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Clot-Buster Is a Bust in IVH Study savesaved. author name. by Peggy Peck Editor-in-Chief, MedPage Today. LOS ANGELES -- An ambitious trial to test a novel approach to treat intraventricular hemorrhage failed its primary endpoint, which was a measure of disability, but it did produce a ...
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Can scientists prove Zika virus is causing birth defects? NEW YORK - Scientists suspect an outbreak of the Zika virus is behind a surge in a rare birth defect in Brazil. But how are they going to prove it?
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US, Brazil researchers join forces to battle Zika virus BRASILIA Top U.S. and Brazilian medical experts met on Thursday to launch a research partnership to find a vaccine against the Zika virus that has spread rapidly through the Americas since it first appeared in the hemisphere last year.
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Here's how well Americans in different states sleep man and dog sleeping Flickr/Andrew Roberts. It's very likely that you're not getting enough sleep. According to a new report from the CDC and the first study to look at survey data from every state in the US, one-third of all Americans are getting less ...
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A Decade Later, Stents Durable for Stroke Prevention savesaved. register today. Earn Free CME Credits by reading the latest medical news in your specialty. sign up. author name. by Peggy Peck Editor-in-Chief, MedPage Today.
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Clot-busting drug improves survival for deadly form of stroke Above, intraventricular blood, in red, is cleared from the ventricles by administration of tPA and a brain catheter in yellow. Images are 3D renderings of CT scans from a CLEAR III subject.
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Half of teens at ER report peer violence, cyberbullying Just under a quarter of teens surveyed during the study reported symptoms consistent with PTSD, though few had been treated for the condition.
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How Business Leaders Can Help Foster Mental Health In The Workplace The U.K. has a plan to bring executives into the mental health conversation. Can the U.S. do the same? 02/18/2016 08:45 am ET | Updated 6 hours ago.
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Egg Yolks Are Probably Not Linked To Heart Disease If you're an egg-lover, it's ok now. They're really not that bad for you. (Photo : Flickr/Alpha). A new Finnish study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that eating high-cholesterol foods does not increase the risk of heart ...
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Cholesterol in eggs may not hurt heart health Having a physically demanding job and high blood pressure may triple a woman's risk of heart disease, a new study contends. More >>.
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Cholesterol in Eggs May Not Hurt Heart Health: Study TUESDAY, Feb. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- The once-maligned egg may not be a heartbreaker after all, new research suggests. Finnish researchers say that even carriers of a gene -- called APOE4 -- that increases sensitivity to dietary cholesterol don't ...
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Study: A third of US adults don't get enough sleep (CNN) You've heard it before, and you'll hear it again: Despite repeated recommendations for adults to sleep at least seven hours each night, a new study shows that more than one-third of us are not getting enough shut-eye.
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Inovio says Zika vaccine shows response in mice Feb 17 Drug developer Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc said preclinical testing of its vaccine for Zika virus induced robust and durable response in mice and that it expected to test the vaccine in humans before the end of 2016.
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Some employers are using a privacy loophole to learn more about your personal life than you thought possible stethoscope doctor healthcare Adam Berry/Getty ImagesEmployee wellness firms and insurers are mining your past pharmaceutical and medical insurance claims, shopping and voting habits, credit scores, and some of your search history.
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This Biotech Just Got One Step Closer to a Zika Vaccine And its shares are jumping. Hopes of developing a vaccine against Zika took a small step forward on Wednesday as Inovio Pharmaceuticals INO 5.33% said its experimental shot had induced a robust and durable response in mice.
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Right gut bacteria may protect against malnutrition, study says A researcher measures a child's growth in Malawi. Researchers transferred gut bacteria from children into mice for tests that showed the right kind of bugs may protect against malnutrition by helping to get the most out of a poor diet.
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How Microbes Make Malnutrition Worse Several years ago, a group of gut microbes went on a 14,000 kilometer-long trip. Having freshly emerged from an infant in southern Malawi, they were scooped up by eager scientists, frozen, stored in cold boxes, exchanged from one courier to another ...
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Leafly Science Roundup: Can Cannabis Improve Your Workout? Cannabis won't make you a nervous, miserable wreck. That's the conclusion of a study published Thursday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry that failed to find a connection between mood disorders and cannabis use in adults.
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Marijuana use may lead to abuse of other substances (Reuters Health) - Using marijuana may lead in short order to using even more marijuana as well as abusing other drugs and alcohol, suggests a new analysis of U.S.
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Employers Are Quietly Using Big Data to Track Employee Pregnancies It's legal, but is it ethical? Having a child is one of the—if not the—most life-changing moments in life. And while we'd all like to think that day a woman finds out she's pregnant is a happy one, it's often accompanied by hours of agonizing about ...
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Zika crisis pressures Vatican to soften contraception stance RECIFE, Brazil On the frontline of Brazil's fight against Zika, Vandson Holanda sends Roman Catholic volunteers into the poorest areas of this city, showing residents how to protect themselves against mosquitoes that carry the virus linked to birth ...
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Calif. safety board: No mandatory condoms in porn LOS ANGELES (AP) - California officials in charge of workplace safety voted down a proposal Thursday that would have put condoms on porn actors, heeding the call of scores of industry officials who said doing so would force them to make films nobody ...
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Calif. board rejects measure specifying condom use in porn LOS ANGELES - California officials in charge of workplace safety voted down a proposal Thursday that would have specifically called for putting condoms on porn actors, heeding the call of scores of industry officials who said adding that and other ...
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Tough new health rules for porn actors rejected Jessy Dubai argues during a Cal/OSHA hearing against proposed regulations that would have required sex film workers in the state to wear condoms.
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Children breastfeeding after first birthday should take vitamin D (Reuters Health) - Children who breastfeed, especially those living far from the equator, may get too little vitamin D, according to a new study in Canada.
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Study: Smoking pot doesn't make you anxious or depressed New research published today in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found that using marijuana as an adult is not associated with a variety of mood and anxiety disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder.
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Kansas woman's sonogram shows dying unborn twin embracing sister in the womb Twins are known to have a special bond, but this one tops them all. A Kansas couple's unborn child, with a hole in his heart and an abnormal brain, can be seen embracing his sister in the womb in a breathtaking sonogram taken on Tuesday.
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Study Advises Mothers to Give Newborns Vitamin D Supplements Breastfeeding has long been associated with increased health benefits for babies, as well as for mothers, but a new study points out that even breast milk may have limitations, especially as the infant gets older.
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Faced With Choice of Clinton or Sanders, Influential Nevada Culinary Workers Union Goes With Neither The Culinary Workers Union, the most influential labor organization in Nevada, says it will not pick a side in the hotly contested Democratic primary.
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Review: Higher Concentration of PUFAs in Organic Meat Organic meat and milk have higher concentrations of total and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, according to two meta-analyses published online Feb. 16 in the British Journal of Nutrition.
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Pioglitazone May Reduce Cardiovascular Event Risk After Stroke LOS ANGELES - Pioglitazone may reduce the risk for recurrent stroke or myocardial infarction in patients without diabetes who had insulin resistance and a recent history of ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA).
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Zika threat forces employers to keep an eye on business travel A female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal from her human host at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mosquito is a transmitter of the Zika virus, which may be linked to microcephaly in newborns.
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Women in Zika Countries Beg on Web for Abortion Pills An army soldier visits a home during an operation to eradicate Aedes aegypti mosquito breeding sites, in the Brazlandia neighborhood of Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016.
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ASCO Endorses Localized Prostate Cancer Guideline A panel of experts at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have reviewed and endorsed Cancer Care Ontario's guideline on Active Surveillance for the Management of Localized Prostate Cancer.
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Newly discovered Ebola-fighting antibodies could aid vaccine research In the blood of a survivor of the recent Ebola outbreak, a team of researchers has discovered a number of antibodies that seem to successfully combat the deadly virus in mice.
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Recognizing the signs of an eating disorder It's been going on for weeks or months and you wonder if it's normal: Too many missed meals. Leaving the table as soon as possible after eating.
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Stunning Ultrasound Photo Shows Unborn Baby Clutching Twin "She's the only one who can actually be there and holding onto him through it." 02/17/2016 05:18 pm ET. 3.1 K. Caroline Bologna Associate Parents Editor, The Huffington Post.
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Zafgen obesity drug succeeds in mid-stage trial, shares rise Zafgen Inc's controversial obesity drug reduced the weight of overweight diabetic patients, the second trial success in as many months for the drug on which all tests have been halted since December after two patients died.
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Fresenius pays $250M to settle GranuFlo/NaturaLyte lawsuits Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA (NYSE:FMS) agrees to pay $250M to resolve U.S. litigation related to its GranuFlo and NaturaLyte products.
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DOJ: Wisconsin hospitals part of cardiac device settlement MILWAUKEE (AP) - The U.S. Attorney's office says a Wisconsin health care network and some of its hospitals are part of a settlement over cardiac devices implanted in Medicare patients.
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'Ecologically Diverse' Breast Cancer Carries Worse Prognosis Patients with high-grade breast cancers that have a diverse and complex microenvironment are likely to have a worse prognosis than patients with tumors that have a less heterogeneous ecosystem, UK researchers have discovered.
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Acupuncture may help those who suffer from Fibromyalgia There's a new study that reveals customized acupuncture may improve symptoms in people with Fibromyalgia. Researchers in Spain compared tailored acupuncture to placebo treatments weekly in patients diagnosed with Fibromyalgia.
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Fibromyalgia Pain May Be Eased by Personalized Acupuncture Individualized acupuncture treatments given to fibromyalgia patients in a primary care setting provided effective pain relief and an enhanced quality of life, with effects persisting for a year, a study, published in the journal Acupuncture in Medicine ...
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Needle exchanges hail lifting of federal funding ban LOS ANGELES - At 8:30 a.m. on Tuesdays, the doors to the needle exchange on Skid Row open and the daily procession of injection drug users begins.
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Recognizing National Eating Disorders Awareness Week ... - A screening of "Miss Representation" at The Little: An examination of the portrayal of women and body image in media - The event will be followed by a panel discussion - Sunday, Feb. 21 from 3 p.m.
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'Franken-fly' to counter Zika virus kept under wraps FIU's Matthew DeGannaro holds a bottle with a mosquito used in his research to help combat the Zika virus. Buy this photo · 'Franken-fly' to counter Zika virus kept under wraps.
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'Downton Abbey' final season: How should it end? (poll) "Downton Abbey" fans, prepare yourselves. There are only two more episodes left. The "Masterpiece" drama on PBS airs Episode 8, the next-to-last one, this Sunday, Feb. 21.
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UW does poor job reporting results of its medical trials, study says A new study finds UW Medicine has a poor record of reporting results from clinical trials, leaving patients and doctors with a potentially skewed view of the safety and benefits of treatments.
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Bristol-Myers Inks Immuno-Oncology Deal with Dana-Farber Bristol-Myers Squibb Company's (BMY - Analyst Report) shares gained 3.3% after the company announced that it has entered into a research collaboration agreement with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for the Immuno-Oncology Rare Population ...
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The real numbers that count for heart health COURTESY: ADVENTIST You only get one heart, but one isn't the loneliest number when addressing heart health. There are multiple numbers you can control to help prevent heart disease and chronic health conditions.
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