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Mysterious and fast-moving, Zika virus has world's health leaders scrambling The E-Edition includes all of the news, comics, classifieds and advertisements of the newspaper. And it's available to subscribers before 6 a.m.
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Brazil Pushes Public to Do Its Part in Fighting Zika Spread SALVADOR, Brazil - Nearly a quarter of a million soldiers, sailors and other military personnel began fanning through Brazilian cities over the weekend as part of an ambitious campaign to combat the mosquitoes that are spreading Zika, the virus ...
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Scientists Race To Study Zika Miami - In 2007, physicians working on a remote island in the western Pacific Ocean reported an outbreak of an illness with flu-like symptoms similar to dengue fever, a debilitating viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes and well documented since the ...
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Fed Investigating Possible Link Between Artificial Turf And Cancer The Obama administration has given the green light to three federal agencies to begin a collaborative investigation into potential health risks associated with crumb-rubber turf - employed in many playing fields and children's play areas across the ...
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Federal Investigation: Rubber turf linked to Cancer A federal investigation is on its way to study the potential health risk artificial rubber turf used on synthetic fields can have on people.
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Here's how you can identify dangerous, virus-spreading mosquitoes More than 3,500 different species exist to bite us and suck our blood for survival. As if that weren't enough, many also transmit debilitating - and often deadly - diseases.
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With a few skin cells, scientists can make mini, thinking version of your brain WASHINGTON—Tiny, rolling balls of brain cells knocking around in a lab may one day help keep you from losing your marbles—among other things.
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NHS Vows To Offer 24/7 Mental Care To Millions A £1bn boost for mental health is set to help a million more people and put services on an "equal footing" with physical care.
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Couch potato lifestyle 'shrinks the brain' The study suggests that people with poor levels of physical fitness in their thirties and forties may be linked to a smaller brain size 20 years later.
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NHS mental health funding falls in England - FoI figures Funding levels for NHS mental health care in England have fallen in recent years, the BBC has learned. Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request showed the budgets for mental health trusts fell by 2% from 2013/14 to 2014/15.
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Neurostatins May Prevent Alzheimer's Disease If Taken In Your 30s Researchers found that neurostatins may help prevent Alzheimer's disease if taken during the 30s. The key is the drug's action during the early stage of the disease, which acts as a preventive strategy.
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Oral sex increases cancer risk in men Relationships (Photo : flickr.com) New research suggests that people who are addicted to sex are drive to search more for new sexual images than their peers.
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PDA Reminds Parents About the Importance of Children's Oral Health HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- February once again brings National Children's Dental Health Month (NCDHM), an oral health campaign that helps educate children about the importance of maintaining good oral health and ...
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Snyder faces hometown backlash over Flint water crisis ANN ARBOR - Bitterly cold winds whip around Susan Fecteau as she reaches into a chalk-filled bucket, gets down on her hands and knees and writes a message to Gov.
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HPV Infection From Oral Sex May Increase Cancer Risk In Men HPV infection from oral sex increases the risk of head and neck cancers in men. The risk is not the same for women though. But why?
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Mich. governor seeks more Medicaid coverage for Flint residents FLINT, Mich. -- Gov. Rick Snyder is asking the federal government to expand Medicaid coverage to people under 21 and pregnant women who have been exposed to Flint's lead-contaminated water.
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Zika-related abortion debate in Brazil intensifies 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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National Donor Day urges public to consider, register for organ donation Heart transplant recipient Jameson McKain, 5, of Cecil drops the puck Sunday during a National Donor Day event at the Carnegie Science Center Highmark SportsWorks.
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Runners brave bitter cold for Cupid's Undie Run Nearly naked in the bitter cold, runners folded their arms, shivered, jumped up and down and then bolted down the streets of the nation's capital on Saturday.
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Healthy Table: 10 ways to love your heart Since 1964, the month of February has been dedicated to cardiovascular health. While advances in technology and medical research have significantly improved our ability to fight this disease, we still have work to do.
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Doctor's Orders: Zika - obey the rules and stay safe Take care: There is no vaccine against Zika, but follow a few simple precautions, and all should be well. There's a lot of talking and indeed worrying currently about the Zika virus and whether or not it's going to be a problem for us here in Ireland ...
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Loss for words can be a rare brain disorder WASHINGTON -- A mysterious brain disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer's disease although it isn't robbing patients of their memories but of the words to talk about them.
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Loss for words can be a rare brain disorder, not Alzheimer's Robert Voogt, uses the communication device MiniTalk to answer questions during a news conference in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016.
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Almost $5 Million In Donations Received For Organ Donor Awareness Since Program Began Hamilton County Clerk Bill Knowles, one of the founding board members of the Tennessee County Clerks Organ Donor Awareness Foundation, announced that in 2015 the 95 Tennessee County Clerk offices marked a milestone of receiving almost $5 million ...
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Lucy Kalanithi on Her Neurosurgeon Husband's Heartbreaking, Bestselling Memoir – And on Losing Him to Lung ... It's been almost a year since Lucy Kalanithi's husband, Stanford neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, died of lung cancer at 37 last March, but the memories of his humor, thoughtfulness and zest for life - even in the face of death - keep her going.
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New book details dying doctor's quest to find meaning 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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TMA issues Zika alert to physicians Even as new Zika virus cases have been reported in Texas, the Texas Medical Association (TMA) and the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (TAOG) sent an alert Thursday to OB-Gyns and family physicians to watch for patients infected ...
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Researchers find chemical imbalance in brain behind sleep apnea Perhaps you've paired with a workmate in a hotel room on a business trip and only got a couple of hours sleep because the other fellow has sleep apnea.
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Have a heart for your heart According to the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, cardiovascular disease is the leading global cause of death, accounting for 17.3 million deaths per year.
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Report: Indiana saw sharp increase in homicides under age 20 SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Indiana saw a sharp increase in homicides among children and teenagers in 2013, and homicide was the leading cause of death for blacks ages 15 to 24, according to a report released Monday by a group that tracks such statistics.
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Bryan Health spreads heart health awareness "People may or may not know their risks for heart disease," Bobbi Clinch, Early Detection Coordinator, said. Heart Disease is the leading cause of death for men and women and Bryan Health wants to stop it.
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Faced With Zika Virus Threat, Catholic Leaders Insist On Contraception Ban The Catholic Church is refusing to change its stance against contraception, even as health officials in Latin America issue warnings about the risks of pregnancy in the face of the Zika virus.
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Pope Asked to Allow Use of Contraception in Light of the Zika Epidemic There is no denying that the Zika Virus epidemic is more a threat to women than it is to men. While it has yet to be proven, there are already studies pointing to a possible link between the recent Zika outbreak and the increase of babies born with ...
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State medical examiner: Drug overdose deaths see major spike in 2015 On the eve of a two-day summit called by federal lawmakers to address Connecticut's opioid epidemic, new statistics released Sunday show the number of accidental drug overdoses in 2015 at nearly 700.
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Elizabeth Warren wants CDC to study marijuana as painkiller substitute Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren thinks it's high time health officials consider legalizing marijuana as a painkiller. Warren, in a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Thomas Frieden, argued that the "alarming" surge in ...
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Colombia: A nation concerned over Zika Colombia is one of the countries at the front line of the Zika crisis. It has also seen an alarming number of cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome - which can cause devastating paralysis.
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Brush those teeth Overall, your goal should be to acclimate your child to brushing at a young age by making it both a positive experience and habitual.
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Latest Updates Of Ongoing Crisis In Flint, Michigan Talk about nightmares: the children of a city, thousands of them, may have been poisoned by lead in its drinking water in a process set off by adults intent on saving a little money, who learned of the dangers and then ignored the warnings of ...
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High-speed images of sneezes help explain the spread of germs (NEW YORK) - In case you needed another reason to fear flu season, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) released new pictures showing the physics behind sneezing.
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Model with Down Syndrome to walk in FTL Moda show at New York Fashion Week Madeline Stuart with fiery red hair and her style has proved herself as an unstoppable force in the world of modeling. The 18-year-old model is suffering from Down syndrome.
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Health officials are on emerging health threats, such as HIV/AIDS, Zika virus There are many public-health issues Florida communities face each day. Some of these are concerns we've been working to address for many years, such as HIV/AIDS, and others are emerging health threats, such as the Zika virus.
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