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Here's what doctors think about the updated Obamacare replacement plan On Wednesday, the conservative House Freedom Caucus came on board with the latest version of the American Health Care Act, the bill that aims to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
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Some call it 'stealthing,' others call it sexual assault (CNN) Some people call it "stealthing" -- a practice where men secretly remove or damage condoms without their partners' knowledge.
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Drugged drivers now raising same kind of alarms as drunk drivers Driving under the influence of legal and illegal drugs is causing the same concern for motorists today that drunken driving caused 40 years ago and should generate the same response.
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Couple says 'hello and goodbye' to baby born without brain OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma couple who decided to carry their baby without a brain to term in hopes of helping others has said "hello and goodbye" to their newborn girl.
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Couple who carried baby without brain to term says goodbye to newborn OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma couple who carried their baby without a brain to term to help save others has said goodbye to their newborn.
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Company recalls organic dog food that may contain euthanasia drug An organic pet food company was forced to issue a recall after samples of its product tested positive for a drug commonly used for euthanasia.
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5 more cases of measles in Minnesota include first outside Hennepin County Pat Pheifer, Star Tribune Somali leaders met Wednesday night in Minneapolis with public-health officials to talk about the current measles outbreak in the metro area.
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Woman Who Once Weighed 1102 Lbs. Leaving Hospital After Successfully Losing 713 Lbs. After topping out at 1,102 lbs., Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty is leaving the hospital 713 lbs. lighter. El Aty successfully underwent laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy surgery on March 9, and after close to two months in the hospital, she is down to 389 lbs ...
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Inexpensive Drug Prevents Deaths in New Mothers, Study Finds A doctor holding a healthy baby at a hospital in Pakistan. Postpartum hemorrhage kills 100,000 women a year in developing countries.
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Drugged driving more fatal than drunk driving, report says For the first time, data shows that drivers killed in car crashes in the United States were more likely to be on drugs than drunk, according a new report.
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A Gym Is Going To Start Offering Napping Classes — & For Good Reason Deskercise, yoga with baby animals, prancing around the park - fitness fads come and go. But a fitness center in the U.K. is giving weary gymgoers one workout that almost anyone can commit to.
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Dog food possibly contaminated with euthanasia drug is recalled A Texas-based company has issued a voluntary recall of dog food that may be contaminated with a pet euthanasia drug. According to a statement, the company Party Animal received word from a retailer in Texas of the contamination after a customer ...
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Partners, Brigham and Women's to pay $10m in research fraud case Partners HealthCare System and one of its hospitals, Brigham and Women's, agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations that a stem cell research lab there fraudulently obtained federal grant money, the US attorney's office in Boston said Thursday.
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Hope for preemies as artificial womb helps tiny lambs grow WASHINGTON - Researchers are creating an artificial womb to improve care for extremely premature babies - and remarkable animal testing suggests the first-of-its-kind watery incubation so closely mimics mom that it just might work.
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After bitter turn in India, 'world's heaviest woman' to move to Abu Dhabi Eman's sister Shaimaa said she is happy to accept an offer from the UAE as she had 'lost complete trust and hope regarding Eman's care in India'.
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Mosquito Sample Tests Positive for West Nile Virus in Grand Prairie The city of Grand Prairie is reporting its first positive West Nile virus mosquito sample of the 2017 season. The sample was collected in the southwest part of the city, and crews plan to ground spray in the area Thursday and Friday nights beginning at ...
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Diabetes, weight can combine to alter brain, study says (CNN) It's well-known that type 2 diabetes can cause medical complications in certain organs, including the brain. But overweight and obese people with early-stage type 2 diabetes have more severe abnormalities in brain structure and cognition than ...
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Energy drinks unleash potentially 'life threatening' changes Just one energy drink can trigger potentially "life threatening" changes in blood pressure and the heart, warns new research.
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Scientists Are Developing an Artificial Womb That Could Help Keep Preemies Alive and Well Researchers are creating an artificial womb to improve care for extremely premature babies - and remarkable animal testing suggests the first-of-its-kind watery incubation so closely mimics mom that it just might work.
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Experts warn of tick problem in Northeast Ohio BOARDMAN, Ohio (WKBN) - A serious disease that can cause life-long problems is on the rise in Ohio. This could be the worst year for Lyme disease.
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Brownsville receives HUD grant Reaching record high temperatures this week, the Brownsville Public Health Department recently won a grant to enhance its vector control effects to control the mosquito population.
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Could These Worms Eat Away The Earth's Plastic Problem? It can take hundreds of years for plastic bottles to biodegrade. And some plastics made with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) will never completely break down.
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Naperville police prescription drug disposal effort set for Saturday Unwanted or expired prescription medicines can be dropped off at the Naperville police station Saturday as part of the annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.
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Parents who carried baby without brain to term say heartbreaking goodbyes Eva Young was born without a brain earlier this month, but not before her parents made her a national hero when they decided to carry her to term to donate her organs and save other babies' lives.
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Brigham and Women's to Buy Out 1600 Employee Contracts Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital, will offer a voluntary contract buyout for 1,600 employees—roughly 9 percent of its workforce—to downsize its staff amid increasing expenses.
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Take Tick Prevention Seriously PRATT - They're creepy-crawly, blood-sucking arachnids; nobody likes ticks. Unfortunately, they are a fact of outdoor life in Kansas.
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Police: Man pepper-sprayed autistic man eating free cookies ROSEVILLE, Minn. - A former security guard faces charges after allegedly pepper-spraying an autistic man who was eating free cookies at a Minnesota grocery store.
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First New Drug for Liver Cancer in a Decade: Regorafenib The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the indication for regorafenib (Stivarga, Bayer) to now include treatment for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have previously been treated with the drug sorafenib (Nexavar, Bayer).
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Little bug, big worries: County leads Vermont in tick-borne illness James Gathany; William Nicholson The blacklegged ticks, I. pacificus, (depicted here), and I. scapularis, are known vectors for the zoonotic spirochetal bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, which is the pathogenic bacteria responsible for causing Lyme disease.
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What that energy drink can do to your body Energy drinks may be popular - the global energy drink market was worth $39 billion in 2013 and is forecast to reach $61 billion by 2021 - but they have gotten a bad rep among health experts.
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As Zika season looms, Senate panel approves $100 million in mosquito control funding Here we go again. A Senate panel approved a bill that authorizes an additional $100 million in grant funding to fight the mosquito-carrying Zika virus.
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Elephant tranquilizer makes lethal entry into opioid crisis A substance used to tranquilize elephants that is 100 times more potent than the drug that killed Prince is presenting a new and difficult challenge in the nationwide opioid epidemic.
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Energy Drinks And Your Ticker (CBS) -- Having a tall energy drink may certainly give you a boost in energy, but at the same time it may also cause your heart to develop some funky rhythms.
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Pennsylvania releases list of applicants to grow or process medical marijuana HARRISBURG - Hundreds of applicants have asked for licenses to grow or sell medical marijuana in Pennsylvania, including more than 20 in the state's southwest corner.
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Concord sees steep rise in drug overdoses as carfentanil emerges in NH Last year, Concord emergency responders noticed that drug overdose numbers were leveling off and even going down slightly. Then, at the beginning of 2017, they noticed a significant increase, which they attributed to fentanyl, a synthetic drug up to ...
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I posted this photo of my dying son to warn of the dangers of fentanyl On April 19, Sherri Kent, of Calgary, shared a photo of herself lying with her son in his hospital bed in the hope it would save lives.
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New drug to treat Batten disease OK'd but won't help Gray girls Charlotte and Gwenyth Gray, seen here in 2015 with their parents Gordon and Kristen Gray, have a rare disorder known as Batten disease.
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Have unwanted prescription medications? Here's where you can take them Law enforcement agencies across the region will be taking people's expired and unused prescription medications as part of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, an event coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Regenerative Medicine Minnesota Biobusiness Award Winners Named One of the best ways to get a handle on which biomedical research is on a fast track to commercialization is by looking at the winners of the annual Biobusiness Awards handed out by Regenerative Medicine Minnesota, a publicly-funded initiative set up ...
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Study: Doctors have it good financially in KC — but male doctors have it better Decades before Jane Knapp developed the emergency services division and became chair of graduate medical education at Children's Mercy Hospital she was a surgeon in training, reaching for an instrument in the operating room when the male surgeon in ...
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Is Soda Bad for Your Brain? How About Diet Soda? New studies find that he more sugary drinks people have, the lower their brain volume and the poorer their memory scores. Diet soda fared no better.
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Study signals need to screen genes for stem cell transplants Regenerative medicine using human pluripotent stem cells to grow transplantable tissue outside the body carries the promise to treat a range of intractable disorders, such as diabetes and Parkinson's disease.
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Stem cell lines grown in lab dish may acquire mutations In a cross-school collaboration, Harvard researchers Steve McCarroll (left) and Kevin Eggan couple stem cell science with genetics and genomics to advance the understanding of human brain illnesses.
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Physicians in rural areas, low-cost cities score higher salaries, report shows Among other key findings, gender wage gap strongly persists among physicians as female docs make less regardless of geography, specialty.
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