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As More Pregnant Women in US Found With Mosquito-Borne Zika Virus, CDC Issues New Guidelines The Zika virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen that has been linked to a rise of birth defects in Brazil, has been found in at least five people this month in the U.S.
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Pharma Industry Calls on Governments to Fund New Antibiotics Governments must help solve the problem of no new antibiotics by funding and creating incentives for developing new drugs, almost 100 pharmaceutical companies and trade associations say in a statement being released this evening at the World Economic ...
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Study finds no link between surgical anesthesia and MCI Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A Mayo Clinic study of people who received anesthesia for surgery after age 40 found no association between the anesthesia and development of mild cognitive impairment later in life.
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Centenarians Proliferate, and Live Longer WASHINGTON - Move over, millennials. The centenarians are coming. The number of Americans age 100 and older - those born during Woodrow Wilson's administration and earlier - is up by 44 percent since 2000, federal health officials reported ...
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Tufts researchers find meals at 92 percent of dining establishments tip the scales BOSTON (EMBARGOED for Jan. 20, 2016 at 12:01 a.m. EST) - Meals consumed at fast-food restaurants are often seen as one of the biggest contributors to the obesity epidemic.
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Zafgen's Halted Obesity Treatment Shows Effectiveness Zafgen Inc. ZFGN 78.65 % shares more than doubled Wednesday after the biopharmaceutical company said its treatment for a rare obesity disorder showed effectiveness in reducing body weight in a late-stage trial that also included two previously ...
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Being frozen 'to death' saved this man's life. It could save others,' too. Don Smith saw the boots first, just the toes, peeking out from a drift of snow along the side of the empty road. He brought his car to a stop, clambered out into the early-morning chill and peered through the half-light, searching for a sign of his son ...
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Lawmakers proclaim '#DSTRONG Day' to honor boy with cancer Dorian Murray, 8, of Westerly, R.I., is a bit overwhelmed as he sits in the Statehouse Senate Chamber in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 as he is honored by Rhode Island lawmakers, from left, Majority Leader Dennis Algiere, State Rep.
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To Fight 'Superbugs,' Drug Makers Call for Incentives to Develop Antibiotics More than 80 pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies from around the world are calling for new economic models to spur development of badly needed new antibiotics and to fight the rising global threat of drug-resistant "superbugs.
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Arizona Republicans propose tougher limits on access to medical marijuana Republican lawmakers are trying to toughen access to medical marijuana in Arizona. One bill seeks to remove homeopathic and naturopathic doctors from issuing referrals, which covers 87 percent of all referrals, according to a state Department of Health ...
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Blood Test Might Predict When Antibiotics Won't Help WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they're closer to developing a blood test that distinguishes between viral and bacterial respiratory infections.
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A Blood Test May Soon Tell If You Really Need Antibiotics As good as doctors are at diagnosing what ails you, they're apparently not great at figuring out which bugs are behind our most common infections.
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Muscular Dystrophy Drugs Face New FDA Questions Hopes are dimming that the drug industry will be able to quickly deliver a treatment for one of the most keenly researched diseases of recent years—an inherited muscle-wasting disorder called Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Which Is Worse: Saturated Fat or Added Sugar? Which-is-Worse games can be silly, but the fat vs. sugar question might have real health implications. The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans target both saturated fats and added sugars as nutrients to limit and seem to give them equal weight: ...
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Eating More Healthy Fats May Extend Life, Study Suggests WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- For years, experts have preached the gospel of eating "healthy" fats and limiting "unhealthy" fats.
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Zafgen's Pivotal Phase 3 Trial Of Beloranib In Prader-Willi Syndrome Achieves Co-Primary Efficacy Endpoints Boston, MA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Zafgen (Nasdaq:ZFGN), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to significantly improving the health and well-being of patients affected by obesity and complex metabolic disorders, announced today positive efficacy ...
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Chipotle Is Finally Not Making Any More People Sick, Is About To Get Sued Anyway You know the saga of all the ways Chipotle made people sick over the last few months. With a craving at the wrong time and some bad luck you might have lived it.
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First of conjoined twins goes home Wednesday after more than 13 months Will.Dickey@jacksonville.com--01/20/16--Parents Michelle Brantley and Bryan Mirabal hold their formerly conjoined twins, Carter (left) and Conner, before taking Conner home Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville, ...
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Why Cutting Back on Fat Isn't Enough to Help the Heart Health experts have given us a very clear message about fat in recent years - they warn us that animal fats can build up within our heart vessel walls and lead to plaques that can cause heart attacks, strokes and other heart problems.
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Chipotle Vs. Costco: A Tale Of Two E. Coli Outbreaks A Boston Chipotle Mexican Grill closed on December 8, 2015, after a Boston College spokesman reported 80 students got sick from eating at the chain.
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Flavonoid-Rich Diet Tied to Lower Erectile Dysfunction Risk The crucial component of the fruits are metabolites called "flavonoids". And that a combination of consuming flavonoid-rich foods with exercise can reduce the risk by 21 per cent.
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Michigan teen fights life-threatening case of toxic shock syndrome GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A Greenville teen and her family were thrust into the fight for her life this month when mild flu-like symptoms quickly escalated into a severe case of toxic shock syndrome.
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Facebook video of preemie twins holding hands goes viral The family of premature newborn twins in Australia captured a heart-tugging moment on video, and it's gone viral around the world.
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Unhealthy air alert issued for most of Minnesota Air pollution around much of the state will be at unhealthy levels for some people between midnight Wednesday and Thursday afternoon, according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).
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New Mammography Guidelines Cause Confusion, Controversy When the American Cancer Society (ACS) published new guidelines on screening mammography for breast cancer in late October 2015, it probably intended to add clarity to the fractious debate over the age at which mammograms should begin and how ...
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This Kind Of Skin Cancer Is More Deadly For Pregnant Women Pregnant women with melanoma were almost seven times more likely to have their cancer metastasis than women who weren't pregnant.
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Why Luxury Hotels Aren't Always the Cleanest While it's no secret that some hotels are cleaner than others, guests would be surprised to know that three-star hotels are often times cleaner than their four- and five-star counterparts, according to a hotel hygiene study conducted by Travelmath.
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RPT-US deploys newly minted bird flu plan to protect humans, poultry (Repeats story first published on Monday). By Tom Polansek and Julie Steenhuysen. CHICAGO Jan 19 U.S. farm and health officials are racing to assess the threat that a type of bird flu never before seen in the country poses to humans and poultry ...
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Parkinson's patients may not benefit from physical therapy Long-term addition of regular physical activity may have a greater effect on Parkinson's symptoms than traditional physical therapy programs, researchers said.
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What time will Chipotle locations close for Feb. 8 safety meeting? Chipotle said Tuesday that it will close all restaurants from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Feb. 8 for a companywide meeting on food safety efforts after E. coli, salmonella and norovirus were linked to illnesses at its restaurants.
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Toxins from algal blooms may cause Alzheimer's-like brain changes Vervet monkeys, seen here in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, have been used to show that a neurotoxin produced by algae blooms may jump-start some of the brain changes seen in Alzheimer's disease.
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Infant Fed With Almond Milk Developed Rare Scurvy, Says Report An infant fed with a formula based on almond milk developed a rare case of infantile scurvy. By Suzette Gutierrez | Jan 19, 2016 10:52 AM EST.
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10 Reasons Your Grandparents Should Use Pot Despite the stereotype of marijuana users as burned-out teens munching on Doritos, today, the fastest growing demographic of cannabis users is actually baby boomers and senior citizens.
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Pennsylvania reaches $450K settlement with CVS over expired products Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced Wednesday that a $450,000 consumer protection settlement has been reached with Pennsylvania CVS Pharmacy, L.L.
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With Cancer On The Rise, Boys Need HPV Vaccines Too Obama called for a moonshot to stop cancer last week—but we already have a vaccine that prevents some forms of cancer. The trouble is getting people to use it.
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This mother drank while pregnant. Here's what her daughter's like at 43. Karli Schrider of Olney, Md., is 43 years old, but she has the developmental age of a first-grader. Her mother drank while pregnant, unaware of the risk of fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Warns against drinking while pregnant Karli Schrider is 43, but she has the developmental age of a first-grader. Her mother drank while pregnant, unaware of the risk of fetal alcohol syndrome.
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Light-Activated Nanoparticles Prove Effective Against Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs In the ever-escalating evolutionary battle with drug-resistant bacteria, humans may soon have a leg up thanks to adaptive, light-activated nanotherapy developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Effort to curb overuse of antibiotics amid cold, flu seasons Copyright 2015 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Michigan teen fighting for her life after contracting toxic shock syndrome A courageous 15-year-old Michigan girl is fighting for her life after contracting toxic shock syndrome, which is often caused by the use of tampons.
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Combating Antibiotic Resistance Goes Quantum To find solutions to tough, persistent problems it is common to use phrases like "think big" or "outside the box." However in the fight against multidrug resistant superbugs, researchers are beginning to think small—very small.
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Eating Fish—Even Tuna—During Pregnancy Linked To Better Brain Health: Study In a surprising new study, some of the very fish pregnant women are discouraged by some health groups from eating may be the ones associated with the most protective effects on fetal brain development.
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