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Dr. K: More questions and answers about Zika virus Dear Reader: In yesterday's column, I answered questions about the Zika virus. Today, I'd like to answer several more and also talk about how we can protect ourselves against this and other epidemics.
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NC hiring entomologists to prepare defense against Zika virus The state Department of Health and Human Services is hiring two medical entomologists whose first order of business will be to determine where two types of mosquitoes capable of transmitting the Zika virus live in North Carolina.
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Happiness Too Can Break Your Heart, Says Study It has been known for sometime that emotional distress, such as grief, anger or fear can lead to a condition what is known as "Takotsubo syndrome", which can result in heart attacks and death.
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Happy Events Can Spur 'Broken Heart Syndrome' A rare condition known as "broken heart syndrome" is usually brought on by an emotionally devastating or stressful event.
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San Francisco Raises Age To Buy Tobacco To 21 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) - The Board Of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a measure raising the legal age to purchase tobacco products within San Francisco's city limits to 21 years old.
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PET scans track stages of Alzheimer's disease New research led by scientists at UC Berkeley shows for the first time that PET scans can track the progressive stages of Alzheimer's disease in cognitively normal adults, a key advance in the early diagnosis and staging of the neurodegenerative disorder.
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Broken Heart Syndrome Caused by Happiness, Too Sixteen years after scientists first discovered "broken heart syndrome," a new study suggests its nickname may be misplaced. Why?
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New FDA Chief Cites Promise of Harder-To-Abuse Pain Drugs WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration's new commissioner is pledging to fully back efforts to develop harder-to-abuse painkillers, part of a sweeping government effort to reduce deadly overdoses tied to prescription pain medications.
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Inducing Labor May Not Boost C-Section Risk WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Contrary to longstanding concerns, pregnant older women who have their labor induced near their due date may not face an increased risk of needing a cesarean section, a new clinical trial suggests.
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Sleep deprivation can give you the 'marijuana munchies' WASHINGTON - If you've pulled an all-nighter and spent the next day feeling ravenously hungry as if you were in the movie "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," scientists may have just figured out why.
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State to begin testing residents for Zika virus This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito, associated with Zika virus, in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host.
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Inducing labor may not boost C-section risk WEDNESDAY, March 2, 2016 -- Contrary to longstanding concerns, pregnant older women who have their labor induced near their due date may not face an increased risk of needing a cesarean section, a new clinical trial suggests.
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New FDA Head Pledges Painkiller Reform The Food and Drug Administration's new commissioner is pledging to fully back efforts to develop harder-to-abuse painkillers, part of a sweeping government effort to reduce deadly overdoses tied to prescription pain medications.
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Mother's high cholesterol linked to same problem in grown children (Reuters Health) - Adults are more likely to have high cholesterol if their mothers had it before they were born, a U.S. study suggests.
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Blue cheese pulled from Whole Foods nationwide Whole Foods markets nationwide are recalling Maytag Raw Milk Blue Cheese because of a possible Listeria contamination, according to the U.S.
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NY attorney general to investigate insurers over hepatitis C drugs March 3 New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has asked 16 health insurers for documentation on patients who have been denied coverage of drugs used to cure hepatitis C, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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NY attorney general to investigate insurers over hepatitis C drugs New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office has asked 16 health insurers for documentation on patients who have been denied coverage of drugs used to cure hepatitis C, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
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Unintended pregnancy rate in US is high, but falling (CNN) The high rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States could be on the decline for the first time in decades, according to a new study.
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Unintended Pregnancies Fall 18 Percent in US, Study Finds Accidental pregnancies have fallen by 18 percent in recent years, mostly due to better use of birth control, experts reported Wednesday.
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Steroid injections administered too close to hip, knee replacement surgery may increase infection risk ORLANDO, Fla., March 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Injections received in the months prior to total knee (TKR) or total hip replacement (THR) surgery may increase the risk for infection and related complications, according to two studies—among ...
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Scientists identify genes associated with gray hairs and unibrows Scientists have found a whole host of genes associated with human hair growth - including, for the very first time, a gene they believe contributes to hair going gray.
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Blood pressure app gave false low results to hypertensive patients (Reuters Health) - A blood pressure app downloaded by tens of thousands of people before sales halted last year gave many patients with hypertension the false impression that their vital signs were normal when in reality they were dangerously high, a U ...
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Cell phone or free ice cream? Chick-fil-A wants you to choose The famous chicken sandwich chain restaurant is offering a new deal in select locations, offering customers a free ice cream cone if they turn off their cell phones for the entirety of the meal.
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Report delves into 'surprising gaps' found in ovarian cancer research Ovarian cancer isn't actually just one type of cancer. It isn't - as it has been described - "a silent killer." And it often doesn't start in the ovaries.
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Report finds "surprising gaps" in what's known about ovarian cancer A government advisory board sounded an alarm Wednesday about ovarian cancer. Every year, more than 22,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with the disease, because it's often caught too late, more than 14,000 die.
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Five daunting details you need to know from this new report on ovarian cancer Of all the "women's cancers," ovarian is among the most diabolical. A new, congressionally mandated report by the Institute of Medicine spells out, sometimes in unnerving detail, the challenges confronting researchers in understanding the disease and ...
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$25 Apple Watch comes with a major catch NEW YORK -- You know you need to exercise more, but there's always next week, or the week after. To entice you to stop procrastinating, your company or insurer might soon reward you for wearing a fitness device to track your steps, heart rate and more.
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18 Wisconsin deaths linked to bloodstream infection State health officials are investigating the outbreak of a bacterial bloodstream infection in southern and southeastern Wisconsin that has been linked to 18 deaths since Dec. 29.
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New Zealand investigating possible sexual transmission of Zika virus WELLINGTON New Zealand authorities are investigating whether the Zika virus was transmitted through sex from a man to his partner, the country's health ministry said on Thursday.
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Let your boss track your fitness, get an Apple Watch Mark Holloway of Clemmons, N.C., goes through part of his exercise routine at the Jerry Long YMCA in Clemmons, Tuesday, March 1, 2016.
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San Francisco raises smoking age to 21 (CNN) Beginning June 1, anyone looking to purchase tobacco products in San Francisco must be at least 21 -- not 18, the legal age in the majority of the country.
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Earn An Apple Watch By Making Healthy Choices - The African Way In another example of innovative initiatives being pioneered in Africa and then exported to the rest of the world, South Africa's largest health insurer is introducing its incentives-based scheme to allow its United States customers to get an Apple ...
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Virginia Cancer Specialists Urges Men and Women to Get Screened for Colorectal Cancer During Colorectal Cancer ... FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virginia Cancer Specialists (VCS), the premiere cancer treatment center in Northern Virginia and a practice in The US Oncology Network, reminds the community that March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a time to ...
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Busy Brains Delay Alzheimer's Symptoms But Not the Disease Keeping an active mind with intellectual pursuits in midlife may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease symptoms, but it does not appear to prevent the physical changes in the brain for most people, a new study finds.
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Colon cancer: Early detection saves lives They'll give you the kit. They'll give you the envelope, mail it for you and test the kit. A kit that could save your life.
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UC Berkeley Investigating Possible Outbreak Of Norovirus On Campus BERKELEY (CBS SF) - Health officials at the University of California at Berkeley are investigating a possible outbreak of norovirus at the campus in recent weeks, university officials said Tuesday.
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Man Gets Rare Strain of HIV Despite Taking Antiviral Pills In the first documented case of its kind, a man taking an effective antiviral medication still contracted a drug-resistant strain of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a new report finds.
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IBM and Apple Have Collaborated on a Pioneering Sleep Study The first Apple ResearchKit study hits the health data platform. IBM's Watson Health Cloud is officially open for business. The health data platform was initially launched in April last year with the IBM Watson Health unit, though the cloud service has ...
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Michigan: Head Start Aid Approved for Flint Federal officials said Wednesday that they had allotted $3.5 million in emergency funds to immediately expand an early childhood education program in Flint, where contaminated drinking water has been linked to elevated levels of lead in children's blood.
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Flint Water Crisis: Feds Expand Programs to Help Kids Affected by Lead The federal government said Wednesday it will expand educational programs in Flint, Michigan, to try to help kids get past the effects of having lead in their drinking water.
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Head Start expansion announced for Flint children The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday $3.6 million in emergency funds to expand Head Start and Early Head Start services for preschoolers who've been affected by Flint's lead contaminated water supply.
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Insurers Probed on Hepatitis C Drug Coverage New York's attorney general is investigating state health-insurance companies for allegedly restricting coverage of drugs that can cure hepatitis C, saying that the firms have inappropriately rationed care by denying patients expensive but effective ...
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Jim Ross Says Bret Hart's Cancer Is A Non-Issue Now TMZ has an article on Jim Ross' recent appearance on "The Gunz Show," where Ross said his good friend Bret Hart has defeated prostate cancer.
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Coats, Donnelly contribute to bill to cut opioid abuse Bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing opioid abuse contains provisions introduced in other bills by U.S. senators from Indiana.
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Popular Misconceptions About Skin Cancer Debunked A person most at risk for skin cancer, people often think, is one with many, many moles. As long as you have normal, even skin, there seems to be little reason to get screened for skin cancer.
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Vegas outbreak makes Nevada syphilis rate highest in US West In this Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, photo, a person walks into the Southern Nevada Health District office in Las Vegas. Clark County health officials declared a syphilis outbreak in Las Vegas last week after noting an increase in reported syphilis cases ...
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Syphilis spikes in Las Vegas; hookup apps Tinder, Grindr partly to blame, doctors say LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Nevada is experiencing the highest rate of syphilis in the West following an outbreak in Las Vegas. Health officials say it's part of a national spike in cases tied to increased testing, a rise in anonymous sex tied to social media ...
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AERI Awaits Data In Q3, FDA Approves Another TAF-based HIV Drug, CTIX On Watch expects the 90-day topline interim efficacy readout from its first phase III trial for Roclatan, an investigational therapy for glaucoma, to be announced in the third quarter of 2016.
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Relay for Life kicks off The Relay for Life kickoff event scheduled for Thursday will allow people to give to a worthy cause and help prepare for the Relay for Life in June.
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Momentum building for Dougherty and Lee Relay for Life Cancer survivors participate at the 2015 Relay for Life held at Darton State College. The 2016 event for Dougherty and Lee counties is set for April 29 at Darton.
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