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Opioid crisis: Half a mile apart, childhood friends die on the same day LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (CNN) -- Twenty seconds is all it took for 19-year-old Dustin Manning to die. Dustin's parents, Greg and Lisa Manning, were left devastated after the toxicology report showed their son had taken a toxic mix of heroin and fentanyl, ...
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Opioid crisis: Childhood friends die on same day, half a mile apart LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - In a matter of just 20 seconds, 19-year-old Dustin Manning had passed away. His devastated parents, Greg and Lisa Manning, said the toxicology report found he had taken a toxic mix of heroin and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid so ...
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Opioid crisis: Childhood friends die on same day, half a mile apart His devastated parents, Greg and Lisa Manning, said the toxicology report found he had taken a toxic mix of heroin and fentanyl, a synthetic opioid so powerful it's often fatal.
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2100 cities exceed recommended pollution levels, fueling climate change (CNN) Climate change is already affecting the health of populations around the world, but things are set to get worse if adequate changes aren't made, according to an international consortium of climate experts.
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FDA Issues Warning About Black Licorice For Halloween If you were planning on wolfing down black licorice for Halloween, you may want to choose something less risky to your heart, like candy corn.
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New assessment ranks Maryland hospitals near bottom in safety measurements Maryland hospitals rank near the bottom nationwide when it comes to avoiding medical errors, accidents, injuries and infections, according to a new assessment by the Leapfrog Group.
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Transparency pays: Hospitals score poorly in last state required to disclose safety Fifteen U.S. hospitals - including two in Washington, D.C. - received failing grades in a new report on 2,600 hospitals released Tuesday that includes all 50 states for the first time.
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Toddler hospitalized after his father's arrest postponed kidney donation A toddler who was prevented from receiving a kidney transplant from his father was reportedly rushed to an emergency room Sunday with an abdominal infection.
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Father and son die of suspected drug overdose at family birthday party A father and son reportedly died of a suspected drugs overdose while celebrating a family birthday party. Joseph Andrade, 44, and his 22-year-old son, Carlos, excused themselves from the festivities in Brooklyn, New York, by telling their partners they ...
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Woman sues Sephora after claiming makeup samples gave her herpes A woman from California is reportedly suing Sephora after claiming a sample from the store gave her herpes. According to the TMZ report, the woman visited the cosmetics giant in October 2015 and tried on a sample tube of lipstick.
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Alzheimer's nutrient drink falters in clinical trial There is no good evidence that a nutrient drink being sold online in the UK to "help" people with early Alzheimer's actually slows the disease, say experts.
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Toddler denied kidney transplant due to father's arrest rushed to hospital An attorney for the family told local media outlets that 2-year-old A.J. Burgess was hospitalized with an abdominal infection, according to AJC.
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Naloxone reverses 93% of overdoses, but many recipients don't survive a year (CNN) As the opioid overdose epidemic continues to surge, public health officials and first responders have turned to naloxone, the drug that reverses overdose, to help combat the rising tide.
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Woman suing cosmetics chain after contracting herpes from lipstick testers One Sephora customer learned the hard way why you should never use the lipstick testers. A woman from California is now suing Sephora after she claims a lipstick sample from the "common use" tubes on display gave her herpes on her lip.
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Doctors prepare for deep dive into Las Vegas shooter's brain LAS VEGAS - Scientists are preparing to do a microscopic study of the Las Vegas gunman's brain, but whatever they find, if anything, likely won't be what led him to kill 58 people in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S.
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Brain Patterns May Predict People At Risk Of Suicide People who are thinking about killing themselves appear to have distinctive brain activity that can now be measured by a computer.
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Victim of bat bite dies from rabies after non-treatment of the disease HIGHLANDS COUNTY, Fla. - The victim of a bat bite in Highlands County, Fla., has died from rabies, according to the Florida Health Department.
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Algorithm can identify suicidal people using brain scans Scientists have trained a computer program to identify people with suicidal thoughts based on their brain scans. The study is small, but the method could one day be used for diagnosing mental health conditions, researchers say.
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Double opioid overdose killed father and son after birthday celebration The younger man, Carlos' face was turning blue due as he asphyxiated, Carlos' girlfriend Jasmin Santos found him inside his father's building's foyer after 3 AM.
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Former president Bill Clinton to visit Baltimore, Dundalk BALTIMORE - Former President Bill Clinton will be visiting Maryland this week for two events. Clinton will give opening remarks and moderate a panel at an opioid summit Monday at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
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RivCo Mom Who Acted As Surrogate Accidentally Gave Up Own Son Jessica Allen, of Perris, California, decided to become a surrogate mother in order to earn some extra income so she could spend more time with her two sons.
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Why are teal pumpkins popping up on porches? Don't be surprised if you see more teal pumpkins popping up in your neighborhood. This Halloween, allergy doctors would love to see every house have one.
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An aspirin a day keeps many cancers away, study suggests Long-term aspirin use reduces the risk of developing many cancers, a major study has shown. Chinese researchers followed the progress of more than 600,000 people in the largest study to date looking at the link between cancer and aspirin.
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Study links acetaminophen in pregnancy to ADHD, but experts question results MILWAUKEE - Long-term use of acetaminophen during pregnancy was associated with twice the risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
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Surrogate Mom Gets Pregnant While Carrying Another Couple's Baby A surrogate carrying a Chinese couple's baby became pregnant with her own child in an extremely rare medical occurrence known as superfetation.
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Pain drugs in pregnancy tied to ADHD (Reuters Health) - Women who use a lot of the common pain reliever acetaminophen during pregnancy may be more likely to have children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than those who don't use the drug, a Norwegian study suggests.
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Aging is mathematically inevitable, say researchers It's impossible to for science to 'cure' aging, so embrace your golden years. (Photo: feriansyah/Flickr). Humans have been searching for a cure for aging for as long as they have been capable of pondering their own mortality.
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The person died of rabies. Being bitten by a bat likely had something to do with that. Shark bite. Gator bite. Now add bat bite to the Florida wildlife chomps that can kill. A resident of Highlands County in Central Florida has died from a bat bite.
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Exercising with friends may reduce stress: study Washington, Oct 31 (PTI) Hitting the gym with your friends can help better reduce stress and boost your quality of life compared to exercising alone, a study has found.
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Can A Lipstick Tester Give You Herpes? One Woman Is Suing Sephora When it comes to shopping for beauty, Sephora may just be king (or queen) of all. Not only is the retailer a place to shop for hair care, skin care, and cosmetics, but its rewards program is bae - and then there's the ability to swatch almost all of ...
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It's mathematically impossible to beat aging, scientists say Aging is a natural part of life, but that hasn't stopped people from embarking on efforts to stop the process. Unfortunately, perhaps, those attempts are futile, according to University of Arizona researchers who have proved that it's mathematically ...
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Pocket-sized, affordably-priced ultrasound connects to an iPhone "There's a smartphone app for that" is pretty much a joke punchline nowadays, with our smartphones being utilized for everything from spotting skin cancers to detecting concussions.
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Flu ahead: A tough season is expected; coping strategies to make 'the shot' easier to handle If your child seems very sensitive to the pain, a topical anesthetic applied to the skin beforehand works well. By Karin Klein | OC Family.
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Pot Users Have More Sex, But It's A Lot More Complicated Than That In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown that people who use pot have sex about 20 per cent more often than those who do not.
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Life in Balance: 'Tobacco epidemic' targets new generation Even with all the news and studies that show how bad smoking is for your health, kids in Idaho are still taking up the habit. Kim Fields, KTVB 11:07 PM.
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New scheme targets mental health in the workplace A CHARITY is launching a new scheme to help companies support mental health in the workplace. The Dorset Mind Works campaign follows a report by Mind and Deloitte which reveals that nationally 300,000 people with a long term mental health problem ...
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Thriving At Work? 300000 Beg To Differ The independently-executed, ironically-named Thriving at Work report has revealed that many of us - 300,000 to be exact - are definitely not thriving in the workplace, and instead are losing our jobs due to mental illness.
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E-cigarette users more likely to smoke tobacco, study suggests A 15-year-old uses an e-cigarette in Peekskill, N.Y., in April, 2015. A large new study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found teenagers who used e-cigarettes were more likely to start smoking a year later.
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Docs, Parents Need a Push to Adopt New Peanut Guidelines BOSTON -- Successful implementation of new guidelines on introducing peanuts into an infant's diet will require increased education and awareness, experts said here.
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Drinking Wine Weekly Connected to Improved Pregnancy Chances? Study Says There May Be a Link The study conducted by researchers at Washington University in the US, claimed that women who are trying to conceive may have better chance at it, if they happen to drink red wine once every week.
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