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Ebola deaths rise to 26, says Congo health ministry KINSHASA, Congo - Congo's health ministry says there is one new death from Ebola, bringing to 26 the number of deaths from the deadly outbreak in Equateur province in the country's northwest.
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Congo to Begin Vaccinating Against Ebola on Monday Congo will begin administering an experimental Ebola vaccine Monday in Mbandaka, the northwestern city of 1.2 million where the deadly disease has infected some residents, Congo's health minister announced.
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DRCongo prepares for first Ebola vaccinations The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing to launch an Ebola vaccination programme Monday in a bid to stop the latest outbreak of the dreaded fatal disease from spreading.
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Ebola outbreak: Experimental vaccinations to begin in DR Congo Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to begin an immunisation campaign in an attempt to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.
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3 new Ebola cases confirmed in large city in Congo, raising risk of further spread Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in a city of nearly 1.2 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's health ministry said.
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Study: No One Is Having Sex on Tinder If you've been holding off on joining Tinder because it carries the stigma of being an app for hookups, have no fear: a new study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found no one on Tinder is actually having sex.
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Exercising regularly 'can keep heart and arteries young' Exercising four to five times a week is necessary to stop the main arteries to the heart from stiffening up, research suggests. Two or three exercise sessions a week kept only some arteries healthy, a study of 100 people in their 60s found.
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Ebola Outbreak: DRC To Start Vaccination Campaign Democratic Republic of the Congo will begin an Ebola vaccination campaign Monday. Tarik Jasarevic of the World Health Organization tells NPR's Don Gonyea about efforts to contain the latest outbreak.
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Good Samaritans Hold Benefit for St. Peter Veteran with Cancer A group of people held a benefit on Sunday, at Eagle Lake's American Legion, for a man battling cancer. Veteran Gilbert L. Hoppe has been battling Renal Cell Carcinoma, a rare kidney cancer since 2012.
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Did you know women use Tinder to confirm attractiveness? A new study has found that women use dating apps like Tinder as a tool to confirm their attractiveness, whereas men use it for casual sex and short-term relationships.
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Fundraiser helps veteran who tried to sell hearing aids for vehicle Gilbert Hoppe put pictures of his hearing aids on a Facebook sales site for $1,000 with a handwritten note: Pair of hearing aids for sale or trade for a good vehicle.
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What's causing your severe seasonal allergies and how to tell if it's just the cold From clouds of pollen to "thunder fever," this allergy season as been a bad one in Central Indiana. What Is already a pretty miserable time of year has been made more difficult by unusual weather, including a winter that was still giving us snow and ...
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'Women Use Tinder To Confirm Attractiveness, Men For Casual Sex': Study Women on dating apps like Tinder are more often looking for confirmation of being attractive, whereas men desire for casual sex and short-term relationships, a study has found.
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Small benefit of diet doesn't add up DEAR DR. ROACH: What do you think of the keto diet? I have been doing it for a few weeks and lost a few pounds, but it goes against everything I usually eat - high quantities of red meat, lots of full-fat foods and dairy.
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Heroin-Fueled Father Drives Kids, Rampages Through Neighborhood Before Passing Out And Crashing An Ohio father faces multiple charges after passing out behind the wheel from a heroin overdose, with his two young children in the car, before crashing in a residential neighborhood.
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As ADHD Diagnoses Increased, So Did Calls to Poison Control A new study is sounding the alarm about misuse of medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. There were 156,365 calls to poison control centers for people under 20 who were improperly exposed to ADHD medication from 2000 through 2014, ...
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Salmonella found in Ziyad tahini; nationwide recall launched Ziyad Brothers Importing is recalling tahini paste sold at Walmart and other retailers nationwide because state tests showed it was positive for Salmonella contamination.
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Memorial Regional Health: How to recognize the symptoms of depression — help just a phone call away We've all experienced sadness at some point in our lives, but depression is something that is far more complex than a case of the blues.
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Watching but not treating cancer can be hard. Sometimes it's the right approach. My sister just finished 18 weeks of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, a slog that started six months ago when she underwent an eight-hour procedure to remove all visible signs and cells of her malignancy.
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Nanoparticles from tea leaves 'destroy lung cancer cells' Nanoparticles derived from tea leaves could be the key to a leap forward in treating lung cancer, scientists have "accidentally" discovered.
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Fasting diets could raise risk of diabetes say experts Br Dr Ananya Mandal, MD. One of the new fangled diets include fasting frequently to lose weight. A team of researchers speaking at the European Society of Endocrinology's annual meeting at Barcelona last weekend have said that this could be severely ...
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State & Union: Tick awareness critical to avoiding Lyme disease The presence of Lyme-disease-carrying deer ticks continues to grow in the northeast United States - including New York and Pennsylvania - and health officials are sounding warnings for increased awareness of tick-borne illnesses.
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Artificial intelligence can be weapon in cancer fight, PM to say The diagnosis of cancer and other diseases in the UK can be transformed by using artificial intelligence, Theresa May is to say. The NHS and technology companies should use AI as a "new weapon" in research, the PM will urge in a speech later.
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Could intermittent fasting diets increase diabetes risk? Fasting every other day to lose weight impairs the action of sugar-regulating hormone, insulin, which may increase diabetes risk, according to data presented in Barcelona at the European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting, ECE 2018.
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FDA approves first drug created to prevent chronic migraines Migraine sufferers across the U.S. have their eyes on a newly approved drug that's offering hope for reducing the frequency of monthly migraine attacks.
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URI expert: Be 'tick smart' amid 'exploding' prevalence The question surfaces around every spring. Will this be a bad year for ticks? "When you live where ticks do, every year is a bad year," says Thomas D. Mather, director of University of Rhode Island's Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its ...
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'Immune broth': California tests food as medicine SEBASTOPOL, Calif. - On a foggy afternoon, Diana Van Ry, a retired judicial assistant, dropped by the boisterous kitchens of the nonprofit group where she volunteers to pick up rock cod, cauliflower couscous and an "immune broth" enriched with ...
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Your blood type influences severity of diarrhoea NEW YORK: A bacteria associated with travellers' diarrhoea and children in underdeveloped areas of the world causes more severe disease in people with blood type A but not blood type O or B, finds a study.
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New technique allows researchers to control heart cells growing in a dish Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their collaborators have developed a technique that allows them to speed up or slow down human heart cells growing in a dish on command -; simply by shining a light on them and ...
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Porn Industry Group Schools Trump On The Difference Between HPV And HIV The top trade association for the adult entertainment industry wants to teach President Donald Trump a thing or two about sexual health.
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Gone Too Soon: Father Of Three Dies From Heroin-Fentanyl Overdose DULUTH, Minn. - The numbers are alarming. More than 40,000 Americans die each year from opioid overdoses, and of that number roughly half of the deaths involved fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Increase in younger patients diagnosed with skin cancer SINGAPORE - When Mr Thomas Tan (not his real name), who is in his 30s, first spotted a pimple-sized mole on the sole of his foot in 2016, he did not think much of it.
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FDA approves preventive migraine treatment WASHINGTON - Migraine sufferers across the United States have their eyes on a newly approved drug that's offering hope for reducing the frequency of monthly migraine attacks.
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Fentanyl Detector could be new weapon in Opiate war Law Enforcement gets a new weapon in the war on Opioid. It's a Fentanyl Detector. The device will help officers detect the synthetic opiate that is produced in China and has made it's way to the United States, leading to thousands of overdose deaths.
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JOHESU strike: People living with HIV/AIDS, 11 CSOs petition health, labour ministers By Victor Ahiuma-Young. PEOPLE living with HIV/AIDS, and 11 other groups weekend in Abuja, petitioned the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole and his Labour and Employment counterpart, Senator Chris Ngige raising alarm that the ongoing health workers ...
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Their Voice: Breaking the stigma of mental illness Anyone that lives with or cares for some with mental illness knows that there is a significant gap in our healthcare system when it comes to providing services and treatment.
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Running a restaurant cost me my marriage and my mental health - now I want to help others speak out about stress To customers in his Altrincham restaurant, Rob Lee was chatty, outgoing and - to all appearances - happy. But at home with his wife and two young children, the mask slipped; he was distant, snappy and plagued by worries about the business that kept him ...
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Springfield's 5th Annual Race for the Cure Saturday marks the fifth annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Springfield. This year's goal is to surpass one million dollars for money raised since the race began in Springfield.
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A woman who has fought depression since she was 16 has opened-up about what life if like with mental health issues An inspirational young woman who battled back from the brink after "living in fear" due to her struggle with mental health issues has spoken candidly about her fight.
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Susan G. Komen 'Race for the Cure,' what you can expect on race day ELMIRA, N.Y. (18 NEWS) - Sunday, many will be racing to help end breast cancer. It's the 20th annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure.
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CDC says romaine lettuce is safe to eat again (Meredith) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced that romaine lettuce is finally safe to eat again.
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Dogs born in the summertime more likely to suffer heart disease PHILADELPHIA - Dogs born June through August are at higher risk of heart disease than those born other months, rising in July to 74 percent higher risk, according to a study published this week in Scientific Reports from researchers at the Perelman ...
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