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$250 million, 300 scientists and 40 labs: Sean Parker's revolutionary project to 'solve' cancer SAN FRANCISCO - Billionaire Sean Parker, famous for his founding roles at Napster and Facebook, is backing an unconventional $250 million effort to attack cancer that involves persuading hundreds of the country's top scientists - who often are in ...
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Sean Parker is on a mission to solve cancer Sean Parker, the self-made billionaire who, at the tender age of 19, sparked the digital music revolution, has been at the forefront of some of the most meaningful disruptions of our day from file sharing to social engagement.
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Zika test delay leaves dozens in Washington waiting and worrying A mosquito from the genus Aedes, which can carry Zika virus. (Jeffrey Arguedas/EFE via ZUMA Press). prev. next. ×. 14 remaining of 15.
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How to increase your chance of escaping the outbreak of spring flu And as cases hit a five-year high, we look at ways you can reduce the risk of getting this nasty virus - and avoid chronic fatigue if you succumb.
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Medicare Seeks Savings And Innovation With A Switch In Doctors' Pay The Obama administration is recruiting as many as 20,000 primary care doctors for an initiative it hopes will change the way physicians get paid and provide care.
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How Do 'Genetic Superheroes' Overcome Their Bad DNA? Scientists say they've figured out how to track down people they call "genetic superheroes." These are people who remain healthy even though they were born with genetic mutations that would usually lead to devastating disorders.
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Thirteen Anonymous Genetic Superheroes Walk Among Us Stephen Friend never thought he'd go looking for superheroes. "The idea came from frustration and unfulfilled quests," says Friend, a physician at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Cigarette smoking could burn your job prospects Smoking may have a higher price than just the cost of cigarettes. A new study finds smokers also fare worse on the job market. According to a study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine, smokers not only remain unemployed longer than nonsmokers, ...
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Why Clovis Oncology (CLVS) Stock is Dropping Today NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Clovis Oncology (CLVS) are slumping by 3.93% to $15.15 on heavy trading volume Monday afternoon, as the FDA questioned whether its lung cancer drug rociletinib was superior to current treatments and highlighted ...
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The Obama Administration's Zika Offensive Two months ago, the Obama administration asked for roughly $1.9 billion in emergency funding to combat the Zika virus. Public-health officials were eager to get money for vaccine research and more.
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Keeping Mosquitoes at Bay in the Age of Zika In a best-case scenario, the United States may still avoid a widespread Zika outbreak this summer. An epidemic of the mosquito-borne illness in Brazil has linked Zika to thousands of cases of microcephaly and sometimes even death for fetuses.
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US officials: The more we learn about Zika, scarier it is FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016 file photo, samples of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, responsible for transmitting dengue and Zika, sit in a petri dish at the Fiocruz Institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil.
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Mental health of new dads in post-natal period uncertain Most studies have found a prevalence of depression among men in general to be around 7-8pc. Picture posed. The status of men's mental health in the post-natal period has been of interest for about a decade and has produced some research suggesting ...
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Healthcare Hits New Low- Clovis Oncology (NASDAQ:CLVS), Viking Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VKTX) Clovis Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ:CLVS) [Trend Analysis] shows fluctuation in active trade, on Monday shares plunged -17.74% to $15.77.
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Conjoined twins separated, under close watch CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Ximena and Scarlett were born May 16 attached at the pelvis and share a rectum and other organs. The procedure to separate them began today just before 7 a.m.. By Chris Ramirez of the Caller-Times. Updated: Yesterday 10:05 p.m. ...
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Vegetable fat not the route to a healthy heart Replacing animal fat in the human diet with vegetable oil seems not to lower heart disease risk, and might even boost it, according to a study published Wednesday that challenges a cornerstone of dietary advice.
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Treating anxiety, depression can help global economy, study says (CNN) One moment she's dolled up, smiling effortlessly toward the camera. The next she's in bed, in tears, just trying to calm down.
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World Health Authorities to Focus on Mental Health April 13, 2016 2:12 AM. Mental health and the costs and benefits of treatment are taking center stage at a Washington, D.C. meeting co-hosted by the World Bank and World Health Organization starting Wednesday.
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Fast-Food Eaters Have More Industrial Chemicals in Their Bodies People who reported eating fast food in the last 24 hours had elevated levels of some industrial chemicals in their bodies, according to a new analysis of data from federal nutrition surveys.
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Better mental health treatment would boost nations' economies: WHO LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every dollar spent on better treatment of anxiety and depression produces a return of $4 in better health and ability to work - a big boost for countries' development and economic growth, the World Health ...
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Are vegetable oils really healthier for your heart? For years, health officials and dietitians have been encouraging us to cut back on animal fats, such as butter, and replace them with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid, such as soybean, canola and corn oils.
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Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. Recalls Refrigerated Salad DALLAS (CBSDFW) - According to the FDA, Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. is recalling nineteen refrigerated salad items after being notified by their ingredient suppliers that Listeria monocytogenes may be present in a lot of onions that were used in the salads.
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Vegetable oils may not reduce risk of heart disease, US study suggests Eating vegetable oils instead of saturated fats like butter does not lower the risk of heart disease or lead to a longer life, a US study has found.
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Easy Way to Prevent Blisters: Surgical Tape Is there anything worse than getting a blister on the 25th mile? OK, maybe not everyone is an ultramarathoner. But doctors who got sick and tired of treating runners' blisters say they have a cheap and easy solution for them - and for those of us ...
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Vegetable oils may not help lower the risk of heart disease, a new study says Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and University of North Carolina found that vegetable oil diets that help lower cholesterol levels do not reduce chances of having heart disease.
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Conjoined Twins Separated In Successful Surgery It was both a high risk and history making surgery performed by a team of doctors at Driscoll Children's Hospital Tuesday. Their first task was to surgically separated a pair of conjoined twin girls who were joined at the pelvis.
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CORPUS CHRISTI— Surgery has started in Texas to separate two 10-month-old sisters born conjoined below the waist. Ximena and Scarlett Hernandez-Torres share a colon and bladders that will be reconstructed. Their identical triplet sister, Catalina, was born without serious health issues.
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Surgery separates infant conjoined twins in Texas This Feb. 10, 2016 photo provided by Driscoll Children's Hospital shows conjoined twin sisters Scarlett, left, and Ximena Hernandez-Torres at Dirscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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Reser's recalls refrigerated salads sold in Alabama for possible listeria Nineteen refrigerated salads are being recalled because listeria may be present in one lot of onions used during the manufacturing process.
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Medicare 'hospital star rating' may correspond to patient outcomes (Reuters Health) - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been letting patients grade their hospital experiences, and those "patient experience scores" may give some insight into a hospital's health outcomes, a new study suggests.
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Doctors Use 3D Models of Conjoined Twins to Prepare for Complex Separation Surgery There is perhaps no surgical procedure more daunting or complex that the separation of conjoined twins, even with the use of advanced 3D technology.
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CSUF expert: Raising the smoking age has benefits Joshua Yang earned his M.P.H. and Ph.D. in community health sciences (with a minor in sociology) from UCLA's School of Public Health.
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Family claims woman died after getting teeth pulled at dentist A family is mourning the loss of a woman after they said she died after a visit to the dentist. April Walters had multiple health problems, but was cleared by her doctor to get 18 of her teeth pulled because of an infection.
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Are E-Cigs a Smoking Cessation Tool? U.K. Says 'Yes' The predominant view of U.S. health officials is that e-cigarettes pose a threat to public health, but high profile health groups in the U.K.
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New opioid prescription guidelines offered to Va. ER docs The Virginia Hospital & Health Care Association in January established a task force on prescription opioid abuse. The task force developed the following 14 recommendations for emergency rooms: 1. A dedicated provider outside the emergency department ...
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Mich. Family Wants Answers After Woman Dies Following Dental Visit ... Watch: Bernie Sanders Ad for NY Produced by Spike Lee · 2 Calif. Teens Charged With Hate Crime After Snapchat Video Threatening Black Classmate With Noose, Gun · Former SC Police Officer Gets 3 Years' Probation in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Black ...
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How to think about Medicare's new primary care plan HOW TO THINK ABOUT MEDICARE's NEW PRIMARY CARE PLAN - The Comprehensive Primary Care Plus model announced on Monday is one of the Obama administration's most ambitious delivery reforms yet.
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Connecticut's Low-Income Diabetics Paying High Price For Insulin Physicians in the state who treat diabetes say the price increases are putting lives at risk. The high cost of insulin, which has risen by triple-digit percentages in the last five years, is endangering the lives of many diabetics who can't afford the ...
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HIV conversation centers on pill that prevents transmission John Byrne was born in 1981, a few months before the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed a new report about "five young, previously healthy, gay men in Los Angeles" suffering from strange infections that had already killed two of them.
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Working together to 'Stomp Out' diabetes A free, interactive event this Saturday aims to bring families and community organizations together to raise awareness about diabetes - a disease predicted to affect one-third of U.S.
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Overnight Healthcare: Feds grapple with Medicare drug plan backlash The Obama administration is facing an unexpected backlash from healthcare advocates over its aggressive move to rein in the cost of prescription drugs in Medicare.
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First Scans of Brain On LSD Date: April 11, 2016; Source: Imperial College London; Summary: For the first time, researchers have visualized the effects of LSD on the human brain.
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Family claims woman died after getting teeth pulled at dentist Want more news? Sign up for free newsletters to get more of the AJC delivered to your inbox. DETROIT - A family is mourning the loss of a woman after they said she died after a visit to the dentist.
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Go To The Tape: A Cheap, Easy Way To Prevent Blisters Blisters are the bane of weekend hikers and Olympic marathoners alike. Stanford researchers say they've found a simple, cheap method to help prevent them.
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Immunization is must in US to overcome flu phobia This year's National Immunisation Program flu jab protects against the four strains of flu predicted to circulate in Australia over the winter months.
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IBM puts Watson to work on cancer with new patient-advisor tool IBM is developing a new weapon in the battle against cancer that will put Watson to work in a new way. Partnering with the American Cancer Society, IBM is building a virtual advisor that uses machine learning to give patients personalized information ...
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IBM Watson enlists in the war on cancer In the U.S., 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 in women will develop cancer over the course of their lifetimes. That sobering statistic comes direct from the American Cancer Society, a non-profit organization with roughly a century-worth of data on the disease ...
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Woman Captures The Exhausting Reality Of Living With Anxiety In 2 Photos For those who don't struggle with mental health issues, it can be hard to fully comprehend what a panic attack feels like. One woman's powerful Facebook post gets brutally honest about the reality.
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Antibiotics Don't Promote Swapping of Resistance Genes Researchers have shown that, outside of a few specific examples, antibiotics do not promote the spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance through genetic swapping, as previously assumed.
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How bacteria develop antibiotic resistance New Delhi: Antibiotic resistance occurs when a drug loses its ability to effectively control or kill bacterial growth. The bacteria multiply even in the presence of therapeutic levels of an antibiotic.
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