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Should I get a flu shot or will it make me sick or give me Alzheimer's? One of the biggest debates raging on social media these days - maybe even dwarfing commentary on President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address - is whether to get a flu shot.
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Baptist Health reports 4 deaths from flu Unusually high levels of flu activity continue to plague Hopkins County, with Baptist Health Madisonville's infection control department reporting 41 hospitalized cases and four deaths from flu since the beginning of the year.
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Does Coffee Contain a Carcinogen? Here's What the Science Says If a lawsuit in California is successful, cafes and shops in the state that sell coffee will have to post health warnings about the beverage.
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Mom shares a flu warning sign that most people probably aren't aware of With deaths of children from influenza mounting, a Nebraska mother took to social media to alert readers to an unusual symptom that may escape their notice.
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Potential California Warning: The Chemical In Your Coffee That May Cause Cancer In California, coffee sellers may soon have to warn you about something that is lurking in your coffee. (Photo: Shutterstock). What would you like with your coffee?
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What's The 5-Year-Survival Rate For Cancer Patients Around The World? Chemotherapy has made a tremendous difference in survival rates for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer.
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Cancer 'vaccine' eliminates tumors in mice Activating T cells in tumors eliminated even distant metastases in mice, Stanford researchers found. Lymphoma patients are being recruited to test the technique in a clinical trial.
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Girl, 4, is the first child to die of flu in New Jersey as national death toll keeps on climbing A four-year-old girl from New Jersey has died from the flu, state health officials confirmed. The girl, whose name has not been released, died in December and did not receive the flu shot, it was revealed last night.
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California may require coffee to be sold with a cancer warning — here's what the science says brewing black coffee pour over cup filtered barista shutterstock_473186929 As far as we know, most people aren't putting their health at risk by drinking coffee - and it may offer some serious benefits.
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Coffee shops might display cancer warnings in California A nonprofit who believes coffee could cause cancer has persuaded businesses, by way of a lawsuit, to issue warnings on all ready-to-drink brews sold in California.
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Drug Distributors Shipped 20.8 Million Painkillers To West Virginia Town Of 3000 A House commerce committee investigation found that two drug wholesalers had sent more than 20 million pain pills to two pharmacies in the small town of Williamson, W.Va.
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Common medication must be repackaged to help tackle opioid epidemic, FDA says (CNN) As part of the fight against the nation's opioid epidemic, the US Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday, one common antidiarrheal drug should be given new packaging.
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Nutritionist claims pizza is a healthier breakfast than cereal Looking to start your day off with a nutritious meal? Forget Cheerios. Instead, reach for a slice of pizza, says one dietitian. On Monday, blogger and dietitian Chelsey Amer caused a stir when she told the Chicago Tribune that a greasy slice of pizza ...
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Family blames Tamiflu for their teenage son's suicide A Franklin Township teen took his life, just days after being diagnosed with the flu. His family worries the medicine prescribed to help him may be to blame.
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The FDA Is Cracking Down on Imodium and Other Anti-Diarrhea Medicine Because of the Opioid Epidemic (WASHINGTON) - U.S. health regulators on Tuesday asked makers of popular anti-diarrhea drugs to sell their medications in smaller amounts to make them harder to abuse.
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A town of 3200 was flooded with nearly 21 million pain pills as addiction crisis worsened, lawmakers say Over the past decade, nearly 21 million prescription painkillers have been shipped to a tiny town in West Virginia, a state where more people have overdosed on opioids and died than in any other in the nation.
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A town of 3200 was flooded with nearly 21 million pain pills as addiction crisis worsened, lawmakers say A Hatfield-McCoy Trail sign along a railroad track in Williamson, W.Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2016. (AP Photo/Steve Helber). Comment. 0 shares.
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Richard Engel Opens Up About His 2-Year-Old Son's Devastating Battle With Rett Syndrome NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is opening up about his 2-year-old son, Henry's, battle with Rett Syndrome. Appearing on Today with his wife, Mary, and Henry, the reporter shared the heartache of seeing his precious son live with the ...
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Researchers Discover 'Anxiety Cells' In The Brain Scientists zeroed in on specific neurons in the brains of mice to gain insights into how anxiety is triggered and suppressed. SPL/Science Source hide caption.
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US Officials Seek Packaging Fix for Diarrhea-Drug Abuse U.S. health regulators want anti-diarrhea drugs sold in smaller amounts to make them harder to abuse. Jan. 30, 2018, at 2:49 p.m.. US Officials Seek Packaging Fix for Diarrhea-Drug Abuse. Share. ×. Share on Facebook · Post on Twitter · Post to Reddit ...
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Oxycodone dose 20 times too strong kills nursing home resident A Minnesota nurse accidentally gave a resident a dose of oxycodone 20 times too strong, killing him within a few hours last year, according to a state investigation.
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Here are some amazing transformations of pets as they go from flab to fab HERE are some amazing transformations of chubby pets as they go from flab to fab. A couch-potato lifestyle and excessive food consumption is fuelling a four-legged obesity crisis, warns vets at charity PDSA.
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FDA cracks down on abuse of anti-diarrhea medication As part of its efforts to combat the opioid epidemic, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is asking manufacturers of over-the-counter anti-diarrhea treatments to change the way they package their products.
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Massachusetts pharmacist tied to 2012 meningitis outbreak gets eight years in prison A Massachusetts pharmacist was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison after being convicted on racketeering and fraud charges stemming from his role in a 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak that killed 76 people and sickened hundreds more.
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What's The Best Milk Alternative? A New Study Found This Non-Dairy Milk Is The Most Nutritious At some point in our history, someone looked at a calf nursing from its mother and was like, "Heck yeah, let's put that in coffee.
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Winnike: It's not too late to get your flu shot Texas has suffered from 1,150 flu-related deaths between Oct. 1, 2017, and Jan. 12, which is all the more reason to get a flu shot.
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People With Alzheimer's Sleep Poorly—Should Your Frequent Naps Alarm You? People who develop Alzheimer's may show subtle signs decades in advance, and those signs may be as innocuous as napping. However, researchers behind a new study, published Monday in JAMA Neurology, say there's no reason to lose sleep about a few ...
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Alabama Department of Public Health investigating 54 flu-related deaths Officials: Flu vaccine was ineffective for seniors last winter In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 file photo, a woman receives a flu vaccine shot at a community fair in Brownsville, Texas.
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Grown inside 3D-printed molds: new ears for children For the first time, scientists in China have created new ears for five children using their own cells grown in a 3D-printed mold. All five kids, between the ages of six and nine, were born with one underdeveloped ear, a condition called microtia ...
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Pharmacist convicted in meningitis outbreak sentenced to 8 years Nearly 80 people died because of the mold-tainted steroid injections produced in the lab run by Glen Chin. By ALANNA DURKIN RICHERAssociated Press.
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Five Children in China Born With Ear Deformity Have New Organs Made of Their Own Cartilage Cells Five children from China born with malformed ears have had them regrown using cells from their own bodies. Using a groundbreaking process to grow body parts from cells in a laboratory, researchers in China gave the children ears to replace their own ...
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SC flu-related deaths nearly double in one week The number of flu cases are continuing to rise -- DHEC is now reporting 84 total influenza-related deaths as of last week, compared to 46 the week before that.
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US cancer survival rates remain among highest in world Five-year survival for the most common 18 cancers remained highest globally for the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, followed by Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, according to data through 2014 from CONCORD-3.
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Vitamin D3 could help heal cardiovascular damage, new study claims The study shows that Vitamin D3 could help restore damage to the cardiovascular system caused by diseases like hypertension and diabetes.
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This is how many pounds you can lose in a year by standing for six hours a day instead of sitting Office workers use standing desks in Cambridge, Mass. A new study tallies the health benefits of standing for six hours a day instead of sitting.
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For a nutritious breakfast, think pizza. No, really. A freshly-made pepperoni and olive pizza is carried to a customer at Flats Bistro in Rio Del Mar on Friday. (Kevin Johnson - Santa Cruz Sentinel).
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Almond Milk Comes Dead Last in New Ranking of Milky Fluids In the land of milk and honey, good old-fashioned dairy is still on top—at least so says a recent review published in the Journal of Food Science and Technology this past November.
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Alzheimer's disease: 30-year wait is over for early-warning blood test that's highly accurate The test detects the build-up of the amyloid-beta protein that's linked to the disease. It can appear decades before dementia symptoms become apparent.
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Another Chicago-area school closes due to flu A school in North Riverside will be closed for the rest of the week because of a flu outbreak, making it at least the second Chicago area school this winter to shut down because of sick students and staff.
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Upcoming Blood Drives In The Tredyffrin-Easttown Area You have several chances to donate blood and get supplies back to normal in the Tredyffrin-Easttown area in February. See details here.
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Rheumatoid arthritis may be triggered by bacteria in milk A strain of bacteria commonly found in milk and beef may be a trigger for developing rheumatoid arthritis in people who are genetically at risk, revealed by a team of UCF College of Medicine researchers.
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CMHA wants Ontario to 'treat mental illness like the flu' Treat mental illness the same as the flu - that's the message behind a new Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) campaign called Erase the Difference.
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Trump talks tough inState of the Union to end opioid crisis, but high schools get tougher At Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Trump vowed to end the opioid crisis. Drug overdoses claimed the lives of 64,000 Americans in 2016.
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