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Financial strain discourages those who need to get checked for breast cancer Ethel Bailey knew something was wrong earlier this year when she found a bruise on her breast. She had never thought to get checked for breast cancer before; no one in her family had it and she had never had a conversation about it while growing up.
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Knoxville Post Office celebrates breast cancer fundraising stamp's success A stamp can do more than send a letter. It can help raise $87.8 million for breast cancer research. That's how much was raised since the breast cancer research semi-postal stamp, which is a kind of postage stamp used to raise money for a particular ...
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Breast Cancer Fact Check: Men and breast cancer COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX) - A common misconception about breast cancer is that only women can get the disease; however, that's not true.
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Supporting Breast Cancer Patients Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. (Cheryl Diaz Meyer/Washington Post/Getty Images). By Tisha Felder.
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FDA Approves New Drug for Flu The first new flu drug in 20 years won approval Wednesday from the Food and Drug Administration. The new antiviral, generically known as baloxavir marboxil but sold under the brand name Xofluza, is a single dose treatment.
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It Might Stress You Out to Know What Stress Is Doing to Your Brain If you're already feeling stressed out, sorry, but there's one more thing you might need to worry about: A new study finds that stress may impair your memory now and quicken cognitive decline later in life.
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Breast Cancer Survivor Julia L. Blum's Story In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we asked Patch readers to share their breast cancer journeys on Patch. This is Julia L Blum's story: In 1968, when my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 46 and given a prognosis of ...
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County pays nearly $5M over heroin withdrawal death in jail A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail.
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County pays nearly $5M over heroin withdrawal death in jail FILE - This undated photo provided by Stephanie Moyer shows Moyer's daughter Victoria "Tori" Herr. A small Pennsylvania County will pay nearly $5 million to the family of the teenager who collapsed and died in 2015 after four days suffering from heroin ...
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What's causing polio-like illness that's paralyzing children? Health experts just don't know We don't know. That's the answer from the federal government's top disease expert on what's causing the polio-like illness that's leading to paralysis in children around the U.S.. >> Read more trending news ...
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What's causing polio-like illness that's paralyzing children? Health experts just don't know We don't know. That's the answer from the federal government's top disease expert on what's causing the polio-like illness that's leading to paralysis in children around the U.S.. >> Read more trending news. It's called acute flaccid myelitis, also ...
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Don't stress out yet about stress shrinking your brain Relax: A new study shows that people with higher levels of the "stress hormone" tend to have smaller brains - but that doesn't mean one causes the other.
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Stress might lead to memory loss and brain shrinkage, study says (CNN) Listen up, gen-Xers and millennials, and, well, everybody who has a brain. If you live a high-stress life, you could have memory loss and brain shrinkage before you turn 50, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.
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County pays nearly $5M over heroin withdrawal death in jail PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A small Pennsylvania county will pay nearly $5 million to the family of a teenager who collapsed and died after four days of heroin withdrawal in jail.
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Tall people at greater risk of cancer because they have more cells, study suggests Taller people have a greater risk of cancer because they are bigger and so have more cells in their bodies in which dangerous mutations can occur, new research has suggested.
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Mom Of Child Who Died At Wanaque Facility Wants Answers Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about HTML5 video.
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Tall people at greater risk of cancer, study says Tall people are at a greater risk of cancer because they have more cells in their body, new research has suggested. A person's risk of developing cancer increases by 10% for every 10 centimeters (4 inches) they are over the average height, the study ...
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It's Too Soon to Celebrate the End of the Opioid Epidemic The good news is that deaths from drug overdoses in America have been falling slightly for the past six months, granting a reprieve from what seemed like an opioid epidemic with no end in sight.
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Why did the flu kill 80000 Americans last year? The 2017-2018 flu season was historically severe. Public health officials estimate that 900,000 Americans were hospitalized and 80,000 died from the flu and its complications.
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Crowdfunding raises millions for risky medical treatments, study says (CNN) Certain medical fundraising efforts could do more harm than good for some patients. That's according to a new research letter published in the medical journal JAMA on Tuesday.
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Tall people at greater risk of cancer, study says (CNN) Tall people are at a greater risk of cancer because they have more cells in their body, new research has suggested. A person's risk of developing cancer increases by 10% for every 10 centimeters (4 inches) they are over the average height, the ...
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12th annual Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon held On Oct. 10, the University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center partnered with Sisters at Heart breast cancer support group to host "The 12th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Luncheon.
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Childhood obesity: America's 'true national crisis' measured state by state (CNN) Childhood obesity has long been a problem in the United States. Now new research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reveals new state-by-state differences and just how serious the problem has become.
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Washington state reports first flu death of season Health officials in Washington state have confirmed the state's first flu death of the 2018-2019 season, a man in his 40s who had "chronic health concerns that increased his risk for complications.
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Why right now is the time to get your flu shot It is that time of year again. Flu shot season. While most of us know that getting a flu shot is a good idea, it is especially important that cancer patients - and their family members - roll up their sleeves for their best shot to ward off influenza ...
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Early death rate in deprived Blackpool 'twice that of the most affluent areas' Study into premature death rates in local authorities highlights stark division between rich and poor areas. Sarah Boseley Health editor.
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Clinic urges vaccinations after suspected Jersey Shore measles case An Ocean County clinic warned residents of a case of suspected measles Wednesday and urged people to make sure they were vaccinated against the disease.
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The areas in England where you're more likely to face an early grave People in Blackpool are the most likely in England to die young, claims a study which names and shames the 20 least healthy places in the country.
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Blood pressure pills linked to lung cancer Scientists from Northern Ireland and Canada examined data on patients taking two different types of drug. Share. By. ELLA PICKOVER.
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Blood pressure pills taken by millions may raise risk of lung cancer, study suggests Blood pressure pills taken by millions of patients could raise the risk of lung cancer by almost a third, according to new research.
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Two more cases of West Nile virus reported in Suffolk County Two more Suffolk residents have contracted the potentially fatal West Nile virus, bringing the total to seven for the season, according to county Health Department officials.
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Senate panel: NY needs addiction treatment professionals ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A New York state Senate panel is recommending the state do more to recruit and train health care professionals who work with recovering addicts.
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New Study For Women with Breast Cancer, Potential to Skip Chemo COLUMBIA, Mo. - A new study says women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer may be able to skip chemotherapy without risking their chances for survival.
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Why dental health is important Besides a healthy lifestyle and diet, dental health also plays a significant role in triggering high blood pressure (BP), according to a new research.
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An STI is diagnosed in a young Brit every four minutes Young people are being urged to use condoms as new figures show that a sexually transmitted infection (STI) is diagnosed in someone aged 15 to 24 years old every four minutes.
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Can eating organic food lower your cancer risk? Hard to prove A new, much-ballyhooed study showing that the most avid consumers of organic food had fewer cancers than those who never eat such products illustrates the difficulty of establishing cause and effect when evaluating diet and health.
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Vaccine confidence low in Europe, raising disease outbreak risk LONDON (Reuters) - Low levels of public confidence in vaccines in the European Union are pushing immunization rates down and the number of disease outbreaks up, according to an expert report on Tuesday.
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New hope for breast cancer patients There are moments in one's life where the sounds, smells, even the weather--- everything---remain frozen in time. No matter what the calendar says, it is a memory that replays as vividly as the day it happened.
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Novel app to improve lives of people with OCD: Study Researchers have developed a novel "brain training" app that could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) to manage their symptoms, including excessive handwashing and contamination fears that affects up to 46 per cent people ...
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'Polio vaccines help children build immunity against the virus' According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in every 200 polio infections will result in permanent paralysis. Share Via Email.
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Lavender Scent Reduces Anxiety through Smell Receptors Traditional medicine has long used aromatic plant-derived compounds such as lavender extract as treatments for anxiety, but how these compounds might work at the neuronal level isn't fully understood.
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New tuberculosis drug cures 8 in 10 patients Paris: A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure 80 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed Monday as a "game changer" in the fight against the global killer.
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