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New Universal Cancer Test Takes Only Ten Minutes. The Secret Ingredient? Gold. A new approach to detect cancer could take just ten minutes, a mobile phone and may be substantially cheaper than currently available 'liquid biopsy' tests, according to a new study.
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From a Deceased Woman's Transplanted Uterus, a Live Birth A woman who received a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor has given birth to a healthy child, researchers in Brazil said on Tuesday.
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Acute Flaccid Myelitis: CDC Definition May Be Overly Nonspecific CME Author: Vicki Brower. Study Authors: Matthew Elrick, MD, PhD, Priya Duggal, PhD, MPH, et al. Target Audience and Goal Statement: Pediatric neurologists and internists.
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Florida Toddler, 2, Needs Rare Blood Transfusions to Survive After Being Diagnosed with Cancer A two-year-old girl with an extremely rare blood type is fighting for her life after she was diagnosed with cancer. Two months ago, Zainab Mughal learned that she had developed an aggressive form of Neuroblastoma cancer, her dad Raheel Mughal told ...
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Nano-signature discovery could revolutionise cancer diagnosis A quick and easy test to detect cancer from blood or biopsy tissue could eventually result in a new approach to patient diagnosis.
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Overdose deaths from powerful narcotic fentanyl on the rise in Washington Overdose deaths from the powerful synthetic drug fentanyl are up nearly 70 percent during the first six months of this year, according to health officials.
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Clemson University students, visitors warned after confirmed mumps case Health officials are warning anyone who visited or was around Clemson University near the end of November to be on alert after a case of mumps was connected to campus.
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Blood test can detect cancer in 10 minutes, researchers claim A simple blood test has been developed that can diagnose cancer in just 10 minutes. It spots tiny amounts of DNA floating through vessels that could only have come from tumors - and not healthy cells.
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41 percent of adults don't plan to get flu shot despite last year's deadly season More than 40 percent of American adults have not received a flu shot this year and don't plan to do so, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
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New cancer test can detect the disease in 10 minutes, researchers say QUEENSLAND, Australia - Scientists in Australia have developed a universal blood test for cancer that can detect the disease in 10 minutes.
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Is America Ready For Prescription Heroin? The U.S. drug crisis does not appear to be letting up. The nation experienced a shattering 47,000 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2017.
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Infections May Raise The Risk Of Mental Illness In Children Researchers have traced a connection between some infections and mental illnesses like schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder.
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When's the best time to get a flu shot? CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) -- - Have you had your flu shot yet? It's not too late, but is it ever too early? If you had your shot in august or September, will it still protect you when the flu season starts hitting hard in Western New York?
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Mumps outbreak at Lewis University's Romeoville campus There is a mumps outbreak at Lewis University's campus in southwest suburban Romeoville, according to school officials. All students, teachers and staff at Lewis University must submit proof of mumps immunization by Monday, December 10 or risk being ...
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Pig hearts can function for months in baboons, study shows, bringing us closer to their use in humans (CNN) A new paper details how genetically modified pig hearts transplanted into baboons could support life and function for up to 195 days.
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Fentanyl overdose deaths up nearly 70 percent in Washington There has been a dramatic increase of overdose deaths in Washington linked to illicit fentanyl. According to the Washington Department of Health, there were 81 fentanyl related deaths in the first half of 2018, compared to 48 deaths during the same ...
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Dumbass Seal Gets an Eel Stuck in His Nose In what is truly a bizarre phenomenon reportedly stumping researchers, a handful of dumbass Hawaiian monk seals have recently been observed with eels stuck up their noses—possibly from shoving their faces into crevices, but researchers tasked with ...
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Extent of US lives shortened by gun violence twice as great among blacks as whites The magnitude of lives shortened by gun violence in the US since the turn of the century has been more than twice as great among black Americans—particularly those up to the age of 20—as it has been among whites, finds research published online in ...
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Firearms cause sharp drop in life expectancy for black Americans: study Get instant alerts when news breaks on your stocks. Claim your 2-week free trial to StreetInsider Premium here. By Gina Cherelus. (Reuters) - Guns caused the life expectancy of black Americans to drop by more than four years from 2000 to 2016, twice as ...
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Migrants Don't Pose A Threat To Public Health. That's Just Racism, Report Says The world's immigrant population doesn't pose any notable risk to public health and, in fact, contributes to many of the health services in countries they migrate to, despite dire claims by right-leaning politicians and a rise in xenophobia, according ...
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Disneyland Denies Misting Tower as Source of Legionnaires' Outbreak, Health Official Says Otherwise Disneyland officials dispute the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to the theme park in 2017, but the probable source is one of the park's mist-infused cooling towers that refresh visitors, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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India drains lake after discovery of HIV-infected body NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian authorities are pumping water out of a sprawling southern lake to assuage villagers' fears it was contaminated after the discovery of the body of a woman infected with HIV, a regional official said on Wednesday.
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Women who miss cervical cancer screenings could be asked to take samples at home Women who do not respond to invitations to attend cervical cancer screening could be sent kits and asked to take their own vaginal samples at home so that samples can be sent to a laboratory for testing, suggests a study published in The BMJ today.
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Karnataka: Villagers refuse to drink lake water after body of HIV-infected woman found As Morab residents stopped using the water from the lake for drinking purposes and instead took to travelling nearly three kilometres for fresh water, local authorities decided to empty the lake, Hullur said.
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Another view: Combating the grim decline in life expectancy The cover of a recent issue of The Economist magazine highlighted a heartening story: "Staying alive: Why the global suicide rate is falling.
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Blame Anti-Vaxxer Parents for the Next Measles Outbreak Measles is back. Over the past two months, there have been 29 confirmed cases of measles in the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York.
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How cows' milk protein allergy is extending the reach of infant formula manufacturers An investigation published by The BMJ today suggests that cows' milk protein allergy (CMPA) may be acting as a Trojan horse for the $50 billion (£40 billion; €44 billion) global formula industry to forge relationships with healthcare professionals in ...
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Alcohol intake may cause weight loss in diabetics New York– Regular consumption of alcohol may lead to long-term weight loss in people with diabetes, say researchers. The study, led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, showed that losing weight can help prevent or delay the onset of ...
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Doctors said that the loss of teeth increases the risk of hypertension In a large-scale study involved women. A new study indicates that overcame the postmenopausal women who have began to fall out teeth, face a higher risk of developing high blood pressure.
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HIV-2 Just as Deadly as HIV-1, but at a Slower Rate A recent study compared the time to AIDS and mortality and the CD4 T-cell dynamics between HIV-1 and HIV-2, finding that both groups have a high probability of developing and dying from AIDS without antiretroviral treatment (ART).
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Ebola total rises to 458 in DRC outbreak Lab tests confirmed Ebola virus infections in five more people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online dashboard today.
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Faster diagnosis from 'transformational' gene project Scientists in Cambridge have completed the world's largest gene sequencing project in healthcare - which brings hope of better understanding of diseases and faster diagnosis.
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Stumbling into the brave new world of gene editing "Editing the human germline is going to happen in the near future. I want to remind everyone that we should proceed slowly and with caution.
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