSTAT 30, was approved for military use in treating gunshot wounds last year. Now, the FDA says paramedics and other first repsonders can use the device to treat civilian injuries as well.
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Mexico Approves Sanofi's Dengue Vaccine but Pricing Questions Remain Sanofi SA SNY -1.24 % 's dengue vaccine won regulatory approval in Mexico on Wednesday, paving the way for the world's first immunization program against the mosquito-borne virus—but questions remain over how the French drugmaker will price the ...
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Device that plugs gunshot wounds in 15 seconds approved by FDA A syringe filled with tablet-sized sponges used to clog up gunshot wounds where tourniquets cannot be used has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use by first responders among the general population.
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Drinking Milk Is Linked to Parkinson's Disease: Study Studies have found a connection between the consumption of dairy products and a higher risk of developing Parkinson disease, the neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor neurons in the brain.
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Boy with autism is forever connected to Santa, who told him it's OK to be himself Santa gave one 6-year-old boy with autism the best gift he could've asked for this year. While visiting RiverTown Crossings Mall in Grandville, Michigan, on Friday, Landon Johnson and his four cousins took turns sitting on Santa's lap to tell him what ...
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Drug Used in Jimmy Carter's Cancer Treatment Among a New Generation of Immune ... Experts said it's too early to tell if Keytruda should get all the credit for the former president's apparently successful treatment, but so far new cancer drugs like it are showing promising results.
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Concentrating with extreme focus on visual object turns you inattentional deaf A new study now knows why you do not respond to someone's call while your eyes are glued to a visual object, your surrounding sounds may be switched off.
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Study Explains How Screen Time Causes 'Inattentional Deafness' So we talked about screen deafness when you literally cannot hear when you're looking at it. Does that happen to you guys. Yes.
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First US penis transplants could help wounded troops (CNN) The Johns Hopkins University medical team that performed arm and hand transplants hopes to perform the first penile transplant in the United States in the coming months.
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FDA OK's cooling cap to save hair during chemotherapy Losing her hair was one of the side effects Donna Tookes dreaded most as she prepared to start chemotherapy almost two years ago. She had just been diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 59, and doctors recommended a mastectomy followed by 12 ...
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FDA approves Alexion drug for ultra-rare disease The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Alexion Pharmaceutical Inc's treatment for an ultra-rare and potentially fatal genetic disorder.
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Promenade Mall to offer "Sensitive Santa" event for children with autism ... TULSA - Considering approximately three to six children out of every 1,000 have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), it can be difficult for families of children with autism to enjoy some of the holiday celebrations and traditions most ...
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FDA Clears Cold Cap to Save Hair During Breast Cancer Chemo In this July 10, 2013 file photo, Dr. Hope Rugo, an oncologist and breast cancer specialist, demonstrates the use of a Dignitana DigniCap system at the University of California San Francisco Mount Zion Hospital cancer center in San Francisco.
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Early results of marijuana extract treatment for children with epilepsy prove ... For a number of years now, families of children with epilepsy have been relocating to Colorado from around the world to try to obtain a special marijuana extract known as "Charlotte's Web" that they had heard had an almost magical ability to reduce ...
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FDA clears military traumatic wound dressing for use in the civilian population FDA -- December 7, 2015 -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the use of the XSTAT 30 wound dressing, an expandable, multi-sponge dressing used to control severe, life-threatening bleeding from wounds in areas that a tourniquet ...
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Some of sickest states show healthy gains while others still lag Increases in drug deaths, obesity and diabetes offset national declines in smoking, deaths from heart disease and infant mortality, a new report shows, but some states' dramatic improvement brightened the overall picture.
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State makes progress in health areas, but still 41st Hoosier waistlines continue to expand, many of us still can't shake the smoking habit, and we live in a state with some of the lowest public health funding in the nation.
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Linked To PCOS In Eye-Opening New Study Women who suffer from polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, are 59 percent more likely to give birth to a child with autism spectrum disorder than women without the disorder, according to a study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry in December.
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Fresh Ebola Cases Damp Liberia Hopes of Eliminating Deadly Disease Nurses at a downtown Monrovia hospital were about to punch out from work late one November afternoon when a feverish teenager, convulsing and bleeding from his mouth, stumbled into the waiting room.
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Baxalta (BXLT) Announces FDA Approval of VONVENDI as VWD Treatment Baxalta Incorporated (NYSE: BXLT) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved VONVENDI [von Willebrand factor (Recombinant)].
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Jimmy Carter Saved By Israeli Cancer Treatment Former president Jimmy Carter, who in the past has been supportive of boycotts against Israel, is having his cancer treated by a "breakthrough" drug created in the Jewish state, according to reports.
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Implantable air valves help some emphysema patients breathe easier (Reuters Health) - An experimental treatment for severe emphysema that involves placing one-way valves in airways leading to damaged lung tissue can help patients breathe easier and exercise longer, according to a new study from the Netherlands.
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ADHD diagnoses skyrocket among U.S. kids ADHD rates have risen significantly in recent years, especially among certain groups of American kids, new research suggests. Loading… Post to Facebook.
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Facebook Photo of Michigan Mall Santa Comforting Boy With Autism Goes Viral The heartwarming Facebook post about a boy with autism and a Santa Claus at a Michigan mall is going viral. Naomi Johnson posted the photo on the RiverTown Crossings Mall's Facebook, explaining that her son Landon told the Santa that he "sometimes ...
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A mother gives the gift of life to her baby, before dying from cancer CHESTERFIELD, MO (KTVI) - With the snap of a camera photographer Emily Lucarz captured the special moments of Cara Combs and her family at her studio last Thursday in Chesterfield.
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As Many As 200 Sickened In Seattle Tower Norovirus Outbreak SEATTLE (AP) -- As many as 200 people have gotten sick in a norovirus outbreak at a downtown Seattle office building, health officials reported Monday.
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Cold Cap to Prevent Hair Loss During Chemo Cleared in US Many cancer patients facing chemotherapy are aghast at the prospect of losing their hair, and for some years now in Europe and elsewhere there have been various scalp-cooling devices that promise to reduce this side effect.
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Minnesota ties for first on health scorecard Minnesota is a healthy state, at least in comparison with the rest of the country. In what it calls a "state health system scorecard," Minnesota tied with Vermont for first among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a report ...
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Talk Therapy, Antidepressants Offer Similar Results for Major Depression TUESDAY, Dec. 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Talk therapy and antidepressants could both be equally effective as stand-alone treatments for major depressive disorder, new research indicates.
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Negative Thoughts About 'Old People' Linked To Alzheimer's Risk A word of caution for anyone who thinks "old people" are just feeble and decrepit -- you might not fare so well yourself when you get to that age.
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