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Ebola cases surge in Congo (CNN) - There have been 18 more cases of illness and five more deaths reported in just two days in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Ministry of Health.
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Careful use of neti pot advised after woman contracts rare but fatal brain infection A report this week about a Seattle woman who died from a brain-eating amoeba after using a neti pot has users of the nasal irrigation device worried.
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Man coughs up bizarre blood clot shaped exactly like part of a lung A mysterious and somewhat gross photo of a man's blood clot is getting a lot of attention after the New England Journal of Medicine shared it on Twitter.
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Ebola cases surge in Congo, with women and children disproportionately sick There have been 18 more cases of illness and five more deaths reported in just two days in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the Ministry of Health.
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Man Coughed Up Rare Blood Clot That Is The Exact Shape Of Lung Passage Doctors are bewildered as to how an extraordinarily shaped blood clot came out of a patient. On Monday, the New England Journal of Medicine tweeted a startling picture as part of its "Images in Clinical Medicine" photo series, which features photos of ...
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Mom fighting leukemia gives birth to twins after finding perfect bone marrow match, thanks to viral video Susie Rabaca is the recipient of a number of blessings this month. The woman, who is from Southern California and fighting a rare form of cancer, gave birth to twins Thursday, according to FOX 11.
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Data Points: Drug overdoses, suicide taking more lives The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in late November issued new data on life expectancy. Overall, there wasn't a huge change—78.6 years in 2017 versus 78.7 in 2016.
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Woman Fighting Leukemia Welcomes Twins Just Weeks After Making Plea to Find Bone Marrow Match A week after Susie Rabaca announced she had found a perfect bone marrow match, the Southern California mother has welcomed twins. Rabaca, 36, gave birth to a boy and a girl named Rainy and Ryan on Thursday, according to Fox 11.
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Retailers Must Stop Selling 'Obsessive Christmas Disorder' Products, Say Charities Pyjamas, jumpers and other products sporting the words 'Obsessive Christmas Disorder' should be pulled from sale immediately, a charity has said, after multiple retailers were called out for trivialising mental illness.
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6-inch blood clot coughed up by patient The New England Journal of Medicine tweeted a picture of a 6-inch blood clot coughed up in one piece by a patient Dec. 5 as part of a photo series of medical abnormalities, according to The Atlantic.
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Man coughs up part of lung while being treated for heart failure A 36-year-old California man who was admitted to the intensive care unit with chronic heart failure was coughing so severely that he hacked up an intact cast of the right bronchial tree.
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More Blood Pressure Meds Recalled Due to Carcinogen By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, Dec. 7, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past few months, numerous recalls of the popular heart drug valsartan have already occurred.
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Wolf Administration to distribute free Naloxone on December 13 DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa.– The Wolf Administration will provide naloxone for free to any Pennsylvanian who wants it at nearly 80 locations across the state, primarily at state health centers and county/municipal health departments, on Thursday, December 13 ...
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Family of 2-year-old girl who needs rare blood overwhelmed by support Almost immediately after Zainab Mughal learned to walk, she started running. She had to keep up with her three older brothers and cousins.
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Regular Exercise Benefits Breast Cancer Survivors Post-Surgery SAN ANTONIO - Regular exercise programs appear to have a beneficial impact on heart health and weight reduction among breast cancer patients - if they get moving after surgery, researchers reported here.
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Drug May Cut Hot Flashes After Breast Cancer By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, Dec. 7, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Hot flashes, a common curse in menopause, can be especially bothersome after breast cancer.
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Most US adults have not gotten a flu shot for this mild season NEW YORK (CNN) - Most US adults have not gotten a flu shot this season, according to a new survey from NORC, a research organization at the University of Chicago.
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Naloxone to be available in 80 sites statewide Dec. 13 The state will provide the overdose-reversing drug naloxone free to any Pennsylvanian who wants it on Dec. 13 at nearly 80 locations across the commonwealth, Gov.
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Even when not in Rome, eat a Mediterranean diet to cut heart disease risk Once again, your mother was right. You really do need to eat your vegetables. And while you are at it, put down the bacon and pick up the olive oil, because new research supports the contention that switching to a Mediterranean diet could significantly ...
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Inflammatory bowel disease linked to prostate cancer CHICAGO --- Men with inflammatory bowel disease have four to five times higher risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer, reports a 20-year study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Combating Chronic Wasting Disease WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK (KOTA TV) - Park officials at Wind Cave National Park are continuing their efforts to combat Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, affecting Elk populations.
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UNAIDS Report: 9 Million Are Likely HIV Positive And Don't Know It About 9.4 million people are likely HIV-positive and don't know it. That's a key finding from a new report from UNAIDS - and it's why the theme of this month's World AIDS Day is "Know your HIV status.
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Researchers explore new way of killing malaria in the liver In the ongoing hunt for more effective weapons against malaria, international researchers said Thursday they are exploring a pathway that has until now been little studied -- killing parasites in the liver, before the illness emerges.
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UCSD Researchers Make Progress Toward Better Drug Treatment for Malaria After more than 500,000 chemical tests, a group of UC San Diego researchers announced Thursday they have made progress in finding a possible drug compound that could impede malaria parasites.
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Scientists Are Working on a Pill That Lets You Eat Anything and Avoid Weight Gain Instead of making empty promises to go to the gym this new year, you might soon be able to take a pill that will simply let you binge on your favorite foods without gaining weight.
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Compelling link between vitamin D deficiency in newborns and schizophrenia discovered A new study has revealed an intriguing link between babies born with a vitamin D deficiency and an increased risk of developing schizophrenia later in life.
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First Live Birth After Uterus Transplant From Deceased Donor A woman in Brazil has become the first person in the world to have a baby following a uterus transplant from a deceased donor. The event is considered a milestone in a field where live uterus donors are in very short supply.
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