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Medicaid expansion tied to fewer heart-related deaths, study finds (CNN) As President Donald Trump continues to make clear that he wants to kill the Affordable Care Act, new research suggests that a big part of the ACA -- the expansion of the Medicaid program -- was linked with fewer cardiovascular-related deaths in ...
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Does Cancer Battle Bring Personal Growth? Yes and No, Survivors Say By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, April 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Breast cancer survivor Jessica Sidener is adamant that her illness brought real benefits to her life. "I am incredibly grateful for all of the hardships I've gone ...
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Mystery E. coli outbreak sickens 72 people in 5 states, CDC says (CNN) A multistate outbreak of E. coli has raised alarms and questions: As of Thursday, 72 people in five states have become ill, yet the cause of their infection remains unknown, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday. Symptoms ...
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What You Need to Know About Candida Auris A mysterious and dangerous fungal infection called Candida auris has emerged around the world. It is resistant to many antifungal medications, placing it among a growing number of germs that have evolved defenses against common medicines. Here are ...
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Judge stops NY county from barring unvaccinated minors in public places as measles outbreak continues (CNN) A ban on unvaccinated children in public places in Rockland County, New York, was put on hold by a state judge on Friday. The controversial ban went into effect late last month in an effort to contain an outbreak of measles that began in October.
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Vaccine Wars: Social Media Battle Outbreak of Bogus Claims Like health officials facing outbreaks of disease, internet companies are trying to contain bad information about vaccines. April 5, 2019. April 5, 2019, at 2:13 p.m.. More. U.S. News & World Report. Vaccine Wars: Social Media Battle Outbreak of Bogus Claims.
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Flu cases still high as first human universal vaccine trial begins (CNN) Most states are seeing an unusually high number of flu patients as the season comes to a close. Meanwhile, the very first human experiments with a new universal flu shot have begun at the National Institutes of Health. Thirty-three states and Puerto ...
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AHA News: Transgender Men and Women May Have Higher Heart Attack Risk FRIDAY, April 5, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- A new study indicates transgender men and women have a higher risk of heart attack -- more than four times in some instances -- than people who identify as the gender with which they were born.
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Heart Deaths Declined After Obamacare Began By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, April 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Medicaid expansion under "Obamacare" may have quickly translated into fewer heart disease deaths among middle-aged Americans, a new study suggests.
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UC Davis Medical Center warns 200 people of possible measles exposure A California hospital sent a warning to 200 people who may have been exposed to measles in the waiting room of its emergency department. A patient who was diagnosed with measles was treated at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, ...
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200 patients warned of possible measles exposure via one little girl in California ER Almost 200 people could have reportedly been exposed to measles after a child with the disease was treated in the emergency room at the University of California, Davis, (UC Davis) Children's Hospital last month. The hospital sent letters to the patients on ...
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FDA Issues List of 'Safe' Blood Pressure Meds April 5, 2019 -- The FDA on Thursday issued a list of 40 blood pressure medicines it found free of contamination with the chemical nitrosamine, an ongoing issue that has triggered several medication recalls since last summer. The list is meant to help doctors ...
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Cancer Patients Who Smoke Cost Nation Billions Cancer patients who continue to smoke cost the healthcare system billions of dollars annually, thanks to smoking's contribution to first-line treatment failures, a modeling study found. The model estimated the cost of continuing to smoke to be nearly $11,000 ...
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FDA Issues List of 'Safe' Sartan-Containing Meds The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a list of 40 medications containing angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) it has determined to be free of contamination from nitrosamines. The list also includes ARB products for which the agency's ...
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Girl's attempt at 'faking chickenpox' to miss test backfires after she uses permanent marker A 6-year-old's attempt at faking sick to miss school has left her "red-in-the-face" after the marker she used to cover herself in phony chickenpox turned out to be permanent. Lily Schooley, who was allegedly dreading an upcoming spelling test, had reportedly ...
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Vaccine wars: Social media battle outbreak of bogus claims NEW YORK (AP) — Like health officials facing measles outbreaks, internet companies are trying to contain vaccine-related misinformation they have long helped spread. So far, their efforts at quarantine are falling short. The digital scrapbooking site Pinterest ...
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Measles in Michigan: This is who's most vulnerable Two doses of the MMR vaccine are believed to offer people up to 97% protection against measles, which is highly contagious and is spread by person-to-person contact and through the air, most often when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Of the 39 ...
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The Big Number: 17.6 million Americans suffer from alcoholism If alcohol is affecting your life and relationships — you find it's hard to control how much you drink or you depend on alcohol to get through the day — you may be among the 17.6 million adult Americans, 1 of 12, who have an alcohol-use disorder, according to ...
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MSK's Kirstein: Robotic mastectomy not demonstrated to be safe for treatment or prevention of breast cancer The Breast Surgical Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has decided not to adopt—or study—robotic surgical devices in mastectomies, said Laurie Kirstein, a breast surgical oncologist at MSK. "We discussed it as a group under the leadership ...
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CDC investigates E.coli outbreak in several states (Reuters) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several other U.S. agencies are investigating an E.coli outbreak in five states, the CDC said here on Friday. The CDC, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection ...
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13 Natural & Effective Ways To Help Your Body Produce More Melatonin If you've been struggling to fall asleep, then you may want to look into ways to naturally produce more melatonin. Because when it comes to drifting off easily at night, this hormone is where it's at. And the more you can do to boost its production — or at least ...
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Fewer deaths at hospitals that do more of these heart valve replacements Hospitals that perform the highest volume of transcatheter-aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures have significantly lower mortality rates than centers that do fewer of the minimally invasive surgeries, according to a new study. The finding, which appears ...
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Even one alcoholic drink a day can raise risk of stroke, study says (CNN) Drinking one or two glasses of alcohol a day may increase the chances of having a stroke, according to a new genetic study published Thursday. Contradicting previous claims that moderate drinking could prevent strokes and other diseases and ...
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Flu cases still high as first human universal vaccine trial begins (CNN) -- Most states are seeing an unusually high number of flu patients as the season comes to a close. Meanwhile, the very first human experiments with a new universal flu shot have begun at the National Institutes of Health. Thirty-three states and Puerto ...
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California Hospital Warns of Measles Exposure FRIDAY, April 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- At least 200 patients may have been exposed to the measles by a girl who arrived at the University of California, Davis, Children's Hospital two weeks ago, a hospital official says. The 7-year-old girl arrived at the ER ...
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E. coli outbreak in Kentucky sickens nearly 50 people, health officials say Nearly 50 people have been sickened as a result of an E. coli outbreak in Kentucky, state health officials said this week. Barbara Fox, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, confirmed to Fox News Friday that there have been ...
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Dozens have fallen ill during a five-state E. Coli outbreak, and nobody knows where it's coming from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it has yet to determine the source of an E. coli outbreak that has infected 72 people in five states — an admission one expert in food-borne illness called "perplexing," considering how many have ...
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Notifying the public about Martin County hepatitis A outbreak: What's the process? MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — On Friday, the Florida Department of Health in Martin County said the number of confirmed cases of hepatitis A had risen to 13 since January. Eight of those cases were confirmed since April 1. Now, the Health Department is working ...
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Kentucky toddler's cancer in remission after long treatment BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — The family of a 21-month-old Kentucky girl who was diagnosed with Stage 4 neuroblastoma more than a year ago is celebrating now that she is cancer-free. WBKO-TV in Bowling Green reports Molly Hughes went through five rounds ...
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Vaccine wars: Social media battle outbreak of bogus claims Like health officials facing outbreaks of disease, internet companies are trying to contain vaccine-related misinformation they have long helped spread. So far, their efforts at quarantine are falling short. Searches of Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram turn up ...
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Research Identifies Genetic Causes of Poor Sleep Published on April 5, 2019. insomniagenes. The international collaboration, led by the University of Exeter and published in Nature Communications, has found 47 links between our genetic code and the quality, quantity and timing of how we sleep.
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Number of Maine families opting out of childhood vaccinations hits all-time high Maine's rate of parents opting their children out of school-required vaccines reached an all-time high this year, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, alarming public health experts and making the state vulnerable to the return of ...
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Study Finds Vegan Diet is the Best Defense Against Disease! Humans only began consuming animal byproducts very late in our evolution. While our stomachs have adapted to be able to process animal matter fairly well, these foods can really mess us up when consumed regularly. Eating meat comes with a whole slew ...
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Measles case confirmed in Maryland in a person who was in Pikesville A case of measles has been confirmed in Maryland, and authorities informed some Maryland residents that they may have been exposed. The case appeared to be the first reported in the Washington region amid a national surge in the highly contagious and ...
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2017 DRC Ebola event tied to novel strain as current outbreak grows A new analysis of a 2017 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that occurred in a remote location and was limited to 16 cases involved a novel variant of the virus and was probably triggered single spillover, according to a new study.
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Study IDs Genetic Variants Tied to Sleep Quality How well we sleep at night may be linked to our genetic coding, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers identified 47 links between our genetic coding and the quality, quantity and timing of how we sleep; ...
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China's Inner Mongolia reports human infection of H7N9 bird flu virus: Xinhua BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Inner Mongolia region on Saturday reported a case of human infection with the H7N9 bird flu virus, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The patient, an 82-year-old man, was receiving treatment and the local government had ...
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Kentucky toddler beats stage four cancer WARREN COUNTY, Ky. (WBKO) - Molly Hughes was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma at nearly 5-months-old. Molly Hughes was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma at nearly 5-months-old. / (Source: Chelsea Hughes, WBKO). In a lifetime, not ...
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There's no such thing as a 'sugar rush' — it's a mood killer: study Sugar rush? More like sugar crash. Those sinking into a midday slump may be tempted to reach for the sweet stuff to snag a quick boost, but a newly compiled research from 31 published food studies has revealed that sugar consumption has no positive ...
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Even one drink a day can increase your risk of stroke, study warns Many scientists have long explored the potential dangers of alcohol. Now, one study has revealed consuming even one drink a day may raise your stroke risk. » RELATED: Just one drink a day can shorten life expectancy, study suggests. Researchers from ...
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Medicaid expansion tied to fewer heart-related deaths, study finds (CNN) -- As President Donald Trump continues to make clear that he wants to kill the Affordable Care Act, new research suggests that a big part of the ACA -- the expansion of the Medicaid program -- was linked with fewer cardiovascular-related deaths in ...
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Could the Keto diet lead to a bad heart rhythm? Last month the American College of Cardiology published a study that tied eating a diet low in carbohydrates with a heart problem called atrial fibrillation, or AFib. Low-carb diets such as the Keto diet or the Paleo, Atkins or South Beach diets before are known ...
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Poor Sleep Might Be Genetic, New Research Reveals You might be able to blame all those nights of crappy sleep on your genetic code. A new study published in Nature Communications found that poor sleep might be genetic, according to a news release. The study was an international collaboration led by the ...
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Prison Bans Visitors After Kid With Measles Shows Up Visitors have been banned from a federal prison camp in New York after one showed up with the measles, authorities said Friday. No inmates or staff at the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville have been diagnosed with the disease, which has spawned ...
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Sorry, Moderate Drinking Doesn't Protect Against Stroke Blood pressure and the risk of stroke increase steadily with increasing alcohol intake, even for moderate consumption, according to a large genetic study in The Lancet. This runs counter to previous research suggesting that one or two drinks a day is "heart ...
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Study finds bad diets kill more people than smoking globally A new study published this week found that poor diets kill 11 million people around the world annually, making poor diets more lethal than smoking cigarettes. The study published Wednesday in the journal Lancet, examined people's eating habits from 195 ...
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1 in 5 deaths globally linked to poor diet The consequences of not eating a balanced diet may be much graver than we thought. A major study published in the Lancet this month suggests it contributes to one in five deaths worldwide. That's about 11 million deaths every year that may be prevented ...
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FT Health: WHO maps out health inequalities Each year brings advances in science and progress in fighting deadly diseases, but one indicator is proving much more difficult to shift: health inequality. The World Health Organization's annual snapshot of global health published this week breaks indicators ...
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What we know about the cluster of measles cases in the North State No new measles cases have been reported in Tehama County, public health officials said Thursday night. The one measles case in Tehama County is related to the case in Shasta County because the infected individual had contact with people in both ...
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Gum Disease: A Precursor to Alzheimer's? Sterling Heights resident Brett Drayer, 29, is the head of two households: his own, and that of his father's, Scott. In 2015, the Drayers' family physician confirmed the expected: Scott, age 61 at the time, had early-onset dementia. Those diagnosed with the ...
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