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Measles Cases Mount In Pacific Northwest Outbreak A measles outbreak in Washington state prompted Gov. Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency on Jan. 25. As of Thursday, 55 cases have been confirmed this year, most of them in unvaccinated children under age 10.
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Washington lawmakers weigh vaccine bill amid outbreak OLYMPIA, Wash. - Amid a measles outbreak that has sickened more than 50 people in the Pacific Northwest, Washington lawmakers heard testimony Friday on a bill that would remove parents' ability to claim a personal or philosophical exemption to opt ...
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New microneedle pill takes the sting out of insulin For almost a century, patients with diabetes have relied on injectable insulin to manage their condition. And for nearly as long, researchers have pursued a way to orally administer insulin.
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FDA reports additional cases of cancer linked to breast implants A deadly cancer linked to breast implants has been found in additional women in the United States, federal health officials said. At least 457 women in the United States have so far been diagnosed with anaplastic large cell lymphoma, the Food and Drug ...
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Researchers testing pill that injects meds WASHINGTON - Scientists figured out how to hide a shot inside a pea-sized pill - creating a swallowable gadget, inspired by a tortoise shell, that can inject medicines like insulin from inside the stomach.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies in Olympia against measles vaccine bill OLYMPIA, Wash. - With 51 confirmed measles cases in Clark County and 13 suspect cases there is a growing call to get rid of a key exemption from getting vaccinated.
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FDA Warns Breast Implants Increase the Risk of a Rare Type of Lymphoma As the Food and Drug Administration prepares to meet in March to discuss the safety of breast implants, the FDA is warning there may be an association between implants and a rare type of cancer.
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'Beer before wine, always fine'? Not really, hungover study participants say European researchers have bad news for the 76% of Americans who experience hangovers after a drinking session: Try as you may to change up the order of your alcoholic beverages, if you drink too much, you will still be hungover.
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How The Boiling Water Challenge Can Land You In The Hospital "Throwing caution to the wind" is a well-known idiom. Throwing boiling hot water to the wind is idiotic. Nevertheless, the polar vortex has prompted a number of people to do both at the same time.
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High-Tech Capsule Could One Day Replace Insulin Injections By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Feb. 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- For people with type 2 diabetes, could the days of having to jab themselves with a needle whenever they need insulin be over?
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With help from a tortoise, scientists invented an insulin pill for diabetes patients It's basically the medical world's version of a really cool Rube Goldberg machine, designed to painlessly save someone's life.
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Flu, considered widespread in Maryland, begins to have trickle effect on schools The flu is now considered high activity and widespread throughout the state, according to the most recent flu surveillance report from the Maryland Department of Health.
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Outdoors: Supporting the fight against fatal deer disease If there is one subject to get Pennsylvania hunters in an uproar, it is the white-tailed deer. Whether it is population numbers, seasons or methods of hunting, there are passionate voices on both sides.
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Tortoise-Inspired Insulin Delivery Takes Its Time Biologic drugs such as insulin commonly can't be formulated as pills or capsules that are swallowed because the proteins or other biomacromolecules are degraded in the harsh environment of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract, and are poorly absorbed.
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Measles Outbreak Spurs Vaccination Surge in Anti-Vaxxer Hotspot Weeks after a hotspot for anti-vaxxers turned into a hotspot for measles infections, vaccination rates have surged in the area, according to news reports.
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Flu Season Far From Over, CDC Says By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, Feb. 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Though much of the United States is in the grip of the flu, the season hasn't peaked yet, health officials said Friday.
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Flu outbreak forces public schools shutdown in Kemper County DeKalb, Miss. (WTOK)- Public schools in Kemper County will be closed Monday and Tuesday (Feb. 11th-12th) because of a developing flu outbreak in the DeKalb area.
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Mercy Medical fined after surgical sponge left inside a patient contributes to his death Mercy Medical Center Redding has received a $47,500 fine from state medical officials in connection with a surgical sponge that was left inside a patient who later died.
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Trump's HIV plan met with both cautious optimism, flat-out skepticism President Donald Trump's announcement Tuesday of a new federal initiative to "eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years" has sparked both cautious optimism and flat-out skepticism from experts and advocates.
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Redding hospital faces $47.5k in fines after surgical team left sponge in patient Mercy Medical Center in Redding is facing a $47,500 fine imposed by the California Department of Public Health after a surgical team left a sponge in a operating room patient that contributed to his death in Fall 2017.
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Life-saving procedure brings hope to patient with blood disorder A forty-year-old patient got a new lease on life after undergoing a procedure that helped her combat a life-threatening condition.
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No new HIV cases by 2030? Advocates in Chicago applaud Trump goal but question how it will be carried out. After state and national leaders announced efforts to eliminate the spread of HIV over the next decade, those involved in prevention efforts in Chicago applauded the plan but questioned how it would be carried out, particularly when it comes to ...
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Juul Success Spurs E-Cig 'Nicotine Arms Race' The astonishing popularity of the electronic cigarette brand Juul has spurred a "nicotine arms race," with e-cigarette and e-liquid manufacturers increasing their products' nicotine content to unprecedented levels, researchers said.
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Juul's imitators are copying the popular vape's high nicotine levels The popularity of Juul and its high-nicotine pods is driving up nicotine levels across the vaping industry in what Stanford researchers are calling a "nicotine arms race," according to a new study.
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Panera Bread customers potentially exposed to hepatitis A in Montgomery Customers who recently ate food from a Panera Bread restaurant in Montgomery may have been exposed to hepatitis A, state health officials announced.
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8000 Flu Deaths Prevented Last Year With Vaccine: Study End-of-season influenza vaccine efficacy for the 2017-2018 flu season was a mediocre 38% (95% CI 31%-43%), but flu shots were still estimated to have prevented 7 million illnesses and 8,000 deaths, researchers found.
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Fatal 'zombie' deer disease could spread to humans A fatal neurological disease that turns deer into zombies could spread to humans, health experts are warning. The sickness, called chronic wasting disease, affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer and moose and causes the animals to dramatically lose ...
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Flu increase means kids can't visit hospital patients in Winston-Salem, Triad; victim count reaches 35 in state The Triad's health-care systems will begin youth visitor restrictions at 7 a.m. today, Friday, amid what they call a "significant increase" of influenza cases in the area.
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Diet drugs could halt mosquitoes' blood-sucking behavior, study says NEW YORK CITY - By giving mosquitoes diet drugs, they could be prevented from biting humans and spreading deadly diseases, according to new research.
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CDC: Only half of US adults know all common heart attack symptoms Just 50.2% of American adults knew all five common symptoms of myocardial infarction in 2017, according to findings published in MMWR.
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Prior dengue infection may protect against Zika: study CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prior infection with dengue, a mosquito-borne disease that infects nearly 400 million people a year, could reduce the risk of contracting Zika nearly by half, U.S.
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Measles Outbreak in Philippines Spreads Beyond Capital MANILA - The Philippines expanded the area of a declared measles outbreak on Thursday from the highly populated capital to nearby regions, after a steady rise in infections and deaths attributed to the disease in recent weeks.
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