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FDA Takes 'Pivotal Step' in Plan to Make Cigarettes Less Addictive The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is pushing ahead with a plan to make cigarettes less addictive, a move that threatens to upend the tobacco industry and accelerate a shift toward new smoking technology.
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FDA to Lower Nicotine in Cigarettes The FDA has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to explore lowering nicotine levels in combustible cigarettes to non-addictive levels, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, announced Thursday.
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Mother's final post before Tripp Halstead's death detailed problems, had hope The mother of Tripp Halstead, the boy who won the hearts of millions across the world, was open and honest about the triumphs and setbacks her little boy faced after a life-changing accident back in 2012.
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Tripp Halstead, 7, dies five years after being struck by tree limb, suffering severe brain injury Tripp Halstead, the toddler whose story captured the hearts and prayers of people near and far after he was seriously injured when a tree limb fell on him at his daycare center five years ago, has died.
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Tripp Halstead dies at age 7; Georgia boy suffered severe brain injury after being struck by a falling limb ATLANTA - Tripp Halstead, a 7-year-old Georgia boy who suffered a severe brain injury after being struck by a falling tree branch in 2012, died Thursday, his family said.
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FDA takes first step in drafting rule to cut nicotine levels in cigarettes The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday took the first step in creating a new rule to reduce the level of nicotine allowed in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels.
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Travelers who landed in Detroit, Newark, Memphis pop up with measles Visitors to airports in Detroit; Newark, N.J.; and Memphis may have been exposed to measles after cases were confirmed in two international travelers, health officials in two states said Tuesday.
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FDA Begins Push to Cut Addictive Nicotine in Cigarettes FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, test cigarettes sit in a smoking machine in a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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FDA moves ahead with 'historic' plan to reduce nicotine in cigarettes This post has been updated. The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took the first concrete action to reduce nicotine in cigarettes to make them much less addictive, opening a regulatory process described as a "historic first step" by the agency's ...
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Family: Teen dies after sinus infection travels to brain FLINT, Mich. - A Michigan family is mourning the loss of a 13-year-old after they said a sinus infection traveled to his brain, killing him.
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State officials confirm measles in DTW traveler Michigan's first case of measles in 2018 was confirmed in a patient who was at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on March 6 and may have exposed other travelers.
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Move over, Neanderthals: Our ancestors mated with Denisovans not once but twice, scientists say Two waves of Denisovan and one wave of Neanderthal ancestry have shaped present-day humans. (Browning et al. / Cell). Humans weren't just making babies with Neanderthals back in the day.
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Humans bred with this mysterious species more than once, new study shows In an undated handout photo, the skeleton of an 8-year-old Neanderthal boy recovered from the El Sidrón cave in Spain. New research suggests that the brain of the juvenile Neanderthal developed more slowly than that of a similarly aged Homo sapiens ...
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Modern Humans Had Sex With Denisovan Cousins Too, Not Just Neanderthals It is by now a well-established (but not so well-known) fact that us modern humans, Homo sapiens, spent a lot of time in much the same places that Neanderthals were in, and that the two human species not only intermingled but also interbred.
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A Twist in Our Sexual Encounters With Other Ancient Humans Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. Around 41,000 years ago, a young woman died in a cold cave, high up in Siberia's Altai Mountains.
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Startup wants to upload your brain to the cloud, but has to kill you to do it Blood flow to the brain will be replaced with embalming chemicals that preserve the neuronal structure, even as they kill the patient.
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Travelers who landed in Detroit, Newark, Memphis pop up with measles Measles has a 10- to 12-day incubation period, and those infected are contagious a few days before they show symptoms. Author: Robert Allen and Susanne Cervenka, USA TODAY Network.
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Husband donates kidney to wife of 23 years: 'I felt like I won the lottery' A husband celebrating his 23rd wedding anniversary gave his wife a life-saving gift: a kidney. With it, Cesar Calle gave his wife Monica a life free of painful dialysis treatment, which she needed for polycystic kidney disease she had been fighting for ...
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'Highly fit' middle-age women nearly 90% less likely to develop dementia decades later, study finds Researchers are hoping that by studying the brains of "super-agers" they'll be able to unlock the secrets to sharp memory in old age.
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Health Officials Issue Measles Warning After 2 Cases Identified in Travelers to the US Reportage in the Health and Prevention Centre run by the local committee for social hygiene (CDHS) in Lyon, France. MMR vaccination.
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Kratom Salmonella Outbreak Numbers Spike As of March 14, 2018, a total of 87 people infected with outbreak strains of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:b:- (50), Salmonella Javiana (5), Salmonella Okatie (16), or Salmonella Thompson (16) have been reported from 35 states.
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Measles Symptoms: Public Health Warning After Infectious People Visit Newark, Detroit and Memphis Airports Travelers through three different airports in the U.S. are being warned by public health officials to check for symptoms of measles after two cases of the viral infection were confirmed in recent visitors.
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Swab your nostril for science and help track the spread of flu With an app and a cotton swab, Minnesotans can help track the spread of flu around the state. A new pilot project from the Department of Health is pairing with health app Flu Near You.
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Measles warning issued after infected travelers flew to three airports Health officials in New Jersey and Michigan are warning travelers who passed through three airports that they may have been exposed to measles following two confirmed cases in international travelers.
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47 more cases of salmonella linked to kratom (CNN) Forty-seven more individuals have become ill with salmonella linked to products containing the Southeast Asian plant kratom, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
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Hospitals lift visitor limits linked to flu A deadly flu season is on the wane, health experts say, and hospitals in Allen County have lifted visitor restrictions in place for more than two months to guard against the virus.
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Tri-City flu-season deaths now total 20 The latest victims are a woman in her 60s and a man in his 70s. Both were from Benton County and had underlying medical conditions that put them at greater risk for flu complications.
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Another flu death reported in Pitt County Vaccination is still the best protection from the flu available, according to Pitt County Health Director Dr. John Morrow. This year's vaccine offers protection from four different strains of the flu virus.
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13-Year-Old Michigan Boy Dies After Sinus Infection Spreads to His Brain A 13-year-old boy from Michigan has died weeks after experiencing a headache and cold symptoms, which eventually progressed into an infection of his brain.
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Neanderthals Just Part of the Evolutionary Puzzle THURSDAY, March 15, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Modern humans interbred at least twice in history with an extinct species of humans called Denisovans, new research shows.
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Modern humans and Denisovans interbred at least twice in history In 2010, scientists announced the discovery of an extinct species of Ice Age humans called Denisovans, known only from bits of DNA taken from a sliver of bone in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
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Dr. Ed Dominguez explains this year's flu epidemic Thousands of people were affected by the flu this year, and some patients are still seeking treatment. Many are claiming mistakes were made by the Center for Disease Control, but some physicians think it was not so much the vaccine, but the virus ...
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Platypus milk: unlikely weapon in fight against superbugs They are duck-billed, egg-laying, semi-aquatic mammals with poisonous spurs on their webbed feet: the Australian platypus is so weird that early European zoologists thought it must be an elaborate hoax.
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New Brain Preservation Technique Could Be a Path to Mind Uploading An electron micrograph of the white matter region in an ASC-preserved region of a pig's brain. Photo: Brain Preservation Foundation.
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Hattiesburg doctor warns of risk of colon cancer HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) -. Everyone is at risk of the second leading cause of death from cancer in the U.S., according to Dr. William Farmer of Hattiesburg G.I.
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Investigations begin into fertility clinic A fertility clinic where thousands of frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed in a storage tank failure is being investigated by two accreditation organizations and Ohio's health department.
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Start-Up Wants To Preserve Memories In Newly Dead Brains A start-up is claiming that it will someday be able to download people's brains as a back-up, at the ultimate price of death. Company Nectome has announced that it will soon be able to scan the human brain and preserve it, maybe even turning a dead ...
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Colorectal Cancer most common cancer in Qatar DOHA: Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in Qatar and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in both men and women in the country, according to an official at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
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Forty Medical Marijuana Businesses Shut Down By Michigan Officials The Michigan State Police and state officials visited forty medical marijuana businesses across Michigan on Thursday and ordered them to cease their operations.
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Nectome Startup Claims Brain Can Be Immortalized, Digitally Uploaded Into Cloud A startup is claiming that it can invent a technology that can immortalize the human brain by digitally uploading its content into the cloud.
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Early colon cancer detection likely saves man's life Jim Louangsaphakdy of Mankato is living proof of how important it is to be proactive with their health. Author: Bryan Piatt. Published: 1:25 PM CDT March 14, 2018.
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If you think you are at high risk for colon cancer, a simple, painless test could let you know Patients at colon cancer risk - those over 50 or who have a genetic predisposition - currently rely on colonoscopies to look for and remove precancerous growths called polyps.
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Colon exhibit returns to Madisonville The 20-foot long exhibit is shown in several locations across Kentucky during the month of March, which is Colon Cancer Awareness Month.
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She Thought the Stomach Cramps Were from Her Food Truck Diet. At 33, She Was Diagnosed with Stage 4 Colon ... "You always read in magazines, 'I never thought it'd happen to me.' And now I'm that person in the magazine." Written by Kim Olsen | Published on March 15, 2018.
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Health officials issue second measles warning in a year for Newark Airport New Jersey health officials are warning travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport that they may have been exposed to the measles virus.
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World Sleep Day 2018: Ways in which meditation can help get rid of insomnia and other sleep disorders Lack of sleep can lead to a wide range of health problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, anxiety, depression, early ageing, alcoholism and other substance abuse.
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World Sleep Day: Common Mistakes That Could Be Ruining Your Sleep & 5 Foods That May Help World Sleep Day: According to experts, one must sleep eight hours a day. Inadequate sleep for a prolonged period of time can trigger a host of health issues like high-stress levels, decreased metabolism and depression.
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York County receives good bill of health, with a few exceptions York County continues to be one of the top 20 healthiest counties in the state, but there is still room for improvement. It ranked No.
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US healthcare spending twice as high other high-income nations March 13 - Americans are spending nearly twice as much on healthcare as 10 other high-income countries because of the high costs of services, according to a new study at Harvard.
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Fit Middle-Aged Women May Fend Off Dementia Later WEDNESDAY, March 14, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- You may spend a lot of time working out, but there's a fitness reward you might not expect: better memory in your senior years.
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