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US blood supply should be screened for Zika, FDA says (CNN) The Food and Drug Administration has recommended screening the entire US blood supply for the Zika virus, it announced today, noting that screening donated blood is already underway in Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Guess How Many Zika Cases Showed Up At The Olympics? Not 1,000. Not 50. Not even 10. Zero. "There have so far been no laboratory confirmed cases of Zika virus in spectators, athletes or anyone associated with the Olympics," the World Health Organization said Thursday on its website.
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EpiPen price hike puts bipartisan heat on Democratic senator's daughter The mounting congressional scrutiny of pharmaceutical giant Mylan over its 400 percent price hike for EpiPen has created an awkward situation on Capitol Hill for Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin -- his daughter runs the company at the center of the scandal.
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Teen pregnancy program had a reverse effect: study They're the baby robots that ruined the social lives of high school students in every teen TV show for the past two decades. Just last week, in The Bachelor Australia, Richie Strahan deployed the screaming dolls to test the parenting prowess of his ...
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MammaPrint Finds Breast Cancer Patients Who Can Skip Chemo In breast cancer patients who were judged to be at high risk by clinical assessment, and who were thus destined for chemotherapy, use of the 70-gene signature test (MammaPrint, Agendia) found that half (49%) of these women could skip chemotherapy.
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Judge won't block California's strict child vaccination law SAN DIEGO -- A federal judge will not immediately block a California law that requires all schoolchildren to be vaccinated and is one of the strictest in the nation for eliminating exemptions based on religious and personal beliefs.
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US judge upholds state law requiring vaccinations A federal judge refused Friday to block California's new vaccination law, which requires children in public and private schools to be inoculated against 10 contagious illnesses and eliminates an exemption based on their parents' personal beliefs ...
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Hong Kong confirms first imported case of Zika virus HONG KONG - Hong Kong confirmed its first imported case of Zika at a news conference late on Thursday. Government-funded broadcaster RTHK said the infected person was a foreign woman in her 30s believed to have caught the virus in the Caribbean.
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Illegally Made Fentanyl Seems To Be Fueling A Spike In Overdoses Federal data suggest illegally manufactured fentanyl, a drug that is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, is behind an increase in synthetic opioid deaths.
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First Days of Preseason Practice Pose Big Heat Risks for College Football Players FRIDAY, Aug. 26, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- As college football players trade in their beach towels for helmets and padding, new research shows their risk of developing sports-related heat illness shoots up.
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Survey Says: Hair Transplants Make Men Look Younger THURSDAY, Aug. 25, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Bad news for the follicularly challenged: A new survey confirms that balding men are seen by others as older and less good-looking.
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Tropical storm would worsen Florida's Zika outbreak Florida braced for a double whammy from Mother Nature on Thursday, with a tropical wave in the Caribbean potentially threatening to balloon into a tropical storm or hurricane just as the region fights outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
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Study: Texas women dying from pregnancy-related causes at alarming rate SAN ANTONIO - A new study shows a dramatic and strange increase in the number of Texas women who are dying from pregnancy-related causes.
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Texas maternal mortality rates on the rise A new study found in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, between 2011 and 2012, the maternal mortality rate in Texas doubled and now state officials are investigating what caused the spike.
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Doctor: I wrote Trump's bill of health in 5 minutes Washington (CNN) The doctor who has produced the only public medical record about Donald Trump during his presidential campaign reportedly said he spent only five minutes writing it.
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Surgeon general takes unprecedented step amid opioid epidemic Opioids cause more than 1,000 emergency room visits and kills 78 people every day. "I think this is one of our greatest public health threats and it's one that we have to respond to with speed and with urgency," U.S.
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The Heartbreaking Story Behind Photo of Elderly Couple Crying An elderly couple from the town of Surrey in British Columbia, Canada, was recently photographed crying after apparently being moved to separate nursing homes a few months ago.
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Your coffee habit may be genetic 1927 headline: Coffee will give you bad grades, kids - In a 1927 Science Magazine, 80,000 elementary and junior high kids were asked about their coffee drinking habits.
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Bill to alert consumers of 'unreasonable' health plan rate hikes heads to governor State lawmakers have sent Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would alert consumers whenever state regulators consider increases to their health insurance premiums to be too high.
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8 Things To Tell People Who Think Men And Women Are Already Equal Women's Equality Day was declared on August 26, 1971, to honor the ratification of the 19th amendment ― the amendment that legalized a woman's right to vote.
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Women's right to vote celebrated by AAUW Photo by Alan Warren, Messenger-Inquirer/awarren@messenger-inquirer.com Angela and David Thompson, left, talk with Judy Adams, president of the Owensboro branch of the AAUW, right, at the Women's Equality Day reception on Friday at the Wendall ...
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US surgeon general sends warning letter to all doctors on opioid epidemic (CNN) In the next few days, every doctor in the United States will be receiving this letter (PDF) from the US surgeon general. It's the first time that America's top doctor has reached out to all physicians.
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Zika Informational Town Hall Held In Fort Smith FORT SMITH (KFSM) -- On Thursday (Aug. 25) a town hall meeting was held in Fort Smith to address safety concerns over the Zika virus.
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'The cheapest buzz you can get on skid row': Officials try to stop homeless from smoking spice after dozens sickened When paramedics arrived at downtown's skid row last Friday in response to a 911 call, they found dozens of people who looked as if they'd overdosed.
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Ethicists scoff at Clinton Foundation transition plan The Clinton Foundation's vague timetable to limit its involvement with overseas programs, and its insistence that Chelsea Clinton remain on its board, raise red flags for ethics watchdogs even as the charity vows to avoid conflicts of interest in a ...
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Avian Flu Found in Wild Duck in Alaska A highly lethal form of avian flu was detected in a wild mallard duck in Alaska, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Friday, reigniting fears of a return of the virus that hasn't been spotted in the country for more than a year.
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Elderly couple cries after being forced to live in separate homes Wolf and Anita Gottschalk of Surrey, B.C., are being forced to live apart because of a lack of space at the same nursing home. (Ashley Bartyik via Facebook).
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Baby dolls aren't birth control: School-issued fake babies aren't stopping teen pregnancy From this week's department of No Kidding, Everybody, a new Australian study published Thursday found giving teenage girls dolls to deter them from getting pregnant doesn't work.
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Texas elector threatens not to vote Trump Chris Suprun is a member of the Electoral College from Texas, a state the GOP can reliably count on to deliver votes every four years to the Republican presidential nominee.
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Rep. Wilson: A Woman Is Going to Planned Parenthood to Make Sure 'a Zika Borne Mosquito Didn't Bite Them' Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) (right) speaks at a Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015 press conference at the U.S embassy in Abuja Nigeria. (AP Photo).
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Amphetamines Polluting Some Urban Streams: Study THURSDAY, Aug. 25, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Medications and illegal drugs are polluting streams in and around at least one major U.S.
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McCain's GOP Senate challenger says he's too old for the job Washington (CNN) Sen. John McCain's primary opponent is standing by her criticism one day after she declared that the soon-to-be 80-year-old Arizona Republican is too old to be re-elected.
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Theranos to appeal regulatory sanctions on its lab REUTERS: Blood-testing company Theranos Inc said it plans to appeal the sanctions imposed by a U.S. regulator last month on one of its labs alleging its practices jeopardized patient health and safety.
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Heroin cut with elephant tranquilizer may have caused 60 overdoses across two states in just 48 hours It's why they brought together a tri-state coalition - Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky - to talk about the dangers, and it's why they issued a stern, desperate warning last month to first responders and addiction counselors who patrol the front lines of the ...
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Tribute: The Man Who Led The War To Kill Smallpox "Anxious, pleading, pock-deformed faces; the ugly, penetrating odor of decaying flesh; the hands, covered with pustules, reaching out, as people begged for help .... And there was no drug, no treatment that we could give them." Long after Dr. Donald A.
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Jennifer Aniston Partners with Shire to Raise Awareness for Chronic Dry Eyes Jennifer Aniston partnered with Shire Initiative to launch eyelove, a new campaign to bring awareness to chronic dry eye. "My eyes often become dry, itchy and irritated, especially when I am reading or outside," Jennifer said in a statement.
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How amphetamine use may be affecting our waterways New research has added to the growing body of evidence that the chemicals we put in our bodies often end up in our waterways - with noticeable consequences.
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DA Henderson Led Global Campaign to Wipe Out Smallpox D.A. Henderson, an American medical doctor sometimes described as a disease detective, led the successful global battle to eradicate smallpox in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Vivek Murthy Sends A Letter About Opioids To Every Doctor In America Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a letter to 2.3 million American health professionals Thursday, asking them to pledge commitment to combatting the United States' burgeoning opioid epidemic.
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After health-care missteps, a chastened Hillary Clinton emerged On a Saturday morning in the summer of 1994, first lady Hillary Clinton was unnerved as she stood at a lectern in downtown Seattle.
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Tropical Smoothie Cafe Employee Diagnosed With Hepatitis A, Says Virginia Department of Health Health officials in Prince William County are warning about a possible exposure to Hepatitis A after a worker in the Gainesville Tropical Smoothie Cafe tested positive for the virus.
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Study: Easiest way to cut sugar for kids is in drinks Most every parent fights a constant battle with their kids about how much sugar is too much. By: Deena Centofanti. Posted:Aug 27 2016 12:18AM EDT.
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Employee from Va. smoothie chain diagnosed with hepatitis A Nicole and Dennis Blake own the Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Gainesville, Virginia. (WTOP/Mike Murillo). MANASSAS, Va. - An employee at a Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Gainesville, Virginia, has hepatitis A, and the diagnosis has raised fears about the ...
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Heart association: Limit children to 6 teaspoons of sugar a day Children ages 2 to 18 should eat or drink less than six teaspoons of added sugars daily. And children under 2 should not consume any added sugars.
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Butte County residents continue to be at an elevated risk for West Nile Viru Today, the Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District (District) received confirmation that 4 more mosquito pools (a mosquito pool is a group of same specie mosquitoes), 8 more sentinel chickens, and 2 dead birds have tested positive for West ...
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Redmond horse tests positive for West Nile virus A horse in Redmond has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first in Oregon this year and the first in Deschutes County in recent years, health officials said Friday.
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