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Wyoming Man Receives 'Miracle' Face Transplant 10 Years After Suicide Attempt Ten years ago, Andy Sandness tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the face. After miraculously surviving the horrific incident, the 31-year-old has received one the rarest surgeries in the world - a face transplant.
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Mayo Clinic Performs 1st Facial Transplant ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) - He'd been waiting for this day, and when his doctor handed him the mirror, Andy Sandness stared at his image and absorbed the enormity of the moment: He had a new face, one that had belonged to another man.
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Twin tragedies give survivor a new face and second chance at a normal life In this Jan. 24, 2017, photo, face transplant recipient Andy Sandness looks in a mirror during an appointment with physical therapist Helga Smars, right, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
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Couple celebrates twin pregnancy after fertility struggle: 'We prayed for 953 days' Lauren Walker is pregnant with twins after spending more than two years trying to conceive. Specifically, "we prayed for 953 days," she wrote in a Facebook post about the journey.
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Trump pick to head Medicare and Medicaid grilled on Obamacare repeal (CNN) Seema Verma, President Donald Trump's nominee for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, took the hot seat Thursday, testifying before lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee.
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Possible Drawback to Gluten-Free: Toxic Metals THURSDAY, Feb. 16, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- America's love affair with gluten-free foods may come at a cost: greater intake of the toxic metals arsenic and mercury, a new study contends.
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The evidence for vaccine safety is abundant. That will be $100000, please. At what point does a body of evidence become massive enough to count as proof? When has a question been answered enough times that it can be put to rest?
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Idaho flu-related deaths increase, officials encourage flu shots BOISE - With 47 influenza-related deaths across Idaho, health officials are urging locals to get their flu shots. Officials also say nearly half of those cases happened in the Treasure Valley metropolitan area.
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CDC halts work in its highest security laboratories over equipment concern The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has temporarily suspended work in its highest security laboratories because of concerns about critical air supply hoses that attach to full-body suits that protect scientists against exposure to the world ...
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Work Stops at CDC's Top Deadly Germ Lab Over Air Hose Safety In this 2007 photo, Thomas Stevens Jr. and Amy Hartman of the C.D.C demonstrated the process of suiting up in order to access the interior of the organization's Biosafety Level-4 laboratory.
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Flu season is still hitting hard Flu activity has been on the rise since the beginning of the year, with Georgia reporting high flu activity levels, and Cherokee County has not been immune to the virus.
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Study: American stress on the rise After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Victoria Demos was working as a therapist in Greenwich Village, N.Y. And even during that fraught and terrifying time, she said, the patients she saw were not experiencing as much anxiety as the ones she's ...
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Report: Americans are stressed out The report found that on a scale of 1 to 10, stress levels among Americans are at 5.1, up from 4.8 just 6 months ago. It's the first significant increase in the 10 years since the survey began.
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Trump has people stressed out, psychological association's poll shows Donald Trump President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017.
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Seema Verma: The Pence ally who could remake health care policy Washington (CNN) When a group of health officials, including Seema Verma, made their first pitch to the Indiana governor on a health care plan, it didn't go well.
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Have lower back pain? Don't pop a pill, guidelines say Instead of prescribing pain pills for low back pain, the American College of Physicians recommends exercise, psychological therapy, manipulation and acupuncture as first-line treatments.
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Boy or girl? It's a sloth, so we don't know yet HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Zookeepers are waiting for a DNA test to learn whether Hattiesburg Zoo's baby sloth is a boy or a girl. That's because sloths' sex organs are internal.
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27-year-old woman has important message about breast self-exams Most women are taught to conduct breast self-exams while in the shower, but the way 27-year-old Hayley Browning recently spotted a lump in her breast was unexpected: It was only detectable when she was lying down.
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Congress debates: Should tax dollars be used to buy junk food? WASHINGTON - The House Agriculture Committee debated Thursday whether taxpayers should pay for sweetened beverages through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but when the five expert witnesses were asked if soda has nutritional ...
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Arizona drug studies target Alzheimer's earlier Though recent studies question the effectiveness of new drugs to combat Alzheimer's disease, local drug trials continue. Wochit.
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ND legislative committee passes medical marijuana bill with changes BISMARCK - The Senate Human Services Committee gave its blessing to an amended version of the contentious medical marijuana implementation bill Thursday, Feb. 16.
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Cooling caps help women keep hair during breast cancer chemo Women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer are more likely to keep most of their hair if they use devices that cool the scalp, according to two new studies.
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Democrats raise questions about Trump's mental health Rep. Earl Blumenauer · Earl BlumenauerDemocrats raise questions about Trump's mental health Dem launches panel to review presidential removal procedures 40 House Dems to urge Trump to suspend Flynn MORE (D-Ore.
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Shelby County Health Department Offering Free Flu Shots MEMPHIS, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) - Flu season is still in full swing across the mid-south and the Shelby County Health Department is trying to make getting a flu shot easier.
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Cannabis clubs could be coming Few Bendites would be shocked to discover public indulgence in marijuana is more prevalent since voters legalized the plant in November 2014.
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Pennsylvania rats euthanized after Seoul virus infection A domestic rat is seen in October 2015 at the Philadelphia Zoo. A rat in a breeding farm in Pennsylvania tested positive for Seoul virus, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced Thursday, Feb. 16, 2016.
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Italian restaurant gives discount to families with well-behaved children An Italian restaurant is giving diners discounts if their children are "well-behaved" in an attempt to clamp down on noise, tantrums and mess.
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Is It Harmful To Call Trump "Crazy"? Mental Health Professionals Weigh In On Thursday afternoon, President Trump gave a notably chaotic press conference that began as a way to introduce his new Secretary of Labor pick, Alexander Acosta, but quickly turned into a series of criticisms of the media, accusations regarding ...
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Grocery and food industry to Congress: No SNAP soda ban Grocery and food industry representatives and poverty experts told the House Agriculture Committee at a hearing Thursday that while soda has no nutritional value, Congress should not put new restrictions in place to keep beneficiaries of the ...
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Spanish 64-year-old gives birth to healthy twins in Burgos A 64-year-old woman has successfully given birth to healthy twins - a boy and a girl - in Burgos, northern Spain. The Recoletas Hospital delivered the twins by Caesarean section, the usual method in such rare cases.
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Weed delivered to your front door could be reality under new Colorado bill A bill introduced this week in the Colorado Senate would open the door for home-delivered recreational and medical marijuana in the state.
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Pharma firm CEO insists $89000 drug is affordable, but what's the true cost? Jeff Aronin, Chairman & CEO of Marathon Pharmaceuticals, at his office in Chicago on Friday, June 26, 2015. (Andrew A. Nelles / Chicago Tribune).
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Nearly 2000 died from opioid overdoses in Mass. last year Nearly 2,000 people are believed to have died from opioid overdoses last year in Massachusetts, a record tally of death and suffering that came despite widespread public and private campaigns to stanch the state's addiction crisis.
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Report: Opioid-related deaths up 24 percent in '16 Overdose deaths from heroin, fentanyl and other opioids skyrocketed in the Bay State last year, increasing by as much as 24 percent as the deadly drugs claimed nearly 2,000 lives, according to newly released state data.
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Valeant's (VRX) Plaque Psoriasis Drug Approved in the US Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (VRX - Free Report) recently announced that the the FDA has approved its Biologic License Application (BLA) for Siliq (brodalumab) injection the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in adult patients.
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64-year-old woman gives birth to twins (CNN) No, this isn't ripped from the headlines of the National Enquirer. According to a hospital in Spain, a woman really did give birth to twins at the age of 64.
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Microsoft tries again to tackle healthcare with new services, tools Just over a decade ago, Microsoft was buying healthcare companies and hiring doctors in an attempt to tackle the healthcare market.
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