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GOP Readies Swift Obamacare Repeal With No Replacement Ready The first major act of the unified Republican government in 2017 will be a vote in Congress to begin tearing down Obamacare. But the euphoria of finally acting on a long-sought goal will quickly give way to the reality that Republicans -- and President ...
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First case of travel-related Zika virus confirmed in Hays County In this Jan. 18, 2016 photo, a researcher holds a container with female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Zika Virus: What We've Learned This Past Year Zika - a little more than a year ago, most people had never heard of it. Then doctors in Brazil started to see lots of babies being born with malformed heads.
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Researchers have developed a device that can diagnose 17 diseases from a single breath It turns out our breath could hold the key to our health - at least according to a team of researchers who have created a breathalyzer-type device which can diagnose up to 17 separate diseases using a single breath, Quartz reported on Wednesday.
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Could Anemia Cause Hearing Loss? THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Hearing loss may be linked to iron deficiency anemia -- a combination of low levels of iron and red blood cells, new research suggests.
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Does Exercise Work? Why Losing Weight In The New Year Will Be Harder Than You Think The most common New Year's resolutions are getting healthy and losing weight. A survey done by Nielsen in 2015 showed that 37 people said "staying fit and healthy" was their top priority, followed by 32 percent who said they wanted to lose weight.
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More work lies ahead to fight Zika, other threats: CDC chief CHICAGO - A year ago, the mosquito-borne Zika virus was only beginning to reveal itself as a threat to pregnant women and their unborn babies.
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OB-GYNs: Stick with CDC Zika Guidelines To find out what has happened since this story was originally published in February, click here. ATLANTA -- The CDC no longer recommends serial ultrasounds to check for fetal abnormalities in asymptomatic Zika virus patients with a negative IgM test, ...
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Officials: No Mosquito Has Tested Positive for Zika in Cameron Co. BROWNSVILLE - Six people have contracted the Zika virus in Brownsville, yet health officials said not one mosquito trapped this entire year, throughout the city, has tested positive for the virus.
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AP PHOTOS: Dogs provide therapy in a Brazilian hospital In this Nov. 24, 2016 photo, Nivaldo Lopes, a 60-year-old geriatric patient, pets a Schnauzer dog named Paola on his bed at the Support Hospital of Brasilia, Brazil.
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Pfizer and Opko end 2016 downbeat as hGH-CTP fails phase 3 Opko's shares are down more than 17% this morning on the news that its candidate for patients with a rare growth hormone deficiency missed its endpoint in a late-stage test.
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Avian flu outbreaks expand to Slovakia Slovakia is the latest country in Europe to report a suspected highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza outbreak, with the virus still infecting birds in several other countries in the region.
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Are New Year's resolutions pointless? 40 percent of Americans make New Year's resolutions. People see the first day of the new year as an opportunity for a fresh start, but how often do we keep these resolutions?
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Why New Year's resolutions fail… and how to make them stick Every year, millions of Americans make New Year's resolutions, but research suggests only a fraction actually keep them. Things like weight loss and getting more exercise are typically among the most popular resolutions, but this year a new Marist poll ...
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California legislators are mourning the death of Sutter Brown, Gov. Jerry Brown's famous dog Sutter Brown, who died on Friday, was last seen in public on election day, accompanying the governor to vote at his Sacramento polling place.
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Sutter Brown, Gov. Jerry Brown's famous dog, has died Gov. Jerry Brown gives his dog, Sutter, a snack before a Los Angeles news conference to promote the California Pet Lover's License Plate in 2012.
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California's 'First Dog' Sutter Brown Dies at 13 Governor Jerry Brown gives his dog "Sutter" a snack at a press conference. (Wally Skalij via Getty Images). SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - "Sutter" Brown, a Pembroke Welsh corgi christened California's first dog by his owner Gov.
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Man charged with DUI - for caffeine Inside the car, a number of workout supplements were found including powders, but all of them were legal. (KTRK). Thursday, December 29, 2016 11:55AM.
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Outlook for 2017: Healthcare re-reform 2017 had been shaping up as a year focused on fixing the Affordable Care Act's insurance markets, slowing prescription drug price hikes, expanding Medicaid, improving mental healthcare and spreading value-based payment and delivery.
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The global experiment of marijuana legalization (CNN) In 2016, more countries legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes. Marijuana, or cannabis, is "the most widely cultivated, produced, trafficked and consumed drug worldwide," according to the World Drug Report, but its ...
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NYC Issues First 'Intersex' Birth Certificate in US A city agency corrected a birth certificate for Sara Kelly Keenan, 55. She was born intersex and says "gender issues came up almost immediately.
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Overweight dogs at risk of disease, shorter lifespan Can you pinch an inch? Not on your own body, but on your dog's? If you can, he could probably stand to lose some weight. It's something to think about as we enter a new year with good resolutions to improve ourselves - and our pets.
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Low Iron Levels May Be Linked to Hearing Loss When people have low levels of iron in their blood, they may develop a condition called iron deficiency anemia, which is known to have wide-ranging effects throughout the body, and now, a new study suggests that this condition may be linked to hearing ...
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Year in weed: The five most important medical marijuana research studies of 2016 While pot prohibition officially ended in 2012, when voters in Colorado and Washington said yes to legalizing and regulating recreational marijuana, that was only the beginning.
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One state lawmaker wants pornography declared a public health hazard, like smoking RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia lawmaker is asking the state legislature to declare pornography a public health hazard - a move he hopes will pave the way for limits of some sort.
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Lawsuit claims St. Ives Apricot Scrub damages skin, is 'unfit' as a scrub People looking for softer skin sometimes turn to St. Ives Apricot Scrub to exfoliate. But a class action lawsuit recently filed claims that the popular scrub can damage skin and "is unfit to be sold or used as a facial scrub.
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One last surprise: Italian confectioner who launched the iconic Kinder egg dies at age 83 William Salice, who helped create the hugely popular Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs for children, died in Italy on Thursday aged 83, his foundation said.
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How Scientists Are Trying to Keep Genetic Engineering From Ruining the World This week, researchers at UCSF announced they'd uncovered a key to making their genetically-engineered creations a lot less likely to accidentally destroy the world: a way to turn-off modifications made with the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR.
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CRISPR 'Kill' Switch Could Make Human Gene Editing Safer CRISPR-Cas systems provide a new way to target pathogenic bacteria, without some of antibiotics' downsides. Credit: CRISPR-CAS9 image via www.
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Virginia lawmaker proposes bill to declare porn a 'public health hazard' RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia lawmaker has filed a bill that would declare pornography a public health hazard in Virginia. State Delegate Bob Marshall, (R-Prince William), proposed the bill that says porn leads to social problems, such as ...
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Virginia lawmaker wants porn declared a public health hazard RICHMOND, VA (AP) - A Virginia state lawmaker wants to have pornography declared a public health hazard, calling it a moral scourge that leads to infidelity, the "hypersexualization of teenagers" and the objectification of women.
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As Republicans ready to dismantle ACA, insurers likely to bolt J.B. Silvers does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above.
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Is porn a health hazard? This Virginia lawmaker sure seems to think so Is porn a health hazard? Virginia Del. Bob Marshall says it's 'not very good for society' (ABC7). AA. PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va.
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No, The Government Should Not Provide Health Insurance For All Americans According to health policy analyst James Capretta, the answer is "yes." This would not be a surprise coming from someone on the political Left.
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Obamacare Individual Market Profitability Outlook Improving, Says S&P The Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual market has proven a tough nut to crack for U.S. health insurers, with the benefit of strong premium growth offset by persistent underwriting losses for most insurers.
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Ebola breakthrough as vaccine trial shows historic100% success rate A vaccine developed by Merck is the first shown to be highly effective in preventing human infection with Ebola, according to final results from a clinical trial.
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Fireworks for the 1st? Check your state, city laws A plethora of fireworks are available at the Desert Sky Fireworks tent located on Highway 92 in Sierra Vista. prev. next. SIERRA VISTA - There are three days left in 2016 and some residents want to end it with a bang, literally.
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Smoking cessation tips for the New Year As 2016 comes to a close, many people will begin the New Year with one resolution that consistently appears on the top of people's lists, and that's to stop smoking.
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Don't forget your pets on New Year's Eve Landmarks across Australia are set to explode in pyrotechnic displays of light, sound and colour, but not everybody is going to enjoy the show.
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Researchers Develop Vaccine Nanodiscs To Deliver Personalized Treatment For Colon Cancer, Melanoma A personalized treatment for melanoma and colon cancer using vaccine nanodiscs has been devised by a group of researchers at the University of Michigan.
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Study: Fish Oil During Pregnancy May Lower Asthma Risk in Children Pregnant women who took a fish oil supplement during pregnancy were less likely to have children with asthma. By Ben Andrew Henry | December 30, 2016.
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