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Laid up with 'man flu'? It's real, researcher says (CNN) Don't doubt it: "Man flu" is real, or so says one Canadian researcher who was "tired of being accused of overreacting.
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America's healthiest and least healthy states (CNN) Despite years of efforts to even out health disparities across the United States, some states are dramatically healthier than others, according to a new report.
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A Baby Born With Her Heart Outside Her Body Is Believed to Be the First in UK to Survive Against all odds, a British baby born with her heart outside her body is alive and recovering from her third surgery. Vanellope Hope Wilkins, who was delivered three weeks ago in the English city of Leicester, was born with the extremely rare condition ...
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Scientists: Having older brothers increases men's likelihood of being gay MILWAUKEE - If you're a guy with an older brother, there's an increased chance you're gay. Scientists have noticed this pattern in previous research, but now they think they have a biological explanation as to why, and it starts long before birth.
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This Crazy New Optical Illusion Shows if You Have 'Curvature Blindness' Everybody loves a good optical illusion - and this newly discovered perception trick has us questioning how we see the world around us.
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Researchers Find Common Psychological Traits in Group of Italians Aged 90 to 101 Study participants and residents of the Cilentro region of Southern Italy. Photo: University of Rome La Spienza. In remote Italian villages nestled between the Mediterranean Sea and mountains lives a group of several hundred citizens over the age of 90 ...
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Why We Can't Stop Seeing Zigzags in This Freaky Optical Illusion An example of the curvature blindness illusion. What do you see in the middle: wavy lines, angular lines, or both? Credit: Kohske Takahashi.
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Are any of these lines zig-zags? Optical illusion reveals 'curvature blindness' A psychologist discovered that humans can exhibit the type of blindness and swap undulating waves for corners. Dr Kohske Takahashi, psychologist at Chukyo University in Japan, created the illusion that appears to show a range of wavy lines and zig zags ...
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President Trump reportedly drinks 12 cans of Diet Coke each day. Is that healthy? President Donald Trump drinks soda during a toast at a state banquet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Oct. 6, 2017.
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These Personality Traits May Help You Live Longer TUESDAY, Dec. 12, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Stubbornness and optimism may be keys to a long life, a new study suggests. Researchers hunting for clues to longevity focused on nine remote villages in the Cilento region of southern Italy.
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Having more older brothers increases men's odds of being gay, study confirms According to the study, published in the journal PNAS Monday, maternal antibodies in the womb may play a role in the process. Researchers believe that when a woman gets pregnant with her first boy, a protein linked to the male Y chromosome (which is ...
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How A Burger King Employee Went Above & Beyond For A Customer With Diabetes If you have diabetes, managing your blood sugar level is extremely important. So, when Rebecca Boening was out one day and realized that her blood sugar "dropped to a dangerous level," she exited off the highway to the nearest Burger King to get food ...
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Do you see corners or curves? This optical illusion tricks our minds into seeing what isn't really there A mind-blowing optical illusion dubbed "Curvature Blindness" is sweeping the internet and promises to make you question what you see.
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Day care closes after 2 toddlers die from possible infection MIAMI - A Florida day care has shut down following the deaths of two toddlers a week apart from possible meningitis infections. The Miami Herald reports that the YWCA Carol Glassman Donaldson Center Day Care closed Tuesday.
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Southeastern Michigan facing outbreak of hepatitis A cases DETROIT (AP) - Michigan health officials say the southeastern part of the state is seeing a serious outbreak of hepatitis A cases.
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These personality traits may help you live longer TUESDAY, Dec. 12, 2017 -- Stubbornness and optimism may be keys to a long life, a new study suggests. Researchers hunting for clues to longevity focused on nine remote villages in the Cilento region of southern Italy.
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New optical illusion reveals you probably have 'curvature blindness' New optical illusion reveals you probably have 'curvature blindness' A new optical illusion appears to consist of parallel lines in waves and zig-zags ... or does it? (National Center for Biotechnology Information ...
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Mum arrested after faking son's 'terminal cancer' for eight years Dad feared for son's life after boy had 13 unnecessary major surgeries during mum's plot. Source: NBC 5. Daily Mail. By: Jessa Schroeder.
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Fish and Shellfish Allergies Fish and shellfish (specifically crustacean) are one of the eight most allergenic foods known to cause severe allergy attacks. Unlike some other food allergies, an allergy to finned fish and/or shellfish is usually lifelong.
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Fentanyl found in most overdose deaths in Kamloops and BC Fentanyl can be deadly because people often don't know it's been cut into drugs such as fake oxycodone, cocaine, heroin or other pills and powders, nor do they know how much fentanyl has been added.
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Why You Need the Flu Shot Every Year Most people know: If you got a flu shot this year, next year you'll need it again. This is because the virus changes, usually rendering the previous year's vaccine partly or totally useless.
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Why am I not losing weight? (CNN) Weight loss is still incredibly challenging for most people, as evidenced by the growing global obesity epidemic. According to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, more than two in three US adults are considered ...
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Teen cancer survivor seeks to change school hat policy after alleged punishment Chloe Terpenning lost her hair in March while undergoing chemotherapy for stage 2 Hodgkin's lymphoma. (Photo John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye).
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2 children die; meningitis suspected at County Hall daycare center in Miami A child at a downtown Miami daycare center has died of suspected meningitis and a second toddler died seven days later in a health scare that prompted the closure Tuesday of the facility steps away from Miami-Dade County's main government building.
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Trump administration to launch 'massive' media campaign to fight opioid crisis A man named Devin, who has been in recovery from opioid addiction for more than a decade, shares what it was like to struggle with his disease.
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Officer honored for adopting baby from opioid addicted mom Albuquerque officer Ryan Holets holds his newly adopted daughter, Hope, after being recognized by the city of Albuquerque on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017.
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Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The case arrives with all the routine of a traffic citation: A baby boy, just 4 days old and exposed to heroin in his mother's womb, is shuddering through withdrawal in intensive care, his fate now here in a shabby courthouse that ...
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Tapeworms drug hailed in Parkinson's fight UK researchers have identified a drug molecule within a medicine used to treat tapeworm infections which could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's disease.
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Opioid crisis strains foster system as kids pried from homes Indianapolis • The case arrives with all the routine of a traffic citation: A baby boy, just 4 days old and exposed to heroin in his mother's womb, is shuddering through withdrawal in intensive care, his fate now here in a shabby courthouse that hosts ...
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Nurse, 29, Posts Selfie Of Blistered Face To Show Dangers Of Skin Cancer Inspires Others When Kentucky native, Tawny, 29, took to Facebook to warn others about the repercussions of using sun-beds, she didn't realize how many others would be inspired by her graphic selfie, to learn about cancer.
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Opioid crisis straining foster system as kids pried from homes Shawnee Wilson holds her son, Kingston, in her apartment, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Indianapolis. Kingston was born in 2016, and it took a month for doctors to wean him off the heroin Wilson exposed him to.
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Texas mother accused of subjecting healthy child to over 300 doctor visits, 13 surgeries A Dallas mother accused of subjecting her healthy son to over 300 needless doctors visits and 13 surgeries has been arrested for Injury to a Child.
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The Breast Cancer Support Group for People Too Young to Have Breast Cancer "We are here, and this is what happened to us, and we are not going to sugarcoat it and pretend that it isn't hard." Disco ball at the Make-Out Room / Photo courtesy of the author.
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Central Elementary School in Yukon closed Wednesday due to wave of flu The superintendent said the custodial team will do an extra-deep cleaning Tuesday night at Central Elementary School, where classes are canceled for Wednesday because of a wave of flu.
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Heat-not-burn tobacco 'is a health risk' "Heat-not-burn" tobacco products are harmful to health even though they are safer than regular cigarettes, say UK experts.
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Patients' individual genomes may affect efficacy, safety of gene editing Date: December 11, 2017; Source: Boston Children's Hospital; Summary: Gene editing has begun to be tested in clinical trials, using CRISPR-Cas9 and other technologies to directly edit DNA inside people's cells, and multiple trials are recruiting or in ...
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'Less meat,exercise may cause mental distress in young adults' Young adults who eat meat less than three times a week and exercise less may be at an increased risk of mental distress, a study claims.
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Peppa Pig piling pressure on NHS with 'unrealistic' image of GPs From the ageing population to a chronic staffing shortage, there are no end of reasons commonly given for the crisis afflicting General Practice.
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Sanofi accused of 'mental dishonesty' Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday accused French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur of "mental dishonesty" for allegedly not disclosing all the risks behind the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia.
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Safer DNA editing may fix diseases SAN DIEGO, California: Salk Institute scientists say they have developed a safer method of a popular gene editing technology. In a study released on Thursday (Friday in Manila), they demonstrate it reverses illnesses in mice, including diabetes ...
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BC Coroners Service says fentanyl detected in most of the 1208 overdose deaths so far this year Illicit overdoses claimed 1,208 lives in British Columbia between January and October of this year, according to the B.C. Coroners Service.
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FEATURE-Slaughtered by sex, Zambia's 'Sweet Town' survives ravages of AIDS MAZABUKA, Zambia, Dec 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S ugar brought a rush of people and prosperity to the drab highway stop in southern Zambia they now call "Sweet Town" - and with that trade came AIDS.
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Offer cash incentives to mothers to promote breastfeeding – study Breastfeeding levels in the UK are among the lowest in the world. Photograph: Katie Collins/PA. Breastfeeding. Offer cash incentives to mothers to promote breastfeeding - study.
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Organ donation: Three stories of hope In Northern Ireland, 42% of people are on the NHS Organ Donor Register. Now the Department of Health has launched a consultation on a draft policy in a bid to get families discussing donations.
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