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FDA Boosts Warning On Danger Of Combining Opioids And Anxiety Meds The Food and Drug Administration is warning that patients and doctors should more fully understand the potentially life-threatening risks of combining anti-anxiety or sleep medications with prescription opioids.
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Mixing Opioids and Tranquilizers Can Be Deadly, FDA Warns More and more people have died from mixing strong painkillers with tranquilizers like Xanax, leading federal health officials to strengthen warnings against doing so.
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FDA: Opioids Plus Sedatives Pose Fatal OD Risk WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Mixing prescription opioid painkillers with a class of drugs that includes popular sedatives such as Valium and Xanax can cause a fatal overdose, U.S.
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Zika Virus: Researchers Identify Potential Therapies Scientists have identified possible therapies for the Zika virus from some 6,000 drugs that are already available commercially or undergoing critical trials.
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Ebola May Be Present in Semen for Year or More TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Ebola virus stays present in semen longer than previously thought, and is more likely to be found in older men, researchers report.
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With 13 Indians affected in Singapore, the deadly Zika virus now looms over 1.3 billion "According to our mission in Singapore, 13 Indian nationals have tested positive for Zika in Singapore," Vikas Swarup, spokesman for India's external affairs ministry, told Reuters on Sept.
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Their Soil Toxic, 1100 Indiana Residents Scramble to Find New Homes Stephanie King with her daughter Ivianna Prater, 8, at their home in the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Ind. Soil at the complex has been found to contain high levels of lead, and Ms. King's 3-year-old son, Josiah, has a worrisome amount ...
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Indonesia Screens for Zika as Singapore Infections Mount JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia is screening travelers from neighboring Singapore for the mosquito-borne Zika virus as the city-state reports a growing number of infections and its first case of a pregnant woman testing positive.
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Possible New Zika Cluster Signals Infection's Advance in Singapore SINGAPORE—Authorities in Singapore have identified a new potential cluster of Zika infections, they said, indicating that it is spreading to more areas of the country, and for the first time here a pregnant woman has tested positive for the virus.
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Zika Worsens in Singapore, and US Experts Are Worried Singapore's outbreak of Zika is worsening fast and U.S. health official say they are worried. Singapore, a city-state about two-thirds the size of Washington, D.C.
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US Marijuana Use Grows As Fewer People Worry About the Risks Marijuana use is on the rise in the U.S., and one reason may be that people perceive the drug as less harmful than people did in the past, according to new research.
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Dogs Can Understand Human Speech A Lot Better Than We Thought You've probably heard the common wisdom that it doesn't really matter what you say to your dog, as long as you say it in a nice way.
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After 16 Years Of Debate, Legislation On Surprise Medical Bills Pushes Forward A measure to protect California consumers from surprise medical bills - among the longest-debated issues to be considered by state lawmakers - moved closer than it's ever been to becoming law when the Senate approved it Monday with a 35-1 vote.
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When Staring at Your Phone Could Lead to a Healthier Lifestyle Staring at a screen all day may seem like a surefire way to become unhealthy, but new research suggests that such behavior can sometimes help people stay healthy.
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Want Better Heart Health? There's an App for That Not on its own, but an app could help you adopt a heart-healthy lifestyle that might reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke and heart disease, a new evidence review suggests.
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Novartis Just Got Some Great News in Its Battle for Amgen's Market Share Amgen amgn just took another big hit from Swiss pharma giant Novartis nvs , which has had the California biotech's formidable drug franchise in its sights for while now.
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Novartis bid to sell new biosimilar crimped by U.S. court battles ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis has won U.S. approval for a copy of Amgen's blockbuster arthritis drug Enbrel, but the Swiss drugmaker's bid to muscle in on the medicine's $4.7 billion in annual U.S.
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Gov. Scott talks Zika in Central Florida Florida Gov. Rick Scott brought his statewide Zika battle to Central Florida Tuesday, offering money to local governments to keep the virus at bay.
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Study Finds Increase in Temporary Paralysis Accompanied Zika Outbreaks Zulay Balza, right, recovering from Guillain-Barre syndrome in February at a hospital in Colombia. Ms. Balza did not show symptoms of the Zika virus; only one in five infected people do.
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Analysis highlights strong Zika-GBS association A new analysis based on data from seven countries hit hard by Zika virus found a strong link between Zika infection and Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), a complication marked by numbness, weakness, and sometimes paralysis of the limbs.
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Online tools help people improve their health but need more study (Reuters Health) - Mobile apps and web-based programs do help people reach health goals like exercising more, losing weight and quitting smoking, but studies need to follow-up longer to see how sustainable these interventions are, according to a recent ...
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Scientists confirm your dog knows what you're saying The next time you want to praise your dog, use a positive word or phrase it knows— and say it in a praising way. That's the finding of new research that reveals that both words and tone matter when humans communicate with canines.
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Good Boy! Dogs Know What You're Saying, Study Suggests BERLIN (AP) - Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: Man's best friend really does understand some of what we're saying.
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CDC takes lead in Hepatitis A outbreak liked to smoothies Another state and 18 more people are now included in a Hepatitis A outbreak linked to frozen, imported strawberries served in smoothies, bringing the totals to six states and 69 victims.
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Your dog understands what you're saying, sort of (CNN) Do you ever wonder whether Fido really understands what you're saying? He might be catching on to more than you think -- and your intonation when saying certain words is just as important to him as the words themselves, according to a small study ...
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Here's how scientists got dogs to lie still in a brain scanner for eight minutes In a study published this week in Science and devoured by dog lovers worldwide, researchers at the Family Dog Project in Hungary concluded that pooches can understand the meaning and tone of human speech and that they process language in the same ...
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Strawberries linked to hepatitis A outbreak in 6 states (CNN) An outbreak of hepatitis A caused by imported frozen strawberries from Egypt has sickened 55 people in six states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
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Your dog really does understand what you're saying Dog owners convinced that their pups can understand them aren't barking mad, after all. Skeptics often say that our four-legged friends respond more to the tone of our voices than the actual words that we're saying to them.
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Young Heart Attack Survivors Not Out of the Woods Yet, Researchers Say iStock/Thinkstock(COPENHAGEN, Denmark) -- The past three decades have seen a dramatic drop in deaths in survivors of heart attacks that struck before age 50 - a decrease in mortality researchers chalk up to a reduction in smoking and improvements in ...
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No Cardiovascular Benefits from CPAP, Study Finds; Quality of Life Improves A large sleep study has found that CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) does not reduce recurrent strokes and heart attacks in people with cardiovascular disease but does significantly improve their quality of life and mood.
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The Major Depression Problem We Need To Address Depression is one of the most common mental-health issues in the United States, and it affects roughly twice as many women as men.
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Egypt's parliament is to vote on tougher penalties for FGM A woman holds a card in her lap warning of the problems with female genital mutilation during a session to educate women in Minia, Egypt, June 13, 2006.
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Psychiatric Illness in Parents, Suicide/Violence in Kids The presence of a wide array of psychiatric illnesses in parents significantly increases the likelihood that their offspring will attempt suicide and engage in violent, offending behaviors after the age of 15 years, a population-based Danish cohort ...
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Test Of Experimental Alzheimer's Drug Finds Progress Against Brain Plaques An experimental drug dramatically reduced the toxic plaques found in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease, a team reports in the journal Nature.
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Experimental drug reduces protein clumps and slows memory loss in early Alzheimer's In the search for a treatment capable of changing the course of Alzheimer's disease, new findings are offering a rare glimmer of hope: In a preliminary trial of subjects suffering from memory and thinking problems or diagnosed with early Alzheimer's, ...
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Sex Suffers for Younger Adults After Heart Attack WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- After a heart attack, many younger adults experience sexual difficulties -- and women more so than men, a new study reveals.
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Overdose Awareness Day: A mother's fight to fix the system that 'failed' her son In a brief moment alone between the tender words and tears, Cherie Short tips her head back and looks up towards the heavens. Ahhh.
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Theranos Reportedly Pulls Request for Zika Test Clearance After FDA Inspection Blood-testing firm Theranos withdrew its request for emergency clearance of a Zika virus blood test after U.S. regulators found the company did not include proper patient safeguards in a study on the test, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing ...
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Entenmann's recalls Little Bite snacks for plastic contamination Bimbo Bakeries - which makes the packaged Entenmann's Little Bites snacks - just issued a mini muffin recall. The company said Wednesday that it's recalling an unspecified number of Little Bites fudge brownies, chocolate chip muffins and variety ...
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Another mosquito-borne virus reemerges in Orange County A mosquito-borne virus similar to West Nile virus that hadn't been seen in Orange County for 30 years has been discovered in mosquito samples gathered in Garden Grove, but a spokesman for the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District said ...
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Theranos hit by another setback as it withdraws request for Zika test approval Troubled diagnostic company Theranos suffered another blow as it withdrew its request for federal approval of a new Zika virus blood test, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Entenmann's Recall: Brownies and muffins Entenmann's has recalled various brownie and muffin products due to the possible presence of small pieces of plastic. According to the press release, the recall includes: Entenmann's Little Bites Fudge Brownies (5 pack).
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Millions of honeybees in SC become collateral damage in fight against Zika SUMMERVILLE, S.C. -- There's been some collateral damage in the fight against Zika -- millions of honeybees in South Carolina.
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Kratom to join heroin, LSD on Schedule I drug list (CNN) Beginning September 30, kratom will be considered a Schedule I drug, a substance that has "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," the Drug Enforcement Administration announced today.
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Theranos voluntarily withdraws Zika blood test from FDA approval (CNN) Theranos decided to voluntarily withdraw its Zika virus blood test that it had submitted for Food and Drug Administration approval, the company said Wednesday.
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Marine Le Pen: 'Anything but Hillary Clinton' (CNN) Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing French political party National Front, praised Donald Trump on Wednesday and said that "for France, anything is better than Hillary Clinton.
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Millions of Bees Killed in Summerville DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD)– Dorchester County is apologizing for accidentally killing millions of bees in Summerville. The honeybees were killed by an aerial spray of a pesticide used to control mosquito populations over the weekend.
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Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, UN Health Officials Warn We are running out of ways to treat gonorrhea, the World Health Organization announced today. The U.N. health agency released new guidelines warning doctors that it no longer recommends an entire class of antibiotics, quinolones, because ...
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Provo woman rushed to hospital for seizures to go home with 'miracle' baby Brooke Williams went to the hospital Sunday after having several seizures. While being examined she found out she was pregnant. It came as a complete shock to her and her husband, Calvin Williams, since she was told she could never have children after ...
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Fed Up With Overdose Deaths, Groups Are Fighting Back Rallies highlight International Overdose Awareness Day; Brick Municipal Anti-Drug Coalition works to educate about dangers. By Karen Wall (Patch Staff) - August 31, 2016 12:06 pm ET.
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