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A sleeping mother suffocated her newborn in the maternity ward. Now she's suing the hospital. Monica Thompson had given birth to her first child, a baby boy, and was almost ready to take him home from the hospital. It was nearly midnight one Sunday in the summer of 2012 when Thompson, who had undergone a Caesarean section a few days earlier, ...
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5 deaths reported while using weight loss balloon treatment, FDA says Five people who were using an obesity treatment that places balloons inside their stomachs have died since 2016, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.
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Mum who accidentally smothered baby sues hospital for $8.6m A US mother who accidentally smothered her newborn son as she slept is suing the hospital where his death occurred for $8.6m (£6.6m).
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Good enough to eat! 106-year-old fruitcake is found 'perfectly preserved' in Antarctica The fruit cake was made by Huntley & Palmers and was still in its original packaging. Photo / Antarctic Heritage Trust. Daily Mail.
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Five deaths related to weight-loss balloon placement since 2016: FDA If you're looking to get a "weight-loss balloon" put into your stomach to curtail your weight gain, you may want to think again.
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Programs That Fight Teenage Pregnancy Are at Risk of Being Cut Latavia Burton in Anderson, S.C., where a campaign to prevent teenage pregnancy is in place. Credit Travis Dove for The New York Times.
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Study: 1 in 8 Americans struggles with alcohol abuse (CNN) - Americans are drinking more. A lot more. According to a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry, an estimated one out of every eight Americans struggles with an alcohol disorder.
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Drinking On The Rise In US, Especially For Women, Minorities, Older Adults Since the early '90s, more Americans have been drinking - and a growing number drinking heavily. National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions/JAMA.
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Drinking On The Rise In US, Especially For Women, Minorities, Older Adults Since the early '90s, more Americans have been drinking - and a growing number drinking heavily. Aug, 10 2017 - —. More Americans are drinking alcohol, and a growing number of them are drinking to a point that's dangerous or harmful, according to a ...
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A 100-Year-Old Fruitcake Was Found 'Perfectly Preserved' in Antarctica The Antarctic Heritage Trust has recovered a 100-year-old fruit cake on Cape Adare in Antarctica, where famed explorer Robert Falcon Scott's team was likely based for the Terra Nova expedition.
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Alcohol use on the rise in US In the latest issue of the journal JAMA Psychiatry Bridget F. Grant and colleagues have reported that alcohol use is rising at an alarming rate in the United States.
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How Long Can You Keep Fruitcake? In This Case 106 Years If offered, I am not going to try the 106-year old fruitcake recently found on Cape Adare in Antarctica, even though it supposedly looks edible.
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Teen-Pregnancy Prevention Programs Are Largely Ineffective This summer, the mainstream media have lobbed a considerable amount of criticism at the Trump administration for cutting funding to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program.
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More Than Papayas - And What You Need To Know About Salmonella And Food Outbreaks The CDC expanded its warning to not eat Maradol papayas imported from the Carica de Campeche farm in Mexico today, after three more states reported illnesses.
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Southwest Airlines Employee Goes Extra Miles To Help Cancer Patient Pictured here are Southwest airlines planes on the tarmac at Chicago's Midway Airport. (Photo: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images).
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West Nile virus found in sentinel chickens in Delaware DOVER, Del. - State officials say two mosquito-borne viruses that carry potentially serious health risks for humans have been detected in so-called sentinel chickens in Delaware for the first time this year.
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Norovirus tied to donut shop sickens some 200 MAUMEE, OH -- Almost 200 people were sickened by a norovirus outbreak that was traced to a local restaurant, and that number continues to climb, reports CBS Toledo affiliate WTOL.
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Scientists closer to using pig organs in humans, working on 'Pig 2.0' Scientists at an American biotechnology company achieved an important milestone in their quest for animal-to-human organ transplant: Creating piglets free of a retrovirus that has plagued advancement.
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Study: diet soda can really mess with your metabolism Artificial sweeteners have been controversial for almost as long as they've been around. As early as 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt was compelled to defend the world's first no-calorie sweetener.
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One in eight American adults are alcoholics, study says A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry this month finds that the rate of alcohol use disorder, or what's colloquially known as "alcoholism," rose by a shocking 49 percent in the first decade of the 2000s.
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We're one step closer to using pig organs in human transplants An average of 22 people die in America every day while waiting for organ transplants, but a group of researchers from the biotech company eGenesis hope to eventually change that statistic by using organs from cloned pig cells.
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Artificial sweeteners up the risk of weight gain, diabetes, says study Sweet taste fools the body's metabolism into believing that we are consuming more calories, scientists say. Sweetness signals the presence of energy and its intensity reflects the amount of energy present (Photo: Pixabay).
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Airline worker tracks down cancer patient's bag, delivers it In this July 25, 2017 photo, provided by cancer patient Stacy Hurt's publicist Allyn Lewis, a handwritten note from Southwest Airlines employee Sarah Rowan's is displayed on a computer keyboard in Hurt's home in Bridgeville, Pa.
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More Than 200 Sick After Eating at Ohio Doughnut Shop A Norovirus outbreak connected to Mama C's Donuts sickened 266 people in Maumee, Ohio. (Matt Rourke/AP). More than 200 people are sick after eating at a local doughnut shop, according to the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.
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Omaha-Area Officials Confirm Year's First West Nile Case Omaha-area health officials have confirmed Douglas County's first human case of West Nile virus this year. Aug. 11, 2017, at 6:37 p.m.. MORE. LinkedIn · StumbleUpon · Google +; Cancel. Omaha-Area Officials Confirm Year's First West Nile Case ...
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Big Tobacco goes after the young in developing markets in a case of history repeated Daniel O'Neill received funding for this research, which comes from his doctoral thesis, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Toxic algae health alerts issued for Nebraska lakes SPRAGUE, Neb. (AP) - State officials have issued health alerts for lakes in southeastern and northeastern Nebraska because of toxic algae blooms.
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Harmful Algae Blooms Prompt Oakland County Lake Warnings The Oakland County Health Division is warning swimmers and residents of to avoid lakes with a green sheen that looks like spilled paint.
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Trump administration cuts short teen pregnancy prevention program funding The Department of Health and Human Services is cutting off grants for teen pregnancy prevention programs across the country, leaving the groups that receive the grants - and Democratic members of Congress - perplexed.
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Oregon just became the 5th state to raise its smoking age to 21 Oregon has become the fifth state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Gov. Kate Brown signed the bill on Wednesday. It will take effect at the start of 2018, barring anyone below the age of 21 from purchasing tobacco products.
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Richmond County's teen pregnancy-prevention program on the chopping block ROCKINGHAM - The Trump administration has proposed killing hundreds of programs designed to reduce teenage pregnancy, including one in Richmond County.
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Data: Half of New York's medical marijuana patients are repeat buyers Marijuana plants in the vegetation room at the Vireo medical marijuana facility in the Tryon Technology Park on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 in Johnstown, N.Y.
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This Is the Apparently the Most Popular Instagram Filter Among Depressed People Depression can sometimes be hard to detect, but new research is shining light on a surprising new indicator of mental health status: how you use Instagram.
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Fight against harmful algae blooms ramps up GENEVA - Of the 11 Finger Lakes, only Seneca, Skaneateles and Canandaigua lakes have been spared the aquatic pea soup known as harmful algal blooms this summer.
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Morning sex is not just a fetish for some. It's also the best time to get intimate It's official - morning sex helps you feel happy for the rest of the day, keeps your blood pressure in check, and ensures a generally stress-free life.
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There's a Best Time Of The Day To Have Sex So Schedule It In Pronto Apparently, there is an optimum time during the day to have sex, so you better make sure to pencil it in! According to a recent survey, the best time to have sex is at 7:30 a.m.
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Pooling resources against algae Keuka Lake became one of the latest Finger Lakes this summer to fall victim to harmful blue green algae. While some beaches on that lake were reopened within a few days, on Aug. 9, after health officials deemed them safe, the threat remains on Keuka ...
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Medical Marijuana Testing Dilemma The state's new medical marijuana program is supposed to begin a little more than a year from now. But there are still lots of questions, such as who will grow the plants, what conditions they'll be grown under, and who will do lab testing on the ...
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Guest essay: Consumer concerns about e-cigarettes There is a lot of debate about e-cigarettes right now. While they may be perceived as safer than traditional tobacco cigarettes, at the moment, I'm not willing to stake my life, or my health, on it.
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