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Boy, 13, who had heart transplant dies on 1st day of school GOSHEN, OH (AP) - A 13-year-old boy who received a heart transplant months ago has died on the first day of school. WCPO-TV in Cincinnati reports Peyton West died Thursday.
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Zoo gorilla dies of cancer, days after constipation surgery A 49-year-old lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas died Sunday after tests revealed she had late-stage ovarian cancer that had spread, four days after undergoing surgery for constipation.
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Matt Dawson: I had to have heart surgery after a tick bite When former England rugby player Matt Dawson was bitten by a tick in a London park early last year, it caused a bacterial infection to spread through his body.
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Jeremy Hunt hits back at Stephen Hawking after scientist's criticism of NHS The Cambridge professor claimed the government was leading the health service to a US style insurance system. Share; 10Comments. ByTom Pilgrim.
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A heart transplant saved this 13-year-old Ohio boy's life. But he died on his first day of school. Carrying his red backpack, wearing his gray shirt and his red-framed glasses - red and gray are his favorite colors - he posed for a first-day-of-school picture outside his family's house in Ohio, just outside Cincinnati.
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Mammograms from age 40 would save more lives, study finds Forty is the optimal age for women to start having regular mammograms to reduce the number of breast cancer deaths, according to a US study.
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US study revives argument over mammogram screening Aug 21 (Reuters Health) - Yearly mammograms starting at age 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a challenge to more conservative recommendations that take into account both the harms and the ...
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Injuries from pubic hair grooming are more common than what people think 1 out of every 4 people injure themselves while grooming their pubic hair, according to a new survey. About 76 percent of the participants admitted having groomed 'down there,' and an important part of them got injuries and infections after doing so.
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White Supremacists Ask Interns To Treat Them Instead Of An Asian-American Doctor For some medical professionals, it seems, the antics of white supremacists are nothing new. In the wake of last weekend's uprising in Charlottesville, Virginia, a doctor from the other side of the country shared her own experience with so-called "white ...
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Study: Walnuts can quiet that part of your brain that makes you want to eat like crap For people looking to cut back on food cravings, a daily handful of walnuts could have significant and lasting effects. A recent study published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism looked at the walnut effect on hospitalized obese subjects ...
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IQOS hands-on: Heat, instead of burn [THE INVESTOR] Editor's note -- A few of us at The Investor tried out Philip Morris' IQOS smokeless cigarettes. Here's a product review.
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Walnuts Make You Feel Less Hungry, Help Fight Against Fatty Food Cravings A new study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston showed that eating walnuts can help curb hunger.
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Lowering nicotine levels, use of e-cigarettes and raising cigarette prices associated with smoking cessation The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have waged a war against smoking and now new steps are in place to help quitters go ahead and stop smoking.
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Immunotherapy Might Help Curb Peanut Allergy In Kids Scientists in Australia confirmed that an immune-based treatment helped kids who are allergic to peanuts eat them without suffering from any reactions for four years.
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Sugars in human mother's milk are new class of antibacterial agents The close-up image on the left illustrates how Strep bacteria normally clump together to form a protective biofilm. The image of the right shows that the biofilm breaks down when a Strep culture is dosed with human milk sugars, exposing …more.
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New superbug-fighting antibiotics found in human breast milk With the rise of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," the pressure is on for scientists to develop new molecules, materials and methods to keep us from returning to a dark age of medicine, where even the most basic of infections becomes potentially lethal ...
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Smokers are 20 percent more likely to quit if cigarettes cost a dollar more Turns out, smokers are 20 percent more likely to quit if cigarettes cost a dollar more. The study used 10 years of neighbourhood-level price data to determine how it affected nearby smokers, focusing on those who skewed older.
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Binge TV viewing increasingly prevalent - poses a threat to sleep According to new research that looked at the TV viewing habits and sleep histories of 423 persons between ages of 18 and 25 years, binge watching or consuming multiple episodes of a TV series at one sitting can significantly affect sleep.
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Karen Wiggers: Ready for School? Check shot records Did you know that the Pennsylvania school immunization regulations were revised and became effective Aug. 1? It's time to gather school supplies and backpacks.
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Women who work at night have higher chances of getting breast cancer Harvard researchers found that women who are usually exposed to lights in their night shift works, or just when they're sleeping, are more likely to develop breast cancer.
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Hits and misses in bird flu outbreak SAN LUIS, PAMPANGA - The fence of Dr. Emigdio Bondoc Convention Center here displays four hazard maps and the town's evacuation plan.
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155634 birds culled in Pampanga Pits were dug up at farms in San Roque village in theNueva Ecija town of San Isidro whichwas struck by bird flu. Authorities have started culling poultry in this town and in Jaen town.
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Philippines deploys troops to a second province to fight bird flu MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has deployed more troops to cull thousands of chickens one day after the farm ministry confirmed the spread of bird flu into a second province north of the capital, Manila.
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