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Citing religious freedom, Trump backing off Obama-era rules WASHINGTON - Leaders of social conservatives are expressing elation over President Donald Trump's decisions on two issues they see as tied to religious freedom.
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People are getting sick from a bacterial disease — and pet-store puppies might be to blame A disease linked to puppies sold at Petland, a nationwide chain of about 80 pet stores, has sickened 55 people and hospitalized 13, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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To slow deadly hepatitis outbreak, paramedics will now provide vaccinations to the homeless Paramedics are the newest troops in the fight against San Diego's ever-growing hepatitis A outbreak. A letter signed this week by the director of the state Emergency Medical Services Authority temporarily expands state laws that govern paramedics ...
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Puppies are the culprits behind a 12-state diarrhea disaster The Centers for Disease Control released a statement this week that says baby dogs are to blame for a multi-state outbreak of Campylobacter, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and fever in humans.
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Hepatitis A Spreads Through San Diego: Why It's So Hard to Stop SAN DIEGO - More than 480 people in San Diego have become infected with hepatitis A over the last 10 months, in the largest outbreak of the illness in California in decades.
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Researchers Predict a Quarter-Million New Cases of Breast Cancer in the US Studying mammograms to detect breast cancer. A study from the American Cancer Society estimates that a woman living in the United States will have a one in eight chance of getting breast cancer.
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Mom, daughter diagnosed with breast cancer compare care A single mother to a 9-year-old daughter, the only thing she knew about cancer was whatever information her doctor provided - information, she said, which didn't even include the stage of her cancer.
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Gamer goes blind in one eye because she played on her smartphone all day Wu Xiaojing, 21, says she can no longer see from her right eye after a day of gaming on her device. She claims that she hardly goes anywhere and stays home to play games at weekends and doctors now fear her sight will never return.
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Health Officials Report San Diego's First Case Of West Nile Virus This Year A Spring Valley woman became the first person in the San Diego region to test positive for West Nile virus this year, but it is unclear whether she contracted the disease locally, county health officials reported Friday.
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2017 Breast Cancer Summit comes to The Carltun Moving from its traditional venue in Woodbury closer to the Garden City home base of its sponsoring practice, Long Island Plastic Surgical Group, the 2017 annual Breast Cancer Summit will be held from 8 am to 1 p.m.
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FDA fears post-hurricane drug and device shortages Federal officials and major drugmakers are scrambling to prevent national shortages of critical drugs for treating cancer, diabetes and heart disease, as well as medical devices and supplies, that are manufactured at 80 plants in hurricane-ravaged ...
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A Deadly Outbreak of Plague Is Killing Dozens in Madagascar. Here's What to Know A widespread outbreak of the plague has gripped Madagascar. The disease has killed at least 30 people, and 194 have been infected since August, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Madagascar's Red Cross works to curb deadly plague outbreak JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Madagascar's Red Cross is stepping up efforts to stem a plague outbreak that has killed 30 people and spread into urban areas.
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Sex and flu jab best time is dictated by your body clock Beneath the veneer of our super-sophisticated 21st-century existence, there lies a very basic truth: our lives are fundamentally governed by daily biological cycles called circadian rhythms.
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Cigna's move to drop OxyContin coverage unlikely to curb opioid misuse Cigna Corp. said it will stop covering prescriptions for opioid pain medication Oxycontin next year as part of its initiative to reduce opioid use among its members.
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ACLU suing FDA to make abortion pill available in all US pharmacies The American Civil liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit this week that could ultimately allow pharmacies to sell the controversial abortion pill, RU-486, to women at any stage of pregnancy and without medical oversight.
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Feature: California residents alerted by rising West Nile Virus infections LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Every morning, 47-year-old housewife Diana Ng, sterilizes her house and refreshes the water of her fish pond in the back yard.
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Orange County records its first West Nile virus-related death The peak season of the mosquito-borne West Nile virus should be nearing its end, but state and local agencies are warning people to keep up the fight against mosquitoes.
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Hockey Viewers' Hearts May Pay a Penalty THURSDAY, Oct. 5, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Just watching a hockey game can put significant stress on the heart, a new study claims.
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Cigna to stop covering most OxyContin prescriptions In an attempt to reduce opioid use amid a nationwide abuse epidemic, insurance giant Cigna will no longer cover most OxyContin prescriptions in its group plans beginning January 1. "Our focus is on helping customers get the most value from their ...
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Cigna to stop covering most OxyContin prescriptions NEW YORK (CNN) In an attempt to reduce opioid use amid a nationwide abuse epidemic, insurance giant Cigna will no longer cover most OxyContin prescriptions in its group plans beginning January 1. "Our focus is on helping customers get the most value ...
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Brainstorm Health: Cigna's War on Opioids, Birth Control Mandate, AbbVie AndroGel Hit Health insurance giant Cigna announced that it will largely ditch coverage for OxyContin (or oxycodone), in its group health plans beginning in January 2018.
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Health officials confirm first death of flu season SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego region's first fatality of "flu season" was an 86-year-old man who died Sunday, county health officials said Friday.
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Chaos and a Trail of Blood as Nursing Aide Helped Las Vegas Massacre Victims Nursing aide Jacqueline Rodriguez, who was among many health care workers who went days without sleep trying to save the lives of people wounded after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S.
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Happy thoughts could boost the flu shot's efficacy According to research by a team of health experts from the University of Nottingham in England, being in a positive mood when you get your flu shot can increase its protective effects.
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Positive results of EEE and West Nile Virus found in Oswego County Positive results of the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and West Nile viruses (WNV), were both found in Oswego County, according to county Public Health Director, Jiancheng Huang.
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HIV-positive hairdresser allegedly cut tips off condoms to infect his Grindr dates A hairdresser deliberately infected at least four men with HIV after meeting them on gay dating app Grindr - before sending them mocking messages, a court heard.
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More than 30 dead, hundreds infected by plague outbreak in Madagascar Johannesburg (CNN) An unusually widespread outbreak of the plague is menacing Madagascar. At least 33 people have died and more than 200 have been infected with plague across the country, according to the World Health Organization.
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World's rarest songbird is so rare because it's not real – study A new study into one of the world's most "elusive" species of songbird found that the Liberian Greenbul may be so hard to spot because... it never actually existed. A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen conducted the study into the ...
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Jackson County Health Department continues education about need for flu shots Tracy Thomas, a public health nurse for the Jackson County Health Department, gives a flu shot to Sarah Patrick, an administrator for the health department, on Thursday at the health department in Murphysboro.
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Fight Against Stigma Of Mental Illness Is A Joint Production The notion that people with mental illness can act as community educators is a radical but relatively novel idea. 10/05/2017 14:18 EDT | Updated 10 hours ago.
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Lake Superior lamprey population increasing The sea lamprey, the blood-sucking eel-like species that devastated the fishing industry on the Great Lakes in the 1940s and 1950s, is on the rise in Lake Superior.
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Panelists: Physicians Must Stress Importance of Flu Vaccine October 06, 2017 04:37 pm Michael Laff Washington, D.C. - Although a higher percentage of Americans are receiving influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations compared with previous decades, the rates across all population segments are not high enough, ...
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Injectable 'Elastic Glue' Seals Wounds in Just 60 Seconds The substance, called MeTro, is injected directly on the wound and then sealed with UV light. (Image: University of Sydney). An innovative surgical glue developed by researchers from the United States and Australia seals wounds quickly and without the ...
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Pa. to fund opioid overdose antidote for first responders Narcan Nasal Spray, an opioid overdose antidote designed for use by people with no medical training, is made by Adapt Pharma, an Irish company with U.S.
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'Western society is chronically sleep deprived': the importance of the body's clock The 2017 Nobel prize for medicine was awarded for the discovery of how our circadian rhythms are controlled. But what light does it shed on the cycle of life?
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Low calcium intake may lead to sudden cardiac arrest It has been found that individuals with lower levels of calcium in the blood, are more likely to experience sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) than those with higher calcium levels.
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Study links dental antibiotics to C diff cases Antibiotics prescribed by dentists could be contributing to rising cases of Clostridium difficile, according to new research released today at IDWeek 2017.
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Black mental health should not rely on churches Religion can be a source of strength for the black community, but it can also be detrimental when used to fix a serious mental health problem.
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Neanderthal Genes Not Only Deepen Immunity, They Also Add to Hair and Skin Tones New genetic contributions from Neanderthals are being appreciated, thanks to studies delving into Neanderthal and human genomes. Already, it was understood that Neanderthal genes contributed to the disease phenotypes of modern humans.
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Women who get frequent UTIs may reduce risk by drinking plenty of water SAN DIEGO - Drinking an additional three pints of water a day may keep the urinary tract infection (UTI) away - at least for women who are prone - suggests a study being presented at IDWeek 2017™.
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World Cerebral Palsy Day 2017: How stem cell therapy can help in treating cerebral palsy This could be a ray of hope for many people whose kids are suffering from Cerebral Palsy. Debjani Arora | Published: October 6, 2017 10:21 am.
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New Jersey sues Insys as opioid maker settles with Massachusetts FILE PHOTO: A box of the Fentanyl-based drug Subsys, made by Insys Therapeutics Inc, is seen in an undated photograph provided by the U.S.
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