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Heart disease death rate plummets, but overdose death rate rises, CDC says (CNN) Three new reports from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bring both good and bad news about Americans' health.
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CDC Reports a Record Jump in Drug Overdose Deaths Last Year A harm reduction worker in the Bronx demonstrated how to test heroin for traces of fentanyl. A surge in U.S. drug deaths in 2016 has been attributed largely to synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
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Community asked to help Maine boy with cancer celebrate one last Christmas Jacob Thompson loves Christmas, and he's defied the odds to enjoy more of them than doctors might have expected. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma in February of 2014 at the age of 5, Portland NBC affiliate WCSH reported, and ...
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9-Year-Old Boy Dying of Cancer Wants to Celebrate Christmas Early — with Cards from You A 9-year-old boy with a rare type of cancer may not live to see the end of the year, but his parents are hoping strangers can band together to help bring their boy some holiday cheer a bit early.
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Doctor fights to regain license lost to lax computer skills NEW LONDON, N.H. - Holding manila folders filled with pages of her handwritten reports, Dr. Anna Konopka insisted her system for keeping track of her patients' medical conditions and various prescriptions works fine.
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9-year-old with cancer wants cards for his last Christmas (CNN) Nine-year-old Jacob Thompson is your average kid. His obsessions include Minecraft and Legos, and he's a huge "Star Wars" fan.
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9-year-old cancer patient to celebrate his 'last Christmas' early Jacob Thompson was diagnosed with Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma in February of 2014 when he was just 5 years old. Amazingly, Jacob is now 9 but the family says his time is limited and he won't be leaving the hospital.
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Surrogate mother of 'twins' finds one is hers A surrogate mother from California, who gave birth to two babies, found out one of the children was biologically hers. Jessica Allen became pregnant with her own biological child while she was carrying another baby as a surrogate for a Chinese couple.
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The Latest: Doctor pleads with judge to regain license Dr. Anna Konopka stands in front of her tiny office where she sees patients, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 in New London, N.H.. The 84-year-old physician is fighting to get her license back after being accused by the state's Board of Medicine of problems with ...
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Push to practice: With few computer skills, doctor fights to regain her license Dr. Anna Konopka sits in her tiny office, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017 in New London, N.H.. The 84-year-old physician is fighting to get her license back after being accused by the state's Board of Medicine of problems with her record keeping, prescribing of ...
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Surrogate mom delivers two babies, one her own (CNN) The lives of Jessica Allen and her husband, Wardell Jasper, were changed permanently and for the better by a rare medical phenomenon.
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A Controversial Experiment Upends The Conventional Wisdom On Heart Stents In addition to its finding on stents, the test showed the importance of the placebo effect. By Anna Almendrala. A groundbreaking new experiment reveals that stents, which are mesh wire tubes inserted into narrow or weak arteries to widen them and ...
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How Your Brain Helps You Stop Thinking About Something If you have been wondering if you'll ever be able to scrub unwanted thoughts from your memory, science says you actually might—if your hippocampus is well-stocked with a particular neurotransmitter.
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WHO helps Kenya prevent spread of Marburg from Uganda The World Health Organization is helping the Kenyan Ministry of Health guard against the spread of Marburg Virus Disease from neighbouring Uganda.
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Woman accuses cosmetics store Sephora of giving her oral herpes HOLLYWOOD (NBC4) - One woman accused cosmetics store Sephora of giving her oral herpes after she tried a lipstick sample at the Hollywood and Highland location, according to a lawsuit.
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British woman arrested for drug trafficking in Egypt A British woman has been arrested in Egypt and accused of drug trafficking. Laura Plummer, from Hull, was arrested after flying into Cairo with nearly 300 tramadol tablets and some Naproxen in her suitcase, the Sun reported.
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Sex-change men 'will soon be able to have babies' Society should prepare itself for the near arrival of the first babies born to transgender mothers, one of the world's leading fertility specialists has said.
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Professor Sues PNAS Over Paper Criticisms Stanford's Mark Jacobson is asking for $10 million in damages after the journal published a critique of his work on renewable energy.
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Acid reflux drugs may more than double risk of stomach cancer Acid reflux and heartburn drugs called proton pump inhibitors are some of the most widely used in the world, but a new study found that long-term use can increase stomach cancer risks by almost 250%.
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Father hopes to remain donor for Georgia toddler: I'll 'do whatever it takes to get my son a kidney' The parents of 2-year-old A.J. Burgess ar e hopeful that his father will be re-approved as his kidney donor and that the transplant will take place before January.
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Womb hope for transgender women The first womb transplant into a transgender woman could happen imminently, according to one of the most senior fertility scientists in the US.
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SC woman with cancer gets dream wedding at hospital Priestly and her fiance, David Hall, got married Thursday night at Trident Medical Center near Charleston. wltx 6:48 PM. EDT November 03, 2017.
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The Secret to Cancer Treatment May Be In Our Guts The word "breakthrough" is so overused when discussing cancer research and treatment that the term itself has lost its meaning.
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Wellness for the Family: Diabetes 101 Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in our country, despite the $245 billion that the U.S spends treating it. This chronic condition targets people of all ages, genders and ethnicities around the world.
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Scientists are testing out how blood from young men could treat Alzheimer's Alkahest, a startup spun out of Stanford University, is exploring whether plasma could be used to treat people living with Alzheimer's.
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Dudes are bombarding this gynecologist trying to get medical marijuana Getting medical cannabis in some states is harder than others. Apparently it's so difficult in Pennsylvania that dudes are calling up an OB-GYN in an attempt at getting their hands on the stick icky.
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A curved penis increases men's risk of certain cancers, study finds Men with curved penises are at a higher risk of certain cancers, new research shows. Researchers at Baylor College in Houston who reviewed patient data of over 1.5-million men from the Truven Health MarketScan database found a link between those with ...
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Cancer patient gets dream wedding thanks to hospital staff (STORYFUL) - The staff at Trident Medical Center in Charleston, South Carolina, made one patient's dream come true on Thursday.
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Flu season in full effect Finney County Health Department nurse Betsy Rodriguez prepares a flu shot dosage for a patient on Oct. 26 at the clinic. [JOSH HARBOUR/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER].
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Duval County Receives 'F' From March Of Dimes Report Looking At Preterm Birth Rates The rate of babies being born early is going up across the country. There were 8,000 more preterm births in the U.S. last year than the previous year, and Jacksonville's rate is worse than the country's.
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Silver Water United Church members wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness Members of the Silver Water United Church dressed up in their pink clothes, hats and ties this past Sunday, as the church recognized October as Breast Cancer Month.
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Nebraska records its first influenza-related death of the season Clinics are urging everyone to get the flu shot, even if they had the flu, to fight the multiple strains of influenza. Pictured above, a nurse prepares a dose of flu vaccine at Bellevue Urgent Care.
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Suspected link between PPIS and kidney disease not certain Dear Doctor: Proton pump inhibitors, which I take for my severe heartburn, have made my life enjoyable again. Now I'm reading that they may cause kidney damage.
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Suit claims lipstick sample at Sephora store gave woman herpes A California woman is suing cosmetics retailer Sephora, claiming a sample tube of lipstick she tried at a Hollywood store gave her the herpes virus.
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Japanese Company Offers Extra Days Off to Workers Who Don't Smoke About 20 percent of people in Japan smoke cigarettes, one of the highest rates in the world. Some government officials are trying to limit public smoking before the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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This Japanese company is giving employees who don't smoke 6 extra vacation days Those quick smoke breaks some employees take for a few minutes at a time throughout the day add up, giving them extra time outside of the office than nonsmoking employees.
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Dear parents, remove all electronic devices from your kid's bedroom. Here's why A number of studies have found evidence of an adverse association between screen-based media consumption and sleep health, primarily delayed bedtimes and reduced total sleep duration.
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