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Scientists discover opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound mussels The opioid epidemic has now made its way into marine life in Washington's Puget Sound. Scientists who track pollution have for the first time, discovered traces of oxycodone in mussels.
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How Mussels In Seattle's Puget Sound Tested Positive For A 100-Year-Old Opioid The opioid crisis in the United States is getting so out of control that it appears some shellfish in the Seattle area are contaminated with it.
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Vaccines Alone Won't Beat Ebola Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to The Atlantic Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. Three people who had been infected with Ebola recently left an isolation ward at Wangata Hospital against medical advice, according to the Democratic Republic of ...
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Nipah scare near Doon after 18 dead bats found DEHRADUN: The scare of the deadly Nipah virus that has claimed 10 lives in Kerala was felt in Uttarakhand as well on Wednesday when 18 dead bats were discovered in the premises of the Government Senior Secondary School at Barma Papdi in Nahan ...
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Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids As more and more American communities grapple with opioid addiction, the human toll of the epidemic has grown in both scope and severity.
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FDA Says Beware Of Baby Teething Products With Benzocaine Death will take care of your infant's teething pain. But there's a slight problem with death. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about over-the-counter (OTC) teething products that contain benzocaine.
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Brainstorm Health: FDA Benzocaine Warning, Wearable Sleep Tracking, Women and Lung Cancer Good afternoon, readers! This is Sy. One of the most significant balancing acts in medicine involves figuring out when—and which—treatments do more harm than good.
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FDA warns teething medicines unsafe, wants off shelves Federal health officials warned parents Wednesday about the dangers of teething remedies that contain a popular numbing ingredient and asked manufacturers to stop selling their products intended for babies and toddlers.
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FDA: Teething medicines containing benzocaine pose serious safety risks to children The FDA issued a new warning on Wednesday and is urging parents to pay close attention. The concern? According to federal health officials, some of the most popular teething medicines on the market are unsafe and potentially dangerous for babies and ...
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Illuminating dark depths The inner workings of human physiology remain one of the final frontiers of science. In particular, the gastrointestinal (GI) microenvironment is incompletely understood.
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Want To Prevent Tick Bites? What About Clothing With Permethrin Bug Spray? Your clothes may repel others. When it is people at a party or on a date, that can be bad. When it is ticks (at a party, on a date, or anywhere else), that can be very good.
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Mosquito, tick diseases have doubled since last decade Cases of vector-borne disease have more than doubled in the United States since 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported, with mosquitoes and ticks bearing most of the blame.
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Bug-Sprayed Clothing Really Does Keep Ticks Away A new CDC-led study published today in the Journal of Medical Entomology suggests it might be a great time to invest in a new fashion trend: bug spray-laced clothing.
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County issues advisory on ticks, Lyme disease Tick populations are growing in Chautauqua County and the percentage of ticks that are infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease is also increasing.
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Why DR Congo is confident it will halt Ebola Despite its vast size and dilapidated health system, the Democratic Republic of Congo is confident that it will be able to contain the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease, which is thought to have killed 27 people.
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Pills won't protect you against the sun, FDA warns No, you cannot protect your skin from the sun's harmful, cancer-causing ultraviolet light by popping a pill, the Food and Drug Administration warns.
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How the Keto Diet Helps Prevent Seizures: Gut Bacteria May Be Key Long before the keto diet became trendy, it was used to treat seizures in people with epilepsy. But the exact reason why this very-low-carb diet helps with seizures has puzzled researchers for decades.
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West Virginia Officials Recommend Hepatitis A Vaccinations For Food Service Workers The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) is requesting that the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department provide hepatitis A vaccination clinics for restaurant and food service employees in those counties.
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New Ebola Tactics Raise Hope but May Sow Confusion Although there is optimism that the Ebola outbreak in central Africa can still be quickly contained, the fight is already becoming more complex, health experts said this week.
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What is the Nordic diet? (And why should you start eating it?) You are probably familiar with the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains and olive oil. The diet has been associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes, as well as a ...
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Ingestible 'bacteria on a chip' could help diagnose disease CAMBRIDGE, MA -- MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stomach or other gastrointestinal problems.
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Lung Disease in Women Getting Increased Scrutiny SAN DIEGO -- While pulmonary diseases tend to be more likely to hit males, physicians cautioned colleagues this week that female patients with lung diseases face unique risks, such as different and more severe symptoms compared with men.
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Report: Obesity linked to these 12 types of cancers, including breast and colorectal Staying physically active and eating a healthy diet filled with whole grains, fruits and vegetables not only help lower weight but could cut your risk for cancer, a new report finds.
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Money helps smokers quit better than e-cigarettes, study finds It's a big question for smokers and policymakers alike: Do electronic cigarettes help people quit? In a large study of company wellness programs, e-cigarettes worked no better than traditional stop-smoking tools, and the only thing that really helped ...
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AUA 2018: PSA 1.5 is the new 4.0 Published 24 May 2018; San Francisco, CA (UroToday.com) E. David Crawford gave a talk regarding the state of prostate cancer diagnostics and specifically focused on the role of PSA cutoff for evaluation.
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Heavier women may face higher cancer risks, study finds (HealthDay)—Excessive weight gain is never a good idea for health. Now, new research supports the notion that putting on pounds raises cancer risks for middle-aged women.
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Delhi to host shooting meet after Nipah virus scare forces venue shift NEW DELHI: The Nipah virus threat in Kerala has prompted the national shooting federation to shift the 18th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Championship to Delhi.
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Measles case confirmed in person who spent time in Maryland WASHINGTON - Health officials have confirmed a case of measles in a person who spent time in the Washington, D.C. area. Officials tell news outlets the person contracted measles outside the country, developed symptoms here after and is under medical ...
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Phototherapy Delays Radical Prostate Cancer Tx SAN FRANCISCO -- Men with low-risk prostate cancer had more than a 50% decrease in conversion to definitive therapy if they underwent vascular targeted phototherapy (VTP) prior to beginning active surveillance, a randomized trial showed.
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Sleeping in on the weekends could help you live longer, study suggests Good news for Sunday snoozers: Sleeping in on your off-days might actually be beneficial to your health. » RELATED: Have trouble sleeping?
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'I got 13 good years.' With prostate cancer in his bones, here's his message for men. Eddie Goodall had just been elected to the North Carolina Senate when he got the diagnosis: Prostate cancer. Surgery recommended. It was 2005.
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The latest outbreak of a deadly virus has scientists racing to create a vaccine The Nipah virus outbreak in southern India this week has prompted the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a global alliance of governments and non-profits, to step up efforts to find a cure for the deadly disease.
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Black Drug Users Grapple With Surging Opioid Overdose Death Rates A thin man with a touch of gray leans against a wall in Boston's South End and takes a long drag on his cigarette. He's pondering a question: Why are opioid overdose death rates steady or dropping for most drug users in Massachusetts, but rising among ...
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Rice Loses B Vitamins, Other Nutrients Because Of Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Increased amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not just associated with climate change. Findings of a new study have revealed it may also affect the nutritional value of food.
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Using a CPAP machine can improve sex lives for some, study says (CNN) Regular use of a continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP machine could improve the sex lives of people with obstructive sleep apnea -- especially women, a new study says.
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Overweight and obesity make up for more than 15000 cancer cases per year in Brazil Some 15,000 new cancer cases are diagnosed in Brazil each year, and researchers have found that approximately 4 percent of these cases could be avoided by reducing overweight and obesity.
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Have a stomach ache? Swallow a sensor Diagnosing the cause of stomach pain could soon be as simple as swallowing two small pills that work together to report back about what is happening in your body.
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Sleep in this weekend -- you might live longer (CNN) Your pets may be pestering you to get up and feed them, and your spouse may want you to get started on that honey-do list, but tell them you're sleeping in this weekend.
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How To Talk To Your Partner If You Think They Have A Mental Health Disorder They're Not Dealing With Although mental health disorders are extremely common and nothing of which anyone should ever be ashamed, the stigma attached to mental health can be damaging on so many levels.
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Study Offers New Look at Why Our Brains Evolved to Be So Big A new study suggests our brains evolved to be so big largely to cope with the environmental demands our ancestors faced. May 23, 2018, at 2:27 p.m.. May 23, 2018, at 2:27 p.m.. More. U.S. News & World Report. Study Offers New Look at Why Our Brains ...
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Relay For Life to bring community together in fight against cancer UPPER DUBLIN >> Nine years ago, Audrey Walsh, the life skills support teacher at Springfield Township High School, faced the unthinkable: her 2-year-old daughter, Ella, had developed a mass under her eye, which was diagnosed as a cancerous soft ...
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