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UNAIDS appoints amfAR chair and fashion designer Kenneth Cole as Goodwill Ambassador Michel Sidibé (right), the Executive Director of UNAIDS, introduces fashion designer Kenneth Cole as an International Goodwill Ambassador.
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Starting Thursday, Terminally Ill Patients In California May Take Life-Ending Drugs LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) - California Thursday will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives with medication prescribed by a doctor.
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Teen Depression Treatment Is an Increasingly Thorny Issue Treating mood disorders in children and adolescents is a tricky business. The pharmaceutical industry has developed some powerful drugs that can blunt some of the more serious imbalances in brain chemicals that are linked to depression, but it's ...
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Angola: Red Cross Calls for Immediate Scale-Up in Response to Deadly Yellow Fever Outbreak in Angola Nairobi/Geneva - Concerned by the ongoing spread of the yellow fever outbreak in Angola and beyond, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is calling for an immediate scale-up in response.
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Study Questions Use of Antidepressants for Children, Teens WEDNESDAY, June 8, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Treating children and teens suffering from depression with antidepressants may be both ineffective and potentially dangerous, a new analysis suggests.
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WHO says new yellow fever case in Congo transmitted locally KINSHASA A new case of yellow fever detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital was transmitted by a local mosquito, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday, raising the possibility of a wider outbreak of the disease in the country.
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For 1st time, more than 4 in 10 U.S. women are obese The nation's obesity epidemic continues to grow, led by an alarming increase among women. For the first time, more than 4 in 10 U.S.
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Idiot Who Says Zika Is a Conspiracy Still Wants You to Buy His Bug Spray Websites like Natural News accuse the Centers for Disease Control of orchestrating a global conspiracy around the Zika virus. Specifically, they claim that the illnesses and birth defects that people are seeing have nothing to do with the virus, but ...
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Mom of Down syndrome baby writes to doctor who suggested abortion A 15-month-old baby with Down syndrome has won hearts around the Web for mailing a letter to the doctor who told her mother to abort her.
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California End-Of-Life Law Begins On Thursday SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - On Thursday, California will join three other states that have enacted end-of-life laws. After an extensive process, terminally ill patients will be able to end their lives at their discretion.
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California's End of Life Option law: More peaceful deaths or moral quicksand? People sit on the beach and watch the sun set as seagulls fly overhead in Santa Monica, Calif. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri). Cathy Lynn Grossman Religion News Service | Jun. 8, 2016.
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Mother pens touching letter to doctor who told her to abort child with Down syndrome A Florida mother who said her doctor advised her to abort her child after detecting Down syndrome during a prenatal appointment has shared a photo of the girl mailing a letter to that same doctor.
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Muhammad Ali and his fight against Parkinson's NEW YORK - Muhammad Ali fought his greatest battle, not in the ring, but against the disease that would ultimately rob him of his physical strength, and all but silence his outspoken personality.
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Flea tests positive for plague in South Lake Tahoe area Fleas from an chipmunk found in the South Lake Tahoe area have tested positive for plague, according to El Dorado County public health officials.
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Terminally ill can face death on own terms Diagnosed in 2013 with late-stage breast cancer, her second bout with the disease, the San Francisco resident has a few wishes: to make it to her 85th birthday in January, and to ask her doctor for a lethal drug prescription under California's new ...
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Withings Body Cardio is a smart scale that also measures heart health As a person with high cholesterol, I am constantly monitoring what I eat and how much I weigh. I use a connected smart scale that can measure a variety of helpful metrics, such as weight, muscles mass, bone mass, hydration and even heart rate.
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Sneakernomics: Ali's Greatest Fights Were Not In The Ring Muhammad Ali has always been an inspiration to me. After turning pro in 1960, at age 18, he went on a tear rarely seen in his time and never today, winning 29 fights in 76 months, with 23 by knockout.
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Rold Gold pretzels, Hostess snacks recalled for possible peanut contamination Frito-Lay is voluntarily recalling some of its Rold Gold brand pretzels because they may contain peanut residue not identified on the label.
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Phoenix Baby Suffers Second-Degree Burns After Being Hit by Scalding Water From Garden Hose A 9-month-old boy in Phoenix received second-degree burns over 30 percent of his body on Tuesday after being hit by extremely hot spray from a garden hose as his mother tried to fill up a small wading pool.
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Microsoft Finds Cancer Clues in Search Queries Dr. Eric Horvitz is one of the Microsoft researchers who conducted the study. Credit Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times. Microsoft scientists have demonstrated that by analyzing large samples of search engine queries they may in some cases be able ...
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Withings Body Cardio Scale Also Tracks Heart Health Technology has made weight loss as easy as slapping on an activity tracker, connecting with a virtual trainer, and stepping on a smart scale.
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Withings' latest scale can gauge your cardiovascular health Nokia recently bought Withings for $191 million and immediately put it in charge of its entire digital health business. The Finnish company may have been persuaded in part by the Body Cardio, Withings' new flagship scale that launched today.
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A Call to Community for Affordable Healthcare The presidential and congressional election campaigns this year are not the only arenas in which President Obama's healthcare legacy is at stake.
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Excluded groups say they should be part of UN AIDS meeting NEW YORK (AP) - Gay, transgender and other groups blocked from participating in a high-level U.N. meeting on AIDS represent the populations most affected by the disease and should take center-stage at the event, advocates said Tuesday.
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The Brain of a Fighter Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to the Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. "I know for a fact that he does not have Parkinson's disease," the physician Martin Ecker decreed from Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in September of 1984, where ...
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Aggressive Cancer Care Widely Used Among Patients at the End of Life Many patients 65 years or younger are still receiving aggressive cancer treatment in their final months of life despite Choosing Wisely recommendations encouraging symptom-directed palliative care.
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Mayo Clinic to greatly expand research facilities ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic is more than doubling its research space, the first major step in a $6.5 billion plan to increase its Rochester presence.
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Mayo Clinic to add 2M square feet to research footprint Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic plans to add 2 million square feet of research space in less than 20 years as part of its plan to build up the downtown clinic as a destination medical center, according to the Star Tribune.
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Ashley Furniture agrees to $1.75M fine for safety violations Wisconsin firm and OSHA reach broad settlement after reports of serious injuries at several plants. By Jackie Crosby Star Tribune.
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FDA: People Are Overdosing On Anti-Diarrhea Drugs WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation's drug abuse problem.
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Review: Withings Body Cardio scale rides a new wave The Body Cardio is claimed to be able to measure waves along your arteries caused by your heartbeats, but can it? (Credit: Michael Franco/Gizmag) View gallery (4 images).
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Vector control looking at new ways to fight the Aedes Aegypti mosquito The serious nature of the Aedes Aegypti infestation in the valley has the Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control looking into new ways of getting rid of the bug, including aerial spraying pesticide.
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OSHA: Workers not protected from toxic compounds, other safety and health hazards at Manheim facility MANHEIM, Pa. - A Lancaster County auto reconditioning business is facing $51,000 in fines after an OSHA investigation turned up serious violations.
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These Recalled Nature Made Vitamins Could Be Full of Staph A variety of Nature Made vitamins were recalled Wednesday over fears of staph and salmonella contamination. Supplements are once again playing a dangerous game of hide and seek.
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FDA: People are overdosing on anti-diarrhea drugs WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation's drug abuse problem.
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Rold Gold Snacks Recalled for Undeclared Peanut Frito-Lay is recalling some dates and codes of Rold Gold Tiny Twists, Rold Gold Thins, Rold Gold Sticks and Rold Gold Honey Wheat Braided for undeclared peanuts, one of the major food allergens.
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Anti-Diarrhea Medicine Abuse Leads To FDA Warning Over-the-counter medicine such as Imodium can be deadly in large doses, the FDA said. Anti-Diarrhea Medicine Abuse Leads To FDA Warning.
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FDA: People are overdosing on anti-diarrhea drugs FILE - This Oct. 14, 2015, file photo, shows the Food & Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. The FDA is reconsidering whether doctors who prescribe painkillers like OxyContin should be required to take safety training courses, according to ...
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Save a life in 2 easy steps with hands-only CPR Here's how simple it can be to bring someone back from the brink of death: It took just a few minutes Tuesday to train dozens of people in hands-only CPR.
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Mayo Clinic announces plan to double research footprint SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Mayo Clinic's dream of turning Rochester into the Silicon Valley of Medicine just took a major step toward becoming a reality.
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Mosquitoes starting slow, but expect more after recent rains From left, senior equipment operator Ruben Nanez, supervisor grounds maintenance Tirso Carillo and grounds tech Christopher Smith pump water.
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Bringing awareness to PTSD during month of June June is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. According to National Center for PTSD, the illness affects just under 10 percent of U.S. population.
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Cigarette-pack warnings work better with photos Gruesome pictures on cigarette packages may convince more smokers to quit, a U.S. study suggests. In a four-week experiment, researchers randomly assigned about 2,150 adult smokers to receive either text-only or photo-enhanced warnings on their ...
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Long-Term Pot Smoking Doesn't Seem to Harm Health: Study Even after years of heavy use, marijuana doesn't seem to have much of an impact on the physical health of the body. So finds a recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry, which analyzed data from a group of 1,037 New Zealanders followed from their birth ...
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Plague detected in Lake Tahoe area A flea from a yellow-pine chipmunk in the South Lake Tahoe area has tested positive for plague, California health officials report.
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Muhammad Ali worked to raise awareness of Parkinson's People all over the country are remembering Muhammad Ali, including two friends and fellow boxers reminisce about their experiences with The Greatest.
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Moses has arrived: Aptly named baby's biblical proportions wow family, staff at Hutchinson hospital Moses William Hilton is held by his parents Leslie and Gina Hilton at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center Wednesday morning, June 8, 2016.
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What is vaping? Slidell vapers explain it With half a dozen vape stores that have popped up in Slidell, the natural questions for a lot of folks is - what exactly is vaping and how is it different than smoking?
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WHO says new yellow fever case in Congo transmitted locally KINSHASA A new case of yellow fever detected in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital was transmitted by a local mosquito, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, raising the possibility of a wider outbreak of the disease in the country.
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Amgen says migraine prevention drug meets main goal of study An experimental drug for prevention of chronic migraine headaches from Amgen Inc met the main goal of a midstage study by reducing the number of monthly attacks compared with a placebo, the company said on Wednesday.
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