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Nightmare superbug: What is it? And should you worry? The news Thursday that researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort has caused alarm among public health and infectious disease experts.
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Experts highlight sunscreen facts most people ignore Too few people take action to protect their skin from sun damage, which can not only lead to sunburn, but it also accelerates aging and skin cancer.
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Short Answers to Hard Questions About Antibiotic Resistance The idea of people dying from infections that were once easily cured may seem outlandish. But it is happening already - taking about 23,000 lives in the United States a year - and experts warn that things will get worse because bacteria are becoming ...
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Cellphone radiation study raises concerns despite low risk FILE - This Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 file photo shows a display of cell phones during a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mobile tracking demo in Washington.
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US government study suggests link between phones and cancer Permanently attached to your phone? You might want to rethink. Spencer Platt, Getty Images. Smartphones are the defining accessory of 21st century life.
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Seriously, stop with the irresponsible reporting on cellphones and cancer No. Please stop this. No one has established that cellphones cause cancer, particularly in humans. That headline and image combo is wildly misleading.
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Answers to tough questions about antibiotics, superbugs The Food and Drug Administration has moved to rein in the meat industry's broad use of antibiotics to make animals grow faster.
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Brains Of Schizophrenia Patients Attempt To Self-Repair, MRI Scans Reveal Schizophrenia is believed to be a degenerative mental illness. MRI imaging, however, showed that the brains of patients suffering from this condition become more "normal" over time.
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What You Need to Know About the Cellphone and Cancer Study Federal researchers have rushed out results from a study that shows cellphone radiation might cause brain and heart tumors in rats.
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How Zika Infects The Placenta Zika virus can infect and replicate in immune cells from the placenta, without killing them, scientists have discovered. The finding may explain how the virus can pass through the placenta of a pregnant woman, on its way to infect developing brain ...
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World Health Organization Dismisses Calls To Move Or Postpone Rio Olympics The World Health Organization is trying to ease concerns about spreading Zika as a result of this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janiero.
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Fight against Zika virus reaches Anne Arundel Aedes aegypti mosquitos sits inside a glass tube at the Fiocruz institute where they have been screening for mosquitos naturally infected with the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, May 23, 2016.
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Mothers-to-be closely watch Zika virus progress Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun/TNS Kaysha Curro, 33, is 8 months pregnant and has a big pool and yard that fills with mosquitoes in the summer.
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Layoffs grow at Pasco plant shuttered by listeria recall CRF Frozen Foods, 1825 N. Commercial Ave., laid off an additional 61 workers Friday on top of 245 already laid off as the plant remains closed while investigators attempt to discover the source of a listeria contamination.
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At 96, Heimlich performs his own maneuver Monday might not have been the first time Dr. Henry Heimlich performed his namesake medical procedure on a live choking victim. But the woman who survived the incident said she's thankful the 96-year-old Cincinnati resident sprung into action on her ...
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California lawmakers quickly pass emergency HIV-organ transplant bill SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California lawmakers approved emergency legislation Friday to allow a man with HIV to receive part of his HIV-positive husband's liver before the surgery becomes too dangerous, possibly within weeks.
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Mosquito trap maker can't meet demand amid Zika outbreak MIAMI - The "enormous demand" created by the international Zika epidemic for traps used to monitor mosquitoes that carry the virus caught their German manufacturer off-guard, two company officials said Friday.
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Residents alerted to measles exposure The Fort Wayne-Allen County Department of Health is alerting unvaccinated residents who shopped at two department stores in northeast Fort Wayne between 5 and 8:30 p.m.
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How legal marijuana keeps running into censorship issues Too tempting for young eyes when marijuana is legal? The ballot initiative to legalize marijuana in Maine includes a provision that marijuana magazines be placed behind the counter at retail establishments where children would be present.
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8 more cases of measles confirmed in Arizona State health officials have issued an alert for Pinal County. The outbreak started with two cases at an Eloy detention center. Loading… Post to Facebook.
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ColoradoCare represents too big a gamble for state We've watched with interest the debate over Amendment 69, which will appear on the statewide ballot this November. The proposed constitutional amendment would create ColoradoCare, a single-payer health-care system that would cover 83 percent of ...
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Amid frozen-food recall, more than 300 laid off at Pasco plant CRF Frozen Foods' announcement Friday raises the number of laid-off workers to more than 300. Share story. By. Wendy Culverwell.
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New York City Will Warn Diners About Salt Intake New York City restaurants are getting called out for giving the salt shaker a few too many taps. According to the New York Times, restaurants, theaters, and other food-serving chains with 15 or more locations nationally will be required to post ...
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The world's first pot-friendly gym is opening in San Francisco A new gym called Power Plant Fitness will allow members to consume marijuana on-site while working out. It's claiming to be the world's first cannabis-friendly gym.
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Cannabis gym in San Francisco: Members to get high for workout focus and recovery after cannabis performance ... A marijuana plant is seen at Tweed Marijuana Inc in Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada March 19, 2014. Reuters/Blair Gable. Founders of world's first marijuana-inspired gym in San Francisco, Power Plant Fitness, believe that cannabis is good for focus and ...
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Researchers study opioid addiction among patients using it to manage chronic pain A group of researchers held a survey to find out barriers in reducing the opioid use. A team of researchers has recently surveyed patients to understand barriers to reducing the use of opioids to manage chronic pain.
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Why is Legalized Marijuana Making Teens Smoke Less Pot? Legalized marijuana is in no way leading to an increase in use among teenagers, according to the findings of a new study. One would think the legalization of marijuana would convince more teens to light up a fat one and chow down on copious amounts of ...
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Several medical groups urge Congress to provide required funding for Zika virus prevention, treatment The American College of Physicians (ACP) along with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) sent a letter today to House and ...
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Intercept's Liver Drug Wins FDA Approval To Treat Rare Disease The FDA ended a busy week by giving a thumbs-up late Friday to obeticholic acid as a treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis, a rare disease in which a patient's own immune system attacks the liver.
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As Opioid Epidemic Continues, Steps to Curb It Multiply The overdose death toll from opioids, both prescription drugs and heroin, has almost quadrupled since 1999. In 2014 alone, 28,000 people died of opioid overdoses, more than half from prescription drugs.
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Deadly disease prompts deer testing in parts of Missouri It is unknown if this deer, seen recently at Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, has Chronic Wasting Disease, but an outbreak of the disease is affecting deer populations in Arkansas.
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Your health: Make sure your pool isn't a health hazard Ah, summer. A time when young and old alike flock to the local pool or splash park for relief from heat. That is, unless the particular public pool, hot tub or water playground you flock to is among the thousands that are forced to close each year ...
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Sick Wisconsin student, 8, gets kidney transplant from teacher An 8-year-old Wisconsin girl received a life-changing gift Tuesday from a special donor: a teacher at her school. Natasha Fuller went into surgery along with Jodi Schmidt, the Oakfield Elementary teacher who donated a kidney to the first-grader.
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Fight The Bite This Memorial Day Weekend: How To Prevent Mosquito And Tick Bites DETROIT (WWJ) - Memorial Day is the unofficial kickoff to summer and officials are reminding us as we spend more time in the outdoors, it's important to take precautions against mosquito and tick bites.
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