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GOP senators present Obamacare alternative (CNN) Two Republican senators introduced legislation Monday to replace Obamacare amid mounting pressure on the GOP to craft an alternative to the massive healthcare law.
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Kellyanne Conway Says Trump May Act Quickly To Undermine Key Feature Of Obamacare If the administration takes such action, it's likely that fewer people would pay a financial penalty for not having health insurance, but people who hold onto their coverage would face higher premiums.
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Officials urge flu vaccination for children, persons at risk The Logan County Health Department announced today the first reported flu death this flu season in Logan County. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) and Logan County Health Department are urging everyone 6 months of age and older to ...
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Baltimore Mom Furious After School Dental Program Removes Child's Teeth Without Her Knowledge When Shanda Flemming signed a permission slip regarding a dental program that was visiting her son's school, she thought she was agreeing to a simple routine cleaning.
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Mom Signs Permission Slip to Get Son's Teeth Cleaned. He Misses the Bus… and Comes Home Missing Teeth A Baltimore, Maryland, mom signed her son's permission slip for what she thought would be a routine teeth cleaning with his school's dental program.
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Deadly Yellow Fever Outbreak in Brazil Sparks Fears of Zika-Like Epidemic There's an outbreak of a deadly mosquito-borne illness in Brazil that has health officials worried - and this time it's not Zika, but yellow fever.
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Can burnt toast and roasted potatoes cause cancer? (CNN) The Food Standards Agency in the UK launched a campaign Monday to warn about cancer risks linked to eating burnt toast, over-roasted potatoes and other starchy foods cooked at high temperatures.
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Being incarcerated as a juvenile tied to poor health years later An inmate serving a jail sentence rests his hand on a fence at Maricopa County's Tent City jail in Phoenix July 30, 2010. REUTERS/Joshua Lott.
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What Trump's moves on trade, abortion and federal hiring really do — and don't do On his first full workday in the White House, President Trump took action highlighting the range of his campaign priorities: trade, abortion and tackling government bureaucracy.
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CDC postpones climate conference ahead of Trump takeover Washington (CNN) The Centers for Disease Control postponed a summit scheduled for next month on climate change and public health ahead of President Donald Trump's inauguration, participants and the CDC confirmed Monday.
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CDC abruptly cancels long-planned conference on climate change and health With little warning or explanation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently canceled a major climate change conference that had been scheduled for next month in Atlanta.
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China's birthrate rises after one-child policy loosened In this photo taken Jan. 23, 2017, a man lifts a child up to lantern decorations setup ahead of the Chinese New Year in Beijing, China.
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Model Hanne Gaby Odiele reveals she is intersex Now, the veteran of the runway and city sidewalks is revealing a more intimate piece of herself: Odiele is intersex. "It is very important to me in my life right now to break the taboo," says the 29-year-old supermodel from Kortrijk, Belgium, in an ...
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Model Hanne Gaby Odiele Reveals She Is Intersex What a brave young woman! Model Hanne Gaby Odiele has revealed that she is intersex in a new interview with USA Today, in hopes of shedding light on a condition that affects about 1.7% of the population.
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Roche says FDA grants priority review for Actemra The logo of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche is seen outside their headquarters in Basel, January 30, 2014. To match special report USA-FDA/CASES REUTERS/Ruben Sprich/File Photo - RTX2OO3Q.
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GOP split over Medicaid imperils Obamacare plans Top GOP lawmakers and President Donald Trump are coalescing around a plan to turn Medicaid over to the states as part of their Obamacare replacement.
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Psychological immunisation can help people reject fake news The more specific and targeted a 'psychological inoculation' is, the better it works, just like in medicine. Martha Henriques.
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Sierra Nevada brewery issues 36-state recall of select beers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. announced a recall Sunday of certain 12-ounce bottles of its pale ales, IPA's and other beers after detecting a packaging flaw that could cause a piece of glass to break off into the bottle.
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Gynecologists Warn Against Jade Eggs Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop Website Recommends For Women's Vagina Two women's health experts question the effectiveness of the vaginal jade eggs sold by actress Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle website Goop.
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Are 'natural' cigarette smokers being misled? Natural American Spirit tobacco products are marketed as "natural" and "additive-free," and many users think that means the cigarettes are safer to smoke, according to a recent U.S.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Wants You To Put This Egg In Your Vagina Gwyneth Paltrow is trying to sell you an egg to insert in your vagina even as doctors warn women not to try it. Paltrow's infamous lifestyle site recently interviewed "beauty guru/healer" Shiva Rose for an article titled "Better Sex: Jade Eggs for Your ...
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Florida health rules on medical marijuana bolster the heavily regulated status quo When Florida voters passed Amendment 2 with a 71 percent approval rate last November, they thought they were getting a widened medical marijuana marketplace that a large new swath of patients could access with less regulatory interference.
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To fight their negative image on prices, drug companies launch a major ad campaign that doesn't mention them Just two weeks after President Trump said the pharmaceutical industry is "getting away with murder" on drug prices, the industry's major lobbying group launched its largest-ever ad campaign aimed at rebranding drug companies' image - without even ...
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Unusual Rat Virus Strikes 8 People in Illinois and Wisconsin A virus rarely seen in the United States recently infected eight people in Wisconsin and Illinois who were working in facilities where pet rats are bred, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Watch: Planned Parenthood's 'Pre-Natal Care Deception' National pro-life organization Live Action is releasing a new investigative video allegedly revealing that "pre-natal care," a service Planned Parenthood officials persistently claim is offered in its clinics, is "virtually nonexistent at the abortion ...
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Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine' The appearance of fake news on websites and social media has inspired scientists to develop a "vaccine" to immunise people against the problem.
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Health Information Technology Allows Payers to Share Data CMS partnered with private payers to improve primary care delivery using health information technology and data exchange. Health Information Exchange.
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Women Need to Get Heart Checkups in Their 20s, Experts Say A survey by Orlando Health uncovers that a majority of women believe they don't need heart screenings until they are in their 30s or 40s.
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Republicans push to cut Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood Thousands of women across North Carolina could lose access to health care if Congress persuades President Donald Trump to halt federal Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.
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CMS partners with commercial and state insurers to support primary care practices and reduce clinician burden By Dr. Patrick Conway, Acting Principal Deputy Administrator and Deputy Administrator for Innovation & Quality and. Pauline Lapin, MHS, Director, Seamless Care Models Group, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.
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E-Cigarettes Not a Smoking Deterrent for Kids MONDAY, Jan. 23, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- There's no evidence that e-cigarettes are driving down teen smoking -- and, in fact, they may be drawing in kids who otherwise would never have smoked, a new study suggests.
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LT--Brazil-Yellow Fever SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazilian authorities have confirmed more than 60 cases of yellow fever during the summer rainy season, a sharp rise from just seven the previous year.
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New technology offers hope for sleep apnea patients If your snoring or the snoring of someone else is disrupting your nightly sleep, there is new technology being tested to help alleviate sleep apnea.
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Your Body: Zika Virus and Pregnancy Not too long ago, the governor of Florida announced that his state was clear of locally-transmitted cases of the Zika virus for the first time since July.
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Sleep apnea: hazardous to health, quality of life I guess I began snoring a few years ago. Recently, I feel more fatigued. For the first time, exercise and diet haven't helped me to lose the extra 10 pounds I usually gain during the winter.
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Blue Cross: ACA plans intact in NC despite Trump's executive order Blue Cross and Blue Shield said Monday that President Donald Trump's executive order to weaken the Affordable Care Act does not affect the policies being sold for the current year.
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PBS Documentary Features Local Family Battling Alzheimer's The story of a Springfield family battling Alzheimer's is making news across the Ozarks and soon to be televised nationally. Daisy Duarte became a passionate advocate when the disease hit too close to home.
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Bill would ban sale of e-cigarettes to minors Minors in Michigan wouldn't be able to buy or possess electronic cigarettes or nicotine cartridges under a bill recently introduced in the state Senate.
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UNC mental health coalition petitions Congress for health care protection With rumors swirling of the Affordable Care Act's repeal, a group of UNC medical students decided to do something about it. They formed the Save Mental Health Reform coalition and created a petition that stresses the importance of certain mental health ...
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Sunscreen offers more protection than an umbrella A new study found out that sunscreens offer more protection from the ultraviolet (UV) rays than umbrellas do. However, scientists say that neither of these mechanisms to avoid sunburns can adequately protect people from the harmful rays.
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20 Sickened as Measles Outbreak Hits Los Angeles Orthodox Community (JTA) - A measles outbreak in Los Angeles County, California, is centered on the Orthodox Jewish community, according to reports. Some 20 people have been infected in the outbreak, with 18 in LA County, 15 of whom, according to the LA County ...
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What will birth control coverage be under President Trump? With the Trump presidency underway, the Republican-controlled Senate has already taken its first steps towards repealing and replacing the Obama Administration's Affordable Care Act.
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End of China's one child policy sees births rise to 18.46 million in 2016 ... but it's still not enough China's relaxation of its one-child policy led to the highest number of births for 17 years in 2016 with a further increase in the number of newborns tipped for this year, the country's health authority said.
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US patients often face costly 'surprise' medical bills from out-of-network specialists The average anesthesiologist, emergency physician, pathologist, and radiologist charge more than four times what Medicare pays for similar services, often leaving privately insured consumers stuck with surprise medical bills that are much higher than ...
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Commentary: Be skeptical about mammograms Recently, a Danish study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine attracted a lot of attention for claiming that 1 in 3 tumors detected during mammograms are harmless, meaning that women are often pressed to needlessly undergo potentially harmful ...
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Study shows the alarming cost of early childhood obesity Australian parents have access to a "unique window of opportunity" to influence their children's behaviours that can not only bring short-term health benefits, but also affect health for the rest of their lives.
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