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Catholic Leaders Say Zika Doesn't Change Ban on Contraception As the Zika virus spreads in Latin America, Catholic leaders are warning women against using contraceptives or having abortions, even as health officials in some countries are advising women not to get pregnant because of the risk of birth defects.
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Brazil's Zika-Related Abortion Debate Sparks Backlash RIO DE JANEIRO - Before her son was born, Danielle Alves didn't know Luiz Gustavo would have microcephaly, a condition that has left the 3-year-old so disabled he can't walk, talk or eat without help.
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Brazil troops battle Zika mosquitoes Army soldiers set a banner that reads in Portuguese "A mosquito is not stronger than a whole country" at the Central station, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016.
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Government Finally To Look Into Possible Link Between Artificial Turf And Cancer There have been concerns about the safety of artificial turf for years. In 2014, NBC looked into the potential link between the rubber crumbs used in artificial turf and female soccer players getting cancer.
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Johns Hopkins Research Team creates 'Mini-Brains' for testing drugs and neurology treatment Researchers at Johns Hopkins have successfully created mini-brains by culturing stem cells and neurons. The mini-brains have similarities in functioning to human brain but the size is quite small.
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Neurology: 'Mini-Brains' Developed To Study Neurological Illnesses Researchers have constructed "mini-brains" to study certain neurological illnesses. (brains from study not pictured here.
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Baptist Group Supports Abortions on Disabled Babies of Mothers Affiliated by the Zika Virus A Baptist Church group in Brazil said it will consider supporting a growing push to legalize abortion for disabled babies in the South American country.
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Utah health officials caution pregnant travelers to beware of Zika virus Dallas County Mosquito Lab microbiologist Spencer Lockwood sorts mosquitos collected in a trap, left, Thursday in Hutchins, Texas, that had been set up in Dallas County near the location of a confirmed Zika virus infection.
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Angry Junior Doctors Advised To Stay In UK Junior doctors thinking of quitting the NHS to work down under are being warned not to do so by a medical recruiter in Australia. Guy Hazel, who runs the Austmedics agency in Melbourne, has seen a threefold increase in enquiries from disgruntled young ...
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United Kingdom govt will impose contracts on doctors to end strikes Guaranteed pay rises linked to time in the job will be axed and bonus pay for working unsociable hours will be curbed. Hunt told the House of Commons that the government's chief negotiator advised him "that a negotiated solution is not realistically ...
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John Niven: Junior doctors in England shouldn't just be striking - they should be rioting and we should be there ... THE Tories want to bring the NHS to its knees then hive it off to the private sector, says JOHN NIVEN. Shares. Get daily news by email.
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Experts: Promotion of HPV vaccination must focus on cancer prevention In December 2014, the FDA approved a next-generation HPV vaccine that protects against nine HPV types among females aged 9 through 26 years and males aged 9 through 15 years.
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Cupid's Undie Run will raise money for children's cancer in D.C. on Valentine's Day Hundreds of District residents will gather Saturday to brrrr-ave the winter weather for Cupid's Undie Run, sponsored by Sock It to Me, one of 36 such bare-most-of-it runs taking place across the country for Valentine's Day.
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Men face higher risk of cancers linked to oral sex For men, the risk of HPV-driven cancers of the head and neck rise along with the number of oral sex partners. Sex 703x422. Men are twice as likely as women to get cancer of the mouth and throat linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, one of the ...
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Freezing Undie Run raises $67000 in cold cash Participants of the annual Cupid's Undie Run exit Music Man Square and head to the street to begin the one mile run Saturday in Mason City.
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Undie runners strip down and sprint through Detroit to fight neurofibromatosis Some donned superhero capes or tutus. One man added a Burger King crown and red robe. But aside from a few cheaters in long underwear, they had little to protect them from painfully freezing temperatures as they ran a half-mile through Downtown Detroit ...
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Courtney leads request to Obama for emergency money to fight opioid epidemic WASHINGTON - Rep. Joe Courtney on Friday sent a letter signed by more than 60 members of the U.S. House of Representatives asking President Obama to declare an opioid and heroin abuse epidemic and designate emergency funds to help states fight ...
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Can pot help with the opioid crisis? This U.S. senator wants to know more Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asks a question of Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the strategic petroleum reserve and energy security issues, on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 6, ...
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What every parent needs to know about lead poisoning It's hard to sort through all the information swirling about lead contamination in the public drinking water in Flint, and how it has affected and will continue to impact the people who unknowingly drank the water.
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Gynecological Cancers Market (2014 to 2020) – The report provides in-depth analysis of parent market trends, macro ... logo2151 Gynecological cancers are characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. These cancers originate in the female reproductive organs such as uterus, cervix, ovaries, vagina and vulva.
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CDC warning about young women, drinking sets off outrage on social media The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued new advice to women concerning fetal alcohol syndrome -- and it bombed on social media.
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Center for Disease Control report recommends sexually active women to not consume alcohol Recent recommendations for women drew ire of some women. A report released by the Center of Disease Control (CDC) on Wednesday said women who are sexually active and not on birth control should not consume alcohol at any point.
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Men face higher risk of cancers linked to oral sex Electron micrograph of a negatively stained human papilloma virus (HPV) which occurs in human warts. Credit: public domain. Men are twice as likely as women to get cancer of the mouth and throat linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, one of the ...
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Pennsylvania Ranks 2nd for Elevated Lead Levels in Children's Blood Many cases of elevated blood-lead levels in children can be traced to lead-based paint. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak). More children in Pennsylvania had elevated levels of lead in their blood than 19 other states, according to data from the Centers for Disease ...
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Winning numbers drawn in 'Lucky Money' game TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Florida Lottery's "Lucky Money" game were: 25-33-45-47, Lucky Ball: 1. (twenty-five, thirty-three, forty-five, forty-seven; Lucky Ball: one).
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Is new CDC warning on alcohol use by women too harsh? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says women should stop drinking when they stop using birth control. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says women should stop drinking when they stop using birth control.
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A poignant account of a doctor's last days In his posthumously published "When Breath Becomes Air," Paul Kalanithi gets straight to the sudden turning point in his life: the day the Stanford neurosurgery chief resident looked at a scan showing he had advanced cancer and likely little time left.
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No classes at Pennsylvania college as 185 students sickened COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Classes and weekend activities have been canceled at Ursinus College in eastern Pennsylvania as the school deals with a mystery illness that has sickened more than 190 students.
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Why Elizabeth Warren thinks legalizing marijuana could help end America's opioid addiction crisis Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to explore the use of medical marijuana as an alternative to the powerful opioid painkillers that kill thousands of people each year.
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Reports of illness at Ursinus trickle in, now over 200 The Montgomery County Health Department on Saturday posted the report of its latest inspection of Ursinus College's kitchen - a Thursday visit that found one minor violation, allowing the Wismer Dining Hall to reopen - as attempts to pinpoint the ...
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Take action to fight cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular disease claims more lives than all forms of cancer combined. Therefore, it is important to know what increases your risk.
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Doctor in Tennessee hospital performs surgery on wrong baby One-day-old Nate was taken from his 31-year-old mother, Jennifer Melton, for what she assumed was a routine medical examination. A newborn baby born in December in a Tennessee hospital was the victim of wrong-patient surgery after a doctor performed ...
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