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Colorectal Cancer Rates Are Rising Sharply Among Young Americans Millennials have double the risk of colon cancer and quadruple the risk of rectal cancer compared with baby boomers, raising serious questions about whether differences in lifestyle or some yet unidentified factor could explain what researchers called ...
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Why Are More Young Americans Getting Colon Cancer? One of the great treats of following an Agatha Christie mystery (my favorite being Hercule Poirot) is that you know there will be an "Aha!
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Colon Cancer Rates, Deaths Drop in Americans Over 50 WEDNESDAY, March 1, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- In some good news for older Americans, a new report shows that colorectal cancer rates among those over 50 fell 32 percent since 2000, while deaths from the disease fell by 34 percent.
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Stigmatized to Death After Beating Ebola Salome Karwah, a young Liberian nursing assistant, who survived the scourge of the Ebola outbreak in 2014, has died in childbirth, the Time Magazine has reported on its website.
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Trump vows to 'slash restraints' on drug development for FDA (CNN) President Donald Trump used his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday to, among other things, promise to "slash the restraints" put on drug development by the Food and Drug Administration and across the government so the "slow ...
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What to know about Pompe disease and treatments highlighted in Trump's address to Congress President Donald Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress happened to fall on Rare Disease Day -- a fact he highlighted by recognizing one of his invited guests, Megan Crowley, a 20-year-old college student with a rare genetic disorder ...
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Ebola nurse Salome Karwah died after hospital neglect, husband says Liberian nurse Salome Karwah was one of those named as Time magazine's person of the year in 2014 for her frontline work against Ebola.
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Just How Much Pee Is In That Pool? You know that sharp odor of chlorine from the swimming pool you can recall from earliest childhood? It turns out it's not just chlorine, but a potent brew of chemicals that form when chlorine meets sweat, body oils, and urine.
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The most popular plastic surgery procedure is ... (CNN) Cosmetic procedures are still increasingly popular in the United States, and a new report shows that most Americans are going under the knife to either change their faces or get rid of fat.
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A Husband Loses His 'Best Friend' — Salome Karwah, Ebola Hero When James Harris rushed his wife, Salome Karwah, to a hospital at the edge of Monrovia on the night of February 19, he expected that she'd be treated as a priority case.
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Avoiding Health Insurance One of the critical goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to get more people to purchase health insurance. The premise was to get more healthy people to pay premiums for health insurance they would never use; this would allow people with health ...
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140-Pound Tumor Removed from Woman SAINT CLAIR -- For years, a woman from Schuylkill County tried to shed excess weight using every method possible. And as Mary Clancey of Saint Clair tipped the scales at more than 350 pounds, she finally discovered it wasn't fat but a tumor the size of ...
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Md. advocates back panel to monitor health care changes ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland health care advocates on Wednesday highlighted the need for a new state commission to monitor potential changes to the Affordable Care Act.
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Wayne Farms Chicken Recall 2017: Full List Of Products Affected; Can You Get A Refund For Potential Bacteria? More than 12,000 pounds of chicken was voluntarily recalled by the Wayne Farms company starting on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
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India issues fresh antibiotic guidelines to tackle superbug menace A person holds pharmaceutical tablets and capsules in this picture illustration taken in Ljubljana September 18, 2013. REUTERS/Srdjan Zivulovic.
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First step to help preserved organs survive the deep freeze Deep-freezing donated organs might one day help improve the transplant supply but scientists must first figure out how to thaw the delicate tissue without it cracking.
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Birth photographer shames woman for having a c-section An Oregon mother-to-be is frustrated after receiving death threats in response to her Facebook post of a text exchange she had with a birth photographer.
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Mom warns about breast-feeding after newborn accidentally starves Five years after losing her newborn son, Landon, Jillian Johnson is speaking out about a serious problem she wants breast-feeding moms to be aware of.
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Will we be able to cryogenically freeze organs one day? (CNN) A milestone in cryobiology announced this week is literally heart-warming. A new nanoparticle technology warmed cryopreserved heart valves and blood vessels without damaging the tissues, found a study published Wednesday in the journal Science ...
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How we could make cannabis safer for users Most cannabis users find that the effects of occasional use of the drug are pleasurable, but some regular users experience harm. Daily cannabis use can lead to cannabis dependence, and heavy use, over months and years, can lead some users to ...
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Photos Showing 'Shameful' Scenes At VA Hospital Prompt Investigation "The man laid down on the floor, and they went in there and picked him up and set him back in the chair," one veteran recalled.
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Exercise Beats Weight Loss at Helping Seniors' Hearts WEDNESDAY, March 1, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who want to give their hearts a healthy boost may want to focus on exercise first, a new study suggests.
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This Tiny Patch Of Mold Cost One Lucky Buyer Nearly $15000 A capsule of the original mold from which Alexander Fleming made the drug known as penicillin, on view at Bonham's auction house in London.
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This Tiny Patch Of Mold Cost One Lucky Buyer Nearly $15000 If you consider thousands of dollars for a tiny patch of decades-old mold a tad too pricey, well, maybe you're just not cut out for the high-stakes world of mold auctions.
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Roche says drug combo cuts breast cancer deaths in key trial FILE PHOTO: Roche tablets are seen positioned in front of a displayed Roche logo in this picture illustration, January 22, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo.
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Roche says drug combo cuts breast cancer deaths in key trial FILE PHOTO: Roche tablets are seen positioned in front of a displayed Roche logo in this picture illustration, January 22, 2016. REUTERS/D.
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Home pot delivery? Colorado lawmakers to discuss bill this week KUSA - On Wednesday, Colorado lawmakers will hear a senate bill aimed at allowing both medical marijuana facilities and retail dispensaries to deliver to your home.
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Parents of toddler who died during dentist visit file wrongful death lawsuit AUSTIN - The parents of Daisy Lynn Torres -- the 14-month-old child who died on March 29, 2016 during a visit to a dentist at the North Austin Medical Center -- have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Austin Children's Dentistry, according to ...
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Text exchange shows birth photographer shaming mother for having C-section A text exchange between a mother-to-be and a birth photographer made the rounds on the internet this week after the photo shoot was reportedly canceled at the last minute.
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Old mold from penicillin discoverer auctioned for $14617 LONDON - How much is an old, dried out piece of mold worth? Apparently more than $14,600 if it was created by the doctor who discovered penicillin.
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FBI Director James Comey: Opioid epidemic is 'black hole' that sucks people down GLENN ALLEN, Va. -- FBI Director James Comey told a crowd of more than 400 people at Glen Allen High School that the opioid epidemic requires action from a broad range of experts on the local level.
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Frequent, Brisk Walks May Aid Those With Early Alzheimer's For some people with early-stage Alzheimer's disease, frequent, brisk walks may help to bolster physical abilities and slow memory loss, according to one of the first studies of physical activity as an experimental treatment for dementia.
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Bernie Sanders takes another swing at big pharma with bill to allow drug imports Opening a new front in the war against big pharma, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and a slew of Democratic colleagues introduced a bill Tuesday to allow commercial importation of drugs from Canada.
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Study: If Your Girlfriend's Doing This During Sex, She'll Probably Cheat On You Let's be real, being cheated on sucks. It sucks so hard. It's so terrible that even the word "sucks" can't encompass the enormity of how awful and terrible you feel.
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Mom-to-Be Trying to Hire a Photographer Gets Turned Away Because a C-Section 'Isn't Birth' Birth photography has become increasingly popular, but one expectant mom ran into a problem while searching for someone to record her upcoming delivery.
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Cory Booker Joins Bernie Sanders In Backing Drug Re-Importation Bill WASHINGTON ― Back in mid-January, while Democrats were still recovering from the shock of the presidential election, 13 Democrats cast a dead-of-night vote that in previous years would have gone largely unnoticed.
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Mumps outbreak prompts warning to Manitoba parents The province is warning parents and guardians to watch out for signs of mumps now that the outbreak has spread throughout Manitoba, including to pre-schools and schools.
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