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Liberia to be declared Ebola free MONROVIA: The two-year Ebola epidemic which laid waste to communities across west Africa and killed more than 11,000 people is due to be declared over on Thursday with Liberia expecting the all-clear.
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Is the cure for cancer real or rhetoric? (CNN) President Barack Obama's State of the Union address announced a new national "moon shot" effort to cure cancer.
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President Obama's Cancer 'Moon Shot': How Scientists Are Trying to Cure the ... For his last State of the Union address, President Obama announced the launch of a "moon shot" to cure cancer. While there are not many specifics on the ambitious proposal, Obama announced that Vice President Joe Biden will lead the initiative.
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UN chief: West Africa on cusp of being declared Ebola free UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations secretary-general is celebrating the impending end of West Africa's Ebola epidemic with cautious relief.
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As diseases proliferate, mosquitoes becoming Public Enemy No. 1 As diseases go, Zika virus was always considered minor league. It didn't make people all that sick; most infected people had no symptoms at all.
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CDC May Warn Pregnant Women Against Travel to Countries With Zika Virus Federal health officials are debating whether to warn pregnant women against travel to Brazil and other Latin American and Caribbean countries where mosquitoes are spreading the Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in newborn babies.
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Children's Cough Syrup Recall: What Parents Should Know Two types of children's cough syrup are being recalled after dosing cups with incorrect markings were included in the packaging, prompting concerns that children could become sick after an accidental overdose.
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Transcendental Meditation May Help Relieve PTSD TUESDAY, Jan. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Transcendental meditation may help ease post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in some soldiers and seems to reduce their need for medication, a new study finds.
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Latest: CDC consulting with Michigan on Legionnaires' cases FLINT, Mich. - The latest on the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local): 9:10 p.m.. A spokesman with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells The Associated Press the agency is consulting with state health ...
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Michigan National Guard, FEMA help Flint amid water crisis Michigan National Guard Staff Sgt. Steve Kiger of Beaverton, Mich., gets a hug from Christine Brown of Flint after he helped her take bottled water out to her.
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Latest: CDC consulting with Michigan on Legionnaires' cases FLINT, Mich. (AP) - The latest on the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local): 9:10 p.m.. A spokesman with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells The Associated Press the agency is consulting with state health ...
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Michigan National Guard, FEMA help Flint amid water crisis Michigan National Guard Staff Sgt. Stephen Robel, left, helps Flint resident Herbert Biggs carry cases of free bottled water to his truck Wednesday.
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Implanted Defibrillators Help Women as Much as Men: Study TUESDAY, Jan. 12, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Among people with heart failure, implanted defibrillators benefit women as much as men, a new study finds.
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Why Is Sugar Bad For You? Proposed Warning Labels For Soda Could Quell Consumption 476560660 As more cities propose health warning labels for sugar-laden beverages, a study supports the idea that these warnings deter customers from buying such drinks.
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Preparing for pandemics could cost less than $1 each a year, review says LONDON Investing less than $0.72 a year for each person would make the world far more resilient to potentially devastating pandemics, according to a global health expert group convened in the wake of the Ebola crisis.
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WHO to Declare Liberia Free of Ebola, Ending West Africa Outbreak January 14, 2016 1:42 AM. Liberia is expected to be declared free of Ebola Thursday by the World Health Organization (WHO), effectively ending the outbreak in West Africa that has killed more than 11,000 people in the past two years.
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Statin can reduce post-heart surgery complications, study says Statins, which are drugs used to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, are apparently beneficial to reduce cardiac complications in patients who receive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), when the drugs are taken before and after the operation, ...
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Flint learns of Legionnaires' disease spike as water crisis continues (CNN) Residents of Flint, Michigan, already reeling because of lead contamination in their drinking water, got more disturbing news on Wednesday.
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Giving healthy gay men HIV drugs 'could help reverse epidemic' Giving daily HIV drugs to healthy gay men has huge potential to help reverse the epidemic, say scientists. The medication prevents new infections by killing the virus before it has a chance to take hold in the body.
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Armenia says 10 people died from H1N1 swine flu YEREVAN Ten people have died from H1N1 swine flu in Armenia in the last two months but there is no danger of a mass outbreak, a spokeswoman for the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.
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Early Choices Prevent Alzheimer's Experts aren't exactly sure what causes Alzheimer's disease, and there is no cure, but the latest research indicates that one out of three cases might be preventable by adopting certain health and lifestyle habits early in life.
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Psychiatric Disorders Common Among Bariatric Surgery Patients Mental health conditions, particularly depression and binge eating disorder, are common among patients seeking and undergoing bariatric surgery, new data published in JAMA indicate.
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Flu Scan for Jan 13, 2016 Officials have confirmed a severe case of H5N1 avian flu in a man in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in south central China, according to a statement from the Sichuan Health and Family Planning Commission translated and posted today by Avian ...
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Chipotle tells analysts it can regain luster, climbs The shares climbed the most in more than five months after the beleaguered company assured investors it can rebound from its food-safety crisis.
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Chipotle 'confident' it can stop outbreaks, shares rise LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc executives on Wednesday said they are confident that steps they are taking to tighten food safety at the popular burrito chain will prevent future food poisoning outbreaks.
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Chipotle Plans Marketing Campaign to Win Back Customers Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. CMG 5.94 % executives voiced confidence that the company can rebound from recent foodborne-disease outbreaks, and said they plan to start a marketing campaign next month aimed at winning back customers who have steered ...
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Over-the-counter sexual treatments could be harmful: Study An estimated 40 to 70 percent of men experience some form of sexual dysfunction during their lives. IANS. sex. Most readily accessible over-the-counter dietary supplements sold to improve male sexual health are largely ineffective and unsafe if taken ...
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Chipotle to start push to win back customers in February NEW YORK - Chipotle says it will launch a marketing push in February to begin its road to recovery after a series of food scares, and that it's confident it can win back customers over time.
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Average age of new US moms at all-time high, now over 26 NEW YORK - The average age of first-time mothers is at an all-time high in the U.S - over 26. The change is largely due to a big drop in teen moms.
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Average age of new US moms at all-time high, now over 26 NEW YORK (AP) - The average age of first-time mothers is at an all-time high in the U.S - over 26. The change is largely due to a big drop in teen moms.
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UB expert: Hawaii's new cigarette law may be only part of the solution "Lumping all tobacco and nicotine products in the same standard ignores the considerable differences in harm to users or bystanders caused by different products.
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More infections from dirty scopes, Sen. Murray investigation finds At least 250 people, mostly in the U.S., have contracted potentially deadly infections spread by contaminated medical scopes in the past three years, according to a new report commissioned by Sen. Patty Murray.
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"Before I go to heaven..." boy sees dream come true When 8-year-old Dorian Murray learned last month that his terminal cancer was no longer treatable, he decided he had a goal: to become famous all over the world.
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Index: Two Types of Children's Cough Syrup Recalled Two B index of other news tonight the mystery outside Cleveland a fireball the quiet suburb this whole gulf of planes. A family of four found dead the roof gone.
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Rob Gronkowski Visits 8-Year-Old Boy Battling Stage Four Cancer (Photos) Rob Gronkowski has been busy preparing for the playoffs, but he still had time to make a young fan's day. The New England Patriots tight end spent Monday night visiting Dorian Murray, an 8-year-old boy boy from Westerly, R.I.
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UPDATE 1-Preparing for pandemics could cost less than $1 each a year, review says ... * 3 billion stg a year needed to prepare for disease threats. * Investment equates to less than a dollar a year per person. * Report calls for new WHO centre to lead outbreak response (Adds details of potential threat, background, quotes).
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Joe Biden's Mission To Cure Cancer Has A $5.2 Billion Head Start During his final State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama said that Vice President Joe Biden will lead the new national effort to cure cancer.
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Joe Biden's effort on curing cancer will begin in Philadelphia Vice President Joe Biden has a big assignment for his final year in office: aiding scientists across the country who are searching for a cancer cure'.
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NEW STUDY: Your Dog May Actually Know What You're Thinking, How You Feel Does your four-legged friend seem to know when you are feeling sad, happy or angry? MEDICAL NEWS TODAY - Calling all dog owners: does your four-legged friend seem to know when you are feeling sad, happy or angry?
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Hookah smokers inhale large amount of toxicants Washington: If you inhale Hookah thinking they are healthier way to smoke tobacco, then you are surely putting your health at stake as hookah smokers can inhale a large potentially dangerous quantity of toxins in just one session.
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Dirty scopes needlessly infected scores of patients, investigation finds Dr. Zachary Rubin, associate clinical professor of infectious diseases at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, speaks during a Feb. 19, 2015, news conference outside the hospital addressing concerns about patients infected by a superbug during medical ...
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Medical Device Maker Failed to Report Infections, Senate Report Says Serious infections linked to poorly cleaned medical devices called duodenoscopes, used to examine the small intestine, have been more widespread than previously known, according to a Senate report released Wednesday.
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New study shows how explosions damage vets' brains Brain scans from combat veterans show that the more blasts they're exposed to, the more damage is caused in the cerebellum, a region crucial to movement and cognitive ability, according to a study from the University of Washington and the Puget Sound VA.
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Powerball Hype Hard To Ignore For Gambling Addicts (CBS) - You can't win if you don't play, that's a slogan of lottery games. Right now, lots of people are trying to win that billion and a half dollar Powerball jackpot.
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Playing Powerball? Win Or Lose, Quit While You're Ahead Unless you've completely unplugged and hidden in your home for the past week, you've probably heard there's a draw tonight for one of the largest jackpots in Powerball history tonight.
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Low-Fiber Diets Cause Waves of Extinction in the Gut In the decades after World War II, a one-eyed Irish missionary-surgeon named Denis Burkitt moved to Uganda, where he noted that the villagers there ate far more fiber than Westerners did.
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New strain of dog flu found in 25 states | King County Canine influenza - or dog flu - has been diagnosed in dogs for several years. But a new strain of canine influenza called H3N2 has been found in more than 25 states since April.
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Dogs Understand Human Emotions, Study Shows, But This Comes As No Surprise To ... If you feel like your pup is the only one who truly understands you, you aren't far off. A new study released by the University of Lincoln has revealed that dogs understand human emotions - as if you didn't know that already, what with your favorite ...
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Florida Whooping Cough Outbreak Fuels Anti-Vaxxers A rash of whooping cough among Florida preschoolers gives new rhetoric to the anti-vaccine movement. According to a report released today in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, over a five-month period starting in late 2013, more than two dozen ...
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Huge coalition to advance cancer treatments Major pharmaceutical companies and insurers announced earlier this week that they would work together to advance combination drugs and genome sequencing for patients with cancer.
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