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Parents Wanted Their Unvaccinated Children in School, but a Judge Said No. [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] With New York State facing one of its most severe measles outbreaks in decades, public health officials in a suburban community took the extraordinary step in December of ...
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Amid Measles Outbreak, Judge Denies Request To Let Unvaccinated Children Back In School A district judge in White Plains federal court on Tuesday denied a request to allow unvaccinated children to return to a school in Rockland County.
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Next Flu Pandemic 'a Matter of When, Not If,' Says WHO "We must be vigilant and prepared - the cost of a major influenza outbreak will far outweigh the price of prevention," said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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Measles Outbreak 2019: New York Parents Suing To Get Unvaccinated Kids Back In School The anti-vaxx movement has proven to be a difficult issue to deal with for different institutions, especially schools. Italy just passed a law that would bar children or fine parents if the children do not have mandatory vaccinations.
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Mystery infections traced to blood-shedding religious ritual NEW YORK - Add self-flagellation to the list of ways to get a dangerous viral blood infection. Researchers said Wednesday that they were initially puzzled how 10 British men had become infected with a little-known virus, because the men hadn't taken ...
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A different strain of flu virus sweeps nation, hits Utah SALT LAKE CITY - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a second wave of the flu virus is hitting some states in the U.S.
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New cholesterol-lowering drug could be an alternative to statins A new type of cholesterol-fighting drug was well-tolerated by patients and led to "significantly lower" levels of LDL - the harmful type of cholesterol - during a year-long trial, researchers reported Wednesday.
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Overlooked Ingredients In Medicines Can Sometimes Trigger Side Effects If you have a bad reaction to a medicine, it might not be the drug itself, but what are called "inactive ingredients" in the pill or capsule.
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Inactive Ingredients in Drugs May Be Less Inactive Than You Think The medicines you take contain a soup of active and inactive ingredients. Active ingredients are the ones that provide a therapeutic benefit, while inactive ingredients are just that - inactive - meaning they don't react in the body and are instead ...
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Why do pills have gluten? Ingredients in medications may trigger allergic reaction If you get sick after taking a new medication, the problem may not be with the drug itself, but the so-called inactive ingredients in the pill, a new study suggests.
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Food and Capsule Supplies Making Life Easier for Diabetics Diabetes is a chronic illness that currently affects more than 25 million people of all ages in the United States alone. According to Medical News Today, this epidemic has been increasing in the recent years at an alarming rate.
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Twitter CEO's Newest Podcast Bud Is a Guy Who Claims Vaccines Cause Autism Man, it would be great if tech CEOs would maybe not appear as guests for podcasts during which they smoke blunts or engage in casual conversation with anti-vaxxers.
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Cutbacks by some doctors halved new opioid prescriptions over 5 years (Reuters Health) - The rate of first-time opioid prescriptions declined 54 percent between 2012 and 2017 in the U.S., largely because many doctors stopped prescribing the painkillers, according to a study of more than 86 million people covered by ...
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Burden, Access and Disparities in Kidney Disease Deidra C. Crews, MD, ScM, Aminu K. Bello, MD, PhD, and Gamal Saadi, MD, for the World Kidney Day Steering Committee · Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share on LinkedIn · Share on Reddit; Print; Share by Email.
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Even Distant Relatives' History Could Up Your Alzheimer's Risk By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A grandparent's mental decline or a great uncle's waning memory may indicate you, too, have greater risk for Alzheimer's disease -- especially if closer ...
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World Kidney Day: Here's How You Can Maintain Calorie Intake For Weight Loss, Improve Kidney Health Maintaining a healthy weight is imperative in people with kidney disease. Their diet depends on their present body weight and thus they must take care of the number of calories they consume daily.
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Borderline High Blood Pressure and Pregnancy You may have heard that high blood pressure in pregnancy is dangerous and can lead to a serious complication called preeclampsia, which puts baby at risk for low birth weight and even stillbirth.
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Why This Could Be the Worst Year for Measles in a Decade As of last week, 228 U.S. measles cases were confirmed this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Molecular data can predict breast cancer recurrence Christina Curtis and her collaborators have developed a tool with the potential to help physicians predict which breast cancer patients are at high risk for recurrence.
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Italy bans unvaccinated children from school Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated. The deadline follows months of national debate over compulsory vaccination.
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Measles outbreak: Vancouver-area epidemic grows to 77 confirmed cases The Clark County Public Health Department announced Wednesday that one more person has been diagnosed with measles linked to a Vancouver-area outbreak.
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Doctors Are Writing Half as Many New Opioid Prescriptions as They Used To, Study Says Deaths from opioid overdoses have increased dramatically over the last decade. In 2017, the latest year for which the U.S. government has statistics on the trend, more than 47,000 Americans died of opioid overdoses.
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Michael Gerson: Vaccination skeptics make intrusive public health methods more likely WASHINGTON - Another massive study has discovered no causal connection between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism.
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Distant relatives medical history could increase risk for Alzheimer's disease A grandparent's mental decline or a great uncle's waning memory may indicate you, too, have greater risk for Alzheimer's disease -- especially if closer relatives have the condition, a new study says.
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World Kidney Day: How to prevent diabetic kidney disease There are around 72 million people with diabetes in India and these numbers are expected to increase to 134 million in the next 10-15 years.
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World Kidney Day 2019: Five tips to take care of your kidneys and keep them healthy On this World Kidney Day, it's time to check the health of one of the most important organs in the body. Here are five tips which you can follow to ensure your kidneys are in good health.
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Keeping an eye on your kidneys Our two kidneys are fist-sized and bean-shaped and are an important part of our urinary tract. These remarkable organs filter blood and remove waste and excess fluids from our bodies.
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Great-grandparents or cousins with Alzheimer's linked to higher risk for the disease By Linda Carroll. (Reuters Health) - Having second- or third-degree relatives with Alzheimer's raises a person's risk of developing the disease, a new study suggests.
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Indiana University reporting third case of mumps BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WTHR) - Indiana University is reporting a third case of mumps. According to the Centers for Disease Control, a third case constitutes an outbreak.
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A mumps outbreak has been confirmed at IU. These are the symptoms you need to know. Health officials say a third student has contracted mumps at Indiana University in Bloomington. Last month, an IU spokesman confirmed two student roommates who shared an off-campus apartment had contracted the disease.
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Green tea may cut obesity risk, other health disorders Green tea may reduce the risk of obesity and a number of inflammatory biomarkers linked with poor health, a study conducted in mice suggests.
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New Paradigm for Tuberculosis Prevention? A 1-month regimen of rifapentine plus isoniazid was non-inferior to 9 months of isoniazid alone for prevention of tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients, researchers found.
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Diabetes Download: How Do I Know If I'm Taking the Right Amount of Basal Insulin? Whether you're using long-acting basal insulin or insulin pump therapy, an accurate basal dose of insulin is imperative to provide a stable baseline for carb and correction boluses.
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Cook County Health Recognizes World Kidney Day on March 14 In recognition of World Kidney Day on March 14, Cook County Health urges everyone to learn about chronic kidney disease and what you can do to prevent it.
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'Short' drug-resistant TB regimen could cut treatment time by more than half Washington (AFP). A new drug cocktail reduces the length of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis from nearly two years to nine to 11 months with a similar effectiveness, according to a large clinical trial whose results were published in a US ...
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Researchers Develop Effective Treatment for Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle cell anemia afflicts many millions of people across the globe, mostly of African heritage and including some 100,000 African Americans in the United States.
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County flu cases, deaths fall but moderate flu activity persists SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The county received reports last week of 564 flu cases and two flu deaths, down from the previous week's totals, health officials announced Wednesday.
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Magnetic nano-probe explores individual cells from the inside There's a good chance that in the future, microscopic robots could be swimming and crawling their way through our bodies to deliver drugs or fight infections.
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Binge Drinking in Teenage May Raise Anxiety Later: Study Are you a heavy drinker? Take note. Alcohol exposure early has lasting effects on the brain and increases the risk of anxiety in adulthood, say researchers, including one of an Indian-origin.
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Eye Test May Detect Alzheimer's Disease Before Symptoms Appear A person's eye health can determine the probability of Alzheimer's diagnosis in later life, according to a study by the Duke Health Center in North Carolina.
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ASU researchers look for more efficient ways to guard against a variety of virus strains Do you change the channel when you see an ad for the Gardasil vaccine? Maybe you are a man and don't think you are at risk of acquiring cancer from HPV, maybe you aren't sexually active, or maybe you don't have the resources to get the vaccine.
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