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India's new AIDS bill has a worrying clause that could weaken free treatment for all HIV patients Ten-year-old Ankur Bakshi who was born to HIV positive parents has been on first line HIV treatment since 2009. He has been going to the anti-retroviral treatment centre at Lala Ram Sarup TB Hospital in South Delhi every month to get pills that he ...
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For one Egyptian with HIV, the stigma is too much to bear In this Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Ahmed, who is living with HIV, rests at the office of the Roaya Association for Integrated Development, the largest of the few groups in Egypt that look after people living with HIV.
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How D.C.'s Mayor Plans To End The HIV Epidemic In The Capitol's Backyard From left to right, Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt, Nancy Mahon, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Walter Smith, Channing Wickham and Michael Kharfen launched the 90/90/90/50 plan on Thursday.
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Denver joins global fight against HIV On the first of December every year, people around the world mark World AIDS days with vigils and campaigns to promote awareness about the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to the Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. The doom hung like an anvil over her head. In 2012, a few years after Carol Vincent was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she was waiting to see whether her cancer ...
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Funeral directors anxious over Texas fetal remains rules New Texas regulations requiring cremation or burial of fetal remains will probably be more expensive than state health officials predict, funeral directors say.
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How Would Texas Lawmakers Have Wanted The Hospital To Handle My Abortion? Three years ago last month, I learned 8 years after the fact that I had lost a twin pregnancy. I wrote about the experience here and reproduce part of that story below: Already the mother of two children, I became pregnant in 2005.
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Parkinson's linked to bacteria in the gut For the first time, researchers have found a functional link between the bacteria in the gut and the onset of Parkinson's disease, one of the world's most common debilitating brain disorders.
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'Magic mushroom' drug lifted 'cloud of doom' for cancer patients (CNN) Patrick Mettes was overcome with frustration. He was anxious. His bile duct cancer seemed to bring him more anguish than his wife, Lisa Callaghan, ever realized, she said at a news conference Wednesday.
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Texas Again Places Obstacles in Front of Those Seeking Abortions In June, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Texas had enacted unlawful regulations against abortion providers and women seeking to get an abortion.
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Reducing the burden of diabetes THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) recently raised the alarm over the rising cases of diabetes worldwide.
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Color Me Bad? Scientist Calls Negative Stereotypes a 'Threat' to Black Health Family practice provider Rodell Cruise uses a stethoscope to examine a patient in an exam room at a Community Clinic Inc. health center in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.
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High Schoolers Punch Martin Shkreli In The Face, Figuratively Who can make Daraprim for less, pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli (center) or a bunch of schoolboys? Fight! (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images).
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How highs and lows in testosterone levels 'shock' prostate cancer cells to death Munich, Germany: A strategy of alternately flooding and starving the body of testosterone is producing good results in patients who have metastatic prostate cancer that is resistant to treatment by chemical or surgical castration, according to new ...
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Prostate cancer sufferer 'cured' with male hormone testosterone A man with advanced, treatment-resistant prostate cancer may have been "cured" by an experimental therapy that involves shocking tumours to death with testosterone.
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Understanding of Parkinson's 'transformed' Scientists in California say they have transformed understanding of Parkinson's disease. Their animal experiments, published in the journal Cell, suggest the brain disorder may be caused by bacteria living in the gut.
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Ryan, Johnson condemn Tomah VA over possible infections from dentist A dentist is responsible for possibly exposing nearly 600 veterans at the Tomah VA to several types of disease. Loading… Post to Facebook.
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Seema Verma: CMS Nomination Concerns Policy Experts The architect of Gov. Mike Pence's Medicaid expansion in Indiana is expected to play a key role in determining how Republicans replace President Barack Obama's health care law.
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Trump's conservative dream team Donald Trump's education secretary nominee is a huge critic of public schools and has pushed to steer taxpayer dollars to charter schools and voucher programs.
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Half million Floridians sign up for Obamacare coverage in 2017 Florida's voters may have gone for President-elect Donald Trump, whose campaign promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but many state residents still appear to be fond of the health law better known as Obamacare.
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Trump's vow on Medicare in doubt after HHS choice During the campaign, Trump said he stood out from other Republicans because he did not want to change the popular program. ADVERTISEMENT.
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Tom Price Appointment Underscores GOP Plans to Overhaul Medicare and Medicaid The newly appointed head of the Department of Health and Human Services is a longtime Obamacare opponent who also wants to privatize Medicare and give Medicaid back to states.
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RPT-Switching course, Gilead markets HIV drug for prevention NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc has begun marketing its HIV treatment Truvada in a way thousands of consumers already use it - to prevent infection with the virus that causes AIDS.
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Man cured of prostate cancer after being given testosterone to shock tumors A man has been "cured" of prostate cancer using an experimental therapy that shocks tumours to death with the sex hormone testosterone.
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What Trump's pick to run Medicaid did for the white working class in Indiana As a candidate, Donald Trump offered scant information on what he would do for the white working class, the demographic group that many analysts have said gave him his victory.
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Martin Shkreli's not mad teens made his drug for about $2 a dose, you are Remember Martin Shkreli? Pharma troll and fan of both Donald Trump and the Wu-Tang Clan? He just got schooled by a bunch of teens, but he's not mad about it.
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Schoolkids cook up $2 dose of the $750-a-pill Daraprim Remember Martin Shkreli, the hedge-fund manager who last year founded Turing Pharmaceuticals, acquired an essential anti-parasitic drug, and quickly jacked up its price 55-fold, from $13.50 to $750 a pill?
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MDMA May Soon Be Approved For Treatment-Resistant PTSD Plans to conduct phase three clinical trials on MDMA are moving ahead after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted permission on Wednesday, according to Brad Burge, a spokesman for Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
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Students have made Martin Shkreli's $750 drug in their chem lab for just $2 Last year, hedge-fund manager Martin Shkreli made headlines for all the wrong reasons when he bought anti-parasitic drug Daraprim and jacked up the price overnight from $US13.50 to $750 a tablet.
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How MDMA Treats PTSD: Everything You Need to Know This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted researchers permission to move forward with a study plan for a large-scale phase three clinical trial studying the effects of MDMA as a therapeutic drug for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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House approves sprawling bill that would expand medical research The House overwhelmingly backed broad legislation Tuesday to increase federal support for medical research, advancing a long-anticipated bill that is expected to clear the Senate soon and get President Obama's signature.
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Watch Martin Shkreli Respond to the School Kids Who Recreated His Drug for $2 a Dose The name of former hedge-fund manager Martin Shkreli shot to notoriety last year when the pharmaceutical company he co-founded, Turing Pharmaceuticals, jacked up prices of Daraprim, a 62-year-old antiparasitic drug now used by patients with weakened ...
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Doctor Calls Michelle Obama 'Monkey Face,' But Says She's Not Racist A Colorado doctor has been ordered to stop seeing patients and is being fired from her medical school teaching job after calling first lady Michelle Obama "monkey face" on Facebook and defending herself as "still not racist.
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LA County reports first flu death of the season Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, receives a flu shot from Sharon Bonadies at the conclusion of a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, in 2014.
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California health officials report first death of flu season California health officials on Thursday confirmed the state's first death of this year's influenza season and reminded everyone to get a flu shot before more people get sick.
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Nestle touts new technology to reduce sugar in chocolate Kitkat chocolate bars as seen at a rack of PT Nestle in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Beawiharta. LONDON Nestle, the world's largest packaged food group, said it had made a scientific breakthrough that has the potential to reduce sugar ...
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Medical marijuana in NY soon available for chronic pain The state Health Department said Thursday it is developing regulations to allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with chronic pain, although it has yet to define what symptoms will qualify as chronic pain.
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House OKs bill bolstering medical research, drug approvals FILE - In this Spet. 19, 2015, file photo Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., is seen during a congressional panel at the 2016 Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference in Mackinac Island, Mich.
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Circus Operator to Pay $24K Fine Over Deadly Tent Collapse A Florida-based circus operator has agreed to pay $24,000 in fines issued by federal safety officials for a tent collapse that killed two people and injured dozens in New Hampshire last year.
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The Best (And Worst) States for Diabetes The United States is experiencing a diabetes epidemic. Since 2008, the number of Americans with diabetes has risen by 2.2 million people, and the rate has increased rapidly with growing obesity.
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Legislation To Improve Mental Health Care For Millions Faces Congressional Vote Efforts to strengthen the country's tattered mental health system, and help millions of Americans suffering from mental illness, are getting a big boost this week, thanks to a massive health care package moving through Congress.
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Every Ocean County High School Now Equipped With Narcan; 'It's About Saving A Life,' Prosecutor Says Training session addresses issue of the continuing spread of the crisis, and efforts to fight it. By Karen Wall (Patch Staff) - December 1, 2016 3:43 pm ET.
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Feeling sleepy? You may be costing the US economy $411 billion For while now, economists have been puzzling over why the global economy has been acting so sluggish. Maybe it's because you are.
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House passes sweeping health innovation bill with $1 billion for opioids WASHINGTON—The House approved a sweeping health policy bill on Wednesday aimed at sparking medical innovation, strengthening mental health services, and curbing the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.
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North LA Man Becomes State's First Under-65 Flu Death this Season A middle-aged Los Angeles man has become the first person younger than 65 to die from the flu in California this season. By Paige Austin (Patch Staff) - December 1, 2016 8:55 pm ET.
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