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CDC: Zika definitely causes severe birth defects NEW YORK - Confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the United States and Latin America, U.S. health officials said Wednesday there is no longer any doubt the Zika virus causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and other ...
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Health Officials Split Over Advice on Pregnancy in Zika Areas Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, described the internal debate over Zika and pregnancy as "a very long conversation.
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Antibiotics in Pig Fodder May Fuel Global Rise of Superbugs Antibiotic overuse on pig farms may be a major contributor to the drug-resistant bug crisis worldwide. A study conducted by researchers at Michigan State University shows that the overuse of antibiotics in pig farm is a major contributor to the global ...
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The key to losing weight and keeping it off? Just keep it up for a year, study says Twelve is the magic number for dieters hoping to shed the pounds for good, scientists have found - with maintaining a weight-loss programme for a year key to making the change stick.
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Virtual Reality View of Surgery Live-Streamed for First Time to Audience Worldwide U.K. doctors turned the operating room into a virtual reality experience today by using a special camera to live-stream a 360-degree view of a procedure to users worldwide.
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Watch a real cancer surgery streamed live in virtual reality at 8AM ET New VR technology has let us relive moments from history, visit alien worlds, and see our planet from the sky, but in a few hours, owners Google's Cardboard or Samsung's Gear VR headsets will be able to go somewhere they probably haven't before ...
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Why letting teens sleep in could save lives Ask parents of teenagers what they're worried about, and among the issues they're likely to bring up is their teens not getting enough sleep.
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Florida Woman Allergic to Own Sweat, Tears Details Her Ordeal With Rare Condition A Florida woman is speaking out about her rare condition, which has left her unable to leave the house during the day. Julie Reid said she developed a devastating immunological condition called cholinergic urticaria, which causes her skin to become ...
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Woman Affected by Rare Skin Condition is Allergic to own Sweat,Tears Julie Reid says that a rare skin condition she developed out of the blue three years ago virtually destroyed her life. The 28-year-old Florida woman recently said that in just three years she put on 100 pounds, but she can't exercise since she quickly ...
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Dolmio and Uncle Ben's firm says eat some of our products just once a week The maker of some of Britain's most popular pasta sauces plans to tell customers some of its products should only be eaten once a week.
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Stars turn out to support Sean Parker's cancer initiative Actors, singers and royalty gathered in Silicon Valley to support technology billionaire Sean Parker's gala celebrating cancer survivors and pioneers in cancer immunotherapy.
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Brain Implant Helps Restore Movement for Paralyzed Patient, Researchers Say A paralyzed man used an implant in his brain and his thoughts to move his arm, marking an advance in a decadeslong effort to restore movement to people with spinal-cord injuries.
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Study: Parasitic worms could help treat gut illnesses Eating worms may sound like a grade school prank, but for people with inflammatory bowel disease, a certain type of parasitic worm has the potential to actually help treat their condition.
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Autism covers spectrum This is the first story in a three-part series on Autism Spectrum Disorder. April is Austim Awareness Month, so this series will first define what autism is, then cover the therapies available and then give some insight through a parent's perspective ...
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Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom Have a Date Night at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Launch Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom turned a star-studded charity event into another date night, but mostly shied away from the cameras. The 31-year-old pop star and 39-year-old actor attended the launch of Napster co-founder Sean Parker's Parker Institute ...
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Teen Badly Injured When Vape Pen Explodes At Brooklyn Mall NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A teenage boy suffered serious injuries when a vaporizer he was holding blew up in his face. After five days of recovery in a hospital bed, the 14-year-old boy was left with permanent injuries after his attorney said he was ...
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Mom's heartbreaking eulogy honors daughter's 'heroic battle' with drug addiction HAVERHILL, Mass. - The mother of a 23-year-old woman who died of an accidental heroin overdose confronts drug addiction in a heartbreaking eulogy that is going viral on Facebook.
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Watch World's First Cancer Operation Live-Streamed In Virtual Reality One of UK's top cancer surgeon, Dr. Shafi Ahmed to perform the world's first cancer surgery to be live streamed in Virtual Reality (VR).
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Eat Some Worms? Parasites May Actually Help Stomach and Bowel Diseases Researchers trying to figure out how to fight unpleasant digestive conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease say they may have figured out how to use an unlikely ally - worms.
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State Senate votes to reform autism program services DOVER, Del. - The state Senate has passed and sent to the House legislation overhauling the way Delaware serves students with autism spectrum disorders.
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Naked Labs' home fitness scanner captures your entire body in 3D Naked Labs is unveiling what it calls the world's first 3D Fitness Tracker. It scans your entire body using a mirror and a scale, capturing your weight and the outline of your body.
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Nutrition Coalition suggests dietary guidelines made Americans fat Data show Americans have followed the government's dietary guidelines -- and gotten fat as a result. Related Media. Big Fat Lies?
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Napster co-founder bankrolls project to speed cancer work TRENTON, N.J.—A project to speed development of cancer-fighting drugs that harness the immune system has academic and drug industry researchers collaborating and sharing their findings like never before.
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Grieving mother's moving obituary goes viral after daughter's overdose death One mother's heart-warming eulogy is going viral after her 23-year-old daughter died of a heroin overdose. With stark honesty, Kathleen Errico spoke about her daughter's struggle with addiction and accidental overdose.
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New York teen blinded by E-cigarette explosion What's In E-Cigarettes? Researchers say they know more about what's not in e-cigarette vapor than what is. (CNN) - 14-year-old Leor Domatov learned an unfortunate and potentially dangers of vaping, slay for using an electronic cigarette.
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Is Vegetable Oil Really Better for Your Heart? Two people stand at a stove, some chopped onions, or maybe a pitcher of pancake batter, at each of their sides. One puts a pat of butter into his pan, letting it melt.
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E-Cigarette Use by US Teenagers Rose Last Year, Report Says A 15-year-old smoked an e-cigarette in a town near New York City. About 5 percent of middle school students reported using e-cigarettes in 2015, an increase from 2014, the C.D.
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Scientists created stuttering mice to help people who stutter Want more news? Sign up for free newsletters to get more of the AJC delivered to your inbox. That's the sound of a mouse stuttering, and it could be the key to developing treatments for stuttering in humans.
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Is vegetable oil really good for you? Cooking with vegetable oil to reduce saturated fats can lower cholesterol, but it may not help curb the risk of heart disease or add years to your life, U.S.
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CardioBrief: Old Trial Strikes New Blow to Traditional Diet Advice A new analysis from a long-forgotten 1960s study adds to mounting doubts over a cornerstone of dietary advice for more than 50 years: the demonization of saturated fat in the diet.
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Transforming Stem Cells into Diabetes Beaters Pancreatic type beta cells produced from stem cells can sense glucose, release insulin and treat a mouse model of diabetes. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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'Stuttering' mice may help unravel mystery of human speech disorder Mice supposedly don't speak, so they can't stutter. But by tinkering with a gene that appears to be involved in human speech, researchers have created transgenic mice whose pups produce altered vocalizations in a way that is similar to stuttering in ...
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A mother's depiction of daughter's overdose touches thousands When Kathleen Errico of Haverhill found her 23-year-old daughter dead of a heroin overdose on April 2 - slumped over in bed, lips white, television turned on at 3:45 a.m.
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How Fast Food Messes With Your Hormones If you want to eat healthy, you'll need to forgo fast food, which is high in sodium, sugar and grease. A new study supplies even more incentive to do so by finding that fast food is a source of chemicals called phthalates, which have been linked to a ...
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Should the smoking age be raised? Why California says yes. Beginning next year, no one under 21 will be permitted to buy tobacco products in the state of California. By Story Hinckley, Staff April 13, 2016.
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Statewide CWD testing to begin The fear the three letters, CWD, bring to deer hunters is nearly equivalent to the fear the word ebola brings to everyone. Arkansas Game and Fish Commission announced in February the first positive case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Arkansas in ...
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Study says jet air hand dryers spread 1300 times more germs than paper towels LONDON, England - A research study seems to show that jet air hand dryers, which are designed to be more efficient than warm air hand dryers and towels are very germy.
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