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Woman has 132-pound ovarian cyst removed The patient, who was not named, had been gaining 10 pounds per week for two months. (Danbury Hospital). A 38-year-old woman is home recovering after surgeons in Connecticut removed a 132-pound ovarian cyst that was sitting on her digestive tract.
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Surgeons Remove 'Very Rare' 132-Pound Ovarian Tumor Connecticut surgeons recently removed a 132-lb. (60 kilograms) ovarian tumor from a woman's abdomen. The tumor, a "benign [noncancerous] mucinous ovarian tumor," was removed during a 5-hour surgery that involved more than 20 specialists at Danbury ...
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Doctors Remove 132-Pound Ovarian Tumor From Patient, One of the Largest Ever of Its Kind Doctors at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut removed a 132-pound tumor from a 38-year-old woman, the hospital announced Thursday. The benign mucinous ovarian tumor is believed to be one of the largest known tumors of this kind to have been removed; the ...
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Florida woman's gruesome roach-in-ear tale goes viral ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Those screams you hear? They're the collective sounds of primal anguish after reading a Florida woman's account of waking up with a palmetto bug in her ear.
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This Woman Got A Cockroach Stuck In Her Ear And OMG Nope It all started on April 14 when Holley, who had just bought a new home in Melbourne, Florida, woke up at 1:45 a.m. with a strange, cold feeling in her left ear.
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The risky surgery to remove a woman's 132-pound tumor that grew by 10 pounds every week The tumor had ballooned to 132 pounds and stretched the patient's abdomen into a 3-foot-wide orb. By the time oncologist Vaagn Andikyan examined the 38-year-old woman, she could no longer walk.
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Auburn University alumni still searching for answers on ocular melanoma cluster outbreak AUBURN, Ala. (WKRG) - Four women from Alabama who are battling the same rare cancer are making national news headlines. The group is trying to spread the word about the need for the state to fund a study to investigate the occurrence of a rare cancer ...
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Drug epidemic ensnares 25-year-old pill for nerve pain WASHINGTON (AP) - The story line sounds familiar: a popular pain drug becomes a new way to get high as prescribing by doctors soars.
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Nurse accused of spreading hepatitis C is just 'a scapegoat,' attorney says TACOMA, Wash. - Police arrested a Washington state nurse accused of stealing drugs and infecting two patients with hepatitis C. The MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital employee was arrested at the Canadian border Thursday night and police say she could ...
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Drug epidemic ensnares 25-year-old pill for nerve pain WASHINGTON - The story line sounds familiar: a popular pain drug becomes a new way to get high as prescribing by doctors soars. But the latest drug raising red flags is not part of the opioid family at the center of the nation's drug epidemic.
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Nurse accused of spreading hepatitis C is just 'a scapegoat,' attorney says The MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital employee was arrested at the Canadian border Thursday night, and police say she could be facing two counts of second-degree assault.
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Dangerous 'Juuling' trend among teenagers raises health concerns SUNRISE, Fla. - It's a question for any South Florida parent: Is your child "Juul-ing" in school? The popularity of E-cigarettes and vape products came about with many adults trying to quit smoking.
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Texas A&M Health Science Center: Cancer prevention, education, screening Cancer prevention, education, and screening is a serious undertaking at the Texas A&M Health Science Center and for good reason.
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UK brain tumor study raises cell phone concerns Cell phone radiation and a potential link to cancer risks have left consumers and scientists alike scratching their heads since mobile phones became widely used in the 1990s.
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What to know about the outbreak linked to Arizona romaine It has been three weeks since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its first alert about romaine from Arizona, linking the product to a multistate E. coli outbreak, and the Food and Drug Administration is still looking for the source ...
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Despite screaming headlines, the UK's breast cancer screening computer glitch didn't kill anyone Kevin Lomangino is the managing editor of HealthNewsReview.org. He tweets as @KLomangino. A bureaucratic snafu in the UK has generated international headlines bemoaning the deaths of hundreds of women.
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Washington County spared from Hepatitis A outbreak so far After an increase this year in hepatitis A cases linked to certain risk factors, the Ohio Department of Health is encouraging people with known risk factors to get vaccinated.
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Doctors Stumped By Rare Eye Cancer Cases In North Carolina, Alabama A rare form of eye cancer has struck a group of people in two locations in North Carolina and Alabama, confounding medical experts who are trying to determine whether the cases are linked.
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Bug-bite diseases are on the rise nationwide: What to watch out for in Illinois We learned from a new Centers for Disease Control study this week that illnesses from common bug bites - mosquito, ticks and fleas - have spiked nationwide in the last decade-plus, and that made us wonder about the implications closer to home.
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Ind. Dept. of Health encourages precautions against tick-borne disease INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - The Indiana Department of Health is encouraging Indiana residents to take precautions against tick bites. As the temperatures begin to warm, health officials are anticipating an increase in tick activity across the state ...
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How to avoid tick bites or treat them if they occur As we head into the summer months, there are growing concerns about tick bites. Channel 11 reached out to a bug expert from Penn State to find out what people need to know to protect themselves this tick season.
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Young Americans Are the Loneliest *The following is excerpted from an online article posted on USA Today. Young people are far more likely than senior citizens to report being lonely and in poor health, a surprising survey of 20,000 Americans released Tuesday shows.
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Why Does Hair Turn Gray? Scientists May Have Found a New Answer Updated | A new study has shed light on the role our immune system could play in our hair turning gray when we deal with stress or illness.
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Loneliness Rivals Obesity, Smoking as Health Risk May 4, 2018 -- "The social media paradox": Pop psychologists have coined the term to describe how social media have allowed us to become more connected to other people than at any time in history -- and yet many Americans report feeling more lonely and ...
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Flu Still Widespread In New York NEW CITY - Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert are reminding residents that there's still time to get your flu vaccine to protect you through the rest of thE flu season.
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Blocking Single Gene Prevents Obesity in Fat-Fed Mice Our bodies have evolved over millions of years to be very efficient at storing energy from excess food as fat deposits, as a key biological survival mechanism for times of food scarcity.
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How low is too low? Experts debate blood pressure targets in post-SPRINT era Following the landmark SPRINT trial, there is a growing body of evidence for reducing systolic blood pressure targets, resulting in the development of new US guidelines.
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School: Four Western Illinois University students have mumps Four students at Western Illinois University's Macomb campus have come done with cases of the mumps, school officials announced Friday.
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Study Finds No Risk To Babies If Their Mothers Eat Placenta After Birth A review of 23,000 birth records sheds light on why mothers eat placentas and whether consumption of it brings danger to their babies.
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Women With Breast Cancer Delay Care When Faced With High Deductibles When Pam Leonard felt a lump in her breast last November, she hesitated, debating whether to get testing to see if she had cancer.
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Who is Andrew Wakefield and what did the disgraced MMR doctor do? Andrew Wakefield is a former British doctor and researcher, who birthed the modern anti-vaccination movement with widely discredited research, since withdrawn by The Lancet medical journal and renounced by its co-authors.
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Walking for a Cure: Cancer survivor sees hope and strength at Relay for Life A cancer survivor signs the Relay for Life banner at last year's event. [CRYSTAL VANDER WEIT/DECATUR DAILY FILE]. Crystal Vander Weit/Decatur Daily file.
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How To Talk To Your Partner About Your Mental Health I've always identified as a "worrywart", but never considered myself to be someone who struggled with anxiety. Then a few months ago, I experienced my first panic attack.
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