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Most doctors ill-equipped to give end-of-life care, survey finds Nearly all doctors believe it's important to talk with patients about the care they want in their final days. But most physicians work in systems that provide little help, and often they don't know what to say or when to say it, according to a survey ...
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Dolmio and Uncle Ben's warn their pasta sauce should only be eaten 'occasionally' Mars food, the company behind Dolmio's pasta sauce, is to introduce a new label advising its consumers that its products that are higher in fat, salt and sugar should be only eaten "occasionally".
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Zika Mutates Extremely Quickly, Which Is Why It's So Scary One thing that's especially confounding about Zika is that as soon as something about the virus is understood, it comes under question.
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CDC: Mixed News for U.S. Kids and Tobacco Use Use of nontraditional tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and hookah pipes, continues to rise among teens, stalling efforts to reduce overall tobacco use among high school and middle school students, federal officials reported.
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Greenery plays key role in keeping women healthy, happy Varying levels of vegetation (photos 1, 2, 3) reflect a new study's findings that link higher amounts of greenness to lower levels of mortality.
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Greener spaces may be a sign of good health Women living in homes surrounded by lots of trees and vegetation may have a lower risk of death than those in areas with less greenery, a new study suggests.
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CDC reports e-cigarette use skyrocketing among teens If an average high school class contains 30 students, at least seven of them were tobacco users in 2015, according to a report released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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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 Statesman 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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Do Jet Hand Dryers Really Spread More Germs Than Paper Towels? A man dries his hand with the Dyson Airblade jet dryer (his right hand is taking the picture, duh). Those jet hand dryers might dry your hands super fast and make you feel like you're living in the future, but they might be making others around you ...
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New technology allows medical students worldwide to watch operations live A British surgeon turned an operating room into a global, virtual reality experience with the idea to allow medical students to "stand in the shoes" of an experienced surgeon.
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UK Doctors Live-Stream Cancer Surgery: How Virtual Reality Can Help Medicine Students UK doctors were able to live stream a cancer surgery, providing 360-degree views of the procedure. The technology, which uses virtual reality, may help boost how medicine students learn vital information.
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New AbbVie hepatitis C regimen shows high cure rates: studies An experimental once-daily combination hepatitis C treatment being developed by AbbVie Inc demonstrated very high cure rates across a wide range of disease genotypes, according to data presented on Saturday, likely giving the company a more ...
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Rare Condition Makes Florida Woman Allergic To Own Sweat, Tears A woman in Florida is suffering from a rare condition that makes her skin hypersensitive to sweat and tears. The condition called cholinergic urticaria makes Julie Reid break out in severe hives that have affected both her professional and personal lives.
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Florida girl hypersensitive to her own sweat and tears due to rare immunological disorder: report An immunological condition that Julie Reid developed three years back has literally made her allergic to her own sweat and tears. She develops massive hives if she sweats, cries or even takes a shower.
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Mosquito control efforts take new tactics with Zika threat Tom Noftsinger, a vector control specialist with the St. Louis County Health Department, tosses pellets of larvicide into water from a low lying swampy area in a subdivision off Kerth Forest Drive near Mehlville on Friday, April 15, 2016.
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CDC: Roughly tenfold increase in use of e-cigarettes by teens in just 4 years If an average high school class contains 30 students, at least seven of them were tobacco users in 2015, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Diabetes Update: This Is How Low-Income Americans Afford Insulin Treatment Registered nurse Susan Eager (R) teaches a diabetic patient how to draw her own insulin injections during a house call on March 26, 2012 in Denver, Colorado.
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This Woman's Response To Anti-Aging Advice Is A Powerful Must-Read Women are so often inundated with warnings against aging - You must prevent wrinkles, cover gray hair, never look your age - that it's easy to simply stop noticing them, to just accept that women shouldn't get older.
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'Chicago Med' Actress Aims To Break Silence About Diabetes Actress S. Epatha Merkerson teamed up with Merck and the American Diabetes Association on America's Diabetes Challenge. View Full Caption.
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E-skin 'can monitor body's oxygen level' Scientists say they have developed ultra-thin electronic "skin" that can measure oxygen levels when stuck to the body. The goal is to develop such "skin" to monitor oxygen levels in organs during surgery, say researchers in Japan.
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Fast food serves up phthalates, too, study suggests (CNN) A new study finds that those fast food drive-thru hamburgers and take-out pizzas could increase your exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals called phthalates.
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Eating Fast Food Exposes You To A Controversial Chemical A new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives found that people who consume more fast food had higher levels of phthalates, a potentially harmful industrial chemical, in their urine.
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2 Your Health: Study raises more questions about dietary advice The latest study questions advice many people have been following for years - swap saturated fats (like butter) - for polyunsaturated fats (like margarine and vegetable oils) to keep the heart healthy.
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Thyroid Cancer Subtype Reclassified as Noncancer An international panel of pathologists and clinicians has reclassified a type of thyroid cancer to reflect that it is noninvasive and has a low risk for recurrence.
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New York teen badly injured by exploding e-cigarette A teenage boy suffered serious injuries when an e-cigarette vaporizer he was holding blew up in his face. The 14-year-old, who spent five days in the hospital, was left with permanent injuries after his attorney said he was maimed and blinded by an ...
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Progress Made in Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative Two years into the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, practices have made progress toward transforming delivery of primary care but have not yet shown savings in expenditures, according to a study published online April 13 in the New England ...
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Low-Fat Diets May Help Older Women With Breast Cancer Survive Longer: Study FRIDAY, April 15, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Older women who follow a low-fat diet may be slightly less likely to die if they develop breast cancer, a new study suggests.
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Insulin-making cells can be efficiently generated, Salk scientists say Salk Institute scientists say they've discovered a key ingredient needed to make functional insulin-producing beta cells. With that knowledge, the scientists say they can realize a dream in treating Type 1 diabetes: growing replacement beta cells from ...
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ITC to resume cigarette production amid health warning row NEW DELHI India's biggest cigarette maker ITC Ltd will soon resume production at its factories, the company said in a statement, two weeks after it decided to shutter its plants over the government's stringent new packaging rules.
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Study: Dyson hand dryers spread more germs than paper towels, other dryers Researchers found in a recent study that jet dryers in bathrooms, such as the Dyson Airblade, spread far more germs than traditional hand dryers or paper towels.
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This is your brain on LSD The image comes from a new study published in the journal PNAS, which used modern techniques to map out the effects of a placebo and LSD on 20 healthy participants' brains.
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Doctors Unsure About How To Talk With Patients About End-Of-Life Care Doctors know it's important to talk with their patients about end-of-life care. But they're finding it tough to start those conversations.
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Sean Parker, Silicon Valley's bad boy genius, wants to kick the *!$% out of cancer LOS ANGELES - Sean Parker is in a partying mood. He has invited 700 of his closest friends to his $55 million home on this starlit evening to celebrate the launch of his latest project, which he describes as the most important thing he has done in his ...
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How GOP presidential candidates compare on health care issues Six years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, "Obamacare," the nation's health care remains at the center of political debate.
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'No differences' between children of same-sex and opposite-sex parents (CNN) A new study in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics finds that the kids really are all right. Despite the ongoing cultural debate around same-sex parenting, the new study finds the children of same-sex parents are just as ...
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The fed's new 'war on drugs': Obama proposes $1.1 billion to expand care for opioid addicts Amid a prescription opioid abuse and heroin use epidemic largely fueled by overprescribing among doctors, President Obama has suggested allocating $1.1 billion to expand affected individuals' access to care— a proposal that has garnered bipartisan ...
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More and more doctors want to make marijuana legal A group of more than 50 physicians, including a former surgeon general and faculty members at some of the nation's leading medical schools, has formed the first national organization of doctors to call on states and the federal government to legalize ...
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Many women could benefit from earlier mammograms, analysis finds New research suggests that all women turning 40 should get a breast cancer risk assessment, since half of them may have risks that are high enough to warrant annual mammograms right away.
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Charlestown YMCA to Hold Event for Kids On Saturday, April 30, the Charlestown YMCA is holding a free community event to inspire more kids to keep their minds and bodies active.
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A Study on Fats That Doesn't Fit the Story Line So which kind of fat is actually bad for you? Credit Karsten Moran for The New York Times. There was a lot of news this week about a study, published in the medical journal BMJ, that looked at how diet affects heart health.
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Doctors Find Discussing End of Life Care Difficult to Patient, Study Finds Doctors do know the importance of discussing the end of life care with their patients. But new study shows that many doctors still not sure how to discuss it with their patients.
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CMS new primary care payment model aims at improving health outcomes Primary care physicians who were trying to transition out of a fee-for-service world sometimes were hit with up-front costs that made it more difficult to get excited about altering their care model in a significant way.
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Health officials say Zika a 'real concern to everyone' As our monsoon season approaches it is important to understand the risks we face from diseases mosquitoes carry like Zika, West Nile virus, Chikungunya, Dengue and Yellow fever and what you can do to prevent them.
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