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Chickenpox, The Latest Burden On The Rohingya Refugees At a small health clinic in the Kutupalong refugee camps in Bangladesh, Somadu Katu is clutching her 3 ½-year-old son, Yassin. Yassin is wailing. He's running a fever and there are small red dots all over his body. Katu is terrified. "I'm scared because my ...
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Measles Outbreak: Tensions Rise as New York City Steps Up Response [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Vaccine skeptics were planning a lawsuit against New York City. A Hasidic woman was heckled when she boarded a public bus. Family members were avoiding weddings for fear of ...
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Why Are There Religious Exemptions for Vaccines? This week the City of New York declared a public health emergency because of a measles outbreak that had been escalating since the fall in ultra-Orthodox communities in Brooklyn and finally reached the point of crisis. In December the Health Department ...
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Congo's Ebola outbreak might be declared global emergency A top Red Cross official said Friday he's "more concerned than I have ever been" about the possible regional spread of the Ebola virus after a new spike in cases, as the World Health Organization met on whether to declare the outbreak in Congo an ...
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Ketamine May Relieve Depression By Repairing Damaged Brain Circuits The anesthetic ketamine can relieve depression in hours and keep it at bay for a week or more. Now scientists have found hints about how ketamine works in the brain. In mice, the drug appears to quickly improve the functioning of certain brain circuits ...
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Health officials warn against rapidly tapering down opioids for pain patients: 'It's a game-changer' Federal agencies behind efforts to address the nation's harrowing opioid epidemic took major steps this week to address a brewing public health crisis involving pain patients who have been wrongly cut off or abruptly tapered down from their prescription ...
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'What does it mean?': Mysterious mashed potatoes perplex a historic neighborhood Was it a poorly-conceived plot to poison neighborhood pets? A bizarre prank? A weird guerrilla marketing stunt sponsored by the potato lobby? A cryptic omen requiring careful interpretation, like the bird signs and animal tracks studied by augurers in ancient ...
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Management of Patients With Candida auris Fungemia at Community Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2016–2018 Candida auris is an emerging fungus that can cause invasive infections. It is associated with high mortality rates and resistance to multiple classes of antifungal drugs and is difficult to identify with standard laboratory methods. We describe the management ...
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Cesarean section complication risk rises with mother's age, study finds Pregnant women are more likely to have complications during labor and cesarean deliveries than during vaginal births, and a new study offers fresh evidence that older mothers are most at risk. Rates of cesarean deliveries, or C-sections, have risen in the ...
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Climate change is making allergy season worse (CNN) You're sneezing your head off, and your eyes sting. The air around you is yellow -- along with your house, your car, your pets. Yes, of course, you already know that allergy season has arrived. Now for more bad news: Climate change makes it much ...
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How to fight 'scary' superbugs that kill thousands each year? Cooperation — and a special soap Hospitals and nursing homes in California and Illinois are testing a surprisingly simple strategy against the dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbugs that kill thousands of people each year: washing patients with a special soap. The efforts — funded with ...
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During measles outbreaks, fines and public bans are legal, but there are limits The measles outbreaks continue to spread, with New York City declaring a public health emergency and requiring people in four ZIP codes to have their children vaccinated or face penalties, including a fine of US$1,000 and or imprisonment.
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Health experts discuss rise in Ebola, to decide if emergency: WHO GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - Disease experts were evaluating on Friday whether an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that has killed more than 700 people and is continuing to spread now constitutes an international emergency ...
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Many Secretly Use Alternative Meds For Cancer By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, April 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- One out of every three U.S. cancer patients uses alternative or complementary therapies, but many keep that info from their doctors, a new study finds. That's a real ...
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Officials warn of measles exposure at Long Beach Airport as California outbreak grows Health officials across the country are struggling to control what has become one of the worst measles outbreaks in years, and California is no exception. As of last week, 17 people in California had been diagnosed with measles this year, most of whom live in ...
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Genetic Testing Lags in Breast, Ovarian Ca Rates of genetic testing for breast or ovarian cancer remained well below levels associated with current clinical guidelines, according to a large retrospective analysis. Medical records showed that a fourth of patients with breast cancer and about a third of ...
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Autism rates in NJ 4-year-olds rise dramatically, study finds Autism spectrum disorder rates in New Jersey 4-year-olds rose by 43 percent over a four-year period, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means that 1 in 35 of all the children -- or 3 percent ...
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DRC Ebola surge marks 2nd straight record-setting day For the second day in a row, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reported a record number of Ebola infections—this time, 20 cases—putting an exclamation point on the outbreak ahead of tomorrow's World Health Organization (WHO) emergency ...
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The most common active ingredient in hand sanitizer is still under FDA investigation (CNN) After reviewing the safety and effectiveness of hand sanitizers, the US Food and Drug Administration has ruled that dozens of active ingredients can't be used in the antiseptic rubs, but the agency still wants answers about the most common active ...
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Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient's Brain The Food and Drug Administration's approval last month of a depression treatment based on ketamine generated headlines, in part, because the drug represents a completely new approach for dealing with a condition the World Health Organisation has ...
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Many Cancer Patients Take Alternative Meds But Don't Tell Their Doctors By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- One out of every three U.S. cancer patients uses alternative or complementary therapies, but many keep that info from their doctors, a new study finds.
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Up to 200 million pigs to be culled or die from swine fever in China: Rabobank BEIJING (Reuters) - Up to 200 million pigs could be culled or die from being infected as African swine fever spreads through China, Rabobank said, by far the highest such forecast yet and underscoring the gravity of the epidemic in the world's top pork ...
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Resistant microbes commonly found on hospital privacy curtains A new study by researchers from the University of Michigan Medical Center has found that contamination of patient privacy curtains by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) is common, and that the high-touch surfaces could be a source of MDRO ...
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Michigan deer baiting ban would be lifted during hunting season under Senate bill A Michigan doe. This is not the deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Montcalm County. By Lauren Gibbons | lgibbon2@mlive.com. An outright ban on deer baiting and feeding in the Lower Peninsula meant to stave off chronic wasting ...
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Inappropriate pain management after surgery is a major cause of the opioid crisis Targets to eliminate pain after surgery have driven increases in the use of opioids, and are a major cause of the opioid crisis in the USA, Canada and other countries. For the first time, a new Series of three papers, published in The Lancet, brings together ...
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Florida has more Hepatitis A cases this year than 2014-2017 combined. Here's an update Numbers starkly tell how, as in the rest of the nation, Hepatitis A is spreading across Florida like humidity. Those same numbers also say the liver disease's blob of infection expanding from Central Florida has touched, but not covered South Florida — yet.
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Herbal drug kratom linked to almost 100 overdose deaths, CDC says An over-the-counter herbal drug has been linked to more deaths in recent years, federal health officials say. Kratom – a plant grown naturally in Southeast Asia and often sold in powder capsules – was a cause of death in 91 overdoses in the United States ...
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Nurses at Stanford Health Care and Packard Children's Hospital threaten a strike Nurses at two of the Bay Area's top-ranked hospitals are threatening to strike, joining a national conversation over the effects of understaffing in the health care industry. The union representing nurses at Stanford Health Care and Packard Children's Hospital ...
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Trial Demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of HIV Combination Therapy Data from a recent clinical trial show that a high proportion of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) achieved an undetectable viral load through 48 weeks after rapidly starting Janssen's single-tablet antiretroviral therapy (ART) containing ...
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ER visits almost double for young children swallowing objects Before children explore the world on foot, they explore it with their five senses. Early development often includes children listening, looking, touching, smelling and tasting their way through their surroundings. The mouth is one of the first body parts that babies ...
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Kids' ER Visits for Swallowing Toys, Foreign Objects Have Doubled Since 1990s By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, April 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- About 100 kids a day are rushed to U.S. emergency rooms after accidentally swallowing a toy piece, battery, magnet or other foreign object, according to new ...
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How 2 Michigan kids tested positive for measles, but didn't have disease The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday that it is reducing the state's 2019 tally of measles cases by two, saying further testing has shown children previously thought to have the measles actually do not. The children — one ...
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Shutting down deadly pediatric brain cancer at its earliest moments Cell-by-cell genetic analyses of developing brain tissues in neonatal mice and laboratory models of brain cancer allowed scientists to discover a molecular driver of the highly aggressive, deadly, and treatment-resistant brain cancer, glioblastoma. Published ...
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AHA News: Medical School Project Pushes Healthy Habits 'Beyond Hospital Walls' THURSDAY, April 11, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- During her third year of medical school, Terry Gao learned how classroom training doesn't always answer real-world questions -- like how to get people to eat better. As part of an internal ...
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Americans Are Dying From Kratom Overdoses: CDC By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Although many people believe the herbal drug kratom to be harmless, new research has found that, in an 18-month period, 91 Americans lost their lives to ...
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An Herbal Drug Called Kratom Has Been Linked to Almost 100 Overdose Deaths, the CDC Reports Kratom, an over-the-counter substance often marketed as a health supplement for pain relief, was found to be a cause of at least 91 overdose deaths in the U.S. between 2016 and 2017, according to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report ...
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Antibiotics legitimately available in over-counter throat medications could contribute to increased resistance New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Amsterdam, Netherlands (13-16 April) shows that the inappropriate of use of antibiotics legitimately available in over-the-counter (OTC) ...
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Young kids going to the ER in droves over swallowed toys, coins and batteries CHICAGO — The number of young kids who went to U.S. emergency rooms because they swallowed toys, coins, batteries and other objects has nearly doubled, a new study says. In 2015, there were nearly 43,000 such visits among kids under 6, compared ...
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The effects of being poor can literally alter the human genes, study finds Northwestern University findings challenge the previous understanding that genes are fixed features of our biology. Getty Images. Street children arrange flowers, thrown away by vendors, to sell to customers a day before Valentine's day, in Manila.
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Hospital Privacy Curtains Could Be Breeding Ground for Germs FRIDAY, April 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Privacy curtains in hospital rooms might offer patients some personal dignity, but they can also harbor dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. That's the claim of a new study where researchers took more than 1,500 ...
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Whitening strips could be doing serious damage to your teeth Pearly whites can come with a price. Teeth whitening is expected to become a $7.4 billion industry by 2024, with Americans spending $1.4 billion alone on over-the-counter whiteners to bleach away the stains from cigarettes, red wine, coffee and natural ...
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An alarming kids' health report shows cities must act now on traffic pollution A landmark new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health this week adds to growing evidence of the terrible impact traffic air pollution has on young kids. The research found that has many as 4 million new cases of pediatric asthma occur every year ...
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Itchy Skin Common Alongside Kidney Disease By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, April 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Itchy skin can make you miserable. And it's a common problem for many people with chronic kidney disease, even those not on dialysis, a new study finds.
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Tele-cognitive behavioral therapies offer alternative option for refractory IBS Administering cognitive behavioral therapy over the telephone and on the internet were both better than traditional care for patients with refractory irritable bowel syndrome, according to research published in Gut. Hazel Anne Everitt, MBChB, BSc, MSc, PhD, ...
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Suspected Measles Case In Lacey School Comes Back Negative Superintendent Clark said it is still a great time for families, teachers and administrators to review their vaccine records. By Josh Bakan, Patch Staff | Apr 11, 2019 12:25 pm ET. Reply. 0. A suspected measles case involving a student at Forked River ...
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Deadly Kidney Ailment Spurs Need for Dialysis, Transplants A kidney ailment so severe that sufferers must undergo regular dialysis or receive a transplant will afflict 14.5 million people worldwide by 2030, a study found. The growing global burden of end-stage renal disease is spurring the need for kidney replacement ...
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State warns of possible Hepatitis A exposure at restaurant MIDDLETOWN, Del. — State public health officials say employees and patrons of a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in northern Delaware may have been exposed to the Hepatitis A virus. Officials say anyone who ate or drank at the restaurant in Middletown ...
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1 in 5 young adults show signs of fatty liver; 1 in 40 have fibrosis VIENNA — Young adults around 24 years of age showed a high prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, with progression increasing with age even in this small birth cohort, according to new data presented during the International Liver Congress 2019.
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Privacy curtains could be reservoir of deadly bacteria: study Hard-to-clean privacy curtains in hospitals and nursing homes worldwide may be contaminated with deadly drug-resistant bugs, according to findings to be presented Saturday at an infectious diseases conference. More than a fifth of 1,500 samples taken ...
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Asthma linked to pollution affects 4 million children worldwide, report says Among the 125 cities, nitrogen dioxide accounted for 6 percent to 48 percent of pediatric asthma incidence. Its contribution exceeded 20 percent in 92 cities situated in both developed and emerging economies. By. Tauren Dyson. (. 0 Comments. Sort by.
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