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Nine in 10 cancers caused by lifestyle Up to nine in 10 cancers are caused by environmental and external factors such as smoking, drinking, sun exposure and air pollution, a new scientific study has found.
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Report Finds Less Misuse of Painkillers by Teenagers A new federal report suggests that misuse of prescription painkillers among teenagers is decreasing, news that heartened officials who remained concerned at the steady numbers regarding marijuana and e-cigarette use.
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Cancer: More than just bad luck? New research has found that environmental exposures, lifestyle choices and other factors that could be changed or avoided account for between 70 percent and 90 percent of the gene mutations that make cancerous tumors progress, leaving "intrinsic ...
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FDA Lifts Clinical Hold On ADXS, CPRX Awaits Next Catalyst, All Is Well For ACST surged more than 56% on Wednesday on encouraging response from the FDA for the proposed 505(b)(2) pathway for CaPre clinical development.
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Families can safely choose antibiotics over appendix surgery for kids (Reuters Health) - Offering the families of children with appendicitis the option of antibiotics instead of surgery is safe and may ultimately lead to slightly better outcomes, according to a new U.S.
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Nonprofit Hospitals On The Ropes: Hedge Funds Moving In Nonprofit hospitals - When a nonprofit organization pays its CEO $5 million a year, it's pretty obvious someone is profiting a lot, and that something is wrong.
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Seton hospital deal concludes Daughters of Charity Health System has completed its transaction with BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, turning over control of Seton Coastside Medical Center to the New York-based hedge fund.
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Poverty may increase childhood risk of neurological impairment, NIH study suggests Children from low income environments appear to have a higher risk of neurological impairment than those from more economically secure circumstances, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions.
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Saline water cleans wounds better than soap and water New York: Although using soap and water has remained the standard practice of wound cleaning before surgery, this method is actually less effective than just using saline water, say researchers, including one of Indian-origin.
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Formerly conjoined twins return to hospital for reunion LOS ANGELES -- More than a decade after doctors separated them, a set of once-conjoined twins returned to a Los Angeles hospital this week for a reunion with the medical staff that helped them.
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The 'Icky' Dickey Amendment — our problem with gun nuts I have a riddle for you. How many young adults are in long-term care facilities because of gun violence? The answer: No one knows because there is a ban restricting federal funding for gun violence research.
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FDA approves cheaper version of top-selling diabetes drug WASHINGTON - Federal health officials have approved a cheaper version of the world's top-selling insulin from Sanofi for millions of U.S.
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Survey: Alcohol, Cigarette Use Among Teens At Lowest Levels In Decades Researchers at the University of Michigan say their annual "Monitoring the Future" survey shows that the use of both alcohol and cigarettes among teenagers reached their lowest points since the study began in 1975.
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The Farce and Fallacy of Gun Control Laws Sedona AZ (December 16, 2015) - The farce and the fallacy of gun control laws? The reality of the problem is that it's not an epidemic, it's a pandemic!
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Shingles vaccine safe for end-stage renal disease patients Although the shingles vaccine only prevents about 50 percent of infections, inoculation was shown to also decrease dangerous outcomes.
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US FDA approves Eli Lilly's Basaglar diabetes drug The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Eli Lilly & Co's diabetes drug Basaglar, a cheaper version of Sanofi AG's top-selling drug Lantus.
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Standing on World Stage Has Its Perils MONDAY, Dec. 14, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Elected national leaders often go gray quickly -- just look at President Obama's silver-tipped crown.
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Trader Joe's Recalls Triple Ginger Brew Bottles After Reports of Bursting Triple Ginger Brew from Trader Joe's is pictured in an undated handout photo from the FDA. Share. Email. Grocery store chain, Trader Joe's, is voluntarily recalling its Triple Ginger Brew beverage nationwide after customers reported unopened bottles ...
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NICE urges doctors to treat dying patients as individuals End-of-life care in England must be tailored to the needs of dying patients rather than a "tick-box approach", the health watchdog NICE says.
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Active Smoking, SHS Up Risk of Infertility, Early Menopause Active smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke are associated with increased risk of infertility and natural menopause before the age of 50 years, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in Tobacco Control.
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Smoking And Secondhand Smoke Linked To Infertility And Early Menopause In Women A study that involved 93,000 women linked passive and active smoking to early menopause and fertility issues. Women exposed to high tobacco smoke experienced early menopause up to two years in advance.
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Report: Good and Bad News in U.S. Teen Drug Use Survey Cigarette smoking among teenagers is at its lowest level since the government's Monitoring the Future survey began in the 1970's.
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Meet the Doc Who Stopped CDC's Gun Violence Program savesaved. author name. by Joyce Frieden News Editor, MedPage Today. As Congress debates an amendment that would allow the CDC to begin looking -- after a 19-year hiatus -- at the issue of preventing violence committed with guns, there is a doctor ...
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Smoking, secondhand smoke tied to infertility and early menopause (Reuters Health) - Smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke is tied to infertility in women and early menopause, according to a new study.
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Encouraging News from Monitoring the Future Revealing the results of the annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey of drug use and attitudes among American middle- and high-school students is an annual mid-December ritual at NIDA.
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Cops: Mother shaved daughter's head in cancer scam MISSION, Texas -- Police say a Texas mother lied about her 7-year-old daughter having terminal cancer in a scam for cash. Juanita Ortiz Garcia allegedly also told her daughter she had just months to live and shaved her head, police told CBS affiliate KGBT.
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Here's How Humans Evolved To Be Really Efficient Sleepers Humans have evolved the ultimate life-hack: we get better sleep in less time than most of the animal kingdom. We not only get significantly less shut-eye than our animal relatives, we're also more efficient at it because we spend more time in deep than ...
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Chipotle sales battered by widening E. coli outbreak According to the business, as a result of E. coli outbreak, it sales plummeted as much as 22% in last few weeks. In all, 52 people have become ill, majority reported eating food from Chipotle within the week before their symptoms began.
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Chipotle's First Norovirus Outbreak in California was Larger Than Boston College's An official chronology of the Simi Valley, CA, norovirus outbreak involving Chipotle Mexican Grill customers and employees, which has been obtained by Food Safety News, shows that there were far more victims than were reported at the time.
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Mother accused of faking 7-year-old daughter's cancer diagnosis to get money Juanita Garcia took to Facebook to document her 7-year-old daughter's battle against cancer, authorities said. "My princess fighting her cancer I know she will prayers for my baby," Garcia posted June 24, along with a photo showing the girl wearing a ...
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That Scary Movie Really Is Blood Curdling Scary movies really are blood-curdling, Dutch researchers have found. That frisson of fear releases a little bit of the blood-clotting protein called Factor VIII, they report.
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South Carolina Lawmaker Proposes Regulating Erectile Dysfunction Drugs Like ... "I purposely tried to make it as invasive, as intrusive, as hypocritical, and unnecessary as possible to make the point." Sam Levine Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post.
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Bill would require 24 hour wait, psych exam before buying Viagra, ED drugs Viagra.JPG A South Carolina lawmakers wants men to have to go through the same process to buy Viagra as women have to go through to have an abortion.
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Solving the Bah Humbug Syndrome: Scientists Look for 'Christmas Spirit' With MRI Danish researchers looked to see if they could find evidence of the "Christmas spirit" on a MRI scan in a new study. Share.
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Are You a Secret Santa or a Grinch? Brain Scans May Tell WEDNESDAY, Dec. 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Whether you spend the Christmas season decking the halls and whistling Christmas tunes, or grumbling "bah humbug" at holiday-spirited passers-by may depend largely on a particular network of nerves in ...
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Chipotle aims as close to perfect food safety as possible SEATTLE (AP) - Chipotle will not raise prices to cover the cost of new food safety procedures put in place after an E. coli outbreak sickened more than 50 people, the company's founder and CEO said Tuesday during a visit to Seattle.
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FDA approves Bridion to reverse effects of neuromuscular blocking drugs used ... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Bridion (sugammadex) injection to reverse the effects of neuromuscular blockade induced by rocuronium bromide and vecuronium bromide, which are used during certain types of surgery in adults.
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Mom Accused Of Shaving Daughter's Head, Convincing Her She Has Cancer To Raise ... A Texas woman is accused of shaving her 7-year-old daughter's head and telling everyone she has cancer for donations. Most mothers see their jobs as to nurture and protect their child, but for one Texas mom, authorities say, it was to scare and exploit.
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Array Biopharma (ARRY) Stock Spikes on Successful Drug Study NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Array Biopharma (ARRY - Get Report) stock is rising by 21.54% to $4.66 on heavy volume in afternoon trading on Wednesday, after the company's skin cancer drug succeeded in a late-stage study.
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Array's skin cancer drug succeeds in late-stage study Array BioPharma Inc said its experimental drug helped patients with a form of skin cancer live longer without their cancer progressing, in an ongoing late-stage study.
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Mom's Facebook Post Praises Store Cashier for Kindness Towards Son Kimberly Grandinette of Enon, Ohio snapped a photo of her son, Paul, 3, and a cashier on December 13. 176 Shares. Email. A photo of a store cashier showing a toddler's kindness has one mom singing her praises.
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Grocery store employee's kind gesture lifts boy's spirits A grocery store worker is getting a lot of attention for doing something special for a little boy who needed some extra love. The boy's mother, Kimberly Grandinette, posted the photo to Meijer's Facebook page.
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The testing of new drugs is on the rise. Why that worries some people. As the budget for the National Institutes of Health, the nation's largest funder of biomedical research, has flatlined over the past decade, the number of clinical trials funded by the federal agency has dramatically declined, a new study has found.
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Federal government penalizes nine local hospitals over patient safety incidents CLEVELAND - For a second year in a row, the federal government is tying hospital performance to payment, and nine local hospitals are paying the price.
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Hoping to curb the prescription opioid epidemic, CDC proposes new guidelines ... The government on Monday urged primary-care physicians who prescribe opioids for pain relief to rein in their use of the drugs, proposing new guidelines that call for a more conservative approach than the one that has led to a crippling epidemic of ...
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The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care These maps look nothing alike. Their big differences are forcing health experts to rethink what they know about health costs in and across the country.
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