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Australia's flu season has US health officials bracing for a bad winter — and wishing for a new vaccine The flu season is just getting underway in North America, but if Australia's experience with influenza is any guide, we're in for a miserable winter.
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Are Dogs Smarter Than Cats? Scientists Weigh In The battle between dog and cat owners just got kicked up a notch, with new research that suggests canines might be smarter than felines.
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Sorry, cat lovers: Dogs are smarter Dogs have significantly more neurons in their cerebral cortex—"little gray cells" associated with thinking, planning, and complex behavior considered hallmarks of intelligence—than cats, researchers report.
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When It Comes to Dog vs Cat Brains, It Looks Like We Have a Clear Winner Ever since humanity split into dog and cat people, we've been arguing over which one of our beloved companions is a smarter species.
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A man claims he went down a 'Raging Rapids' ride — and came out with an eye-eating parasite A man in Pennsylvania says he contracted an eye-eating parasite from an amusement park water ride, and he is suing the park for negligence.
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Man says he contracted eye-eating parasite at Pennsylvania amusement park PITTSBURGH -- A man is suing Pittsburgh's Kennywood amusement park after he says he contracted an eye-eating parasite at the popular Raging Rapids ride.
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Man behind viral ALS 'Ice Bucket Challenge' passes away at 46 He was diagnosed with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, about two months after his marriage to Jeanette Senerchio. The disease has no cure.
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Possible link found between some Utah suicides, electronics Michael Friedrichs, Bureau of Health Promotion Epidemiologist, Utah Department of Health, speaks to reporters during a news conference Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, in Salt Lake City.
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San Francisco Vs. AIDS Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and the city's HIV transmission rates continues to fall. But can we get to zero? Peter Lawrence Kane; Thu Nov 30th, 2017 8:31am; FeatureTop Stories.
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Living and aging well with HIV: New strategies and new research (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Allison Webel, Case Western Reserve University.
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Dogs are smarter than cats, study finds Dog owners now have scientific data to back them in the eternal debate over whether dogs really are smarter than cats. Interested in Animals?
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More than half of US kids will be obese by the time they're 35, study predicts Obesity is set to become the new normal in America. By the time today's kids reach the age of 35, 57% of them will be obese, a new study predicts.
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World AIDS Day 2017 As we commemorate World AIDS Day 2017 on December 1, let us celebrate the significant achievements as well as reflect on what needs to be done to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Visualizing The AIDS Epidemic: A Look At The U Of Rochester's Stunning AIDS Education Posters From Algeria to Zimbabwe, and everywhere in between, the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries' Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation is the home to one of the largest collections of AIDS education posters.
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Synthetic Cannabis-like Drug Reduces Sleep Apnea A synthetic cannabis-like drug in a pill was safe and effective in treating obstructive sleep apnea in the first large multi-site study of a drug for apnea funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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Sorry, Garfield: Science says dogs are smarter than cats Half of you will love this, and half of you will hate it: An international team of scientists says its research strongly suggests that dogs are smarter than cats.
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Health worker firings spark debate on mandating flu vaccine "Whenever you do something new it ruffles feathers." That's how Rajesh Prabhu, MD, an infectious disease specialist and the chief patient safety officer with Essentia Health of Duluth, Minn.
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New Migraine Drugs May Help Prevent Headaches Before They Start One in seven Americans suffers from migraines, and medications currently prescribed to prevent them—like blood-pressure drugs and antidepressants—don't work for many people.
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Who's Smarter, Dogs or Cats? Science Now Has the Answer They might chew your shoes, occasionally pee on the rug, or snarf down your entire dinner the minute you turn your head, but it turns out your family dog is measurably smarter than your cat.
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FDA Warns 'Bone Treats' For Dogs Could Kill Your Pet The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a grim warning for dog lovers thinking of getting a special treat for their pups. This week, an FDA statement on the dangers of "bone treats" - meaning bones for dogs that have been commercially processed by ...
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Man who helped inspire ALS Ice Bucket Challenge dies WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Anthony Senerchia, a New York man who lived 14 years with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and served as an early inspiration for the Ice Bucket Challenge, died Saturday.
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Expert tips to survive cold and flu season Pharmacist Abby Banks displays a basket of commonly used medications to relieve cold and flu symptoms at Drilling Pharmacy. Justin Wan, Sioux City Journal.
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Rare And Mysterious Vomiting Illness Linked To Heavy Marijuana Use For 17 years, Chalfonte LeNee Queen suffered periodic episodes of violent retching and abdominal pain that would knock her off her feet for days, sometimes leaving her writhing on the floor in pain.
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How The Loss Of US Psychiatric Hospitals Led To A Mental Health Crisis When the Northville Psychiatric Hospital closed, many of the patients either had to leave southeast Michigan for hospitals elsewhere in the state or ended up in community programs that haven't always met their needs, an advocacy group says.
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Foundation's cancer gene test gets US FDA and Medicare nod CHICAGO (Reuters) - A test from Foundation Medicine Inc that can detect cancer-causing mutations in 324 genes has won approval from the U.S.
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DOH suspends dengue vaccination program DENGVAXIA. The world's first anti-dengue vaccine is administered to Filipino grade-schoolers under the government's school-based dengue immunization program.
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US Approves Monthly Injection for Opioid Addiction U.S. health officials have approved a monthly injectable form of the leading medication for patients recovering from addiction to opioids, such as prescription painkillers and heroin.
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US approves monthly injection for opioid addiction U.S. health officials on Thursday approved the first injectable form of the leading medication to treat patients recovering from addiction to heroin, prescription painkillers and other opioids.
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'Maybe You Should Pay Them More': Insurance Not Compensating Mental Health Providers DENVER (CBS4)– Mental health care advocates are blaming insurance companies for an alarming gap in service, according to a study.
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FDA Says 'Stay!' ... Away From 'Bone Treats' Stuff your dog's stocking with knickknacks. Patty whacks, even. But - you've likely guessed it by now - avoid giving the dog a bone, at least a "bone treat.
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UN finds 11 percent of medicines in poor countries are fake LONDON - About 11 percent of medicines in developing countries are counterfeit and likely responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children from diseases like malaria and pneumonia every year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
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State orders Memorial Hospital to stop admitting patients, citing safety concerns PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) - State officials have ordered Memorial Hospital to sharply curtail the medical services offered there out of concern for patient safety, as they continue to review whether to allow the facility to close.
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Smartphone Addiction Alters Brain Chemistry In Young People For The Worse Young people who are addicted to smartphones and the internet have an imbalance in their brain chemistry, a study has found. The Pew Research Center study was presented to the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) on Nov 30.
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National cervical screening promises to save more lives than outgoing pap smear Women are being urged to visit their medical practitioners to partake in the national cervical screening program, launching on December 1. Cancer experts say the new test will make it easier to detect women at risk of cervical cancer.
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Genomic Health and Cleveland Diagnostics Partner to Develop New Prostate Cancer Tests The goal is to develop a high-prostate-specific antigen (PSA) reflex test to accurately predict the presence of high-grade cancer - as measured by a Gleason score of 7 or above - before patients are subjected to a prostate biopsy.
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FDA aims to approve more drugs based on early clinical data (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is aiming to approve drugs based on very early data if the drug shows a possible benefit in terms of survival, the head of the agency told lawmakers at a hearing on Thursday.
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Fake Drugs Are A Major Global Problem, WHO Reports Fake birth control pills. Cough syrup for children that contained a powerful opioid. Antimalarial pills that were actually just made of potato and cornstarch.
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Physician: Diabetes a 'disease of choices' Diabetes can lead to lots of serious, even life-threatening, complications. But it doesn't have to. Dr. Thomas Grace, a family medicine physician in practice at Blanchard Valley Diabetes Center who himself has diabetes, recalled finding some doctor's ...
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Pulling Iron From Brain May Offer Hope in Alzheimer's Fight To curb the dementia epidemic, focus is shifting to one of the most abundant elements on Earth: iron. The familiar metal is key to numerous brain functions, but too much of it is toxic.
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