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New York Declares Health Emergency As Measles Spreads In Parts Of Brooklyn New York City on Tuesday ramped up the battle against the spread of a measles outbreak in a Brooklyn hot spot, declaring a public health emergency and calling for mandatory vaccinations. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the emergency covers four Brooklyn zip ...
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'Monkey, Rat and Pig DNA': How Misinformation Is Driving the Measles Outbreak Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] "The Vaccine Safety Handbook" appears innocuous, a slick magazine for parents who want to raise healthy children. But tucked inside its 40 pages are false warnings that vaccines ...
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New York City Is Requiring Vaccinations Against Measles. Can Officials Do That? Faced with an expanding measles outbreak, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York declared a public health emergency on Tuesday and ordered a program of mandatory vaccination in parts of Brooklyn. Such a health order is rare but not unheard-of in American ...
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Measles Outbreak: The Public Health Emergency and the Crackdown in Brooklyn [Want to get New York Today by email? Here's the sign-up.] It's Wednesday. There was a small earthquake off the coast of Long Island yesterday morning. Weather: Today will be cool, sunny and breezy — the way that I always want it to be. Temperatures are ...
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This drug-resistant fungus is spreading. Scientists warn of new superbugs to come (CNN) It began in 2009, when doctors in Tokyo swabbed the ear of a 70-year-old woman and found an unknown strain of fungus that can infect humans and, in severe cases, cause a blood infection in high-risk patients. It's called Candida auris.
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Measles Outbreak: New York City Orders Mandatory Vaccinations in Parts of Brooklyn New York City officials declared a public health emergency Tuesday in parts of Brooklyn in response to a measles outbreak in the Orthodox Jewish community, calling for mandatory measles-mumps-rubella vaccinations in certain ZIP Codes and imposing ...
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ER visits for suicidal thoughts, attempts doubled among youth in recent years, study finds Sadie Penn has dealt with anxiety and depressive thoughts for as long as she can remember. By grade school, the now 20-year-old got to a point where she could no longer manage her anxiety and began self-harming. "It honestly was just the sensation of ...
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154 cases of fast-moving and multidrug-resistant deadly fungus in Illinois Illinois health officials announced Monday that since 2016 they have seen 154 cases of a fast moving, often life-threatening fungus, adding concern about the fungus' spread. Monday's number makes Illinois the state with the second-highest occurrence of ...
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New 'Cancer Vaccine' Attacks Tumors From Within By Dennis Thompson. HealthDay Reporter. TUESDAY, April 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new method of brewing a cancer vaccine inside a patient's tumor could harness the power of the immune system to destroy the disease, researchers report. Immune ...
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Candida auris: What to know about the deadly superbug fungus posing a "serious global health threat" Health officials are warning of "a serious global health threat" from a drug-resistant superbug fungus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the fungus, Candida auris, has already sickened hundreds of people in the United States. Candida ...
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Guest Column by Katrina Janco | We Need Autism Acceptance at Penn April has arrived, and with that has come Autism Awareness Month. On the surface, this seems like a great thing. As an autistic person, however, April consists mostly of people showing how ignorant they are about autism. Imagine, after revealing you are ...
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'Serious global health threat': At least 587 cases of deadly fungus reported, CDC says WOODLAND PARK, N.J. – At least 587 cases have been confirmed over the last few years of an emerging fungus infection, identified by U.S. health authorities as "a serious global health threat." Centered primarily in the New York City area, the Chicago area ...
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New 'Cancer Vaccine' Attacks Tumors From Within TUESDAY, April 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new method of brewing a cancer vaccine inside a patient's tumor could harness the power of the immune system to destroy the disease, researchers report. Immune stimulants are injected directly into a tumor, ...
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Measles confirmed in another county's unvaccinated children as New York outbreak spreads WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Measles has been confirmed in eight children in New York's Westchester County who seem to have been exposed to the highly contagious disease during visits to outbreak-affected Rockland County and Brooklyn, health officials said.
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WHO experts to decide whether Congo Ebola outbreak is international emergency LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it had reconvened an expert panel to consider whether an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
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Ebola cases climb to 1168 as more health workers infected The surge in new Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued at a brisk pace today, with 14 new cases reported from a broad range of larger and smaller hot spots, the health ministry said in its daily statement. Also, the World ...
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Century-old bacteria from sick soldier offer clues to cholera epidemics (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped the genome of a strain of cholera extracted a century ago from a sick British soldier during World War One and found clues to how some cholera bacteria strains cause epidemics today. The bug - thought to be the oldest ...
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Study: Dietary Supplements Do Nothing for Health By Serena Gordon. HealthDay Reporter. MONDAY, April 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- If you're popping dietary supplements in the hope of living longer, a large new study suggests you'd be better off investing that money in nutritious foods. The research ...
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Three Penn students diagnosed with mumps as statewide outbreak grows Two more Penn students have been diagnosed with mumps, just two weeks after the University announced the first case of mumps on campus. The cases follow an outbreak at nearby Temple University that has sickened at least 140 students. Chief Wellness ...
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ACP: Breast Cancer Screening Every 2 Years Women with no symptoms for breast cancer should undergo mammography screening every other year, according to a new evidence-based guidance statement from the American College of Physicians (ACP), the largest medical specialty organization in the ...
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High-dose vitamin D shows benefit in patients with advanced colorectal cancer Results of a small clinical trial suggest that supplementing chemotherapy with high doses of vitamin D may benefit patients with metastatic colorectal cancer by delaying progression of the disease, say scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Prompted by ...
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Why eating pig's feet and cow's stomach can help save the planet (CNN) How often do you eat meat? Once a week? Everyday? If it's the latter, your diet is having a huge impact on the planet. You've probably heard that the best way to fight climate change is to reduce your meat intake, but if you're not ready to go full vegan ...
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Too soon for sex talk? New study shows some boys are having sex before age 13 Parents may still be reminding their preteen kids to brush their teeth, clean their room and turn their book report in on time. But are they forgetting something? Like having the sex talk? A study released this week in JAMA Pediatrics found that 3.6% to 7.6% of ...
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Cocaine injecting and homelessness 'behind Glasgow HIV rise' A rise in cocaine injecting and homelessness are behind a 10-fold increase in HIV infection among drug users in Glasgow, research suggests. The Glasgow city centre outbreak is the UK's largest in more than 30 years. More than 100 new cases of the ...
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Brain Stimulation Rapidly Revives Working Memory in Older Adults Age-related decline in working memory can be reversed using transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) to synchronize rhythmic brain circuits, new research suggests. Investigators at the Center for Systems Neuroscience at Boston University made ...
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Autopsy: Migrant detainee died from AIDS complications ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Honduran transgender migrant, whose 2018 death while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sparked protests and calls for an investigation, died of complications from AIDS, an autopsy released Tuesday ...
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It's Not You. Allergy Seasons Are Getting Longer and Worse If it feels like the annual allergy season is getting longer and worse, it's because it is. Climate researchers say rising temperatures and higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are prolonging the pollen production seasons and increasing the ...
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Bay Area allergy season is bad and it's about to get worse Clouds of pollen are wafting through the air as spring hits the Bay Area, fueling one of the worst allergy seasons in recent years. "It's been really, really bad this year and it's going to get worse," says Dr.Tina Sindher, an allergist with Stanford Health Care, who ...
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'Superbug' Fungus a 'Serious Global Health Threat' Public health officials are warning about a deadly, drug-resistant fungus that has been identified in more than 30 countries, with hundreds of cases in the U.S.. The fungus, a type of yeast called Candida auris, can lead to serious, hard-to-treat infections of the ...
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Suspected measles case reported at Ocean County school amid widening NJ outbreak An elementary school student in Ocean County is being treated for a suspected case of the measles as the latest outbreak in New Jersey continues to widen with 13 total cases in four counties now confirmed. The student attends Forked River Elementary ...
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How measles is making a return in New York and elsewhere NEW YORK — New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday and ordered mandatory vaccinations for measles in a part of Brooklyn that is home to a large Orthodox Jewish community. The city took the unusual step amid a surge of 285 measles ...
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Ovarian cancer patients undertested for mutations that could guide clinical care Allison Kurian and her colleagues found that not all women with breast or ovarian cancer are being advised about genetic testing to determine whether they have cancer-related genetic mutations. Steve Fisch. Fewer than a quarter of breast cancer patients ...
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Oregon women lived until 99 with organs in the wrong places A US woman who died at 99 of natural causes unknowingly lived with her organs on the wrong side of her body due to a rare congenital condition. Rose Marie Bentley, a pet feed store owner who passed away in October 2017, donated her body to research ...
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This drug-resistant fungus is spreading. Scientists warn of new superbugs to come It began in 2009, when doctors in Tokyo swabbed the ear of a 70-year-old woman and found an unknown strain of fungus that can infect humans and, in severe cases, cause a blood infection in high-risk patients. It's called Candida auris. Now, a decade after ...
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Number Of Children Going To ER For Suicidal Thoughts And Attempts Doubles, Study Finds (CNN) — The number of children and teens in the United States who visited emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled between 2007 and 2015, according to a new analysis. Researchers used publicly available data from the ...
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Measles Exposure Sites In Washtenaw County Released MICHIGAN — The measles outbreak in Michigan has now hit the third county: Washtenaw. Health officials have just released a list of exposure sites. With two newly-confirmed cases this week, the outbreak has largely been based in Oakland County but has ...
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Particulate pollution in the air we breathe kills thousands a year, study finds Air pollution is deadly: A new study links exposure to it to more than 107,000 premature deaths in the United States in 2011. It isn't just killing us; it cost the country $866 billion, more than double the value of all the economic activity in a country like Ireland, ...
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Cholera Genome From World War I Soldier Reveals New Features of Pathogen NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – A UK research team has characterized a non-pandemic Vibrio cholerae isolate collected in 1916 from a British soldier recuperating in Egypt during World War I — the oldest known publicly available strain. The soldier's isolate ...
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4th Rabies Case Confirmed In Polk County LAKELAND, FL — A dead bat discovered in a Lakeland garage has tested positive for rabies. This is the fourth case of the deadly disease found in Polk County so far in 2019. The Polk County Sheriff's Office Animal Control Section said that the results of the ...
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Children's mental health services 'postcode lottery' Spending on children's mental health services - such as school counsellors and drop-in centres - has fallen in real terms in more than a third of areas in England, a report shows. The study, by the Children's Commissioner, found spending had risen by 17% ...
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Pain patients say they're falling through cracks in opioid legislation ST PAUL, Minn. — There's no doubt we have an opioid crisis in this country. The federal government, state legislatures, task forces; they are all banding together to "take on" opioids. But, in the process, there's a group of people who claim they are falling ...
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Nurse Practitioners Often Restricted From Prescribing Opioid Treatments By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). TUESDAY, April 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In a finding that suggests that not all weapons are being deployed in the opioid war, new research shows that nurse practitioners often face tough restrictions for ...
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Alarming rise in children taken to the ER with suicidal thoughts or attempts, analysis finds The number of children across the U.S. who have been taken to the emergency room for suicidal attempts or thoughts has doubled since 2007, according to a new analysis. The report, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics and based on data extracted from ...
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Still No Source as E. Coli Outbreak Grows to 96 Cases Across 5 States: CDC WEDNESDAY, April 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials say an outbreak of E. coli illness from an unknown source has risen to 96 cases across five Eastern states, up from the 72 cases reported last Friday. The origin of the food-borne illnesses ...
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E.coli outbreak in Kentucky, Ohio, other states sickens nearly 100, CDC says Nearly 100 people across five states have been sickened by an E.coli outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Tuesday. The outbreak has affected residents in Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia — with the highest ...
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How measles is making a return in New York and elsewhere NEW YORK (AP) — New York City declared a public health emergency Tuesday and ordered mandatory vaccinations for measles in a part of Brooklyn that is home to a large Orthodox Jewish community. The city took the unusual step amid a surge of 285 ...
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Experts hunt source of E. coli outbreak that sickened dozens By Michael Brice-Saddler | Washington Post. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday it has yet to determine the source of an E. coli outbreak that has now infected 96 people in five states – an admission one expert in food-borne illness ...
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Mom claims spider bite left son with gaping hole in leg WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE BELOW. A 9-year-old boy has been left with a gruesome hole in his leg after a suspected poisonous spider bite allegedly ate away at the flesh on his limb, leaving him susceptible to serious infection. Bobby Cleary's mother told ...
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Virtual reality offers benefits for Parkinson's disease patients Researchers are reporting early success with a new tool to help people with Parkinson's disease improve their balance and potentially decrease falls with high-tech help: virtual reality. After practicing with a virtual reality system for six weeks, people with ...
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BU Researchers Find Zapping The Brain With Electric Current Could Improve Memory In Older Adults New research has found that zapping the brain with electric current may be able to reverse the decline in working memory that comes with aging. In a set of experiments, the results of which were published in the journal "Nature Neuroscience," researchers at ...
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