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Adenovirus outbreak kills 6 kids in New Jersey, but what is it? The New Jersey Department of Health confirmed 18 cases of adenovirus among pediatric residents at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell on Tuesday.
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Andenovirus outbreak at rehabilitation center kills 7; another 11 are sick An outbreak of a virus at Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in New Jersey has claimed the lives of seven children, and 11 more are sick.
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Does Eating More Organic Foods Cut the Risk of Cancer? Frequent consumption of organic foods was associated with a significantly lower risk of cancer among French adults versus adults who never consumed organic foods, according to a population-based, prospective study.
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Adenovirus Outbreak Leaves 6 Children Dead at NJ Pediatric Center The New Jersey Department of Health was working on Tuesday to contain a severe viral outbreak at a pediatric center that has left six children dead and 12 others infected.
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It's Perfectly OK To Care About Beauty While Battling Breast Cancer When I found a lump in my left breast back in 2013, I immediately started to panic. I remember my heart raced and my hands trembled as I left my bathroom to text my best friend, telling her that I needed to see her right away.
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Can Eating Organic Food Lower Your Cancer Risk? People who buy organic food are usually convinced it's better for their health, and they're willing to pay dearly for it. But until now, evidence of the benefits of eating organic has been lacking.
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Polio-like disease spreading across the US appears in Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla. - In the past several months, there has been increasing curiosity about the mystery illness acute flaccid myelitis, commonly known as AFM.
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10 Fashion & Beauty Products That Helped Black Women Get Through Their Breast Cancer Treatment For many women going through breast cancer treatment, looking good means feeling better overall. And while some may view focusing on style during such a serious time as frivolous vanity, many women who are actually going through this journey see this ...
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Microplastics Have Been Found in Human Stool for the First Time, Study Says Microplastics have been found in human stool for the first time, according to a new study presented in Vienna Tuesday, shedding some light on the pervasiveness of the pollutant.
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Don't dress up your chickens on Halloween, CDC says The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked chicken owners to avoid committing a party fowl this Halloween by dressing up their domestic livestock.
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The Crown JUUL on campus: College students' love of e-cigarettes continues at CSU In the world of e-cigarettes, JUUL-clutching celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio have become the millennial Marlboro Man. A walk through the Morgan Library provides a snapshot of vaping's popularity: JUULs charging in the USB ports of laptops, pod-less ...
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Surgeons repair babies' spinal cords in the womb in UK first Weeks before they even took their first breaths, two babies had their spinal cords delicately repaired by surgeons in the first operations of their kind in the UK.
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One Hoosier among 92 sickened by drug-resistant Salmonella strain in raw chicken Most people take precautions to avoid contracting salmonella poisoning from raw chicken, but there are other foods that are surprisingly more likely to harbor the harmful bacteria.
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Breathing through the nose aids memory storage : Study Research into how breathing affects the brain has become an ever-more popular field in recent years and new methodologies have enabled more studies SWEDEN, 2018-10-22 : The way we breathe may affect how well our memories are consolidated (i.
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Breast Cancer Shook Jessica Florence's World At 22, But Now She's Creating Her Own Beauty Rules Jessica Florence has just flown into New York City from Florida to do a photoshoot a few hours before our meeting. She has her hair tied into a bun on the top of her head, curls flowing down, with her baby hairs perfectly laid.
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HHS Secretary Says Opioid Deaths Starting to Plateau Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar said today that new preliminary government data shows a slowdown of drug overdose deaths in the United States.
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CCTA targeted treatment helps Bixby woman's cancer fight During Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, the numbers can be frightening. One in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer at some point in her lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society, which estimates 2,870 ...
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Student Designs App Device That Fits Inside Bra To Detect Breast Cancer A device made of a brassiere cup fitted with a mobile application, developed by a Mexican student, is designed to be an ally of mammograms for the timely detection of breast cancer in women with very dense breast tissue and in those under age 40.
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Microplastics Are Turning Up Everywhere, Even In Human Excrement Microplastics have been found in human stool samples from countries in many parts of the world, according to a small pilot study being presented this week at the 26th annual United European Gastroenterology conference in Vienna, Austria. The study ...
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Study shows downside of medical crowdfunding (Reuters Health) - While crowdfunding platforms can fill insurance gaps, helping patients pay for essential care and avoid medical debt, they are also being used to raise large sums of money for ineffective and experimental treatments, a new study ...
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Ebola cases in Beni top 100 as 6 more cases reported Medical teams have confirmed Ebola in six more people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, all from the hot spot in Beni where violence over the weekend has slowed vaccination activities, the country's health ministry said today.
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CDC: Flu Season Ramping Up, So Get Vaccinated By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, Oct. 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- With flu season imminent, U.S. health officials urge everyone 6 months and older to get a flu shot.
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Health officials urge residents to get flu shots As the state reported its first lab-confirmed flu cases last week, local health officials recommend county residents get their flu vaccine as soon as possible.
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Flu Scan for Oct 23, 2018 In avian flu outbreak developments, the United States reported the detection of low-pathogenic H5N2 in a Minnesota turkey flock and Laos reported a highly pathogenic H5N1 outbreak in backyard birds.
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Measles: No longer gone and forgotten It is almost certain that very few infectious diseases physicians who started practicing after 1993 have ever seen even one case of measles in the United States.
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There's Plastic in Your Poop: Study Warns Microplastics May Be Hurting Us All New research suggests that humans all over the world are eating and drinking tiny particles of plastics. Here's what that might mean for our health.
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Survivors share stories of hope, determination When four local women met for the first time last summer, they each came from different backgrounds, and each one with her own story.
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Mild form of bird flu found in Minnesota turkey flock A mild form of bird flu detected in one flock of turkeys in a west-central Minnesota county is not the same virus that caused a devastating outbreak in 2015 and poses no public health or food safety risk, officials said Tuesday.
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More Alzheimer's training needed for medical staffs Randle Lee, of the Alzheimer's Association Oklahoma Chapter, speaks during an interim study held by the Oklahoma Senate Health and Human Services Committee at the state Capitol in Oklahoma City.
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Waupaca high school students highlight World Polio Day using pumpkins WAUPACA, Wis. (WBAY) -- Wednesday is World Polio Day, a campaign created by Rotary International to eradicate polio worldwide. Since 1988, there's been a 99.9 percent decline in cases, but the disease still exists in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.
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Tall people at greater risk of cancer 'because they have more cells' Report suggests link between height and cancer risk could simply be because there are more cells for something to go wrong in. Nicola Davis · @NicolaKSDavis.
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Less dangerous avian influenza strain confirmed in Minnesota turkey flock WILLMAR, Minn. - The Minnesota Board of Animal Health reported Tuesday, Oct. 23, that it has confirmed a case of H5N2 low pathogenic avian influenza in a commercial turkey flock in Kandiyohi County in central Minnesota.
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Rotary Recognizes World Polio Day Rotary Club members in Jamestown are among millions reaching out on World Polio Day to raise awareness, money and support to end polio - a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today.
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Adding radiotherapy to prostate cancer treatment improved survival in trial Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Men with advanced prostate cancer lived 11 percent longer when treated with radiation therapy and standard treatment, including chemotherapy, in a trial in Britain.
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Gum Disease May Worsen Blood Pressure Problems By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, Oct. 22, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Gum disease may interfere with high blood pressure control, a new study suggests.
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Alzheimer's dementia: what it can do, how to prevent FAIRBANKS, Alaska - In this week's Health Report we take a look at one of the world's leading diseases, one that has affected millions around the globe.
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Antipsychotic Drugs Don't Ease ICU Delirium Powerful drugs that have been used for decades to treat delirium are ineffective for that purpose, according to a study published online Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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AI's Potential to Diagnose and Treat Mental Illness The United States faces a mental health epidemic. Nearly one in five American adults suffers from a form of mental illness. Suicide rates are at an all-time high, 115 people die daily from opioid abuse, and one in eight Americans over 12 years' old ...
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Major trial shows targeted drug extends breast cancer survival Combining a targeted drug with hormone therapy substantially extends survival for women with advanced breast cancer, a major clinical trial has found.
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Weight Loss Success Tied to Self-Control Brain Regions New research suggests that higher-level brain functions play a major role in losing weight. In a new study at a weight-loss clinic, those who lost the most amount of weight demonstrated more activity in the brain regions of the lateral prefrontal ...
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AI clinician trained to save humans from sepsis – and, er, let's just say you should stick to your human doctor Experts hope an artificially intelligent software system will help doctors tackle the deadly menace of sepsis in humans. The technology uses reinforcement learning, an area of machine learning more commonly used for teaching bots to play games such as ...
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Here's how fathers play an important role in metabolic programming of their offspring The study shows how important it is for men exercise prior to conceiving because it will have lifelong health effects on the offspring.
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E-cigarettes are good or bad depending on the study – so what's the truth? The number of adults currently using e-cigarettes in the UK is close to 2.9m, many of whom will have turned to the devices to quit smoking.
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With breast cancer, early detection is key October is breast cancer awareness month! It's a month where women are reminded to have their annual mammogram. Annual mammograms can detect cancer early, when it is most treatable.
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Zika outbreak in Rajasthan: 120 tested positive, govt launches awareness programme Around 120 people have tested positive for Zika virus in Rajasthan, state health minister Kalicharan Saraf said on Monday. 'Till, now, 120 people have tested positive for Zika Virus in the state out of which 105 of them have been treated,' he said ...
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Billings oncologist says new breast cancer study 'offering promise' BILLINGS- There is a new glimmer of hope for some women battling an aggressive form of breast cancer. A newly published study found there is a new way to combined chemotherapy and medication from a patient's own body to help fight off an aggressive ...
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Sinking Spring woman grateful for support she got during breast cancer treatment Joy Page, who recently completed treatment for breast cancer, is grateful for all the people who were by her side through it all. Joy Page felt like she had a wave of support after her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
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India's Zika virus outbreak cases reach 120 NEW DELHI, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- The number of Zika virus outbreak cases has reached 120 in western Indian state of Rajasthan, with more people been diagnosed with the infection over the past 48 hours, the state's health chief has said.
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'Game changer' tuberculosis drug cures 9 in 10 Doctors in Belarus—a country with one of the highest rates of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the world—spent months treating patients with a new drug, bedaquiline, alongside other antibiotics.
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