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New study shows signs of hope against dementia It's been widely predicted that the U.S. is headed toward an explosion in cases of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia as the population ages.
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Education May Cut Dementia Risk, Study Finds The risk of developing dementia is decreasing for people with at least a high school education, according to an important new study that suggests that changes in lifestyle and improvements in physical health can help prevent or delay cognitive decline.
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Some Good News for Dementia: Rates Might be Going Down (NBC NEWS) -- Researchers have found a small piece of good news for people at high risk of some kinds of dementia: it might be possible to delay it or even prevent it.
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WHO advises women on Zika protection but no travel advisories GENEVA/LONDON The World Health Organisation advised women on Wednesday on how to protect themselves from Zika, particularly if pregnant, but also reassured them that most women in areas affected by the mosquito-borne virus will give birth to ...
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Rio water bigger threat than Zika for Olympics, Aussie doc says BRISBANE, Australia -- The Australian team's medical director says water quality will be more of a threat to the health of athletes and officials at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro than the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
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Resident of Yolo County tests positive for Zika virus Mosquito larvae shown in a laboratory in El Salvador's Ministry of Health. Health officials confirmed Wednesday that a person in Yolo County had contracted the virus while traveling abroad.
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Study finds Zika virus in fetal brain, a clue in outbreak CDC Director Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, before the House Foreign Affairs, Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations subcommittee and... (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) More ...
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How Will Zika Spread? Look at Chikungunya, CDC Head Says If you want to know how quickly the Zika virus will spread, just look at what happened in Puerto Rico with a related virus, chikungunya, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
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Prostate Cancer: Driving the Personalized Medicine Highway savesaved. by Howard Wolinsky Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. Howard Wolinsky a journalist based in the Chicago area, was diagnosed with early prostate cancer in 2010.
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Burwell says no Zika virus cases passed by mosquitoes in continental US WASHINGTON U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said on Wednesday that no cases of the Zika virus had been passed by mosquitoes to people in the continental United States.
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This Mosquito Likes Us Too Much For Our Own Good Aedes aegypti is the dog of the mosquito world. It acts as if it's man's best friend. "It's been with us for a long time, probably for at least 5,000 years when we started keeping water next to our homes [ideal for laying eggs] and it's adapted to ...
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'Miracle Baby' Born at Just 10 Ounces Finally Gets to Go Home Born 14 weeks early and weighing just 10 ounces, E'Layah Faith Pergues faced an uphill battle to survive. Her doctors at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, were not sure that she would survive her delivery or the first few weeks of ...
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Doctors stage second strike in English hospitals doctors-demo LONDON: Thousands of junior doctors at English hospitals staged a second strike into Thursday against proposed new conditions and pay rates for working unsociable hours. Junior doctors — all medics below consultant level — were ...
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Exposure to air pollution 30 years ago associated with increased risk of death The new report comes from one of the world's longest running air pollution studies, which included 368,000 people in England and Wales followed over a 38 year period.
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BLPH Heartened, More Trouble For CTIC, Remicade Biosimilar Gets FDA Panel Nod (RTTNews.com) - Axovant Sciences Ltd. ( AXON ) expects results from a phase II study of Nelotanserin in Lewy body dementia subjects experiencing visual hallucinations in the second half of calendar year 2016.
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Walgreens launches effort to curb drug abuse Walgreens is launching a new effort to help fight the growing epidemic of prescription drug abuse. The national pharmacy chain announced Tuesday that it will begin installing disposal stations for customers to safely throw away unneeded or older ...
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The Role Race Plays in the War On Drugs EBONY.com The premiere online magazine destination for African-American cultural insight, news and perspective. 2016-02-10-1455134390-6697085-DrugAddictionCaro.
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Higher nurse to patient ratio linked to reduced risk of inpatient death A higher nurse to patient ratio is linked to a reduced risk of inpatient death, finds a study of staffing levels in NHS hospitals, published in the online journal BMJ Open.
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Walgreens will sell heroin overdose antidote without prescription Chicago - Drug store chain Walgreens has announced that it will make heroin overdose antidote naloxone available without a prescription.
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Air pollution exposure during pregnancy linked with asthma risk Babies born to mothers exposed to air pollution from traffic sources during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing asthma before the age of 5 years, according to new findings.
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Air pollution exposure during pregnancy linked with asthma risk VANCOUVER, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Babies born to mothers exposed to air pollution from traffic during pregnancy have an increased risk of developing asthma before the age of six, according to new research by scholars from University of British Columbia ...
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Mom's Exposure to Car Smog May Up Child's Asthma Risk savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. by Salynn Boyles Contributing Writer.
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Out of shape in middle age may mean a smaller brain later (Reuters Health) - People who are out of shape in midlife may end up with smaller brain volume as they age compared to peers who exercise regularly, a according to a U.S.
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World's top scientists pledge to share all findings to fight Zika LONDON Thirty of the world's leading scientific research institutions, journals and funders have pledged to share for free all data and expertise on Zika to speed up the fight against an outbreak of the viral disease spreading across the Americas.
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This Woman's McDonald's Happy Meal Appears to Look the Same After Six Years This McDonald's meal is now the same age as many of the children who eat Happy Meals on a regular basis. Another day, another person uncovering the shocking truth about McDonald's food: It doesn't decay, or at least, the food appears to decay at ...
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Vision, tragedy lead Google exec to head Illumina cancer venture Jeff Huber was ready for a career change. After a decade designing maps and advertising for the search engine giant, the Google executive wanted to shift to the biological sciences.
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Study: Horses can read human emotion If you're trying to be stern with a horse, you better hold back that smile. New research shows that horses have the ability to distinguish between positive and negative emotions in humans.
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More kids found coverage with health law The number of Minnesota children lacking coverage fell from about 86,000 in 2013 to fewer than 48,000 in 2014, according to the report being released Thursday from researchers at the University of Minnesota.
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Big Pharma Is Partly to Blame for America's Opioid Epidemic Akikur Mohammad, M.D., is an adjunct professor at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and the author of The Anatomy of Addiction.
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Horses can read human emotions, says new study LONDON: Horses can read human facial expressions and distinguish between happy and angry faces, scientists have found for the first time.
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Fighting mosquitoes with mosquitoes JOHANNESBURG—As mosquitoes buzzed about on her veranda one recent evening, Maureen Coetzee didn't reach for bug spray or a swatter.
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Johns Hopkins to Perform First HIV-Positive Organ Transplants in US Johns Hopkins said it was set to perform the first kidney and liver transplants between H.I.V.-positive donors and H.I.V.-positive patients in the United States, a development that advocates said could create a lifesaving pipeline for H.I.
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Michigan confirms first child flu death PONTIAC, Mich. - Health officials in suburban Detroit say a child who died of influenza is the state's first pediatric flu death of the season.
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Johns Hopkins Ready for First HIV-Positive Organ Transplants in U.S. Johns Hopkins plans to pave the way for HIV-positive patients to receive an organ from an HIV-positive donor. Dr. Dorry Segev and Dr.
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CTI BioPharma Provides Update On Clinical Hold Of Investigational Agent Pacritinib An... SEATTLE, Feb. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CTI BioPharma Corp. (CTI BioPharma) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) today provided an update regarding the clinical studies being conducted under the Company's Investigational New Drug ("IND") application for ...
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8-year-old California boy with cerebral palsy 'skateboards' with dad An 8-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair is now the hottest skateboarder on his block thanks to a bit of ingenuity from his mom and dad.
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Report paints heartbreaking picture of Zika-linked birth defects A new report paints a heartbreaking portrait of the damage suffered by babies with microcephaly, a normally rare birth defect linked to the Zika outbreak in Brazil.
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Doctor Allegedly Operates on the Wrong Newborn Baby Stunning medical error a new mom who says she thought her newborn was being taken for a routine check up. Instead he was taken into surgery the doctor operating on the wrong newborn.
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Father helping son in wheelchair at skate park goes viral It's the father-son bond that's inspiring the world. A video of a boy with cerebral palsy zooming around a Sacramento skate park with his dad's help is going viral.
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Scientists have discovered a possible cure for jet lag A treatment for jet lag has been developed that allows the human body to shift to different time zones nearly four times faster than the best remedies currently available.
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Zika Not Deterring Older Travelers, Destination Weddings Health workers spray insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits Zika in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo: AP). As Zika continues to spread, the Centers for Disease Control has issued travel notices for several countries in South ...
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Prevent jet lag without medication or adjusting your sleep schedule: Research Jet lag can be called the worst part of long-distance travel, mainly when you are left with feeling tired, cranky and off-kilter for days.
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Walgreens Threatens to End Theranos Agreement Theranos Inc.'s main retail partner threatened to terminate its relationship with the blood-testing company unless it quickly fixes the problems found by federal inspectors at a laboratory in California, people familiar with the matter said.
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State Surgeon General Dr. John Armstrong's Daily Zika Update Last week, Governor Scott directed State Surgeon General and Secretary of Health Dr. John Armstrong to issue a Declaration of Public Health Emergency for the counties of residents with travel-associated cases of Zika.
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NAMI offering course in Rockaway for families Morris County Affiliate, the local organization of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, will start its Family-to-Family Education Program for the spring on March 3. NAMI Family-to-Family is a free 12-session education program for family caregivers ...
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Oakland Co. child dies of flu-related illness Ashton Arabo, a 6-year-old from Southfield, died Jan. 25 after complications from the flu, according to his family. Loading… Post to Facebook.
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Fitbit debuts the Alta Fitbit has introduced the Fitbit Alta - a slim fitness wristband that can be personalised, while advanced health and fitness features improve tracking workouts and deliver positive motivation to keep users moving.
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Obama's 2017 budget not enough for a food safety legacy Food safety is spread throughout various departments and programs in the federal budget and the document President Obama proposed Tuesday for fiscal 2017 is no different.
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Judge's Ruling in Safety Case Bears Watching An administrative law judge's recent ruling has the potential to expand the power of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
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