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Two Years After Everett Files, Snohomish County Sues Big Pharma Back in January of 2017, the City of Everett filed suit against Purdue Pharma for allowing OxyContin to be funneled through the black market, causing an opioid crisis in Everett.
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Lowering blood pressure may help cut risk of early dementia, study finds Drastically lowering blood pressure may help protect memory and thinking skills later in life, researchers reported Monday - the first hopeful sign that it's possible to lower rates of mental decline.
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Student dies after eating five day old pasta that had been left out The 20-year-old 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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More screen time for toddlers is tied to poorer development a few years later, study says (CNN) Among toddlers, spending a lot of time staring at screens is linked with poorer performance on developmental screening tests later in childhood, according to a new study.
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Washington State Officials Declare State Of Emergency As Measles Outbreak Continues Health officials in Washington have declared a state of emergency and are urging immunization as they scramble to contain a measles outbreak in two counties, while the number of cases of the potentially deadly virus continues to climb in a region with ...
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US citizen leaks data on 14200 people in Singapore with HIV SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An HIV-positive American who had been deported from Singapore after serving a jail term has leaked online the personal data of 14,200 Singaporeans and foreigners diagnosed in the city-state with the virus.
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Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They're Saying. In 2014 John Cryan, a professor at University College Cork in Ireland, attended a meeting in California about Alzheimer's disease.
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HIV data leak: MOH has plenty of explaining to do So, when the personal particulars of 1.5 million people were hacked, we're told immediately and the spectre of a state-sponsored cyber attack was raised.
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African Americans face greater risk of Alzheimer's disease than whites A decade ago, Rushern Baker III started seeing signs that something was wrong with his wife when she was still in her late 40s. Christa Beverly was forgetting things and losing things.
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Want to fix obesity and climate change at the same time? Make Big Food companies pay. Obesity, climate change, and malnutrition are among the greatest global crises facing our world today. Wouldn't it be great if there were solutions to tackle all three problems at once?
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Popular blood thinner warfarin no longer recommended for most atrial fibrillation cases (CNN) The anti-clotting drug warfarin, commonly known by the brand name Coumadin, is no longer recommended for the treatment of atrial fibrillation except for a select subset of patients, according to guidelines released Monday by the American College ...
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Cancer cure? MAJOR breakthrough as scientists claim they will complete antidote THIS YEAR The team in Israel claim the antidote will work immediately and take just weeks to fully destroy the cancerous cells. Experts behind the drug - named MuTaTo - say it will also have next to no side effects.
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Student died after eating leftover pasta in rare food poisoning case A tragic case report involving a fatal helping of leftover spaghetti is regaining attention after a doctor featured the 2008 death on his popular YouTube channel.
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Popular blood thinner warfarin no longer recommended for most atrial fibrillation cases (CNN) -- The anti-clotting drug warfarin, commonly known by the brand name Coumadin, is no longer recommended for the treatment of atrial fibrillation except for a select subset of patients, according to guidelines released Monday by the American ...
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California nurse charged with illegally selling thousands of opioid pills on dark web A California nurse is under arrest on charges of illegally selling more than 20,000 prescription opioids through the dark web. The nurse, Carrie Alaine Markis, who is 46, was arrested last week and charged with distributing opioids to customers around ...
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CDC: Snuggling pet hedghog may spread salmonella They're cute, but cuddling a pet hedgehog could transmit potentially deadly salmonella, U.S. health officials warned Friday. As of Jan. 23, "11 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from eight states ...
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Pet owners beware: Don't kiss that hedgehog Beware the hedgehog, for it may give you salmonella. Pet hedgehogs have sickened two Minnesotans and nine others nationwide in an outbreak reported last week by the U.S.
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Obesity, climate change and hunger must be fought as one, health experts declare Maybe, when it comes to finding a way out of a global crisis of obesity, we're just thinking too small. Maybe the steps needed to reverse a pandemic of unhealthy weight gain are the same as those needed to solve two other crises of human health ...
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Does The World Need A New Buzzword — 'Syndemic' — To Describe 3 Big Crises? The Lancet Commission on Obesity has announced that the world is suffering from a "syndemic" of obesity, undernutrition and climate change.
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How Much Sleep You Get Influences How Much Pain You Feel, Study Suggests If you're struggling to get enough quality sleep each night, you may find yourself more sensitive to pain during the day. That finding has often surfaced in sleep research over the years, but, as with most associations of its type, the "why and how ...
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Can You Catch The Flu After You've Already Had It This Season? Here's What You Should Know No one wants to catch the flu, but one upside of getting a mild case early in the season is that you can't catch it again - right?
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'Bug bombs' not effective in killing cockroaches indoors A new study from North Carolina State University finds that 'bug bombs' are ineffective at removing cockroaches from indoor environments.
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The GM chickens that lay eggs with anti-cancer drugs Researchers have genetically modified chickens that can lay eggs that contain drugs for arthritis and some cancers. The drugs are 100 times cheaper to produce when laid than when manufactured in factories.
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'Bug bombs' are ineffective at removing cockroaches from indoor environments Total release foggers, commonly known as "bug bombs," are ineffective at removing cockroaches from indoor environments, according to a new study from North Carolina State University.
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'Bug bombs' not effective in killing cockroaches indoors Washington: A new study from North Carolina State University finds that 'bug bombs' are ineffective at removing cockroaches from indoor environments.
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Doctors have advice during Cervical Cancer Awareness Month LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) - January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and local doctors say routine procedures can keep you safe from the dangerous disease.
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Sleep deprivation accelerates Alzheimer's brain damage – Study suggests To find out whether lack of sleep was directly forcing tau levels upward, the researchers measured tau levels in mice with normal and disrupted sleep, and found that tau levels in the fluid surrounding brain cells were about twice as high at night ...
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Low doses of anti-HIV drug appear to reduce tau protein in neurons of Alzheimer's patients The accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques and tangles of a protein called tau in the brain are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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It's Cervical Cancer Awareness Month January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Although talking about cancer can seem scary, it is important to know the signs, symptoms, and methods of prevention as there are many things you can do to protect yourself.
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Salem doctor raises awareness for Go Red for Women Day (WKBN) - "Wear red on Friday." That's the message from Dr. Mike Sevilla of the Family Practice Center of Salem. February 1 is National Wear Red for Women Day but Sevilla says heart disease affects people of both genders.
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Many Parents Conflicted About Opioids for Their Teens' Pain SUNDAY, Jan. 27, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- American parents aren't sure whether their teen and young adult children should be prescribed opioid painkillers, and many don't know there are other ways to get pain relief, a new survey finds.
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Study Points to Existence of 'Skinny Genes' By age five, nearly one in four children is either overweight or obese. While it is notable that adjustments in our condition, for example, easy access to high-calorie foods and sedentary lifestyle, have driven the ascent in heftiness as of late, there ...
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Go Red for Women luncheon coming soon "Go Red for Women" is the American Heart Association's national movement to end heart disease and stroke in women. It's also the focus of an upcoming luncheon here locally.
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UMN Medical School taking steps for student mental health The University of Minnesota Medical School is making a number of structural changes to support the mental health of its students. The Medical School has already implemented some changes to its academic curriculum to reduce student stress, though ...
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Lassa fever kills 5 in Plateau, 73 contacts monitored By Peter Okutu, with Agency Report. JOS—Plateau State has recorded 17 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever with five persons dead, according to Dr.
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