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San Diego County declares emergency amid hepatitis outbreak In this Friday, Sept. 1, 2017 photo, Edwin Gonzalez from United Site Services delivers a 2-station sink to the Neil Good Day Center on 17th Street downtown San Diego, Calif.
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15 dead from Hepatitis A outbreak among San Diego homeless SAN DIEGO (KUSI) - The Hepatitis A outbreak among San Diego homeless has taken 15 lives in the last ten months. The outbreak in Downtown San Diego has been declared by county health officials as a "state of emergency".
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Huge discovery about Dads stuns scientists Scientists have found that the average age of new fathers is getting older and older, and that may actually be a very good thing for society.
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Scientists have found average age of new dads Scientists have discovered that the average age of new DADS is getting more established and more seasoned, and that may really be something worth being thankful for society.
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3 deaths from West Nile Virus confirmed in SoCal Three deaths from West Nile Virus contracted in 2017 in California have been confirmed, state health officials said. The three people who died from the mosquito-borne virus were from Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Kern counties.
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Terrifying discovery in the Great Lakes alarms scientists A huge new finding indicates that scientists are finding traces of antidepressants in fish that live in the Great Lakes, and that could affect the ecosystem.
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Disturbed sleep patterns may be key to ADHD, study finds A growing number of disorders are being linked to disruptions to the circadian rhythm, the work suggests. Photograph: KatarzynaBialasiewicz/Getty Images/iStockphoto.
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Chicago police chief leaves hospital after kidney transplant CHICAGO - Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson has left the hospital three days after undergoing a kidney transplant. Johnson was discharged on Saturday afternoon.
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Gene therapy Kymriah: What's in a name? Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel, CTL-019, Novartis AG) and other chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have been making their way through clinical trials as cell therapies.
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Day-dreaming while driving is common Are you always attentive when driving? If not, you are not alone. A new study has found that mind wandering, which is potentially dangerous, is quite common among drivers.
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Prescribed Reading: Get ready for CAR-T clash Biopharma is a complex, rapidly evolving industry that is highly regulated and closely watched - and that means there is constant news.
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The hidden health dangers of flooding Texas (CNN) - Even after Hurricane Harvey's immediate flooding threat goes away, Texas residents will face a host of potential health problems from the water -- and from what the water leaves behind.
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The worst is yet to come for the NHS - hospital chiefs The NHS in England may suffer its worst winter in recent history if it does not receive an emergency bailout, hospital chiefs are warning.
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Asthma Medicine Has Been Found To Halve The Risk Of Parkinson's Disease Commonly prescribed asthma drugs have been found to reduce a patient's risk of developing Parkinson's disease by as much as 50% in a decade-long study.
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St. Kitts launches probe of herpes vaccine tests on US patients St. Kitts and Nevis has launched an investigation into the clinical trial for a herpes vaccine by an American company. Photo by Flickr user Kreg Steppe.
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Source for brain's development found Study shows that glia, a collection of non-neuronal cells are vital to nerve-cell development in brain. Brain is made up of two broad cell types, nerve cells or neurons and glia (Photo: Pixabay).
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UK Department of Health to invest £5 million for obesity policy research The U.K. Department of Health has announced £5 million funding to create a new obesity policy research unit at University College London to explore childhood obesity and deliver a plan for managing the condition, according to a Department of Health and ...
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Day-dreaming while driving is common in drivers Mind wandering is an understudied form of distraction, where drivers start daydreaming and shift their attention from driving to internal thoughts.
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ENC Researcher Warns About Texas Floodwater Pathogens A local researcher wants to raise awareness of bacteria and viruses lurking in the stagnant floodwaters in Texas. Credit UNC. You've heard about flooding in Texas…rescuers pulling people from stranded vehicles, families wading through the floodwaters ...
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Aged care workers to get mandatory flu jab Aged care workers in Australia should get compulsory flu vaccines following a spate of deaths in nursing homes, federal health minister Greg Hunt announced.
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Farm minister says Philippines' bird flu crisis is over MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has declared its avian flu crisis, which prompted the culling of over 600,000 birds, to be officially over as it eased restrictions on the shipment of poultry products from towns where outbreaks were detected ...
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Compulsory flu vaccines for all aged care workers All aged care workers across Australia will get the flu vaccine before next year, the federal health minister Greg Hunt says. Source: AAP - SBS Wires.
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What's behind increase in road deaths? It may not be what you think Climate change has been blamed for long, hot summers, erratic storms, and frigid winters. Now a retired Yale scientist believes the shift in our climate could lead to an unexpected consequence - more road deaths.
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'Woefully unprepared': Doctors sound alarm on flu as government plans new vaccine push Australia is woefully unprepared for the next pandemic flu, with doctors hoping this winter's deadly outbreak will serve as a wake-up call for people too lazy to get vaccinated.
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Pioneering gene therapy gets green light — and $475000 price The country's first approved gene therapy - approved Wednesday to fight leukemia that resists standard therapies - will cost $475,000 for a one-time treatment, its manufacturer announced.
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Flu outbreak kills 7 residents in Australian aged care home MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - An influenza outbreak has killed seven residents of a care home for the elderly in Australia and sickened 116 other residents and staff, an official said Friday.
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Does Contagious Yawning Have A Neural Basis? The human propensity for contagious yawning is triggered automatically by primitive reflexes in the primary motor cortex, new research from the University of Nottingham suggests.
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'Childbirth has become like choosing schools. We're very consumerist about it' Childbirth isn't what it used to be. Yes, the key elements remain unaltered - the essential physiology, the mechanics, the emergence of a howling baby at the end of it all.
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World's biggest X-ray goes into operation in Germany (Christian Charisius/dpa via AP, file). FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo a technician works at the tunnel of an X-ray laser at the European XFEL project in Schenefeld, Germany.
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Helipad but no swine flu test facility at Jhalawar Hosp Jhalawar Medical College, that is planning to have helipad facility still does not have medical test facility for swine flu. The machine for swine flu test is available in the medical college, but it has not been installed.
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Hold that corn dog: Minnesota obesity is on the rise After declining slightly between 2014 and 2015, the share of Minnesotans who describe themselves as obese edged up to an all-time high of 27.8 percent in 2016.
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FDA approves first 'living drug' for tough childhood leukemia Opening a new era in cancer care, U.S. health officials have approved a breakthrough treatment that genetically engineers patients' own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy childhood leukemia.
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Danger not over: Gas leaks, mold loom for Harvey evacuees HOUSTON (AP) - Bound for their Harvey-soaked home east of Houston, Lakeithia Bankhead and her four children left the mass shelter at the city's convention center Friday after five nights sleeping on cots among thousands of other evacuees.
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Red Cross seeks volunteers with long term relief in mind FEDERAL WAY - The Red Cross says so many people across the country are signing up to volunteer that it crashed the computer system and locally there are some dramatic stories of people stepping up.
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An asthma medication seems to lower Parkinson's disease risks Evolution may have been our planet's first recycler. When organisms evolved useful proteins, they tend to get re-used in unrelated processes.
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Doubts Raised about Gene-Editing Study in Human Embryos Doubts have surfaced about a landmark paper claiming that human embryos were cleared of a deadly mutation using genome editing. In an article posted to the bioRxiv.
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