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It's Not Just Salt, Sugar, Fat: Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain Over the past 70 years, ultra-processed foods have come to dominate the U.S. diet. These are foods made from cheap industrial ingredients and engineered to be super tasty and generally high in fat, sugar and salt. The rise of ultra-processed foods has ...
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New HIV Map Offers Most Detailed Look Yet At The Epidemic The United Nations has set a goal of ending the global HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. The tide is slowly turning in southeastern Africa — including countries like South Africa, Mozambique, Lethoso, and Botswana — which remains the epicenter of the epidemic, ...
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A Smartphone App And A Paper Funnel Could Help Parents Diagnose Kids' Ear Infections Researchers are developing a smartphone app that, with the help of a simple paper funnel, might help parents detect fluid buildup in a child's ear – one symptom of an ear infection. The app is still experimental and would require clearance by the Food and ...
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Blood biopsy: New technique enables detailed genetic analysis of cancer cells ANN ARBOR--A new way to cleanly separate out cancer cells from a blood sample enables comprehensive genetic profiling of the cancer cells, which could help doctors target tumors and monitor treatments more effectively. It is a dramatic improvement over ...
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'Dense Breast' Proposal Would Lead to Unnecessary Worry and Tests Requiring all women and their referring physicians to receive a summary of breast density after each mammogram, as recently proposed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), may have broad and costly unintended consequences. Such a breast ...
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Low-fat diet helps reduce risk of dying from breast cancer, study finds Eating a low-fat, plant-based diet could help significantly lower a woman's risk of dying from breast cancer, and the key appears to be changing eating habits before tumors have a chance to develop, according to a study released Wednesday. The new ...
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Lower-fat diet reduces risk of dying from breast cancer, study says Women who followed a lower-fat diet rich in fruits, vegetables and grains had a lower risk of dying from breast cancer than those on a higher-fat diet, according to results from a major new study released Wednesday. The conclusions, from the latest analysis of ...
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Huhn? Scientists Working on Hearing Aid That Solves the 'Cocktail Party' Problem By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Chances are if you're over 60 it's already happened to you: You're in a crowded room and finding it tough to understand what your partner is saying a couple ...
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Gastric Surgery Bypass Holds Hope for Teens In what could be life-changing news for severely obese children, a new study shows that adolescents who undergo gastric bypass surgery not only lose weight at a similar rate as adults who have the same procedure, but are more likely to see a reversal of ...
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Benzodiazepines in early pregnancy tied to heightened risk of miscarriage Pregnant women who take a class of drugs that's often prescribed for anxiety or insomnia may run a higher risk of miscarriage, a new study suggests. Canadian researchers looked at the outcomes from more than 160,000 early pregnancies and found that ...
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3D scans reveal for the first time how a baby's head changes shape during birth It's a question that's occurred to many, if not all, pregnant women before going through with a vaginal delivery — how does something the size of a cantaloupe fit through an opening the size of a lemon? That lemon, of course, is the birth canal, which is known ...
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New report is "a wake-up call" on leading risk to newborn babies: low birthweight United Nations — A startling new report by U.N. agencies and public health experts sheds light on one of the greatest threats to newborn babies worldwide: being born with low birthweight. The report, published today in the British medical journal The Lancet ...
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Valium, Xanax Could Raise Miscarriage Risk By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnancy is often a time of heightened worry. But researchers warn that taking anti-anxiety drugs like Valium and Xanax may increase the risk of miscarriage.
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Reduced-Fat, Balanced Diet May Cut Death Risk From Breast Cancer Long-term adherence to a reduced-fat diet that includes a robust daily intake of fruits, vegetables, and grains reduces the relative risk for death from breast cancer in postmenopausal women, according to investigators from the landmark Women's Health ...
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Ebola outbreak grows by 19 as WHO notes 'stop and go' response The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) ministry of health recorded 19 new cases of Ebola today in the ongoing outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. Eleven new deaths were also recorded. The new cases raise the outbreak total to 1,739, ...
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Benzodiazepines in Early Pregnancy Up Miscarriage Risk Use of benzodiazepine agents in early pregnancy was associated with increased risk of spontaneous abortion, according to a nested case-control study. Women who started using benzodiazepines in pregnancy were at an increased risk for miscarriage from ...
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Using a smartphone to sound out sign of kids' ear infections WASHINGTON — Researchers have created a way for a smartphone to "hear" a warning sign of ear infections — fluid buildup behind the eardrum. If it pans out, parents might one day check their tots' ears at home simply using a phone app and "stuff you ...
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Attention Young People: This Narcissism Study Is All About You Kids these days. For more than two millenniums, older adults have claimed that their younger counterparts are uniquely self-absorbed. Young people today, it seems, agree. That's according to new research published on Wednesday, which found that adults ...
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Which Countries Are Best At Preventing Low Birth Weight? Which Need To Do More? Six years ago, I was traveling in India, working on a story about measles. I was visiting a public hospital in New Delhi, when I walked into the waiting room and saw the tiniest baby I had ever seen. An elderly woman — perhaps a grandma — was cradling the ...
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Why adults at risk for Huntington's choose not to learn if they inherited deadly gene As many as 90 percent of individuals who have a parent with Huntington's disease (HD) choose not to take a gene test that reveals if they will also develop the fatal disorder—and a new study details the reasons why. Understanding the "why" matters as new ...
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Trans Women on Hormones Have More Breast Cancer By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Transgender women on gender-confirming hormone therapy have increased odds of breast cancer, but the overall risk is low and not as high as it is for the general ...
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It's not just opioids. Deaths from cocaine and meth are surging. Most states are keeping a close eye on opioid overdose deaths, but they may need to start focusing on cocaine and other stimulants as well. It turns out that the same lethal drug that has been driving the nation's spiraling opioid epidemic is also causing an ...
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Trans Women Have Raised Odds of Breast Cancer, But Risk Still Small: Study WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Transgender women on gender-confirming hormone therapy have increased odds of breast cancer, but the overall risk is low and not as high as it is for the general female population, a new study finds.
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Lyme Disease Now a Threat in City Parks By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As deer populations have exploded across America, moving from forests to suburbs to urban parks, they have brought the threat of Lyme disease to millions of city ...
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Swarms of Bugs, Missing Data Plague Companies Making Heart Drug A pair of drugmakers in India that the U.S. is counting on to produce generic blood-pressure pills after a far-reaching recall have been faulted by regulators for quality-control issues. Cadila Healthcare Ltd. and Alkem Laboratories Ltd. both won approvals in ...
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Here's what will reduce your risk of dementia, according to new WHO guidelines On May 14 the World Health Organization put out new guidelines on the most effective ways to prevent dementia, or severe, abnormal cognitive decline. The best way to avoid cognitive decline later in life, the group concluded, is not by taking supplements or ...
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Huhn? Scientists Working on Hearing Aid That Solves the 'Cocktail Party' Problem WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Chances are if you're over 60 it's already happened to you: You're in a crowded room and finding it tough to understand what your partner is saying a couple of feet away. It's a longstanding hearing-loss issue ...
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Older Americans fear dementia, but don't talk to their doc Many Americans in their 50s and early 60s are worried about declining brain health, especially if they have loved ones with memory loss and dementia, a new national poll finds. But while the majority of respondents say they take supplements or do puzzles in ...
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How a parasitic fish inspired a new way to get drugs into the brain The sea lamprey could help scientists develop more effective treatments for brain diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, trauma and stroke. (Jeremy Monroe/Fresh Waters Illustrated). Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print. The blood-brain barrier ...
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Antibody responses vs. Ebola keep evolving in survivors, months after recovery Antiviral antibodies produced by survivors of Ebola infection continue to evolve and improve after recovery, according to a detailed study of the immune responses of four people who received care at Emory University Hospital in 2014. In particular, high levels ...
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Ebola survivors can lose their eyesight. What we're doing to prevent it The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the largest outbreak in the country since 1976 when the Ebola virus was first identified in what was then known as Zaire. The outbreak is happening against a backdrop of security ...
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Scientists in new push to control cancer before curing it LONDON (Reuters) - Cancer scientists in Britain are launching what they call the world's first "Darwinian" drug development program in a bid to get ahead of cancer's ability to become resistant to even the newest treatments and recur in many patients.
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Liquid biopsy could identify cancer patients at risk of metastatic disease Analysing fragments of DNA that are shed by tumours into the bloodstream, could indicate early on whether patients are at risk of their cancer spreading, according to new research presented today [Wednesday 15 May]. Researchers at The Royal Marsden ...
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Lyme Disease Now a Threat in City Parks WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As deer populations have exploded across America, moving from forests to suburbs to urban parks, they have brought the threat of Lyme disease to millions of city dwellers, a new study finds. In fact, the deer ...
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Video Goggles Help Diagnose Vertigo A novel video-goggle recording device that patients wore at home helped identify the etiology of acute vertigo episodes, a proof-of-concept study showed. With video oculography goggles, patients were able to record nystagmus direction and velocity to help ...
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1 in 7 babies is born underweight, with dire consequences for their health, global study says (CNN) Over 20 million babies around the world -- about 1 out of every 7 -- were born underweight in 2015, a slight improvement over rates in 2000 but not enough to meet goals and prevent global health consequences, according to a new study. Researchers ...
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Sugary drink sales plummeted in Philadelphia after soda tax (CNN) Implementing a sales tax may help get Americans to stop drinking sugary drinks, if a new study about Philadelphia soda consumption is any indication. In 2017, Philadelphia became the second US city to put a tax on sugary drinks and soda. In the ...
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Why did opioid overdose deaths nearly double in Springfield last year? A storefront at 373 Worthington St., more recently home to a barbershop, will open later this year as Gandara's Springfield Recovery Support Center providing peer-to-peer support services for individuals in recovery from substance use disorder. 0. By Shira ...
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Second Worst Ebola Outbreak in History Is Now Killing 66 Percent of People Who Become Infected The current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has infected 1,720 and killed 1,136, giving the viral disease a whopping 66 percent fatality rate. And the situation is making public health experts on the ground increasingly nervous.
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Lyme Disease Now a Threat in City Parks By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- As deer populations have exploded across America, moving from forests to suburbs to urban parks, they have brought the threat of Lyme disease to ...
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Millennials Believe 'Narcissist' Label, But Don't Like It By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Young Americans tend to accept the popular notion that their generation is self-centered and entitled, but they also resent those labels, new research suggests. In a series ...
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Cancer: Breakthrough treatments to target drug resistance The world's first drugs designed to stop cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment could be available within the next decade, scientists have said. A £75m investment to develop the drugs has been announced by the Institute for Cancer Research (ICR).
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Low Birth Weight Babies a Worldwide Problem By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- More than 20 million babies are born across the globe weighing far less than they should, and the problem isn't limited to low-income countries, new ...
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'She went through torment': parents criticise Bristol over student suicide Margaret and Robert Abrahart speak of their frustration at trying to find out how their daughter came to kill herself. Steven Morris · @stevenmorris20. Thu 16 May 2019 07.52 EDT Last modified on Thu 16 May 2019 07.53 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on ...
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Eating less fat and more fruit may cut women's risk of dying of breast cancer For the first time, a large experiment suggests that trimming dietary fat and eating more fruits and vegetables may lower a woman's risk of dying of breast cancer. The results are notable because they come from a rigorous test involving 49,000 women over two ...
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Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy May Increase Risk of Dementia, Researchers Say Almost every medical treatment carries the risk of side effects. But as people age and the risk of developing different health conditions rises, they and their doctors increasingly have to make tough decisions about trade-offs. Surgery for, say, a hip replacement ...
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Drier Winter Air May Propel Flu's Spread By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Ever wonder why the flu rarely strikes in the summer? New research offers an explanation: That dry air your heating system sends throughout your home in ...
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Low Birth Weight Babies a Worldwide Problem THURSDAY, May 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- More than 20 million babies are born across the globe weighing far less than they should, and the problem isn't limited to low-income countries, new research shows. In 2015, nearly three-quarters of infants ...
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4 new measles cases confirmed in outbreak in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties Health officials have confirmed four new cases of measles involving people who spent time at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, among other sites throughout the Puget Sound region. Two of the cases involve King County women, the third an adolescent ...
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'Hidden health crisis' of snakebites gets $100 million funding injection LONDON, May 16 (Reuters) - A global health trust is to inject 80 million pounds ($102 million) into finding more modern and effective treatments for snakebites - a "hidden health crisis" that kills 120,000 people a year and maims thousands more. A researcher ...
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