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El Salvador urges against pregnancies until 2018 as Zika virus spreads SAN SALVADOR Jan 21 El Salvador on Thursday urged women in the Central American nation to avoid getting pregnant until 2018 to avoid their children developing birth defects from the mosquito-borne Zika virus which has rampaged through the Americas.
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Pregnant Berkeley Woman Being Tested For The Zika Virus Berkeley (CBS SF) - A pregnant woman in Berkeley is now being tested for the Zika virus. The Center for Disease Control says that the virus, which is carried by mosquitoes, has been linked to birth defects and that cases are on the rise.
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Formerly Conjoined Twin Waves Goodbye to Hospital Staff After a Year in Treatment A Florida family is welcoming their son home from the hospital more than a year after he was born conjoined with his twin brother.
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Study: Drinking Water Reduces Risk Of Childhood Obesity NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)– Offering water to young students may help reduce the risk of childhood obesity, according to a new study.
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Davos' Ebola Vaccine Deal Signals A Major Shift In Global Health A health worker, right, cleans a man's arm before injecting him with an Ebola vaccine in Conakry, Guinea, March 7, 2015. ADVERTISEMENT.
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HPV Raises Head Cancer Risk Sevenfold, Study Finds The human papillomavirus (HPV) raises the chances someone will get head and neck cancer by at least sevenfold and maybe much more, researchers reported Thursday.
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Under The Weather? A Drop Of Blood Can Tell If Antibiotics Are Needed An exciting new test might help us save antibiotics. Needing only a drop of blood, researchers at Duke have developed a rapid assay that can tell viral infections—which generally can't be treated—from bacterial ones that may benefit from antibiotics.
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Self-Serving Water Dispensers Help Students to Lose Weight Are you thinking how can your kid lose more fat? Well, it seems that the authorities beat you to it and their newly-found weight loss strategy has yielded unexpected results.
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Drinking water reduces risk of childhood obesity Making water available in schools in New York may have contributed to decreases in students' BMIs, researchers report in a study.
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Tinder adds STD testing locator to app A feud between the operator of popular "hook-up" software and a leading sexual health advocacy group was settled on Thursday after the dating site agreed to add links to sexually transmitted disease testing locations.
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Tinder Adds STD Testing Locator to Its Website—Good Luck Finding It 121_tinder Tinder and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has come to an agreement to add a STD testing locator on the dating app's website for taking down AHF advertisements linking Tinder to STDs.
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More Americans are living past their 100th birthdays The number of Americans living beyond their 100th birthday has been climbing steadily since the start of the 21st century. A new CDC report, which tracked mortality among 100-somethings starting in 2000, shows that while centenarians are still uncommon ...
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Bizarre birth defect is on the rise, and researchers are baffled A birth defect called gastroschisis has increased sharply among babies born to young African American mothers. Affected babies are born with their intestines protruding through a hole in the abdomen.
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Dating app Tinder adds STD testing locator, ending feud with non-profit NEW YORK Jan 21 A feud between the operator of popular "hook-up" software and a leading sexual health advocacy group was settled on Thursday after the dating site agreed to add links to sexually transmitted disease testing locations.
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Blood Test to Help Doctors Make Right Call on Prescribing Antibiotics January 21, 2016 2:44 PM. Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem worldwide. One of the biggest culprits is treatment for routine colds.
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Do you need antibiotics? A new test may tell A new blood test is in the works that could help doctors tell if a patient with a respiratory illness is suffering from a virus or a bacterial infection, or even a non-infectious condition with similar symptoms.
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Do You *Actually* Need Antibiotics? A Potential New Blood Test Could Tell We all know a common cold can easily come across as Z-Pak worthy. But scientists say a simple new test could eliminate the guesswork.
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Parents' Financial Debt Linked to Behavioral Problems in Their Kids Children whose parents have certain kinds of financial debt may be more likely to have behavioral problems, a new study suggests. The researchers found that the children in the study whose parents had "unsecured debt," such as credit card debt or ...
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Global Vaccine Promises $5 Million to Develop Ebola Vaccine The global vaccine alliance GAVI says it will donate $5 million toward developing the leading Ebola vaccine, hoping that it will be approved by a regulator by the end of 2017.
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Vaccines alliance signs $5M advance deal for Merck's Ebola shot DAVOS/LONDON - The Gavi global alliance for vaccines and immunization group signed a $5 million advance purchase commitment on Wednesday to buy a vaccine being developed by Merck to protect against future outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus.
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The Tiny Prairie Vole Experiences Love, Just Like You Prairie voles appear to have the capacity for love and empathy with their partners, a new study shows. (Photo : T.D. Dieter | Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0).
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Get $50 Off Chipotle Super Bowl Orders, Plus 50% Off From a Competitor The reputation, sales, and stock price of Chipotle all have taken a beating over the last few months, related to a string of E. coli outbreaks that left the fast-casual burrito chain's customers sick around the country.
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Sierra Leone: 2nd Ebola Case Emerges in Quarantine A second case of Ebola emerged in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over, with a close relative of the first victim testing positive for the virus that has killed more than 11,000 people, the authorities said Thursday.
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Brain-tangling algae lurks in Florida waters Algae blooms may be slowly eating away at our memories. Chronic exposure to a commonplace algae toxin in crabs, shellfish and other seafood increases risk of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a new study ...
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AMGN Gets FDA Nod, Data Awaits RGLS In Feb, FORWARD Puts ALKS On The Back Foot first two of three phase III efficacy studies of ALKS 5461 for the adjunctive treatment of major depressive disorder in patients who have an inadequate response to standard therapies for clinical depression have not met the primary efficacy endpoint ...
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Baby contracts rare case of scurvy Doctors diagnosed an 11-month-old baby in Spain with scurvy, a rare disease in developed countries, and believe his almond milk-only diet was to blame.
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Consoling Voles Hint at Animal Empathy Two prairie voles, life-long mates, sit in separate cages. One hears a distinctive tone, and receives a small electric shock. When the voles are reunited, the second vole quickly starts licking and grooming its stressed mate, continuing for around 10 ...
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Pornography: A Christian crisis or overblown issue? The Barna Group has released a sweeping study of pornography usage and attitudes in America. How concerned should Christians be? -Image courtesy of Luca Rossato (http://bit.
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New campaign urges millions to check for prediabetes Are you at risk from prediabetes? Millions of Americans are and don't even know it. Prediabetes is a condition that can lead to type 2 diabetes, so stopping it is important.
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Being frozen 'to death' saved this man's life. It could save others too. In this photo taken Monday, Jan 18, 2016, a video showing Justin Smith receiving treatment was shown during press conference at the Lehigh Valley Hospital Hazleton Campus in Hazleton Pa.
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Man found nearly frozen to death, presumed dead wakes up weeks later CARBON COUNTY, Pa. -- Justin Smith, 26, of McAdoo is what doctors are calling a medical miracle. He was found nearly frozen to death on the side of the road about one year ago, according to WNEP.
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Port Orchard girl's flu death potent reminder of complications Piper Lowery, a 12-year-old from Kitsap County, died from flu complications. (Courtesy of the family). An unvaccinated Kitsap County girl's death from flu complications highlights the risks of the virus during a season that appears to be off to a late ...
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Novel study shows lower surgical mortality in hospitals with best nursing care Patients are often unaware that choosing the right hospital is very important to having a good outcome. A novel study published today in the prominent surgery journal JAMA Surgery showed that patients undergoing surgery at Magnet hospitals recognized ...
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Tulare bans future dispensaries Tulare City Council is not waiting until April 20 to take a stand on marijuana within the city limits. Council members voted this week to approve a set of ordinances that ban the commercial use of marijuana, including regulating the cultivation ...
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Chipotle Tried to Cover Up Illness Outbreak, Lawsuit Says Not only is Chipotle facing a criminal investigation in relation to a food-borne illness outbreak, but now the fast casual burrito chain also is being accused of trying to hide the evidence.
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Health Department to close 9 clinics, cut hours at others JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Citing declining patient volumes and a need to save money, Mississippi's state Health Department announced Wednesday that it was closing nine health clinics and reducing the number of days each week the 37 other clinics are ...
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Health Department to close 9 clinics, cut hours at others JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Citing declining patient volumes and a need to save money, Mississippi's state Health Department announced Wednesday that it was closing nine health clinics and reducing the number of days each week the 37 other clinics are open.
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