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Doctors baffled after 11-year-old girl's inoperable brain tumor disappears HAYS COUNTY, Texas - An 11-year-old Texas girl diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor appears to have been cured, and doctors don't have an explanation, according to KVUE.
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Michigan confirms two more children with acute flaccid myelitis LANSING, Mich. - A child in Ottawa County and another one in Macomb County have been confirmed to have the mysterious, polio-like illness called acute flaccid myelitis.
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Addicted to Vaped Nicotine, Teenagers Have No Clear Path to Quitting A Harvard addiction medicine specialist is getting calls from distraught parents around the country. A Stanford psychologist is getting calls from rattled school officials around the world.
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Heartbreaking images show masked aid workers carrying coffins of babies who died of Ebola as death toll in the ... Heartbreaking photos have revealed the devastation of families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where Ebola has now killed at least 313 people.
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A Man In China Got Seriously Sick From Sniffing His Stinky Socks Here goes: A man in China has been hospitalised with a severe lung infection doctors think he contracted from smelling his dirty socks.
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Is There a Link Between LASIK and Suicide? 7 Things to Know If You're Considering Eye Surgery A meteorologist's death has raised questions about the safety and potential side effects of the popular vision treatment. By Amanda MacMillan.
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How long do cold and flu viruses stay contagious on public surfaces? 'Tis the season for gathering with friends and family to share latkes and gingerbread, but also for those dreaded colds and bouts of the flu.
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Up to 319 people dead as Congo Ebola outbreak worsens (CNN) - One of the deadliest Ebola outbreaks in history continues to worsen in the Democratic Republic of Congo with as many as 319 people now dead.
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FDA panel backs prescribing opioid antidote alongside painkillers Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended Tuesday that labels on prescription opioids urge doctors to simultaneously prescribe the overdose antidote naloxone for at least some of their patients.
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Nutritionist recommends these dishes to help you fight off a cold or the flu You got your flu shot, washed your hands like crazy and tried to get enough sleep, but you still got sick. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), you are far from alone.
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Opioids for Chronic Pain Only Nominally Better Than Placebo For patients with chronic noncancer pain, the benefit of opioids may not outweigh the drugs' adverse effects, a new systematic review and meta-analysis suggest.
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Case of rare polio-like ailment found in Ottawa County child OTTAWA COUNTY, MI -- State health officials say one case of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a polio-like illness, has been confirmed in Ottawa County and three others are confirmed in Southeast Michigan.
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Opioids offer little chronic pain benefit and wane over time, study says For adults with chronic pain, opioids offer narrow improvements over a placebo for pain and physical functioning, on average, according to a new analysis published Tuesday.
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Opioids don't work well for chronic pain and are overused, study finds Opioids are not only overused and killing Americans in record numbers; they don't even work that well for many types of pain, researchers found in a new study released Tuesday.
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Utah girl diagnosed with rare polio-like illness, paralyzing her (KSTU) - A Utah girl has been diagnosed with a rare polio-like illness, that has no known cure and affects very few children per year, a fundraising page said.
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Take High Blood Pressure Meds? Exercise Might Work Just as Well By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, Dec. 18, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- If you have high blood pressure, hitting the gym may be as helpful as taking drugs to lower your numbers, researchers say.
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Louisiana: Outbreak of 25 hepatitis A cases; get immunized NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana has declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, hoping to keep numbers low for the contagious liver disease.
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It's flu season, and the new book 'Influenza' says you should get your flu shot! Last month, one of my patients told me that her belly button had gone numb after she got the flu shot. It was her first time receiving the vaccine and, she said, most certainly her last.
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Child abuse spikes on Saturday when report cards go home on Fridays, study finds University of Florida researchers are urging schools not to send student report cards home on Fridays, citing new research that child abuse cases spike when report cards are sent home at the start of the weekend.
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Louisiana: Outbreak of 25 Hepatitis A Cases; Get Immunized Louisiana's health department has declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, hoping to keep numbers low for the contagious liver disease.
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Louisiana: Outbreak of 25 hepatitis A cases; get immunized NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Louisiana's Department of Health has declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, hoping to keep numbers low for the highly contagious liver disease.
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Up to 319 people dead as Congo Ebola outbreak worsens (CNN) One of the deadliest Ebola outbreaks in history continues to worsen in the Democratic Republic of Congo with as many as 319 people now dead.
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Schools, churches get more cautious as flu season ramps up in Georgia With Christmas less than a week away, the leader of the state's 1.2 million Catholics is asking parishioners to consider skipping services if they think they have the flu and says the church may take further steps, so grave are fears about another ...
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Research is saving lives in the Ebola outbreaks in DRC Protecting the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from Ebola takes a chain of responders from all over the world. With one outbreak earlier this year over, and a second ongoing, research has been at the heart of the response.
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To understand life expectancy fall, start in West Virginia MADISON, W.Va. (AP) - If you want to understand why U.S. life expectancy is declining, West Virginia is a good place to start. The state is a bellwether of bad health, portending major problems years before they became severe nationally.
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2 more cases of paralyzing illness found in Macomb, Ottawa counties Two more Michigan children, including one from Macomb County, have been diagnosed with a mysterious paralyzing illness, bringing the total number of cases in the state to four.
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Exposure to cannabis alters the genetic profile of sperm As legal access to marijuana continues expanding across the U.S., more scientists are studying the effects of its active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), in teens, adults and pregnant women.
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Mutated Animals Show Why Gene Editing Isn't Ready for Human Trials The scientific community has largely denounced He Jiankui, the researcher who recently claimed to have used CRISPR to alter the genomes of twin babies in China.
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CRISPR Fights Obesity Without Edits to Genome by University of California - San Francisco. A weighty new study shows that CRISPR therapies can cut fat without cutting DNA. In a paper published Dec. 13, 2018, in the journal Science, UC San Francisco researchers describe how a modified version of ...
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FDA panel backs prescribing opioid overdose reversal drug along with painkillers (Reuters) - An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended prescribing the opioid overdose reversal drug, naloxone, along with addictive painkillers.
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Gene Editing May Help Obese People Who Want To Lose Weight Gene Editing, a tool for editing a human DNA, may soon help alleviate the Obesity crisis that affects millions of U.S. adults. A major research conducted by scientists from the University of California, San Francisco indicates how CRISPRa ("a" stands ...
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Just Because We Can Create Genetically Modified Babies Doesn't Mean We Should Two remarkable things took place last month in the world of biotechnology: A Chinese doctor claimed to have created two genetically modified human embryos who were successfully nurtured to birth, and the worldwide scientific community roundly rejected ...
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UW Hospital now has 14 cases of Legionnaires' and 3 deaths MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to UW Hospital's water system has infected 14 people with the pneumonia-like bacteria, and three have died.
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In Seattle, Teens Get More Sleep, Better Grades with Later School Start Time Published on December 18, 2018. Roosevelt High School Seattle. When Seattle Public Schools announced that it would reorganize school start times across the district for the fall of 2016, the massive undertaking took more than a year to deploy ...
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Could this 1cm implant be the future of weight loss? Could the future of weight loss be an implantable device that tells your brain you're full after a few bites? Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe so.
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Responding to Ebola in Congo is hard work, but made that much harder by violence Ebola has been reported in a number of locations in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, making the current outbreak the second worst in history.
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Small babies may grow up to have big problems during pregnancy The study, led by the University of Adelaide in South Australia, also found that babies with a birth weight under 2.5kg (5lb8oz) that go on to become overweight or obese women are at even greater risk of pregnancy complications.
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Dancing reduces need for ADL assistance in older women Dancing reduces the need for assistance with activities of daily living among older women, and 15 other types of exercise do not, according to the results of a newly published study.
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African Swine Fever spreads to 22 provinces in China as year of the pig approaches Authorities in China are scrambling to stem the rapid spread of the African Swine Fever (ASF), with more than 600,000 pigs culled in 22 provinces since August.
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ABC News reporter opens up about the stigma he still faces as an HIV+ gay man "The stigma associated with HIV is one of the main reasons HIV/AIDS is still spreading at an alarming rate in some parts of the world.
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Take this true or false quiz to discover 9 things every woman should know about Paps FEATURE - I'd like to put to rest some rumors about Pap smears and get the most accurate information out to women in hopes of helping them make some potentially lifesaving decisions.
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What still needs to be done in the fight against HIV-AIDS? Although advances in treatment have transformed HIV-AIDS from a deadly disease into a chronic, manageable condition, the fight against the pernicious virus is by no means over.
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Link between bodyweight and cancer discovered in new study Washington DC: Excess body weight or obesity is responsible for 3.9 per cent of cancer globally, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Cancer, highlighted a relationship between obesity and the risk of 13 types of cancers ...
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Zimbabwe receives $1 million from AfDB to fight cholera Harare - Zimbabwe has Monday received a $1 million grant from the African Development Bank (AfDb) to combat a deadly cholera outbreak that began three months ago.
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New epigenetic cervical cancer test has 100 per cent detection rate A new test for cervical cancer was found to detect all of the cancers in a randomised clinical screening trial of 15,744 women, outperforming both the current Pap smear and human papillomavirus (HPV) test at a reduced cost, according to a study led by ...
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