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Americans watch a health-care bill that could upend many lives again Millions of Americans of all ages and needs would be affected if Republicans in Congress succeed in overhauling major parts of the Affordable Care Act.
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Americans keep having fewer babies as US birthrates hit some record lows The number of births in the U.S. last year fell 1% from 2015 while the general fertility rate for women ages 15 to 44 dropped to a record low.
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One state's opioid crisis sheds light on national health-care debate Even in Republican-led states like New Hampshire, drug abuse is a rising public concern. The issue is changing Congress's discussion on repealing Obamacare.
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Her newborn kept getting sick because she was ingesting placenta, CDC says The baby was born healthy and without complication in September, but then its health began to deteriorate rapidly. Doctors - scrambling to uncover the cause of the infant's respiratory distress - transferred the baby to the neonatal intensive care ...
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Heart transplant survivor dies after giving birth to first child Last Updated Jun 30, 2017 5:04 PM EDT. A woman who survived a heart transplant surgery seven years ago died less than 24 hours after giving birth to her first child, CBS affiliate KMOV reports.
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Heart transplant survivor dies just a few hours after giving birth (CNN) After giving birth to her baby girl, Megan Moss Johnson got to hold her daughter in her arms, feed her and burp her. It was a celebration of new life for Johnson, who received a heart transplant seven years ago, and her husband, Christian music ...
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A heart transplant gave her another chance to live. Hours after giving birth, she died. Not long after Megan Johnson gave birth, her husband posted a picture on social media, welcoming their daughter into the world. Years earlier, Johnson had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and given a new heart and another chance to live.
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Parents of brain-damaged baby lose fight to keep him on life support The mother and father of a brain-damaged 11-month-old baby on Friday were sitting bedside with the boy after losing a legal battle that would have kept the boy on life support.
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Is potential human life span unlimited? (HealthDay News) -- Have you ever thought about what it might be like to live into your hundreds? Now, new research says there's really no evidence of a limit on how long people can live, though people might need a boost from advances in health care or ...
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UPMC Susquehanna treats 36 people with heroin overdoses in 24 hours A University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital issued a warning Thursday about a potentially lethal batch of heroin. Officials with UPMC Susquehanna in Williamsport said their providers have treated 36 patients with heroin overdoses over the past ...
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Oh, baby! Indiana woman gives birth to 16-pound boy An Indiana woman knew she was going to give birth to a large baby. But even she was stunned when she delivered a 16-pound boy last month.
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Algal bloom returns to Utah Lake in Provo area Cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, aren't actually algae - they are prokaryotes, single-celled aquatic organisms that are closely related to bacteria and can photosynthesize like algae.
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Nevada To Start Selling Recreational Marijuana -- But There's A Catch On Saturday, July 1, pot heads everywhere (as long as they're over 21) can flock to Nevada to buy up to an ounce of marijuana, or one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana-infused edibles.
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CDC Case Report: If You Eat Your Placenta, This Can Happen What could possibly go wrong? After all, Kim Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone and January Jones have done it. Well, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just reported a new possible risk of eating your own placenta.
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Buy your medical cannabis here; Pa. announces dispensary sites The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Thursday announced the names of 27 companies that will be permitted to sell medical marijuana across the state next year, reaching another milestone in a program that could lead to cannabis being available by ...
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Ohio Councilman Sparks Fury After Asking If EMS Can Stop Responding to Overdoses One question touched off a firestorm of outrage and turned an obscure Ohio city councilman into the target of anger: Is the city legally required to keep dispatching ambulances to rescue drug addicts who repeatedly overdose on opioids?
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Nevada dispensaries stock up, prep for legal recreational marijuana sales "I truly believe we're ready," said Desert Grown Farms CEO, whose company owns the only dispensary that will sell recreational marijuana on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Trump picks Indiana Health Commissioner for surgeon general President Trump on Thursday nominated Indiana Health Commissioner Jerome M. Adams to become the next U.S. surgeon general, a move that would place Adams in the symbolically important post while the president's bid to replace the Affordable Care Act ...
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Oklahoma attorney general sues pharmaceutical companies Attorney General Mike Hunter announces lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies. [Photo by Chris Landsberger, The Oklahoman]. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter sued more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies Friday - accusing them of ...
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Let Opioid Addicts Die: Ohio Official's Answer To Spiraling Narcan Costs Spiraling Narcan costs in an Ohio town prompt three-strikes proposal that would let first responders ignore repeated opioid overdose calls.
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Long-term breastfeeding leads to more cavities, study says Children who are breastfed for two years or longer are more likely to have dental cavities, according to a study published Friday in the journal Pediatrics.
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Trump nominates needle exchange advocate for US Surgeon General President Donald J. Trump has nominated Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH, who has advocated for needle exchange programs, to be the next U.S.
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Medical marijuana dispensaries could improve local economies CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - Medical marijuana dispensaries are coming to Pennsylvania soon. The state announced 27 licenses with locations across the Midstate.
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San Bernardino County health department discloses first bird found with West Nile Virus The first alert for West Nile, for a wide portion of San Bernardino County, was found recently in a dead crow collected in San Bernardino, County Public Health Department officials said Friday, June 30.
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What Is A Neonicotinoid? Honeybees Dying When Exposed To Popular Insecticide A commonly used insecticide might be far more dangerous for some bees than experts have previously thought, cutting their lives short by about 25 percent and damaging the health of their hives.
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Controversy around Pennsylvania's medical marijuana permits Controversy surrounds Pa. medical marijuana permits. Wendy Saltzman reports during Action News at 530pm on June 30, 2017. (WPVI). WPVI.
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51 treated for overdoses; death reported WILLIAMSPORT - UPMC Susquehanna reported at noon Friday that a total of 51 patients with heroin overdoses had been treated over the past 48 hours by UPMC Susquehanna Emergency and Pre-hospital Services departments in Williamsport.
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Neonic Study Makes A Splash In The Headlines But Trashes Science Researchers in the U.K. this week have provided us the most recent example of a scourge about which I and others have written previously: science by press release.
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Two hospitals treat 51 for heroin overdoses in 48 hours WILLIAMSPORT -- Fifty-one overdose patients were treated at two Northcentral Pennsylvania hospitals in the past 48 hours, a spokeswoman for UPMC Susquehanna said Friday.
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As opioid addiction skyrockets, treatment for addicts lags far behind, insurance data show A new report on opioid use among privately insured Americans has found that diagnoses of opioid addiction increased almost fivefold between 2010 and 2015, ticking up dramatically in 2014.
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It's mosquito season: See where in Northern California they are biting Depending on where in Northern California you live, you could be inundated with mosquitoes. Or you could be asking yourself, "Have I lucked out?
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SB County Public Health Department discloses first dead bird found with West Nile Virus In this Oct. 11, 2016, file photo, Anthony Nunez, a San Bernardino county employee, enters a cage where he cares for county's sentinel chickens.
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Large study links key pesticide to weakened honeybee hives In this May 27, 2015, file photo, volunteer Ben Merritt, a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati, checks honeybee hives for queen activity and performs routine maintenance as part of a collaboration between the Cincinnati Zoo and TwoHoneys ...
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Veterans with PTSD Cope with Fireworks SPRINGFIELD, Mo. –- Americans know freedom doesn't come free, but some might not consider the price veterans still pay for their country, even decades after they've left the battleground.
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Pennsylvania ransomware attack a warning to practices to boost IT security This week's cyberattack on a Pennsylvania health system and others, including May's WannaCry ransomware attack, demonstrate the need for strong electronic security.
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Your next flu shot may not involve a needle For years, scientists and healthcare providers have believed there has to be a better way than needles to deliver routine medicine like the annual flu vaccine.
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Zokwana: Bird flu measures to stay in place until outbreak contained A strain of the virus - which does not affect humans - was identified on two Mpumalanga farms. FILE: Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana.
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