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Simple Blood Test Diagnoses People With Active TB February 19, 2016 7:22 PM. Each year, 9.6 million people become infected with tuberculosis; 1.5 million of them die. The rest silently carry the bacterium in a latent state, with the constant threat that it could become active TB.
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Zika vaccine could take months, years to develop Anna Derksen, 28, of Hamilton County, works in the city of Hamilton. She is currently 26 weeks pregnant and recently learned of the first confirmed case of the Zika virus in Butler County.
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Could New Khatri Blood Test Revolutionize Testing For Tuberculosis? Tuberculosis affects a significant portion of the world's population. Now, a new blood test could revolutionize the way doctors test for the often-fatal disease in the developing world.
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Blood test may streamline process of diagnosing, treating TB Researchers have determined a way to differentiate the active form of the TB bacteria from its latent form in a diagnostic blood test able to be performed in both urban and rural areas around the world.
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When Fear Becomes An Unintended Public Health Problem With the Zika virus in the daily headlines, public health authorities should be looking carefully at how they communicate about this latest emerging infectious disease.
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In Zika Epidemic, a Warning on Climate Change The global public health emergency involving deformed babies emerged in 2015, the hottest year in the historical record, with an outbreak in Brazil of a disease transmitted by heat-loving mosquitoes.
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News on Zika virus worth monitoring on CDC website Q: My husband and I are trying to have a baby, and we live along the Gulf Coast. I am terrified that the Zika virus will get here and we won't know it!
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Are we closing in on the end of AIDS? With the HIV PrEP and an arsenal of other tools, experts think we could be nearing the end of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. AIDS has taken far too many lives since it proliferated in the 20th century, and researchers are finally beginning to develop new tools ...
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Where and when will Zika-carrying mosquitoes strike next? Scientists are studying transmission of the Zika virus in three towns in Ecuador. Credit: SUNY Upstate Medical University. Zika: The virus has emerged as a major public health threat that's rapidly spreading through South and Central America and the ...
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Hookahs: Gateway to Cigarettes? savesaved. by Molly Walker Contributing Writer. Young adult waterpipe tobacco ("hookah") smokers were more than twice as likely to try cigarettes than nonsmokers, a small cohort from the CDC's 2012-2013 National Adult Tobacco Survey found.
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Invasive mosquito that calls the US home is a known Zika carrier For almost 20 years now, gardeners have put up with a persistent nuisance unknown to previous generations of Americans: a stealthy parasite named the Asian tiger mosquito.
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Research on link between Zika and birth defects expected by May BRASILIA/GENEVA Two U.S.-Brazilian studies will have initial results by May on whether the Zika virus spreading through the Americas is causing birth defects and other neurological disorders, a senior U.S.
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Drinking more coffee may help prevent alcohol-related cirrhosis 1500s headline: Coffee makes you frisky - Legend has it that coffee was discovered by Kaldi, an Ethiopian goatherd, after he caught his suddenly frisky goats eating glossy green leaves and red berries and then tried it for himself.
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Wounded veteran to receive first US penis transplant BALTIMORE - Johns Hopkins surgeons have chosen a soldier to receive the first US penis transplant, Reuters reports. In December, Johns Hopkins revealed their plan to give penis transplants to 60 patients as clinical trials so that the surgery can ...
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Norovirus confirmed as source of illness at UM Norovirus is the cause of an outbreak that has sickened more than 100 students this week at the University of Michigan, the university announced Friday.
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Study: A Third of American Adults Don't Get Enough Sleep 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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Meningococcal Infections Among Homeless People In Boston Raises Questions Three cases of life threatening meningococcal infection have been identified in homeless men in Boston since the first of the year, with one death.
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US acts to protect blood supply from Zika A technician from the British biotec company Oxitec holds a container of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that were genetically modified to produce offspring that don't live, in Campinas, Brazil, before releasing them into the wild as part of an effort to kill ...
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Going Red for Our Hearts It is February and the color red, usually in the form of hearts, is everywhere we go... the mall, the grocery store and even in my own fitness studio.
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Do you know how much sugar is in your Starbucks drink? A campaign from a British nutrition advocacy group is bringing attention to the "shocking" amount of sugar in many of Starbucks' beverages.
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More Than 100 University of Michigan Students Sickened in Norovirus Outbreak Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(ANN ARBOR, Mich.) -- A norovirus outbreak has sickened more than 100 students at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
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More Than 100 University of Michigan Students Sickened in Norovirus Outbreak, School Says A norovirus outbreak has sickened more than 100 students at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. More than 100 students sought treatment for vomiting and diarrhea within several days, the university said in a statement Friday, adding that the Michigan ...
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February is National Heart Health Month. Show Your Heart Some Love. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among both men and women in the United States. More than 25 percent of all deaths are from heart disease, and it is a leading cause of disability.
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Living Well: Living successfully with heart disease According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 15 million Americans with coronary artery disease are living with the disease.
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Women and heart health: Know your risk factors Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in the U.S. According to the American Heart Association, more than one in three female adults has some form of cardiovascular disease.
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Colorado law does little to protect patients from bad surgical techs Rocky Allen, 28, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on charges of tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by deceit, and will appear in court at 2 p.m.
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Zika in China: Additional case in Zhejiang, traveled to Fiji and Samoa Health officials in China have reported an additional imported, or travel-associated Zika virus case on the Mainland today. This brings the total of imported cases in China to three.
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WHO Advises Caution, but Not a Halt, in Blood Collection in Zika-Affected Areas The World Health Organization issued recommendations on Friday for safeguarding the blood supply from the Zika virus, but said blood collection might need to continue in some affected areas, despite concerns that the virus may be linked to birth ...
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Lack Of Sleep: 1 In 3 Americans Needs To Snooze Longer Americans aren't getting enough sleep, says a recent CNN report. That's the clear conclusion drawn by a new survey into the nation's sleeping habits conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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No, your baby's fever was not caused by teething (CNN) It's a laundry list of symptoms that every parent is familiar with -- a cranky baby who's drooling, not eating and not sleeping.
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Investigation launched into former hospital surgery tech's conduct SEATTLE -- An investigation is underway in Washington state into the conduct of a surgery technologist who's accused of stealing a powerful painkiller from a hospital in Colorado.
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Shining a light on healthy eating American Heart Month is a time that, as a dietitian, I have the opportunity to shine light on food choices shown to decrease risk for heart disease.
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Republicans suggest Obama to use Unutilized Ebola Funds to Combat Zika President Barack Obama has asked the US Congress for investing more than $1.8 billion to fight Zika in the United States and other countries.
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Has Influenza B strain driven mild flu season in California? Has Influenza B strain driven mild flu season in California? Although the past few weeks have seen an uptick in California influenza patients, it's still a mild flu season for the most part in the Golden State.
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Stents and Surgery have comparable results in reducing Stroke Risk: Research Stents offer health benefits comparable to heart surgery in preventing strokes according to a long term study conducted to check efficacy of stents for heart patients.
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