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Kiwi examines link between gun ownership and US toddler deaths Rising rates of toddler deaths caused by guns in the United States should be a warning to New Zealand lawmakers, a researcher says.
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Handguns are more popular in US homes, with deadly consequences for children, study says (CNN) Fewer Americans are likely to own a gun now than 40 years ago, but those who do are more likely to own handguns over rifles or shotguns.
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Superbug From India Spread Far and Fast, Study Finds An antibiotic-resistant gene originally discovered in bacteria from India was found 8,000 miles away in a remote Arctic environment, according to a new study.
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State of emergency declared in one state as measles cases on rise As of Sunday, there are 35 confirmed cases of measles in the state of Washington - an outbreak that has already prompted Gov. Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency.
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Washington Declares Emergency For Measles Outbreak: How This Affects You Still think that telling people to avoid vaccination doesn't have consequences? Here are the latest consequences of people not getting the measles vaccine.
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To fix climate change, fix the obesity and starvation epidemics, reports say (CNN) - The world needs to come up with solutions to fight three interrelated pandemics - obesity, starvation and climate change - and it needs to do it fast before the planet is "burning," according to a report released Sunday in the Lancet.
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Sickle cell treatment 'life-changing' for Brockton brothers Emmanuel "Manny" Johnson, 21, of Brockton was the first patient to participate in a novel sickle cell clinical trial at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center - taking the risk for the sake of his little brother, who has ...
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Doctors hopeful breakthrough gene therapy will lead to a cure for sickle cell disease Researchers in Boston are hopeful that a new experimental gene therapy will help people with sickle cell disease. Sickle cell disease, caused by a mutation in one gene, affects tens of thousands of people.
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Genes linked to antibiotic-resistant superbugs found in Arctic Genes associated with antibiotic-resistant superbugs have been discovered in the high Arctic, one of the most remote places on earth, showing the rapid spread and global nature of the resistance problem.
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Sickle-cell patients dreamed of a cure. Enter gene therapy. Scientists have long known what causes sickle-cell disease and its devastating effects: a single mutation in one errant gene. But for decades, there has been only modest progress against an inherited condition that mainly afflicts people of African ...
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Ebola Spreads To Excessive-Safety Danger Space, WHO Says The World Health Organization has said that the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo had spread in the south area of Kayina, a strife-torn area.
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Handguns are more popular in US homes, study says (CNN) - Fewer Americans are likely to own a gun now than 40 years ago, but those who do are more likely to own handguns over rifles or shotguns.
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Report: 'Radical Rethink' Needed to Tackle Obesity, Hunger, Climate To defeat the intertwined pandemics of obesity, hunger and climate change, governments must curb the political influence of major corporations, said a major report Monday calling for a 'global treaty' similar to one for tobacco control.
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To fix climate change, fix the obesity and starvation epidemics, reports say (CNN) The world needs to come up with solutions to fight three interrelated pandemics -- obesity, starvation and climate change -- and it needs to do it fast before the planet is "burning," according to a report released Sunday in the Lancet.
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Student, 20, dies in his sleep after eating pasta that he'd left out on a worktop for five days A student died after eating pasta that had been left out in kitchen for five days; The 20-year-old from Belgium became sick after eating leftover spaghetti; After becoming violently ill, he went to bed to try and sleep the sickness off, only to be ...
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FDA warns of common blood pressure medicine shortage due to recalls The US Food and Drug Administration is warning of a shortage of a class of drugs used by millions to treat high blood pressure. The drugs known as ARBs, or angiotensin II receptor blockers, contain valsartan.
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Student, 20, dies in his sleep after eating spaghetti that had been left out for five days A STUDENT died in his sleep after eating pasta that had been left out on his kitchen benchtop for five days. The 20-year-old from Brussels in Belgium was violently sick after eating the leftover spaghetti with tomato sauce which had been stored at room ...
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Moms of the dead from drugs: "Where is the outrage for us?" MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - The moms meet in a parking lot overlooking the little funeral home and watch mourners drifting toward the chapel doors - a familiar scene, beginning again.
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'Don't kiss or snuggle' them: Salmonella outbreak linked to pet hedgehogs SAN FRANCISCO (WFLA) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning for some animal lovers: don't kiss your pet hedgehogs.
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Student dies after eating five day old pasta that had been left out The 20-year-old from the Brussels in Belgium became sick after eating leftover spaghetti with tomato sauce which had been prepared five days earlier and stored at room temperature.
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Gene modified chickens 'lay medicines' Researchers at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute have genetically modified chickens to produce human proteins in their eggs.
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Student dies after eating five day old pasta that had been left out A student died after eating leftover pasta that had been left on his kitchen benchtop for five days. The 20-year-old from the US became sick after eating leftover spaghetti with tomato sauce which had been prepared five days earlier and stored at room ...
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Why You Shouldn't Say Someone 'Lost Their Battle' With Cancer You might talk about someone "fighting" cancer to show your support, or say a person has "lost their battle" to soften the blow of death - but thousands of cancer patients do not like hearing these euphemisms.
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Drugs for humans laid in chicken eggs Chickens could soon offer a cost-effective way of producing medicines for humans, research has suggested. In a study at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute chickens were genetically modified to produce human proteins in their eggs in the ...
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Q&A: Feds tackle opioid epidemic, but is it helping? WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump has declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency and urged prosecutors to seek the death penalty against drug dealers.
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Hedgehogs suspected of salmonella Washington Post. Quite a bit of news dropped on Friday, so you may have missed a hedgehog-related alert that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued early that afternoon.
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Don't tell cancer patients they are 'brave', says Macmillan following poll Loved-ones should not tell cancer sufferers they are brave because this risks putting them under pressure to appear positive, Macmillan Cancer Support has said.
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Ebola outbreak spreads in DR Congo Congo-Kinshasa (MNN) - The second wave of an Ebola outbreak is growing in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreak originally began in August 2018 in North Kivu.
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Companies navigate dementia conversations with older workers Faced with an aging American workforce, companies are increasingly navigating delicate conversations with employees grappling with cognitive declines, experts say.
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This Diet Is Better For the Planet. But Is It Better For You, Too? What we eat - and how our food is produced - is becoming increasingly politicized. Why? More people are connecting the dots between diet and health - not just personal health, but also the health of the planet.
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Fried chicken increases risk of death for women by 13 percent, study finds Fried foods have never been included in a healthy diet, and a new study finds daily consumption is associated with a "higher risk of all cause and cardiovascular mortality" in U.S.
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Eat what you want and still stay slim? Thank your genes While some people fight the "battle of the bulge" for a lifetime, others seem to effortlessly stay slim. And now scientists say it all boils down to genetics.
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Fried chicken could put you in an early grave, study finds By now we all know that fried foods are not usually the best choice when it comes to healthy eating, but just how bad could they be?
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Cervical cancer survivor sets up smear test support group A cervical cancer survivor has set up a online awareness group to encourage women not to fear going for their smear test. Sarah Donaghey, from Batley, set up the 'Do Not Fear The Smear' group on Facebook.
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Aspirin offers fresh hope to patients with head cancer COMMON painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen could triple a patient's chances of surviving head and neck cancer, a study revealed yesterday.
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Women gain weight in high demand jobs LONDON. Women who face heavy psychological pressures at work are more likely to gain weight, a study claims. The study, published in the journal International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, included data from over 3,872 participants ...
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World Leprosy Day 2019: 'Ending discrimination, stigma and prejudice' The ancient bacterial infection, Leprosy, while declared 'eliminated' as a public health problem at a global level in 2005 by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2005, it is still not gone and around 220,000 new cases are reported globally each year.
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