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Jury awards $70M to woman in baby powder lawsuit ST. LOUIS (AP) - A St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of ...
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Fatal Measles Complication Killed Patients Years Later A deadly measles complication that kills kids years after they seemingly recover may not be as rare as doctors thought, researchers said Friday.
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Canada's Top Pharmacy Wants to Sell Marijuana (CNN) -- Canada's top pharmacy is hoping to be the first in the country to legally sell over-the-counter medical marijuana. 'Shoppers Drug Mart' says it has filed paperwork with the Canadian government to become a licensed cannabis distributor.
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More American Adults Think E-Cigs as Harmful as Cigarettes: Survey THURSDAY, Oct. 27, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- The percentage of American adults who believe that electronic cigarettes are as bad as tobacco cigarettes has tripled in recent years, a new study finds.
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Injectable birth control for men holds promise; risks remain Injecting men with two different hormones every eight weeks suppressed their sperm production enough to act as birth control, according to a new study.
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We're One Step Closer To Hormonal Birth Control For Men A global clinical trial to test the effectiveness of hormonal contraceptive shots for men found that these shots successfully suppressed sperm production in nearly 96 percent of men who completed the study.
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Work still needed on promising male birth control shot THURSDAY, Oct. 27, 2016 -- A birth control shot for men shows some promise, but researchers are still struggling to improve its effectiveness and deal with severe side effects caused by the injections.
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Health|The Cure for UTIs? It's Not Cranberries Freshly harvested cranberries. A new study suggests that they don't reduce the frequency of urinary tract infections. Credit Daniel Acker/Bloomberg.
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Cranberry Products May Not Prevent UTIs: Study THURSDAY, Oct. 27, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Many American women swear by cranberry juice as a home remedy to help prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs).
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Cranberry Juice Won't Prevent Urinary Tract Infection, Study Finds (CNN) - Cranberries, cranberry juice and cranberry products are often recommended as a natural way to prevent urinary tract infections, but a new study suggests that this effort may be futile.
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Boston Globe Endorses Adult-Use Legalization In a surprising move, the Boston Globe has endorsed the Massachusetts cannabis legalization initiative, Question 4. In an op-ed published Thursday morning, the Globe editorial board announced its support of the initiative.
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California Pot Farmers Divided On Legalizing Recreational Marijuana Sustainable cannabis farmer applies fertilizer to a crop of plants at a small family farm in Humboldt County, California on May 5, 2016.
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Court strikes down second Arkansas medical marijuana proposal The proposal was one of two Arkansas medical marijuana proposals on the ballot, and justices earlier this month rejected a challenge to a competing measure.
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Arkansas court disqualifies 2nd medical marijuana proposal LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday disqualified a medical marijuana proposal from the ballot less than two weeks before the election and with thousands of votes already cast, but voters will still be able to consider a ...
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Former cop shares his breast cancer survival story NEW ORLEANS - A local man and former NOPD officer is sharing his breast cancer story. When most people picture breast cancer survivors, they may not be like Dwight Deal, a former football player, homicide detective, and a man.
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Breast Cancer Poses Unique Challenges for Trans Community For six years, a California transgender man neglected a lump growing on his right breast. "It was scary. I just kind of ignored it and ignored it," said the 53-year-old man, who asked to be identified only by the initials, "SK.
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How the Next President Could Influence the Fight Against Breast Cancer About 40,450 women are expected to die of breast cancer in 2016, according to the nonprofit organization Breastcancer.org. Breast cancer remains the No.
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Have a kid with migraines? Sugar pills work as well as drugs CHICAGO (AP) - Sugar pills worked as well at preventing kids' migraines as two commonly used headache medicines, but had fewer side effects, in a study that may lead doctors to rethink how they treat a common ailment in children and teens.
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Soylent stops shipping powder that was making people sick Soylent has paused production on its main product, the Soylent Powder, after determining that it's been making people sick. That's now two items that Soylent has had to halt production of: the Soylent Powder, and previously, the Soylent Bar.
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Does baby powder cause cancer? Another jury thinks so, awarding $70 million to a California woman For the third time, Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict over whether the talc in its baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.
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Talc verdict winner: Money can't make up for lost health Deborah Giannecchini, of Modesto, Calif., listens to a question during a news conference Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, in St. Louis. A jury has awarded Giannecchini more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson's baby ...
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$70M jury award to woman in suit over Johnson & Johnson baby powder ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis jury on Thursday awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the health ramifications of ...
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Making food allergies less scary at Halloween (CNN) In the spirit of Halloween, treats can be tricky for kids with food allergies, which is one in 13 children under the age of 18 in the United States.
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These NICU Babies Could Not Be More Adorable In Their Tiny Halloween Costumes A group of babies in the NICU received a special Halloween treat this month when March of Dimes teamed up with nurses at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City to make special costumes for the babies in their care.
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Husband Says Fringe Church's 'Miracle Cure' Killed His Wife Doug Nash held his wife Sylvia as her eyes rolled back and she slumped in his arms. Just hours before she had been healthy and happy, he said, but he knew then that his partner of five years was dead.
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NICU nurse makes costumes for tiny preemies As a charge nurse in the NICU at Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, her job is to ensure the health and well-being of the tiny babies that are born too soon to go home.
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How a teal pumpkin can save a child's life This is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. When you have a child with allergies, the fun and excitement of Halloween can become overshadowed by the haunting worry about hidden ...
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4 Helpful Things Every Voter Over 50 Should Know Traditionally older Americans vote in larger percentages than the rest of the population. In fact, in the last 38 years, the 65-plus demographic averages a voting percentage of nearly 60 percent.
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'Vote Flipping' Happens, But It Doesn't Mean the Election Is Rigged In a normal election year, when a nominee for a major political party is not questioning the fundamental process undergirding our 240-year-old democracy, voting machines malfunction.
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The truth about 'patient zero' and HIV's origins (CNN) - The man blamed for bringing HIV to the United States just had his name cleared. New research has proved that Gaëtan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant who was dubbed "patient zero," did not spread HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to the ...
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Researchers May Have Discovered The 'Fountain of Youth' ST. LOUIS (KMOX) -Local researchers make progress in slowing the signs of aging in healthy mice. Washington University researchers say a natural compound called NMN, appears to slow some aspects of aging in mice - when added to the water they drink.
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Kristan Hawkins: I Am Voting for Donald Trump and Pro-Life Voters Should Too. Here's Why No presidential election in recent memory has presented two candidates who were more disliked, even by their own parties. Indeed, not only active party members, but also a significant majority of ordinary, grassroots Americans - especially millennials ...
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Protected from HIV, 'elite controllers' still fight for a cure Kai Brothers (center) who has H.I.V. but no signs of AIDS waits for the BART train on his commute home from work, in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016.
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Compound in broccoli may slow signs of aging Fine lines creeping across your face, and the inevitable aches and pains that come with your advancing years— if you, like most, want to delay the depressing signs of aging, new research suggests a simple answer: Eat your greens.
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Petition asks YouTube to ban 'underweight' vlogger Eugenia Cooney A vlogger is playing defense after a petition claimed her "serious underweight condition" could influence young girls - and called for a YouTube ban until she seeks help.
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Myanmar confirms first case of Zika virus infection - state TV YANGON A pregnant foreign woman in Myanmar's largest city Yangon has been diagnosed with Zika, the first case of the mosquito-borne virus in the southeast Asian country, state-owned Myanmar TV (MRTV) said on Thursday.
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Double Bind For New Parents: Keeping Baby Safe And Keeping Yourself Sane When I read earlier this week that the American Academy of Pediatrics had announced new sleep recommendations to protect against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths, I had an immediate and visceral reaction: ...
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When It Comes To UTIs, It's Time To Move On From Cranberry Cures People who suffer from chronic urinary tract infections may want to put down the cranberry juice. The once-promising cranberry treatment is looking less and less like an alternative cure-all for UTIs, and more like a folk tale.
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Once again, Donald Trump embraces conspiracy theories to undercut the results of the election The way psychics and con artists work is they use small things to build into a bigger picture. They let you believe something little and then leverage that little thing to reinforce the broader narrative they're hoping to trick you into.
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Voting for Trump? GOP lawmakers get into rhetorical knots WASHINGTON - Some Republicans who were for Donald Trump before they were against him are now promising to vote for the GOP presidential nominee.
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Advocates of Kansas' mental health courts say lives improved WICHITA, Kan. - Municipal Judge Bryce Abbott slid into a high-backed leather chair behind a stack of bloated manila files documenting the dilemma of adults seeking refuge in Kansas' groundbreaking mental health court.
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First Alaska marijuana business denied due to concerns of Outside interests In a first for Alaska's marijuana industry, a potential marijuana shop in Anchorage was rejected by the state due to concerns over an Outside company's stake in the business.
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After flipping against Trump, why some Republicans are now embracing the flop Only a few hours had passed since Donald Trump was exposed on videotape bragging about kissing and grabbing women without their consent when Rep. Jason Chaffetz joined the growing group of Republican officeholders willing to publicly break with ...
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How Clinton and Trump Would Address the Cost of Health Care Arthur (Tim) Garson, Jr., MD, MPH, MACC Director of Texas Medical Center Health Policy Institute. National Academy of Medicine member.
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KanCare expansion may bring $2 million to McPherson County "There's the group in the middle with 150,000 people in Kansas who are uninsured because they don't have enough to purchase insurance and make too much to qualify for Medicaid.
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