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At Air Force Academy, Black Students Told to 'Go Home' Racial slurs have been found scrawled on dormitory doors of five black cadets at the Air Force Academy in the U.S. state of Colorado, officials say.
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Model's eye tattoo goes horribly wrong Canadian model Catt Gallinger, 24, inked with a sclera tattoo, a body modification proceedure that colors the whites of the eye, last month in Ottawa.
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Woman dies of flesh-eating bacteria from Harvey floodwaters Nancy Reed, 77, died from flesh eating bacteria she contracted when she fell into floodwaters during Hurricane Harvey. Janelle Bludau , KHOU 6:54 PM.
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Teen tries to poison 11-week-old baby: 'I don't feel bad about it' Officials are looking for an Indiana teen who allegedly tried to kill an 11-week-old baby. Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda, then 18, likely mixed crushed pills into a bottle of breastmilk intended for her brother's fiancée's baby, The Journal Gazette reports ...
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Australian who faked cancer fined for false donation claims An Australian cookbook author who falsely said she beat cancer through healthy eating was fined by a court on Thursday for misleading consumers by lying about her charitable donations.
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Teen brings homecoming to best friend battling cancer After being diagnosed with leukemia, Kaitlin O'Connor's best friend Blake Mounts learned he wouldn't be able to leave the hospital to go to the homecoming dance.
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Model Goes Blind After Tattooing Eyeball, Warns Others of Dangers Updated | Twenty-four year old Catt Gallinger's fun excursion into body art ended in horror when an eye tattoo left her partially blinded and oozing purple tears.
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Officials highlight flu vaccination gaps, progress ahead of season In an annual event to build support for flu vaccination and take stock of the nation's uptake trends, federal officials said today that vaccination rates rebounded slightly last season, led by better coverage in adults over age 50, but immunization ...
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Flu Vaccination Rates Among Healthcare Workers Have Plateaued WASHINGTON, DC - Vaccination rates have flattened out over the last few years among healthcare workers, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released today at a press briefing here sponsored by the National ...
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Ohio teen with cancer couldn't go to homecoming, so his date brought the dance to him HILLIARD, OH (WCMH) - Blake Mounts, a senior at Hilliard Darby High School, couldn't go to his homecoming dance because of a recent cancer diagnosis, so his date brought homecoming to him.
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Woman dies from flesh-eating bacteria from Harvey-flooded home (CNN) Four weeks after the storm, Hurricane Harvey's destruction continues. A recent victim of the super storm is a 77-year-old woman who encountered flesh-eating bacteria inside a home near Houston, according to the Harris County Institute of Forensic ...
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San Diego increases homeless citations in hepatitis outbreak In this Sept. 19, 2017 photo, homeless people stand among their items along 17th Street in San Diego. The city has cleared a downtown street where hundreds of homeless people regularly camp during ongoing efforts to sanitize neighborhoods to control ...
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New 'Chemical Surgery' Technique Repairs Mutations in Human Embryos For the first time, a research team from China used a new technique to fix a blood disorder in human embryos. The scientists performed "chemical surgery"—a procedure that rewrites errors in genetic code instead of snapping and replacing strands of ...
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Washington state, Seattle are latest to sue opioid makers Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, second from left, listens to a question, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, in Seattle, as he stands near a chart detailing increases in overdoses and hospital stays relating to opioid use in Washington state.
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FDA OKs first continuous blood sugar monitor without finger prick tests This photo provided by Abbott Laboratories shows the company's FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring device. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the device, which continuously monitors diabetics' blood sugar levels without requiring ...
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FDA approves first continuous glucose monitoring system for adults not requiring blood sample calibration The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System, the first continuous glucose monitoring system that can be used by adult patients to make diabetes treatment decisions without calibration using a ...
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Washington state AG Bob Ferguson, Seattle sue OxyContin maker over opioid deaths Washington is suing Purdue, maker of OxyContin, accusing the company of fueling the state's ongoing opioid epidemic. (Toby Talbot / The Associated Press, file).
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1 trick that may protect you from bedbugs when traveling Bedbugs are attracted to clothes that have been worn, and might be climbing into suitcases that have dirty laundry in them, researchers reported Thursday.
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Bed bugs may travel to new homes in your dirty laundry In the past couple of decades, bed bug populations have exploded all over the world, particularly in the US, parts of Europe, and Australia.
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Seattle, state sue 'Big Pharma' over pain pill marketing Attorneys for the city of Seattle and Washington state are going after pharmaceutical companies they say fueled the country's opioid epidemic by hiding the risk of addiction posed by popular pain pills.
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Mother strongly against vaccines ordered to vaccinate son or face jail time A Michigan mother has a choice to make: either go against her beliefs and vaccinate her son, or go to jail. Rebecca Bredow, of the Metro Detroit area, has one week to get her 9-year-old son vaccinated or an Oakland County judge will throw her in jail ...
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Zika was a mild bug. A new discovery shows how it turned monstrous. When the Zika virus became a global terror two years ago - inflicting severe birth defects on the babies of pregnant women who were infected with the virus and alarming health officials worldwide - scientists were mystified.
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There's Now Science-Backed Advice on How to Avoid Bringing Home Bed Bugs Bed bugs are bed bad. People's entire lives have been overturned by these (increasingly common) blood-sucking, itch-inducing pests.
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FDA approves Lilly pill for common advanced breast cancer This April 26, 2017, photo shows the Eli Lilly and Co. corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. On Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly's Verzenio, a new medicine for treating adults with a common type of breast ...
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Man's lung tumor turns out to be a toy he swallowed 40 years ago (CNN) When doctors performed surgery on a man to remove what they suspected to be a bronchogenic carcinoma, they instead found a toy traffic cone he had swallowed in 1974.
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He thought he had a lung tumor. It was a tiny toy traffic cone he inhaled 40 years ago. For more than a year, he had felt ill, inexplicably coughing up phlegm. The British postal worker, a former smoker, had already been treated for pneumonia, but now doctors suspected it might be much worse - an x-ray had revealed a mysterious mass in ...
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NICU Grandpa: 'It's been wonderful because it gives me something to do that has meaning to it.' A weekly visitor to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is making an impact on parents-and the hospital's smallest patients. Kaitlyn Ross, WXIA 7:25 PM.
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How Zika Became So Dangerous For Babies Scientists have started to unravel a key mystery about the Zika virus. And the findings are almost unbelievable. "When I first started reading the study, I said, 'Oh, my gosh, that's amazing,' says molecular biologist Alysson Muotri, at the University ...
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'Flesh-Eating Bacteria' From Harvey's Floodwaters Kill a Woman The Meyerland neighborhood of Houston on Aug. 27. Some of the worst flooding from Hurricane Harvey occurred in Meyerland, and the floodwaters teemed with bacteria.
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FDA approves new treatment for certain advanced or metastatic breast cancers The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Verzenio (abemaciclib) to treat adult patients who have hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer that has ...
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Suffolk County Confirms First West Nile Virus-Related Death in 7 Years A Long Island resident who died this month has positive for West Nile virus, marking Suffolk County's first such death in nearly a decade.
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Doctors See A Surge In Babies With Syphilis-Associated Birth Defects Public health experts say something has gone terribly wrong with prenatal care in the U.S. and that babies are paying the price. By Anna Almendrala.
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Free Opioid Overdose Response Training scheduled OAKLAND - The Garrett County Health Department (GCHD) has scheduled a free Opioid Overdose Response Training course for Thursday, Oct. 5, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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Caffeine may not relieve movement symptoms for people with Parkinson's Contrary to previous research, caffeine may not relieve movement symptoms for people with Parkinson's disease, according to a study published in the September 27, 2017, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...
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Protect babies from flu by getting older siblings vaccinated, parents advised Small children risk lung infections and breathing difficulties if they catch flu, and can also develop high fevers. However, there is currently no vaccine approved for babies under six months.
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Having an older sibling poses risk of serious flu for babies and toddlers Children under two years are more likely to be admitted to hospital with influenza if they have an older sister or brother, according to research published today (Thursday) in the European Respiratory Journal.
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Global Stem Cell Market 2017 – CCBC, Vcanbio, Boyalife, Beikebiotech stem-cell-market Stem Cell Market analyzed the Industry region, including the product price, profit, capacity, production, capacity utilization, supply, demand and industry growth rate etc.
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5 things you should know about rabies Every nine minutes someone dies from rabies, the deadliest zoonotic disease on the planet. While most cases of rabies occur in Africa, India, and other parts of Asia, each year 30,000 to 60,000 people in the United States receive post-exposure ...
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Is rabies on the rise in Orange County? Orange County Animal Services officers were called to investigate a dead fox in Mebane on Sunday that was suspected of carrying the disease.
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Teen Girl Dies In Sleep From 'Useless' HPV Shot A teenager from Vienna, Austria, reportedly died in her sleep Tuesday weeks after receiving the second shot of the Human Papillomavirus Infection (HPV) vaccination, a new documentary claims.
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World Heart Day 2017: 4 ways to keep your heart healthy September 29 marks World Heart Day 2017, which aims to encourage people to cut their risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), which includes heart attack and stroke.
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Australian who faked cancer fined for false donation claims CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - An Australian cookbook author who falsely said she beat cancer through healthy eating has been fined by a court for misleading consumers by lying about her charitable donations.
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