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In New Ebola Outbreak, Heath-Care Workers Come Under Attack Assailants in Democratic Republic of Congo are attacking treatment centers and medical staff, fueling the second-deadliest outbreak of the highly contagious disease. Ebola responders rushed a coffin to its grave on March 6 in Butembo. By. Julia Steers and.
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The Struggle to Fight Measles in Close-Knit Communities In 2017 it was a Somali community in Minnesota. In 2014 it was the Amish in Ohio. This year, it is Orthodox Jewish communities in New York and Eastern Europeans in Washington state. Insular and close-knit religious or cultural groups have seen some of the ...
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Measles Cases Continue to Soar, Stirring Concern Over Long-Term Effects The number of new U.S. measles cases continued to accelerate last week as health authorities race to curb the outbreaks and scientists who study the virus say measles may be more harmful than once believed. There have been 555 cases of measles in 20 ...
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Unraveling why some people get not one, not two, but many cancers Noelle Johnson, 42, was diagnosed with her first cancer — a soft tissue sarcoma under her right arm — in 1999 when she was 21. In 2013, her physicians found six different cancers in her breasts. In the years that followed, surgeons discovered and removed ...
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Teen Dating Violence Can Lead To Homicide — Girls Are The Most Common Victims Domestic violence is common among adults, and women are most frequently the victims. In fact, nearly half of women killed by homicide in the United States are killed by their former or current intimate partners. Now a new study finds that this kind of violence ...
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New algorithm identifies patients harboring tumor-causing defect found in multiple cancers Medications known as PARP inhibitors have emerged as a promising therapy for several forms of cancer fueled by a defect in the cells' DNA repair machinery. Yet many people with cancers caused by the defect, known as HR deficiency, who stand to benefit ...
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High Stress Drives Up Your Risk Of A Heart Attack. Here's How To Chill Out Work Stress. Home Stress. Financial Stress. The toll of chronic stress isn't limited to emotional suffering. High stress can set the stage for heart disease. If fact, research shows that those of us who perceive a lot of stress in our lives are at higher risk of heart ...
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Cannabis users needed up to twice the sedation for medical procedures, small study says (CNN) People who regularly use cannabis may need two times the level of sedation required by nonusers when undergoing medical procedures, a small-scale study finds. Fentanyl, midazolam and propofol, three sedation drugs commonly used during ...
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Study Finds Diabetes Drug May Prevent, Slow Kidney Disease By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer. A drug that's used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of ...
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Diabetes drug has heart and kidney benefits, researchers find (CNN) A common diabetes drug has been found to lower the risk of kidney failure in a new study. The finding has raised some eyebrows since diabetes is a major cause of kidney failure worldwide. The risk of kidney failure and cardiovascular-related ...
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Measles Outbreak Illustrates de Blasio's Complex Relationship With Ultra-Orthodox Jews Mayor Bill de Blasio has fostered a close relationship with the city's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community during his political rise in New York. He represented the Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, when he sat on the City Council, and that ...
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Measles outbreak kills more than 1200 in Madagascar AMBALAVAO, Madagascar — Babies wail as a nurse tries to reassure mothers who have come to vaccinate their children against a measles outbreak that has killed more than 1,200 people in this island nation where many are desperately poor. Madagascar ...
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How a Mom of Three with Stage-4 Breast Cancer Motivates 30 Young Women 'to Fight the Fight' "We don't want to just technically be alive; we want to live and enjoy our lives with our families," says Jamil Rivers. By. Caitlin Keating. April 15, 2019 10:00 AM. Just one year ago, Jamil Rivers, 40, found out she had metastatic breast cancer. The Philadelphia ...
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A frenemy fungus provides clues about a new deadly one It seems like every few years there's a virus or bacterium that threatens human health in a new way. But a new fungus that is a threat to humans? That doesn't happen very often. That's why we in the medical mycology community – the people who study ...
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Measles cases rose nearly four-fold in first quarter 2019 - WHO GENEVA (Reuters) - The number of measles cases worldwide nearly quadrupled in the first quarter of 2019 to 112,163 against the same period last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, citing provisional data. Higher rates of the ...
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Measles is spreading in the US; what you should know The United States is experiencing its second-highest number of measles cases in nearly two decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the diagnosed cases have climbed to 465. At least 19 states have reported cases of the highly ...
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Diabetes drug may prevent, slow kidney disease, study finds A drug that's used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of thousands of people to use dialysis to stay alive. Doctors ...
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Mapping Where Traffic Pollution Hurts Children Most Research shows nearly one in five childhood asthma cases were caused by traffic-related air pollution. Share; Tweet. LinkedIn; Email; Print. In the U.S., over 6 million children had ongoing asthma in 2016. Globally, asthma kills around 1,000 people every ...
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Cancer's Epigenetic Silencing Switched Back on and Ready to Fight Cancer cells are excellent at adapting and altering themselves in order to survive. This strategy often requites tumors to silence dozens of genes that would otherwise flag a malfunctioning cell for destruction. Now, a team of investigators led by scientists at the ...
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Health Highlights: April 15, 2019 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Electrical Implant Helps Brain-Damaged Woman. An electrical implant restored near-normal levels of brain function to a woman with long-term ...
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Is Kratom, an over-the-counter supplement, contributing to overdose deaths? In an age where energy boosters, fat loss supplements, and pain relievers are easy to get over the counter, little is known about a supplement known as kratom – an herbal extract which has been linked to at least 91 deaths, according to the CDC.
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Measles outbreak kills more than 1200 in Madagascar Babies wail as a nurse tries to reassure mothers who have come to vaccinate their children against a measles outbreak that has killed more than 1,200 people in this island nation where many are desperately poor. Madagascar faces its largest measles ...
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Spina bifida womb op baby back home in Essex A baby who had surgery on her spine while still in her mother's womb is home with her family and "doing brilliantly". Bethan Simpson, 26, from Essex, was told her daughter Elouise had spina bifida at her 20-week scan and was advised to terminate the ...
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'Added Sugars' Label on Foods Could Save Many Lives MONDAY, April 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new Nutrition Facts label that highlights the amount of added sugars in food could prevent nearly 1 million cases of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. The new label, first proposed by the ...
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Harvard Medical School's AI can detect genetic defect that causes some cancers PARP inhibitors — substances that block certain cellular enzymes — hold promise for cancers caused by defects in homologous recombination (HR), the microscopic machinery that orchestrates repairs of harmful DNA breaks. But they're underprescribed, ...
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Adding sugar content to food labels may reduce CVD, diabetes by 2037 The timely implementation of an FDA policy to update food and beverage labels to include information on added sugar content has the potential to significantly reduce CVD and diabetes in the U.S. from 2018 to 2037, according to a study published in ...
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Developing a vaccine against Nipah virus PHILADELPHIA -- Nipah virus is a type of RNA virus transmitted from animals to humans. The infection causes severe respiratory illness and symptoms including cough, headache and fever, which can progress into encephalitis, seizure and coma. Currently ...
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More deaths have been associated with kratom than previously known, CDC study finds A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that kratom was a cause of death in nearly 100 people over a 17-month period -- a higher number than previously reported. The CDC analyzed reports of more than 27,000 ...
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WHO Committee Declines To Label DRC Ebola Outbreak As International Emergency Associated Press: U.N. says Congo's Ebola outbreak not yet a global emergency "The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo does not yet warrant being declared a global emergency but is of 'deep concern,' the World Health Organization said Friday. Following a ...
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When's the best time to get your flu shot? When most of us get the flu, we spend three or four days on the couch feeling miserable, then we bounce back pretty quickly. But others have more severe symptoms and need to be hospitalised because they're at risk of life-threatening complications.
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Mapping the US counties where traffic air pollution hurts children the most (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Haneen Khreis, Texas A&M University. Recommended Video. Speed. Normal. Quality. Auto. Quality. Speed. 0.25. 0.50. 0.75. Normal. 1.25.
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Israeli Researchers Print 3D Heart Using Patient's Own Cells Israeli researchers have printed a 3D heart using a patient's own cells, something they say could be used to patch diseased hearts -- and possibly, full transplants. The heart the Tel Aviv University team printed in about three hours is too small for humans ...
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This gene could play a major role in reducing brain swelling after stroke Could a medication someday help the brain heal itself after a stroke, or even prevent damage following a blow to the head? A new USC study lends support to the idea. When a person has a stroke, the brain responds with inflammation, which expands the ...
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Good Smells May Help Ease Tobacco Cravings By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). MONDAY, April 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Could quitting tobacco involve something as simple as a pleasant scent? New research suggests it's possible. U.S. smoking rates have fallen over the past 50 ...
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Good Smells May Help Ease Tobacco Cravings MONDAY, April 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Could quitting tobacco involve something as simple as a pleasant scent? New research suggests it's possible. U.S. smoking rates have fallen over the past 50 years, but about 40 million Americans still smoke, ...
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Regular Cannabis Users Need 220 Percent More Sedatives for Medical Procedures Than Nonusers People who regularly use cannabis need a 220 percent higher dose of sedatives during medical procedures, according to a new study. Researchers in Colorado, where marijuana was legalized in 2012, assessed the medical records of 250 patients, ...
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Scientists Reveal World's 'First' 3D Print of Heart With Human Tissue Scientists in Israel revealed what they claim is the world's first 3D print of a heart with human tissue and vessels, which might advance heart transplants in the future. (Photo Credit: Amir Levy/Getty Images) ...
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Are your spring allergies worse this year? You can thank global warming MILWAUKEE — More than 26 million Americans suffer from seasonal allergies each year, according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology Survey. This year, spring allergies are hitting Milwaukeeans extra hard. "Allergy symptoms ...
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Weight bias spikes after celebrity fat-shaming New research links celebrity fat-shaming—critiques of their appearance—with increased implicit negative weight-related attitudes among women. "These cultural messages appeared to augment women's gut-level feeling that 'thin' is good and 'fat' is bad," ...
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Cancers 'change spots' to avoid immunotherapy Cancers can make themselves harder for new immunotherapies to see by 'changing their spots' - and switching off a key molecule on the surface of cells that is otherwise recognised by treatment. Researchers found that they could test samples from patients ...
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90 Percent of Teens Killed by Their Partners Are Girls—And Most of the Killers Are Men A study has revealed that 90 percent of under 18s who are killed by a current or ex-partner are girls, while almost 90 percent of perpetrators are men. Although intimate partner violence among adolescents is "widespread," most studies focus on adults, the ...
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Cause of cancer is written into DNA of tumours, scientists find, creating a 'black box' for origin of disease The cause of cancer is written into the DNA of tumours, scientists have discovered, in a breakthrough which could finally show how much disease is attributable to factors like air pollution or pesticides. Until now the roots of many cancers have proved elusive, ...
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Train your brain, change your brain Less than one hour of brain training with neurofeedback leads to a strengthening of neural connections and communication among brain areas. This is the main finding of a new study conducted at D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), published ...
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Scientists print world's first 3D heart using patient's own cells April 15 (UPI) -- Researchers at Tel Aviv University have managed to 3D print a heart using a patient's cells and biological materials -- a first. Scientists have previously built synthetic hearts and bio-engineered tissues using a patient's cells. But the latest feat is ...
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Veterans Corner: Should I get a flu shot? Q: I do not receive the annual influenza shot offered by the VA each fall. There is so much confusing information about effectiveness of the vaccination and the potential for side effects of the shot itself. People I know have told me that after getting the shot, they ...
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Man miraculously survives after rod pierces through skull WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS BELOW. A 21-year-old construction worker miraculously survived a gruesome head injury after surgeons worked for 90 minutes to safely remove an iron rod from his skull. Sanjay Bahe, of Balaghat, India, reportedly fell down a ...
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Four thousand donors needed to guarantee blood supplies over Easter Australia's blood banks urgently need more than 4000 people to make life-saving donations over Easter and ANZAC Day to stave off a national shortage of critical blood products for cancer patients and trauma victims. The rampant "summer flu" has ...
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Celebrity fat shaming has ripple effects on women's implicit anti-fat attitudes Celebrities, particularly female celebrities, are routinely criticized about their appearance—indeed, celebrity "fat-shaming" is a fairly regular pop-cultural phenomenon. Although we might assume that these comments are trivial and inconsequential, the effects ...
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Can smiling really make you happier? Psychologists have been disagreeing about this for a century; now a new meta-analysis sheds some light on the debate. When times are challenging and resilience is crucial, having a secret turbo-charge for happiness could certainly come in handy. For ages ...
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Melting Glaciers Could Unleash Nuclear Fallout Trapped Within the Ice Fallout from humanity's nuclear legacy is locked in glaciers around the world, and now scientists are worrying that it may seep into the environment as climate change causes Arctic ice to melt. This apocalyptic scenario was explored by an international team of ...
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