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Even A Small Meal For A Doctor Can Tip The Balance For A Brand-Name Drug Evidence is mounting that doctors who receive as little as one meal from a drug company tend to prescribe more expensive, brand-name medications for common ailments than those who don't.
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Zika mosquito control innovations should not replace tried and tested methods Utibe Effiong U.S Physician, Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow, Research Scientist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
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As Zika looms, U.S. health officials worry about the neighbors In this Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Darryl Nevins, owner of a Mosquito Joe franchise, sprays a backyard to control mosquitoes in Houston.
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Experts: Some mosquito controls ineffective against Zika In this April 12, 2016, photo, Giraldo Carratala, an inspector with the Miami- Dade County, Fla. mosquito control unit, sprays pesticide in the yard of a home in Miami, Fla.
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The 'chatty gene' gives the gift of gab, and could treat autism Scientists have isolated a gene that makes people sociable - and more likely to run their mouths. Researchers from the University of Georgia say a chemical tag attached to the gene OXT gives folks the gift of gab and makes them more comfortable in ...
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You can get birth control from an app — but should you? The latest thing technology is trying to make obsolete: visiting the doctor's office. An increasing number of apps and online services are offering women a way to get birth control, including emergency contraception, without having to visit a doctor in ...
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Study: Americans spend billions on non-conventional health approaches Americans spend $30.2 billion out-of-pocket on complementary health approaches annually, a substantial percentage of the $328.8 billion spent in total out-of-pocket health care expenditures, a new study says.
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CDC and States Ponder Plans to Keep Ahead of Zika Part of a mosquito-fighting effort in the Virgin Islands aimed at insects carrying the Zika virus. Credit Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo for The New York Times.
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Are kids getting more concussions than we realize? (CNN) Every year, almost half a million (PDF) children across the United States visit emergency rooms for concussions. But recent studies find that number may undercount just how many kids really have concussions.
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FAQ: How and Why We Rate and Rank Hospitals If you're about to be numbered among the more than 90,000 patients a day admitted to a U.S. hospital, is the one your doctor recommended right for you?
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The Problem With the New Chocolate Substitute Is the Problem With All Food Substitutes There's a new form of chocolate out there that wants to replace candy as we know it. The reason it's not going to is the same reason all substitute foods keep failing to deliver on their promises: Accurately replicating food is almost impossible.
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Dad Gets Tattoo to Match His Son's Surgery Scar Josh Marshall's tattoo to match his son's scar was done by Merl Kent of Point Blank Tattoo. 0 Shares. Email. A father's effort to mitigate his son's insecurity after a cancer surgery left him with a scar on his head is gaining attention across the ...
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Texas man fighting for his life due to flesh eating bacteria A Texas man is clinging to life after getting a flesh-eating infection while swimming at the beach with his grandchildren, family said.
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Gene-editing tool CRISPR may soon be used to treat humans for the first time The controversial gene-editing tool CRISPR may soon be used to create custom blood cells that hunt cancer - its first use to treat humans.
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Man's leg amputated after contracting unidentified flesh-eating bacteria at Texas beach A 50-year-old man in Texas is fighting for his life after contracting an unidentified flesh-eating bacteria during a family trip to a local beach.
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Fitbit Says You're Using Your Alarm Clock All Wrong Fitbit rolled out new features for its app that make personalized sleep recommendations for users, including setting optimal bedtimes and wakeup times based on a user's personal sleep history.
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Aerial spraying for mosquitoes set in Arden Arcade, Carmichael Aerial spraying for mosquitoes is scheduled Wednesday and Thursday nights in the Arden Arcade and Carmichael areas, a step prompted by the increasing number of birds and mosquito samples that have tested positive for West Nile virus, authorities said.
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Google aims to stop terrifying you when you search medical symptoms Even if you're not a hypochondriac by nature, jumping on Google to do some research when you have a mysterious headache or cough has been enough to make you one.
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Blood Test May Rule Out Too Many Donor Hearts TUESDAY, June 21, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A blood test that's used to check the health of a donor heart may not accurately predict if a heart transplant will be successful, a new study finds.
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House Republicans Unveil Long-Awaited Replacement for Health Law In their blueprint for an alternative to the Affordable Care Act, Speaker Paul D. Ryan and his Republican team did not provide a cost estimate or legislative language.
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Measles Q&A: It's only a handful of cases - should we be worried? HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE MEASLES? Symptoms appear 10 days after exposure. Irritability, a runny nose, red eyes and a hacking cough, as well as fever, can signal the illness.
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Atrial Fibrillation Patients With Stroke Risk Often Prescribed Wrong Medicine Nearly 40 percent of patients with heart problem that can cause stroke are prescribed the wrong medicine. Why are atrial fibrillation patients treated with aspirin and not the recommended blood thinner?
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Study Biggest Yet to Explore Zika in Pregnancy, Childbirth The study, which may involve as many as 10,000 women, will look at how the timing of the infection affects pregnancy outcomes. By Steve Sternberg | Senior Writer June 21, 2016, at 5:41 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Multi ...
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US will spend $2.6 trillion less on health care than expected before Obamacare, study projects A new study predicts that the federal forecast of national health care spending under President Obama's signature health law was a big overestimate - by $2.6 trillion over a five-year period.
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Brain-Eating Amoeba Eyed in Death of Ohio Teen An 18-year-old Ohio woman died after apparently contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming out of state, it was reported Tuesday.
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County offering free rapid HIV and Hepatitis C testing The Department of Health and Social Services, Public Health Division is offering free rapid Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C testing to the public from noon to 4 p.m.
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What Will It Take to Cure HIV? The director of research at amfAR tells us what her organization is doing to ensure AIDS is eradicated. By Rowena Johnston. June 20 2016 5:22 AM EDT.
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'We had no hope': The amazing story of the baby born with his brain outside his skull It was Halloween night, and she was wearing an orange T-shirt with a pumpkin covering her belly. It was embellished with her new son's name and his expected birth date: "Bentley.
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Measles confirmed in unvaccinated child attending Miami-Dade public school A child who attended an unidentified public school in Miami-Dade County was confirmed to have contracted measles, the Florida Department of Health said on Tuesday.
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Striking nurses question Allina spending Jerry Holt Thousands of nurses walked around Abbott Northwestern on the first day of the strike Sunday in Minneapolis. Text size. comment.
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An update from the front lines of Alzheimer's fight Hoping to expand local understanding of Alzheimer's Disease while discussing the current state of research on the illness, a spokesman and expert with the Alzheimer's Association spoke in Salisbury recently.
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Have fun, crush cancer at Twinsburg/Nordonia Relay For Life Twin sisters Zoe Felber and Elana Felber, 16, of Twinsburg, and Gabbi Santacesaria, 16, and Anne Mattoni, 15, also of Twinsburg, co-chairs of this year's event, grew up with Relay For Life.
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Second Relay for Life returns to Durham Like all participants in the Relay for Life's KnockerBall arena, Tess McIntyre spent some time getting knocked to the ground. (Mark Dionne/Town Times).
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The DEA is probably not reclassifying marijuana later this summer A report by the Santa Monica Observer was thrilling marijuana proponents over the weekend after it quoted an anonymous lawyer as saying that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration was poised to reclassify marijuana as a "schedule two" drug.
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Work group unveils plan to address Alzheimer's in Montana HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The state needs to better help residents with Alzheimer's and related dementias and their families and be prepared to address an expected increase in patients over the next decade, the Montana Alzheimer's/Dementia Work Group said.
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Boy, 8, Dies After Pharmacy Allegedly Gave Medication Dosage 1000 Times Higher Than Prescribed by Inside Edition. An 8-year-old boy died after a Colorado pharmacy gave him a dosage of medication 1,000 times higher than what he was prescribed, his mother said.
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Longest Day fundraiser held for Alzheimer's awareness TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) -- The official start of summer approached on Monday, and many made it out to the Bel Air Golf Course to play a hand of bridge.
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BloodCenter plans drive next week The BloodCenter of Wisconsin is hosting a Declaration for Donations Blood Drive from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, and 11:30 a.m.
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Parkinson's disease may be getting more common Reuters Health - Parkinson disease may have become more common over the past 30 years, at least according to a study in one Minnesota county.
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Commission recognizes Elder Abuse Day ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY PROCLAIMED. The Cherokee County Commission recently signed a proclamation recognizing June 15, 2016 as Elder Abuse Awareness Day.
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How Could Hot Drinks Cause Cancer? Drinking very hot beverages may burn the esophagus and increase a person's risk of developing cancer. Credit: Shutterstock/Svetlana Lukienko.
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