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Measles Outbreak: Fears Over New Clusters of Unvaccinated Children in New York [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Noah Abdullah hasn't immunized his 4-year-old son, Michael, saying that he'd read vaccines might be "no good" and that he'd "rather do natural things" to strengthen his child's ...
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Genetically modified virus saves teen's life, offers hope in fight against antibiotic resistance (CNN) Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway, 17, has faced not one but two unrelenting threats to her life. Diagnosed at 11 months of age with cystic fibrosis, the progressive genetic disease that causes lung infections and breathing impairment, Isabelle has also ...
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Gilead Will Donate Truvada to US for HIV Prevention Gilead Sciences, maker of Truvada, the only drug approved to prevent infection with H.I.V., will donate enough of the drug to supply 200,000 patients annually for up to 11 years, federal health officials announced on Thursday. Officials at the Department of ...
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A measles outbreak where you live? Study ranks US places at highest risk (CNN) A new study ranks the US counties at highest risk of a measles outbreak, with the areas surrounding Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami topping the list. The authors say places like these should be kept under close surveillance because they "could serve ...
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Experimental Drug For Huntington's Disease Jams Malfunctioning Gene Scientists are gearing up a major study to find out whether a drug can silence the gene that causes a devastating illness called Huntington's disease. This development follows the discovery that the experimental drug reduced levels of the damaged protein ...
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Attacks on health care facilities, dire security concerns escalating latest Ebola outbreak On the evening of February 24, unknown assailants descended on the Ebola Treatment Center run by Doctors Without Borders/Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) in the northeastern city of Butembo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), partially burning ...
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A Smackdown in the Kennedy Clan Summons Up the History of Presidents and Vaccines Family quarrels are usually private things—unless of course, the family is famous. A public spat among boldface names broke out on May 8, when three members of the Kennedy clan published a piece on Politico declaring that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—son of ...
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Got gonorrhea? It may have come from French kissing, study says It may be possible to pass gonorrhea through kissing, challenging the widely accepted notion that the sexually transmitted disease is spread almost exclusively through sexual contact, a new study says. Researchers in Australia found that kissing with tongue ...
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How the US Veered Off the Path to Measles Elimination Nearly two decades ago, measles was eliminated from the U.S.. But the highly contagious disease is back, due in part to anti-vaccine ideologies. Since January,there have been more than 760 cases of measles in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease ...
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Instagram blocks '#VaccinesKill' hashtag after CNN Business report New York (CNN Business) Instagram said Thursday it will now block additional hashtags that surface vaccine misinformation, but other hashtags and content promoted by anti-vaccination accounts are still thriving on the platform. The change in Instagram's ...
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Gilead's big gift to Trump's HIV strategy With help from Alice Miranda Ollstein, Victoria Colliver and Adam Cancryn. Editor's Note: This edition of Pulse is published weekdays at 10 a.m. POLITICO Pro Health Care subscribers hold exclusive early access to the newsletter each morning at 6 a.m. To ...
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WHO warns Ebola could spread elsewhere if attacks don't stop DAKAR, Senegal — The World Health Organization warned Friday that it may not be possible to contain Ebola to the two affected provinces in eastern Congo if violent attacks on health teams continue. The ominous statement comes amid escalating violence ...
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Hepatitis A infections increased by nearly 300% over two years, report says (CNN) Hepatitis A, a vaccine-preventable illness, like measles, has made a resurgence among adults in the United States who are at risk for the infection, according to a new report. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed ...
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US officials fear Ebola outbreak in Congo could become largest ever Already the second-largest outbreak in history, the Ebola epidemic that has killed just over 1,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to grow and threatens to surpass the 2014 outbreak in West Africa that resulted in 11,325 deaths, ...
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How Virtual Reality Can Improve The Quality Of Life For People With Dementia While virtual reality (VR) has become an important tool for recreational gaming, it is also proving to be quite valuable in the realm of medicine, training physicians to perform procedures during resuscitations and simulations and reinforcing decision making ...
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CDC: Hepatitis A Infections Soaring By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans infected with hepatitis A has grown nearly 300% in just three years, health officials reported Thursday. The staggering increase has come ...
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Drugs the Top Killer of Pregnant Women, New Moms in Utah Drug overdoses were the top killer of pregnant women or new mothers in Utah over a nearly decadelong span, and a new study indicates health care providers may have missed opportunities to help. National estimates show a rising share of women use ...
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Many US allergists now prescribe tablets instead of shots (Reuters Health) - Almost three in four U.S. allergy specialists are prescribing tablets to ease symptoms caused by pollen, ragweed and dust at least some of the time, though they have not completely shifted away from allergy shots, a survey suggests.
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She rescued a puppy during her vacation. The dog's bite proved deadly. When Birgitte Kallestad and her friends saw a helpless puppy on the side of the road while traveling in the Philippines last February, they couldn't help but pick it up and take it back to their resort. Kallestad washed it and played with it, her family later said, ...
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Here's how one scientist is working to protect North Texans from mosquito-borne illnesses like West Nile On a breezy spring afternoon, Erin Plaisance loads her pickup truck with nets, traps, batteries, gloves and smelly water. She looks down to check her clipboard and a large mosquito lands on her sleeve. It had apparently missed the words "Mosquito Control" ...
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Hepatitis A Infections Soaring: CDC THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans infected with hepatitis A has grown nearly 300% in just three years, health officials reported Thursday. The staggering increase has come despite an effective vaccine and is seen ...
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Is Appendix Removal Linked to Parkinson's Risk? By Alan Mozes. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It's a connection few have probably considered, but new research suggests that having your appendix removed may up your risk for Parkinson's disease down the road.
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Hepatitis A Infections Soaring: CDC By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans infected with hepatitis A has grown nearly 300% in just three years, health officials reported Thursday. The staggering increase ...
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Does Removing Your Appendix Put You at Risk for Parkinson's? By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It's a connection few have probably considered, but new research suggests that having your appendix removed may up your risk for Parkinson's disease down ...
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'Zap' Ear Clip May Ease A-Fib By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine if all it took to treat the heart condition atrial fibrillation was clipping a small device to your ear for an hour a day? That futuristic scenario could soon ...
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Cover Up! Don't Soak Up Those Sun Rays By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, May 10, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Only half of Americans routinely protect themselves from the sun when outdoors, a recent American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) survey found. Those who ...
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Instagram to start blocking hashtags with vaccine misinformation Instagram will start blocking any hashtags spreading misinformation about vaccines, becoming the latest internet platform to crack down on bad health information. When a hashtag deemed to return misinformation is blocked, search results will no longer ...
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China Implanted Electrodes into a Man's Brain to Treat His Meth Addiction. How Could It Work? A man in China who spent years battling a methamphetamine addiction has had a device inserted into his brain to treat his addiction, according to news reports. The man is a participant in one of the world's first clinical trials to use deep brain stimulation (DBS) ...
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Singapore reports first case of rare monkeypox virus SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has reported its first case of the rare monkeypox virus brought in by a Nigerian man who authorities said may have been infected by bushmeat he ate at a wedding. Monkeypox, a virus similar to the human smallpox which ...
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'Zap' Ear Clip May Ease A-Fib THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine if all it took to treat the heart condition atrial fibrillation was clipping a small device to your ear for an hour a day? That futuristic scenario could soon be a reality, according to a new study. In a small, early ...
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Instagram blocks vaccine hoax hashtags Instagram says it will block hashtags being used to spread "verifiably false" information about vaccinations. The social network already blocks hashtags that are themselves false claims, such as #vaccinescauseautism. It says it will now block more general ...
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These are the places in the US most likely to get hit by a measles outbreak Cook County, Illinois, is the US county most at risk-of a measles outbreak this year, according to research in the scientific journal The Lance Infectious Diseases. They compiled a list of the 25 most at-risk counties based on vaccination rates, population size ...
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How Was the Chickenpox Vaccine Created? Teenager Who Refused Vaccine for Religious Reasons Gets the ... High school senior Jerome Kunkel and his family first made headlines back in March when they sued the Northern Kentucky Health Department for a policy that banned students who had not received the chickenpox vaccine, like Kunkel, from attending class ...
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Bowdoinham residents warned about rabid animals after pair of fox attacks BOWDOINHAM — Police are telling residents in Bowdoinham to be on the lookout after a woman and her dogs were attacked by a gray fox Tuesday night. The sheriff's department was called to a home on Pond Road just after 9 p.m. where two dogs were ...
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Psoriasis, Mental Illness Often Appear Together By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory skin disease that is often coupled with depression, anxiety and even bipolar disease, schizophrenia and dementia, two new studies ...
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The Kentucky teen who refused to get the chickenpox vaccine got chickenpox The Kentucky teen who refused the chickenpox vaccine contracted the disease last month. Jerome Kunkel refused the vaccine after the Northern Kentucky Health Department required that all students who attended his school get vaccinated, due to a February ...
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Hepatitis A infections soaring: CDC (HealthDay)—The number of Americans infected with hepatitis A has grown nearly 300% in just three years, health officials reported Thursday. The staggering increase has come despite an effective vaccine and is seen mostly among drug abusers and the ...
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Why it matters what time of day you visit the doctor Your chances of getting screened for cancer depend a lot on whether you visit your doctor bright and early in the morning or in the afternoon, a new study suggests. When patients were eligible for breast cancer screenings, primary care physicians ordered the ...
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Ebola Could Spread Elsewhere if Attacks Don't Stop, WHO Warns The World Health Organization warned Friday that it may not be possible to contain Ebola to the two affected provinces in eastern Congo if violent attacks on health teams continue. The ominous statement comes amid escalating violence nine months after the ...
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WHO warns Ebola could spread elsewhere if attacks don't stop The World Health Organization warned Friday that it may not be possible to contain Ebola to the two affected provinces in eastern Congo if violent attacks on health teams continue. Interested in Ebola? Add Ebola as an interest to stay up to date on the latest ...
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Gilead says generic Truvada will be available in 2020 The HIV medication Truvada will come off patent a year early in the United States and will be available to patients and providers as a generic starting in 2020, according to Gilead Sciences. In its quarterly report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, ...
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Mom says pregnancy saved life after emergency appendix surgery revealed rare cancer A 34-year-old mother of two who underwent surgery for suspected appendicitis says that if it wasn't for her growing fetus, she would have never known a rare cancer was causing her pain. "It was because of being pregnant that it triggered the issue with my ...
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5 Popular Diets That Are Surprisingly Bad For You One of the most frustrating things about dieting is when the results don't remotely match the effort. Well, in many cases, it's because your diet is terrible for you. As a registered dietitian at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, Brittany Linn has seen many ...
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AUA 2019: MRI Targeted Therapies for Prostate Cancer: Ready for Prime Time? Published 09 May 2019; Chicago, IL (UroToday.com) Dr. Crawford moderated this debate focused on MRI-targeted therapies for prostate cancer – and is it ready for prime time? The index case is a 55 year old man whose PSA has changed from 2.5 to 3.7 in 2 ...
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Choosing a sunscreen that won't harm you — or the environment (CNN) — Choosing a safe but effective sunscreen is becoming a pain in the brain. While we spent decades happily applying the sunscreen of our choice, the chemical ingredients that manufacturers used to fight the sun have been under attack. The latest ...
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Generic version of HIV prevention drug on way after activist campaign Gilead Sciences, makers of HIV prevention drug Truvada, have announced that a generic version will be available as early as September 2020. Truvada, also called PrEP, is a daily pill that prevents those who take the drug from transmitting to their partner.
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One in five people in England harmed by others' drinking over past year One in five people in England have been harmed in some way by others' drinking over the past year, suggest the results of the largest survey of its kind in the UK, published in the online journal BMJ Open. Nearly one in 20 of them experienced ...
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Psoriasis, Mental Ills Can Go Hand in Hand By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory skin disease that is often coupled with depression, anxiety and even bipolar disease, schizophrenia and dementia, two ...
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Coca-Cola's Research Contracts Allowed It to Kill Unfavorable Studies The food and beverage industry has a history of influencing public-health research by funding favorable studies. A study published this week suggests that Coca-Cola also used its grants to do the reverse: Several of its corporate contracts with American and ...
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CDC: Hepatitis A infections up 300 percent in last three years Although 2016 saw two outbreaks of hepatitis A caused by contaminated food, the main culprit of outbreaks has been the living conditions of drug addicts and the homeless, researchers say. By. Steven Reinberg, HealthDay News.
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