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Daughters of Charity hospitals management takeover complete Less than two weeks after gaining approval from the state, the financially troubled Daughters of Charity Health system has completed an unusual and controversial transaction with a New York hedge fund.
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Swipe Right for Kidney: Tinder Works to Support Organ Donation in UK In an effort to make finding a kidney match as easy as getting matched with a love interest on Tinder, the dating app is now joining forces with the U.K.
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Open Wide! See How a Gorilla Visits the Dentist While a root canal can be unpleasant for any patient, in the case of Pertinax, a nearly 400-pound gorilla, it can be a scary experience for the entire dental staff as well.
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Former Junction 'dentist' given 2 years in prison for tax evasion A Grand Junction man who practiced dentistry despite court orders to stop was sentenced Monday to serve two years in federal prison for tax evasion.
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Baby Born With Partially Developed Brain Beats Odds to Meet Santa The parents of an infant who beat the odds and survived despite an extreme brain malformation posted a picture of the boy's first visit with Santa.
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What happened to the CDC's courage on guns? (CNN) As director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Tom Frieden has tweeted and talked about everything from AIDS to obesity to mosquitoes in Hawaii, the overuse of antibiotics, polio in Pakistan, Ebola, sanitation services in East Africa ...
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Study: Opioid overprescription a problem for all doctors Comparing Medicare records for opioid prescriptions to overall prescriptions for all drugs, researchers found the problem goes beyond "pill mill" prescribers.
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Primary Care Docs the Leading Prescribers of Narcotic Painkillers: Study MONDAY, Dec. 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Americans continue to be plagued by an epidemic of prescription narcotic painkiller abuse, and a new study finds primary care physicians are by far the biggest prescribers of the drugs.
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Study Suggests Antidepressants May Be Linked to Higher Risk of Autism, But ... A new study is putting the spotlight on the possible relationship between antidepressants taken during pregnancy and the risk of autism, although researchers emphasize the risk of untreated depression during pregnancy is a major concern.
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Being president is a hazard to your health Donald Trump's long-time personal physician wrote in a letter released Monday that Trump would be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency" if he wins the election.
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In presidential politics, to the victors go the spoiled life expectancy (Reuters Health) - Presidential candidates may want to be careful what they wish for, because winning the election might not be good for their health, new research suggests.
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Price of power: presidents, prime ministers die sooner than losing rivals Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and their rivals might want to reconsider this running-for-president thing. A new study suggests ascending to the top office might take years off the winner's life.
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A Timeline of Chipotle's Five Outbreaks The multistate E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle that began in October has garnered extensive national coverage, but it's just one of five outbreaks the "fast casual" restaurant chain has had to deal with since July.
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Alzheimer's Caring: How Faith Communities Can Serve People with Dementia and ... "The churches have failed their people," says ethicist and expert on aging, Stephen Sapp. "Specifically in the area of support for persons with Alzheimer's and their caregivers.
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Acts Of Kindness Can Relieve Stress Trending News: Want To Feel Less Stressed? Try Making This Small Change To Your Day. Jessica Brown. December 14, 2015. Share. Tweet.
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Altruism Is an Awesome Way to De-Stress Do you feel under a lot of bad stress lately? Does it feel like the world is weighing down on you? A new research suggests a very interesting way to relieve yourself of the unnecessary pressure: altruism.
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Drugmaker Resolves Free Speech Dispute as FDA Agrees on Label U.S. regulators have backed off an attempt to limit Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s promotion of its pain drug, striking an agreement that's likely to fan the flames of debate over free speech and drug marketing.
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Cancer Rates Dropping in Rich Countries, Rising in Poorer Ones Study MONDAY, Dec. 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Better screening and lifestyle changes have helped to reduce the prevalence of common cancers in many high-income countries, but low- and middle-income countries are seeing those rates rise as they adopt ...
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Gestational Diabetes May Affect Fetal Brain Function Slower auditory stimulation in fetuses of mothers with gestational diabetes suggests that the condition could affect fetal brain function, according to research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
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Humans Evolved To Get Better Sleep In Less Time Humans get by on significantly less sleep than our closest animal relatives. The secret, according to a new study, is that our sleep is more efficient.
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Psychologists discovered a surprising secret to reducing your stress levels You may think you're too overwhelmed with your personal troubles to cheer up a sad friend, the same way you're too busy at work to take a moment to recognize a colleague.
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Should your pets sleep in the bed with you? A new study's surprising answers (NBC News)—Do you ban your dog from the bed in the hopes of getting a better night's sleep? It may be time to beg your pooch's forgiveness and hope he'll join you at bedtime, after all.
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Classic Lotto jackpot climbs; Ohio Lottery results for Monday CLEVELAND, Ohio - No tickets matched the winning numbers from Monday evening's Classic Lotto drawing, increasing the jackpot to $16.5 million for Wednesday.
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Survival rates for patients with prostate cancer better with surgery vrs ... A rigorous evaluation of survival rates has shown that cancer patients with localised prostate cancer—the most common form of prostate cancer—have a better chance of survival if treated by surgery than by radiotherapy.
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Coping With the Diabetes Police During the Holidays The diabetes police - you know who they are. They show up at most holiday parties. They can be family, friends or coworkers. They may have good intentions but still manage to make you want to run for the door.
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Study: Grumpy women capable of living long LONDON - There's good news for grumpy women: Being happy apparently has no effect on how long you might live. That's the conclusion of the latest attempt to find out if happy people live longer.
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Moderate drinking may be tied to fewer deaths in early Alzheimer's People with early Alzheimer's disease who consumed light to moderate amounts of alcohol every day were less likely to die during a recent one-year study, researchers found.
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E-cigarettes may be more harmful than first believed Harvard researchers have found chemicals in the majority of leading e-cigarette brands that may lead to a respiratory condition called "popcorn lung.
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Mob Wives Star Big Ang's Cancer Has Returned Oh no! Big Ang, the star of Mob Wives, has already beaten cancer once, when she was deemed healthy after a throat cancer scare and intense treatment earlier this year.
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Humans evolved to get better sleep in less time Our closest animal relatives, chimpanzees sleep an average of 11.5 hours a night, whereas humans snooze for just seven hours. Credit: Kathelijne Koops, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Child born without part of brain, skull meets Santa for first time Want more news? Sign up for free newsletters to get more of Austin360 delivered to your inbox. A boy deemed a medical miracle had a special meeting with Santa.
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Hawaii's dengue outbreak is largest in US in more than 60 years Hawaii Island's dengue fever outbreak appears to be the largest in the United States since World War II, according to various reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health sites.
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Bionic Eye Allows Colorado Woman to Regain Her Sight bionic eye A bionic eye implant has allowed a Colorado woman to regain her sight after more than 2 decades spent in utter darkness.
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Consumer Reports says fewer Superbugs produced in Meats without Antibiotics Consumer Reports Yonkers, NY - A review of a series of in-depth studies conducted by Consumer Reports show that, in general, meat, poultry and shrimp from animals raised without antibiotics are less likely to harbor multidrug-resistant bacteria than ...
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FDA Approves Injectable Sponge for General Population The sponge expands and can be used to control life-threatening wounds in areas where a tourniquet cannot be used, like the groin or the armpit.
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FDA Oks First Emergency Treatment For Overdose Of Certain Types Of Chemotherapy The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Vistogard or uridine triacetate for the emergency treatment of adults and children who receive an overdose of the cancer treatment fluorouracil or capecitabine, or who develop certain severe or life ...
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January is National Blood Donor Month This January, during National Blood Donor Month, the American Red Cross encourages people to roll up their sleeves to give blood to help maintain a sufficient blood supply for patients.
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World's First Ibuprofen Patch Helps Deliver Pain Relief where it's required The British researchers announced a growth of a device, that they report as "a pure glue patch that can consistently broach a enlarged high sip of a painkiller ibuprofen directly by a skin", on Tuesday.
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63000-240000 tons of antibiotics used in agriculture, experts call for global ... A reasonable target for agricultural antibiotic use would be 50 mg for every 1 kg of livestock, which is a level already achieved by Denmark, one of the world's biggest pork exporters, said Jim O'Neill, chair of the group.
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