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Detecting Cancer: Colonoscopies Before 50 May Be Key for Early Diagnosis, Study Indicates Colorectal cancer is primarily viewed as a disease of aging, which is why most doctors tell young adult patients they don't need to think about colonoscopies until turning 50.
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Study finds more young white people developing and dying from colorectal cancer Death rates from colorectal cancer for adults ages 20 to 54 are increasing by 1 percent each year, according to a new study - a rise that appears to be driven by an increase in the number of younger white adults getting and dying from the disease ...
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Doctors who go to lower-tier medical schools prescribe more opioids, according to a study A physician's propensity to prescribe opioids could be affected by a range of factors relating to background and clinical experiences.
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Pioneering type 1 diabetes therapy safe The first trial of a pioneering therapy to retrain the immune system and slow the advance of type 1 diabetes has shown it is safe.
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Study: America's drinking problem is much worse this century Americans are drinking more than they used to, a troubling trend with potentially dire implications for the country's future health-care costs.
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Ohio doughnut shop linked to norovirus outbreak; 200-plus ill A doughnut shop in suburban Toledo, OH, remained closed Thursday as county health inspectors continued an investigation into a norovirus outbreak that has sickened more than 200 people.
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Colorectal Cancer Death Rates Rise For Young White Adults Young white people are increasingly dying of colorectal cancer, a disease typically associated with older people, according to a report published Aug. 8 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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America's drinking problem is much worse this century In this June 9, 2016, file photo, a shelf is stocked high with hundreds of varieties of single beers at Liquor Mart in Boulder. By Bloomberg News.
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B-1 Bombers Key to a US Plan to Strike North Korean Missile Sites The Pentagon has prepared a specific plan for a pre-emptive strike on North Korea's missile sites should President Trump order such an attack.
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'Poisonous' Moscow Mule cups are under fire — here's how much you'd have to drink to be at risk Moscow Mules' unique cups probably aren't poisoning you - but that doesn't mean drinkers can sleep easy just yet. Iowa's Alcoholic Beverages Division recently issued an advisory bulletin warning against serving beverages in copper mugs.
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Marijuana Use Linked to Increased Risk of Dying from High Blood Pressure Smoking pot is often considered safer than smoking cigarettes, but a new study suggests that marijuana use may increase a person's risk of death from high blood pressure.
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Marijuana Use Holds Three-Fold Blood Pressure Death Risk LONDON (Reuters) - People who smoke marijuana have a three times greater risk of dying from hypertension, or high blood pressure, than those who have never used the drug, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Mom accused of lying about being doctor, faking son's cancer A woman has been accused of pretending to be a doctor and falsely claiming her preschool-age son had terminal cancer so he could receive unnecessary hospital care and opioids.
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Vitamin B3 could help prevent birth defects An extra dose of vitamin B3 might help prevent certain kinds of complex birth defects, according to a new study. The vitamin can help compensate for defects in the body's ability to make a molecule, called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), which ...
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47 Hospitals Slashed Their Use Of Two Key Heart Drugs After Huge Price Hikes Even before media reports and a congressional hearing vilified Valeant Pharmaceuticals International for raising prices on a pair of lifesaving heart drugs, Dr.
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Yemen's civil war turns country into cholera breeding ground In this photo taken on Saturday, Jul. 8, 2017, workers fill bottles with water at the mineral water refilling station in Sanaa, Yemen.
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Federal audit finds Maine DHHS failed to investigate multiple deaths, critical incidents WASHINGTON (NEWS CENTER) - A federal audit report released Thursday found Maine's Department of Health & Human Services (Maine DHHS) to be in non-compliance with several federal and state requirements concerning critical incidents that involve ...
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Many Doctors Get Goodies from Opioid Makers About one out of every 12 U.S. doctors gets money, lunch or something else of value from companies that make opioid drugs, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Woman who popped spot left with horrifying staph infection that 'disfigured' her face A young woman's Twitter post has gone viral after she shared what happened when she popped what she thought was a pimple; but it was something much worse.
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New Hampshire sues Purdue Pharma over opioid marketing practices (Reuters) - New Hampshire sued OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP on Tuesday, joining several state and local governments in accusing the drugmaker of engaging in deceptive marketing practices that have helped fuel a national opioid addiction ...
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New rankings: Where you'll find the best hospitals in the DC area WASHINGTON - Just one hospital in the wider D.C. metro area - Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore - earned a spot on a new "honor roll" of the top best-performing medical facilities in the U.S.
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Yemen blood bank may be forced to shut due to lack of funds Employees register bags of blood at a blood transfusion centre in Sanaa, Yemen August 7, 2017. Picture taken August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah.
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Early Detection of Nasopharyngeal Cancer With EBV DNA Individuals who are at high risk for nasopharyngeal carcinoma may benefit from screening using circulating cell–free Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA, suggest researchers from China.
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Study Shows Some Video Games Can Impact Brain's Learning & Memory System In a new study of video games, researchers found that the hippocampal system of the brain is influenced by the navigation strategy that a person employs as well as the genre of the game.
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Healing the human body with just one touch COLUMBUS - Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Ohio State's College of Engineering have developed a new technology, Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), that can generate any cell type of interest for treatment within the ...
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Expert: The most important thing you can do to protect against mosquito bites HENRICO COUNTY, Va. -- Even though he uses a coffee mug with a giant mosquito drawing on the front, Randy Buchanan cannot stand pesky mosquito bites.
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State program makes opioid overdose antidote much cheaper Narcan's shelf price is about $125, but the national average copay is $10. [TIMES HERALD-RECORD FILE PHOTO]. By Amanda Spadaro Reporter.
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Strokes recently declined among men, but not women, study says In 2013, Diana Hardeman was 30 years old. She was a vegetarian, a non-smoker, a surfer and the picture of health -- until she had a stroke.
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New Hampshire is latest state to sue OxyContin manufacturer The attorney general's office sued Purdue Pharma on Tuesday, alleging that the drug manufacturer has continued its deceptive marketing of OxyContin in a state that has been called the "ground zero" of the opioid epidemic.
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How loneliness and social isolation can impact longevity The mortality risk associated with social isolation and loneliness is as significant as the risk posed by obesity. - AFP picWASHINGTON, Aug 9 - The growing phenomenon of loneliness, which international experts have described as a global epidemic, may ...
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Research Confirms Loneliness and Social Isolation are Killers Last week at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, researchers from Brigham Young University presented the results of their analysis of more than 200 studies involving almost 4 million people on four continents which ...
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Lepers' messiah, Dr Ruth Pfao, passes away after protracted illness KARACHI: Dr Ruth Pfao, the messiah for Pakistani lepers, passed away early Thursday morning after a long illness at the age of 87.
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'Mother Teresa' of Pakistan; Dr. Ruth Pfau KARACHI: Dr Ruth Pfau, who devoted her whole life for Pakistan's lepers, died on Thursday at a private hospital, an official of the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) said in a statement.
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New drug to treat ALS now available in the US BEVERLY, Mass. - For the first time in more than 20 years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat ALS. Radicava, an infusion therapy developed in Japan, is now available in the United States and it has proved to be very ...
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Comfy Cow recalls ice cream due to possible E. coli LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky-based ice cream chain says it has recalled some of its most popular flavors due to possible E. coli contamination.
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FDA to launch campaign against e-cigarette use among youth WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hot on the heels of its proposal to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans on Tuesday for an education campaign to discourage use of electronic cigarettes among youth.
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'Exercise pill' tricks your body into thinking you've worked out An "exercise pill" that boosts blood flow by mimicking the effects of going to the gym could revolutionize the lives of heart failure patients.
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Salmonella cases from papayas double in NJ, report says U.S. health officials say more people have contracted salmonella by eating papayas from a farm in southern Mexico. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 109 people in 16 states have caught the illness from eating papayas.
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