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US|Some Health Plan Costs to Increase by an Average of 25 Percent, US Says The HealthCare.gov website. Consumers in some states will find significantly fewer insurance companies offering coverage, the federal government said Monday.
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Why employees feel so pinched by health-care costs The growth in employees' share of health-care premiums and deductibles has slowed over the past decade, but their incomes have lagged behind, according to a new study.
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Trump, Clinton spar over Obamacare; campaign ends big-ticket fundraisers TALLAHASSE, Fla. - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday argued that spikes in health insurance premiums for Affordable Care Act plans provided an urgent rationale for his election on day that also brought fresh signs of a flagging ...
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Seizing on Rising Costs, Trump Says Health Law Is 'Over' Donald J. Trump said that figures suggesting Affordable Care Act premiums would increase by an average of 25 percent for next year were far too low.
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Uber returns to Upstate New York — this time to offer flu shots An Uber driver sits in his car near the San Francisco International Airport. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File). An Uber driver sits in his car near the San Francisco International Airport.
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Nurse Who Caught Ebola Settles Suit Against Dallas Hospital A nurse who contracted Ebola two years ago while caring for the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S. with the deadly disease settled a lawsuit Monday against the parent company of the Dallas hospital where she worked.
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University sells HIV testing kits in vending machine Students at a Chinese university now have the option to test themselves for HIV at their convenience, as they can now purchase affordable testing kits in vending machines.
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A Call To End HIV/AIDS In America Robert C. Gallo, MD Most widely known for the discovery of human retroviruses, the co-discovery of HIV and development of the HIV blood test.
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Autism study shows benefits when parents get involved (CNN) For millions of families around the world, autism poses daily challenges. Some parents find it difficult or even impossible to communicate with their own children or understand how they perceive the world around them.
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Framingham State student tests positive for mumps A student at Framingham State University tested positive for the mumps, and school officials now are working to ensure the student's roommates and close friends have been properly immunized, a spokesman said.
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Cutting-Edge Treatment for Mentally Ill Patients One in four individuals will experience mental illness this year, according to mental health experts. Statistically that means about 800,000 of Orange County's 3.2 million residents will experience major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or ...
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Nevada Is The Worst State For People With Mental Health Challenges Mental Health America recently released their comprehensive State of Mental Health Report, where it ranked how well each state handled mental health challenges, primarily through its citizens' access to care and the percentage of people with unmet needs.
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New CRISPR Tools More Precise, but Targeting Mishaps a Worry FLORENCE, Italy - As new technologies are added to the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing toolbox, possibilities for more efficient and precise manipulation of DNA open up.
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Baby "born twice" after life-saving surgery outside of womb Texas mom Margaret Boemer will have a fascinating story to tell her daughter Lynlee about when she was born. During her second trimester, Boemer learned during a routine ultrasound that her unborn child had a large tumor growing out of her tailbone.
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Changes Found in Brain After Single Season of Youth Football, Study Finds Researchers have found evidence that even a single season of football may affect certain aspects of a young athlete's brain, according to a small study published today in the medical journal Radiology.
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Heading footballs 'affects memory': study London (AFP) - Heading a football can significantly affect a player's brain function and memory up to a day, a study by researchers at Scotland's Stirling University has said.
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Complaint: Mich. hospital denied ill woman's procedure The American Civil Liberties Union and its Michigan chapter filed a complaint with the government Tuesday, alleging that a major Catholic health care provider refused medically necessary treatment to a seriously ill pregnant woman on religious grounds.
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We're One Step Closer to the Male Contraceptive Pill It's early days, but a new medical breakthrough may hold the key to creating a male contraceptive pill, which for pharmaceutical companies has been a sexual health holy grail for decades.
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Why requiring low-nicotine cigarettes is still ill-advised Global policymakers will soon consider a policy of requiring that only reduced-nicotine cigarettes can be manufactured or sold. This may sound good, but as someone who has studied tobacco for decades, I believe it is premature to deploy this as a tool ...
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Private struggle: Why some with breast cancer keep it to themselves After a breast cancer diagnosis, many find comfort in connecting with family, friends and support groups - but some choose to live with their illness more quietly, keeping it private from almost everyone.
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Ervolino: Candy corn gives the Halloween competition a good shellacking The results of a state-by-state poll on Halloween candy were released last week, and just reading the list gave me cavities. The poll was done by the website Influenster, which sounds like "influenza" and may be almost as contagious.
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How Uber is helping RI residents get a free flu shot SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - After stumbling in 2016, Apple is betting on a better year ahead. The Silicon Valley tech giant is forecasting a return… GM reports record 3Q earnings despite slowing US sales.
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Heartbeats: Zika virus awareness seminar slated for Metuchen Public Library What exactly is Zika, what are its symptoms, who's at risk and how can it be prevented? Loading… Post to Facebook. Heartbeats: Zika virus awareness seminar slated for Metuchen Public Library What exactly is Zika, what are its symptoms, who's at risk ...
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How to trick your kids into good habits this Halloween "Healthy" and "Halloween" are two words that might as well be opposites in a country that's expected to buy an estimated 600 million pounds of Halloween candy this year.
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These metro Atlanta counties rank among nation's highest for STD cases Four metro Atlanta counties rank among the highest in the nation for cases of certain sexually transmitted diseases, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Why requiring low-nicotine cigarettes is a bad idea The Conversation US Independent source of news and analysis, from the academic and research community. By Lynn T. Kozlowski, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
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Uber's courtship of upstate NY continues with free flu shots FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2015, file photo, a man leaves the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. Ride-hailing company Uber received a complaint about erratic driving by Jason Dalton Saturday night, but says it never could have predicted the violent ...
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Even one season of tackle football can damage young brains, study finds Learn exactly what a concussion is and why it is so important to allow your brain to fully recover. Traumatic brain injuries contribute to "a substantial number of deaths and cases of permanent disability" each year, according to the CDC.
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US FDA adds abuse warning to prescription testosterone Oct 25 Drugs used to treat low testosterone will carry a new warning about the potential risk of abuse, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday.
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Uber Health on the Road (Photo : Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: The Uber home page is displayed on an iPhone next to the company logo on a computer screen on August 3, 2016 in London, England.
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How drugs intended for patients ended up in the hands of illegal users Wholesale distributors sent pills to drugstores that fueled the opioid epidemic. Photo / Hawkes Bay Today. For 10 years, the government waged a behind-the-scenes war against pharmaceutical companies that hardly anyone knows: wholesale distributors of ...
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Same Room? Same Bed? What's Best for Baby and Parents? Pediatricians group recommends infants and parents sleep in the same room, but they say sleeping in the same bed can be dangerous.
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Uber Is Giving Out Free Flu Shots Today Don't have time to go to the doctor for a flu shot? Get one from Uber. The ridesharing company is handing out free flu shots on Tuesday, Oct. 25.
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The Tipping Points of the 2016 Election What are the tipping points in the states likely to decide the 2016 presidential election? Bellwether counties in swing states show that the demographic gulf between the Democrats' more urban coalition and the Republicans' base of rural and blue collar ...
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STD rates in California are the highest they've been in 25 years National health officials sounded the alarm last week about a troubling rise in chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis rates, with cases reaching an all-time high in 2015.
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Ebola Nurse Nina Pham Settles Lawsuit with Dallas Hospital Nurse Nina Pham, who many have come to know as the Ebola nurse, has finally settled a lawsuit with her employer's parent company.
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Too many mothers stop breastfeeding too soon, and task force says doctors should change that Too many mothers stop breastfeeding their babies too soon, and a panel of experts says doctors, nurses and other health professionals should do more to change that.
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Merck talks I/O combo strategy as Keytruda nabs first-line NSCLC Merck ($MRK) is confident that its Keytruda (pembrolizumab) will work well in combination with traditional forms of chemotherapy. Up next are next-gen combos with new efforts such as cancer vaccines and IDO inhibitors.
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For Parents: Comparing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Many of the issues surrounding the 2016 presidential election will have a major impact on U.S. families. AP. By Renee Cramer. When asked, at the close of the second presidential debate, to say something nice about her opponent, Hillary Clinton ...
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'Men Have Breasts, Too': New York Man Who Survived Stage 2 Breast Cancer Spreads Message Michael Singer had ignored the small lump under his left nipple for months, when he finally decided on a whim to mention it to his doctor during an exam in December 2010.
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Prescription Testosterone Gets New Warning The labels on prescription testosterone will now carry a new warning about the serious health risks that have been linked with abuse of these products.
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FDA Steps Up Warnings for Testosterone, Other Steroids The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it's stepping up warnings about testosterone and other steroid drugs. Not only can the drugs cause heart attacks, personality changes and infertility, but people can easily abuse them, the FDA said.
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New study says football can damage young brains after one season It's no secret that studies put our country on high alert for football-related concussions. Sari Soffer Published: October 25, 2016, 10:15 pm Updated: October 25, 2016, 10:15 pm.
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Woman Unexpectedly Gives Birth Thinking She Just Had Kidney Stones Forget spending nine months in birthing classes, setting up a crib and packing a bag for the hospital—one mom went into the hospital thinking she had kidney stones, and came out with her fourth child.
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What selfie viewing could mean for your self-esteem Whenever we log on to Facebook or scroll through Instagram, our social media feeds are usually filled with other people's selfies.
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RVA Parenting: The Teal Pumpkin Project This Halloween, several children with food allergies will dress up and go trick-or-treating, but not all of them will be able to gorge on chocolate and lollipops.
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Preteens Need Only Two Rounds of HPV Vaccine, CDC says (CNN)Young people who get the human papillomavirus vaccine before turning 15 need only two doses, rather than three, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced last week.
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| DEA reduced enforcements as opioid epidemic gained momentum: 5 things to know Drug Enforcement Administration officials delayed and blocked enforcement actions as the nationwide opioid epidemic raged on, reports The Washington Post.
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Young football players' brains change after one season "If we really want to understand what's going on at the end of the line for professional players, we need to be looking at the very beginning," Dr.
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The Presidential Election Has Stressed Us Out So Much, Even The American Psychological Association Is Worried Well, it's official. After almost two years of listening to speeches, seeing posts on your news feed, and reading one alarmist article after another, the presidential election has stressed us out so much that the American Psychological Association took ...
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