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Unvaccinated Oregon Boy Is Diagnosed with Tetanus, the State's 1st Child Case in 30 Years While playing outside on a farm in Oregon, a 6-year-old boy fell down and cut his forehead. His parents cleaned and sutured his wound at home, and for a few days, everything seemed all right, according to a new report of his case.
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Boy never vaccinated racked up $800G in medical bills after tetanus required 57-day hospital stay: CDC A 6-year-old boy from Oregon, who never received any vaccines, spent nearly two months in a hospital, racking up more than $800,000 in medical bills after contracting tetanus from a cut on his forehead.
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Improved detection and treatment of pancreatic cancer provides hope The statistics for pancreatic cancer are dire: Only 9 percent of all patients survive longer than five years after their diagnosis.
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Son of Anti-Vaxxers, Who Got Measles as an Adult, Advocates for Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids Although Joshua Nerius doesn't blame his parents for choosing not to vaccinate him, he thinks parents today don't have any excuses.
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Facebook Vows To Quash Anti-Vaccine Misinformation Facebook announced on Thursday it is taking steps to combat the spread of anti-vaccine information across the social media platform by reducing the distribution of misleading medical advice and relying on vetting from leading global health ...
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Facebook cracks down on vaccine misinformation Facebook announced new policies on Thursday to reduce the visibility of vaccine misinformation on its platform, including rejecting advertising and excluding groups and pages from search results that spread "vaccine hoaxes.
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Facebook Announces Plan to Curb Vaccine Misinformation Facebook announced Thursday its first policy to combat misinformation about vaccines, following in the footsteps of Pinterest and YouTube.
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Good News: Opioid Prescribing Fell. The Bad? Pain Patients Suffer, Doctors Say. Three years ago this month, as alarms about the over-prescription of opioid painkillers were sounding across the country, the federal government issued course-correcting guidelines for primary care doctors.
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Tobacco Hookah Market Potential Growth, Share, Demand and Analysis of Key Players Research Forecasts to 2023 The Tobacco Hookah simplifies cost efficiency, quality of production; standardize manufacturing, reliability and flexibility in the process of manufacturing.
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New ketamine-related drug could be 'watershed' in treating depression 'Rapid acting' esketamine was approved by the FDA to treat people who don't respond to traditional psychiatric drugs. Jessica Glenza in New York.
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At least 10 diagnosed with mumps at Temple University Health officials say at least 10 cases of mumps have been confirmed at Temple University, the most cases in the city since 2011. Another 6 cases are also suspected and one additional case is being investigated, said Ray Betzner, a Temple University ...
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16 cases of mumps have been reported at Temple University (CNN) Sixteen cases of mumps have been reported by Temple University, according to Christopher Vito, associate director of public relations at Temple.
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Measles Strikes California Residents After Flight With Sick Passenger Two California residents contracted measles from a third passenger on an international flight into San Francisco last month, health officials said this week, but the infection is believed not to have spread any further.
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The Battle Against One of the Worst Ebola Epidemics Ever Is in Trouble The family of a young woman who died from Ebola last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo dressed her body, put makeup on her face and propped her up in a car, hoping to make her look alive so they could drive her through checkpoints set up to ...
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Texas Man Allegedly Admits to Raping 3-Year-Old Girl, Giving Her Two STDs A Texas man allegedly confessed to raping a 3-year-old girl, consequently giving her two sexually transmitted diseases, court records reveal.
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More Bay Area measles cases — here's where the disease has been reported The first case of measles in San Francisco since 2013 was disclosed by the Department of Public Health on Tuesday, and health officials now say the patient in that case is one of three Bay Area residents with measles linked to the same international ...
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Low-Carb Diets Linked to Higher Odds for A-Fib WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Keto, Paleo, Atkins -- there's no shortage of low-carb diets to try, but new research suggests that over time, living low-carb can raise your risk of a heart condition called atrial fibrillation, or a-fib ...
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Monthly shots control HIV as well as pills in 2 big studies SEATTLE - Monthly shots of HIV drugs worked as well as daily pills to control the virus that causes AIDS in two large international tests, researchers reported Thursday.
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The New Depression Treatment Esketamine Helped Me Get My Life Back. But I Don't Know If I Can Keep Taking It On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the U.S.' first new major depression treatment in years: a fast-acting esketamine nasal spray related to the club drug ketamine, which is itself a promising treatment for depression.
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Measles in America: What Life Was Like Before and After the Vaccine So far this year, parents in 11 states have been worried about outbreaks of a disease that is a very rare reality in the day-to-day of children in 21st-century America - the measles.
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Another Massive Study Finds Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism No link has been found between the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, and autism in largest, single study to date. Researchers published their report on Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Massive new study debunks a vaccination-autism link A massive new study finds absolutely no link between MMR vaccination and autism. Some question the expenditure of yet more research money on convincing conspiracy theorists.
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Four-month-old baby caught in measles outbreak A four-month-old baby is the latest victim of Canterbury's measles outbreak, with 15 cases now confirmed. Health authorities say the number of cases is likely to rise further in the coming days as the highly-contagious disease circulates in the region.
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Officials Say Social Media Plays a Role in the Spread of Vaccine Misinformation More than 200 individual cases of measles - which the U.S. declared was eliminated in 2000 - were confirmed across 11 states in the first two months of 2019.
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Deaths From Drugs and Suicide Reach a Record in the US A look at an analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and what it means. More than 150,000 Americans died from alcohol and drug-induced fatalities and suicide in 2017.
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Even with measles outbreaks across the US, at least 20 states have proposed anti-vaccination bills Across the country, counties are reporting measles cases: at least 206 in 11 states, per the latest count. On social media, platforms such as Facebook and YouTube are facing pressure to crack down on conspiracy theories and misinformation about vaccines.
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CT sees 3 more flu-related deaths The Connecticut Department of Public Health reports three more flu-related deaths in the state as the flu continues to be widespread.
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Walking dogs is sending older people to the ER, study says (CNN) Maintaining an exercise regimen as you age is important, and having a pet who requires daily physical activity can be motivation to go for a walk.
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Flu is still a threat, despite the month mstempka@geisinger.edu. Just because it's now March doesn't mean flu season is over. The season remains active, but there is good news, with preliminary information showing this season's flu vaccine being more effective than previous years.
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What Is Esketamine? The Nasal Spray Can Treat Depression & It Just Received FDA Approval It's a comfort to know that the medical community is committed to finding and developing new treatments for depression. It's even more of a comfort to know that they're steadily making progress.
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2 patients with HIV are in remission. How many more will follow them? And then there were two. A London man infected with HIV has gone into long-term remission after getting a special stem cell transplant that not only treated his cancer, but also sent the virus into remission as well.
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Vaping Linked to MI, Other Heart Risks E-cigarette users are more likely to have cardiovascular events, according to an observational study, although the influence of co-smoking and causality remains a question.
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How Seattle fought the plague of AIDS As an art-filled new memorial takes shape on Capitol Hill, Seattle's AIDS warriors recall years of challenges, heartbreak - and successes.
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Seniors increasingly breaking bones while walking dogs (Reuters Health) - Older adults who walk their dogs on a leash have been breaking bones at an increasing rate, with women and hip bones most at risk, researchers say.
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Recipe for a Healthy Heart: Big Breakfasts, Less TV WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Want a healthier heart? Get at least a fifth of your daily calories from your breakfast and stop watching so much TV.
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An Afternoon Nap May Lower Your Blood Pressure By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, March 7, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Want a daytime pick-me-up that may also benefit your blood pressure?
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De Queen doctor receives honor for vaccination education The Arkansas Department of Health and the Arkansas Immunization Action Coalition (ImmunizeAR) has congratulated Dr. Floyd Gonzalez, a private practicing pediatrician in De Queen, for receiving the HPV Vaccine Is Cancer Prevention Champion Award.
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Recipe for a Healthy Heart: Big Breakfasts, Less TV By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Want a healthier heart? Get at least a fifth of your daily calories from your breakfast and stop watching so much TV.
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Weight loss plan can put Type 2 diabetes in remission for two years Losing weight can reverse Type 2 diabetes for at least two years, a study has found. A weight management trial showed that 36pc of people with the condition who spent up to five months on a strict diet were still in remission two years later.
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A Heart-Healthy Diet May Be Good for the Brain A diet that emphasizes vegetables, fruits and whole grains and minimizes saturated fat may be good for long-term cognitive health.
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Healthy Living: Colon cancer rates rising among millennials, study finds New research finds rates of colon cancer are rising among millennials, especially those between the ages of 20 and 30-years-old. "We're all wondering why younger patients are getting cancer at this rate and none of us are totally sure," said Dr.
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MPs to hear from pharmaceuticals firm in battle over cystic fibrosis drug MPs are due to hear evidence relating to the cystic fibrosis drug Orkambi as campaigners warn that families "are at their wits' end".
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