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Any doctor on board? US surgeon general gives aid on plane When the call went out for a doctor on board, the U.S. surgeon general says he gladly stepped in to help with a medical emergency on a commercial flight.
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FDA Approves First Nonopioid Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal Symptoms The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first nonopioid treatment to help adults manage opioid withdrawal symptoms as the agency looks to continue to encourage the development of therapies to help patients suffering from addiction.
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When the Delta crew asked if there was a doctor on board, they got a yes — from the surgeon general When Delta cabin crew inquired Wednesday whether a doctor was on board to help a passenger who had passed out, they probably weren't expecting to get help from "America's Doctor.
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Kids' Suicide-Related Hospital Visits Rise Sharply About five years ago, pediatricians at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville found that more and more of their inpatient beds at the children's hospital were occupied by children and adolescents with mental health issues, especially those ...
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USC gynecologist kept treating students despite allegations of inappropriate behavior The University of Southern California allowed a gynecologist at the campus health center to continue treating young women despite receiving complaints from students and his colleagues over the years, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Body clock linked to mood disorders Disruption to the body's internal clock may put people at increased risk of mood disorders, scientists say. A clock ticks in nearly every cell of the body.
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Source still unknown as outbreak tied to romaine hits 32 states The CDC reports three more states and 23 more sick people have been confirmed in the past week in its ongoing investigation into an E. coli outbreak associated with romaine lettuce.
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CDC comes close to an all-clear on romaine lettuce as E. coli outbreak nears historic level It's unlikely that anyone currently has edible romaine lettuce that is contaminated with the toxic strain of E. coli bacteria sickening people nationwide since March.
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The staff of Delta flight 1827 asked if there was a doctor on board. They got the 'nation's doctor.' When the flight staff of Delta flight 1827 needed a doctor, they got one: The "nation's doctor." On Wednesday, Jerome Adams, the U.S.
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A USC doctor was accused of bad behavior with young women for years. The university let him continue treating students For nearly 30 years, the University of Southern California's student health clinic had one full-time gynecologist: Dr. George Tyndall.
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6 states sue maker of OxyContin as they battle expenses, human costs of opioid crisis The lawsuits - filed in state courts in Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas - accuse Purdue Pharma of aggressively selling its drugs it spite of knowing the products were potentially dangerous.
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Gynecologist continued to see patients for years after sexual misconduct complaints A gynecologist at the University of Southern California was allowed to continue seeing student patients for years after the school first received complaints of him repeatedly making "sexually inappropriate" and "racially discriminatory" comments to ...
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Gynecologist continued to see patients for years after sexual misconduct complaints iStock/Thinkstock(LOS ANGELES) - A gynecologist at the University of Southern California was allowed to continue seeing student patients for years after the school first received complaints of him repeatedly making "sexually inappropriate" and ...
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Congo's health ministry says doses of Ebola vaccine arrive KINSHASA, Congo (AP) Congo's health ministry says 4,000 doses of the experimental Ebola vaccine have arrived in the capital, Kinshasa, amid the latest outbreak of the deadly disease.
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FDA approves the first non-opioid treatment for management of opioid withdrawal symptoms in adults May 16, 2018. Release. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Lucemyra (lofexidine hydrochloride) for the mitigation of withdrawal symptoms to facilitate abrupt discontinuation of opioids in adults.
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DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to Mbandaka city The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control.
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More girls are attempting suicide. It's not clear why. Emet Oden tried reaching out in the only way he knew how. "I had been struggling with my mental health and, specifically, suicidal thoughts since the eighth grade," said Oden, who is now 18.
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As '13 Reasons Why' Returns, Schools Try To Help Students Who Are Thinking Of Suicide School officials have issued warnings to parents ahead of the second season of the Netflix drama "13 Reasons Why," which premieres this week.
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Depression in men may lower chances for pregnancy, NIH study suggests Women having trouble getting pregnant sometimes try yoga, meditation or mindfulness, and some research suggests that psychological stress may affect infertility.
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Exotic tick found on orphaned Albemarle calf As if life as an orphan wasn't tough enough, an Albemarle County calf has played host to a tick that heretofore was only found in East Asia, Tonga, Vanuatu and northwestern New Jersey.
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Ebola Case In Urban Area Leaves Experts Worried About The Outbreak's 'New Phase' The Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed a case of Ebola in Wangata, one of the health zones of the regional capital of Mbandaka ― which is home to over 1 million people.
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Exotic tick found in Albemarle County ALBERMARLE CO., Va. (CBS19) The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services says an exotic tick has been found on a beef farm in Albemarle County.
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Dementia exercise programmes 'don't slow brain decline' Exercise programmes for people with mild to moderate dementia "don't work", according to researchers writing in the British Medical Journal.
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Why Do Some Lizards Have Green Blood? Kermit the Frog used to sing that it wasn't easy being green, but that isn't the case for some real-life lizards. They apparently find being green so easy that even their blood is green.
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Study: Shorter drug treatment OK for many breast cancer patients Many women with a common and aggressive form of breast cancer that is treated with Herceptin can get by with six months of the drug instead of the usual 12, greatly reducing the risk of heart damage it sometimes can cause, a study suggests.
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Her illness was a mystery; it was a tick bite that killed her. Now mom wants awareness Jody Hudson beams as she remembers her daughter playing every sport at her Fresno elementary school and running so fast she was called the "silver bullet" - but pain fleets across her face as she recounts the determination and strength her daughter ...
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For Women With Early Breast Cancer, Herceptin Treatment Can Be Much Shorter Over the past 20 years, hundreds of thousands of women with breast cancer have taken the drug Herceptin, typically for a year or more.
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Lyme Disease is On the Rise – An Expert Explains Why May marks the beginning of the summer season when black-legged ticks that spread Lyme disease are more prevalent - even in California.
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Scientists Say They Have Transferred 'Memories' Between Snails Neuroscientists have long believed that memories are stored in the synapses, or junctions between the brain's neurons. But UCLA neurobiologist David Glanzman subscribes to a different theory: the key to at least some memory storage, he thinks, is RNA ...
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Did you know? If you don't remove a tick properly, your chance for disease increases Tennessee is expected to see a bigger tick season this spring and experts are advising that if you find one in your skin you pull it out the right way.
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North Carolina farm linked to massive egg recall, salmonella outbreak had 'ongoing rodent infestation,' report says A North Carolina farm that recalled more than 207 million eggs due to a salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 35 people had an "ongoing rodent infestation" dating back to September 2017.
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A Cancer Screening Flop: Few Smokers Seek Free Lung Scans By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer. Lung cancer screening has proved to be stunningly unpopular. Five years after government and private insurers started paying for it, less than 2 percent of eligible current and former smokers have sought ...
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Too Few Smokers Get Lifesaving Lung Cancer Tests By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Less than 2 percent of the 7 million Americans who are or once were heavy smokers get screened for lung cancer, new research shows.
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Doctors' View: 'Make It OK' to talk about mental illness St. Luke's and Essentia Health came together with other partners in 2016 to create Duluth's first-ever collaborative Community Health Needs Assessment.
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Leading cause of female infertility linked to hormone exposure in womb May 15 (UPI) -- The leading cause of infertility in women, called polycystic ovary syndrome, may develop while still in the womb, according to a study of the condition with mice.
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Cannabidiol significantly reduces seizures in patients with severe form of epilepsy Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant that does not produce a "high" and has been an increasing focus of medical research, was shown in a new large-scale, randomized, controlled trial to significantly reduce the number of ...
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Lyme Disease Is Spreading at an Alarming Rate—and This Is Why Nine years ago, when Deanna Needell was in grad school at UC Davis, she was beset by stomach pain after a bull's-eye rash swelled around a bug bite—a telltale sign of Lyme disease.
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Stroke risk could be cut by adding anti-clot drug to aspirin, study finds A stroke can be a life-changing event that can have permanent effects and the risk of having another stroke is high, especially in the first few months afterwards.
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A keto diet won't just help you lose weight, but also protect eyesight NEW YORK: Besides helping lose weight, consuming a ketogenic diet -- which is high fat, low protein and low carbohydrates -- can also help maintain vision in patients with glaucoma, finds a study conducted over mice.
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WHO unveils plan to remove trans-fatty acids from food supply LONDON - The World Health Organization on May 14 released REPLACE, a step-by-step guide that the agency is urging companies to consult in an effort to eliminate industrially-produced trans-fatty acids from the global food supply.
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