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Viola Davis Opens Up About Her Prediabetes Diagnosis: 'I Want To Stay Healthy for My Daughter' As the narrator of the new diabetes documentary A Touch of Sugar, Viola Davis spoke with PEOPLE about the disease that's affected her life. By. Hanna Flanagan. May 01, 2019 04:26 PM. Viola Davis has an Oscar, an Emmy and a Golden Globe — on-screen ...
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Flesh-eating bacteria strike two men in Florida (CNN) Beach season has begun, and with it comes an increase in waterborne dangers. Two recent examples from the Sunshine State highlight the gruesome possibilities. In March, an Ohio man visiting family in Florida for spring break took a boating trip with ...
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What is a quarantine? St. Lucia cruise ship detained after measles outbreak A cruise ship was quarantined Tuesday in Saint Lucia after the island nation's chief medical officer cited concerns that crew members and passengers possibly infected with measles might spread the highly contagious virus, causing an outbreak. "One infected ...
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As measles returns, US states look to cut vaccine exemptions (Reuters) - Maine could soon prohibit parents from citing religious or personal beliefs to avoid vaccinating their children, making the U.S. state one of a half dozen cracking down during the nations' largest measles outbreak in 25 years. FILE PHOTO: A vial of ...
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Police took a cancer-stricken toddler from his parents. Their supporters call it a 'medical kidnapping.' Less than two weeks after 3-year-old Noah was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, his mother claimed the cancer was gone. "We busted out of that hospital — with no cancer cells left to spare," Taylor Bland-Ball wrote on Facebook on April 16.
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Hundreds quarantined on cruise ship in St. Lucia because of measles infection Health officials on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia have quarantined a cruise ship after discovering a case of measles on board, the country's top doctor said Tuesday. Authorities confirmed the case Tuesday morning, said Merlene Fredericks James, St.
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Alzheimer's Diagnosis Breakthrough Hopeful, Expensive May 1, 2019 -- Alzheimer's disease was not what came to mind for Jill Hofstede when she first noticed changes in her mother's behavior. "We started to see compulsiveness. She was sending money to everyone and anybody who would ask for it," Hofstede ...
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How Drug Companies Helped Shape A Shifting, Biological View Of Mental Illness Historian and Harvard professor Anne Harrington believes that pharmaceutical companies have played an oversized role in determining how mental illness is treated in the United States — leading to a rise in the use of antidepressant drugs. Harrington's new ...
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This Is Why Every Parent Should Fully Vaccinate Their Children The MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, or the MMR-V (including varicella, better known as chickenpox) vaccine, are some of the most important vaccinations a young child can receive. The lack of achieving a sufficient vaccination rate among the ...
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Buttigieg now says he opposes religious and personal exemptions to vaccines (CNN) Pete Buttigieg's campaign sought to clarify the South Bend Mayor's position on vaccines on Wednesday after an initial statement said the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate supported some religious and personal exemptions. Buttigieg's initial ...
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FDA: Here Are The New Warnings About Sleeping Pills Like Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata Sleepwalking, sleep-driving, and sleep-using-a-stove are not things that you want to do. Therefore, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that eszopiclone, zaleplon, and zolpidem will now have to include "boxed warnings" of such ...
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'Avengers: Endgame' Midnight Audience Potentially Exposed to Measles The Orange County Health Care Agency (HCA) confirmed its first case of measles in 2019, which is a twenty-something resident of Placentia, who reported recent international travel to one of the countries experiencing a widespread measles outbreak.
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Sanofi wins US approval to sell dengue vaccine but with major restrictions CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave Sanofi SA's dengue vaccine Dengvaxia a very narrow approval as the company continues to suffer from evidence that its vaccine, which took 20 years to develop, can cause ...
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Vaccination Is the Best Protection Against Measles Measles is one of the most contagious respiratory diseases in the world that has the potential to be life-threatening. It is caused by a virus and is still common in many countries. There are vaccines that provide lasting protection against measles that are proven ...
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First FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of dengue disease in endemic regions The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today the approval of Dengvaxia, the first vaccine approved for the prevention of dengue disease caused by all dengue virus serotypes (1, 2, 3 and 4) in people ages 9 through 16 who have ...
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Merck steps up US measles vaccine production with increased demand NEW YORK (Reuters) - Merck & Co said on Wednesday it has increased production of the measles vaccine to meet an uptick in demand in the United States in the midst of the country's biggest outbreak in 25 years. FILE PHOTO: A vial of the measles, mumps, ...
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Cruise Ship Quarantined in St. Lucia After Measles Case Is Reported The Caribbean nation of St. Lucia quarantined a cruise ship on the island after identifying a confirmed case of measles on board, a health official said on Tuesday. Passengers and crew aboard the large ship were not permitted to leave, said Dr. Merlene ...
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Erectile Dysfunction Drug May Help Treat Heart Failure A drug for erectile dysfunction may also help treat heart failure, a preliminary study in animals suggests. In the study, published today (May 1) in the journal Scientific Reports, the researchers gave the drug tadalafil (brand name Cialis) to sheep that had ...
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To feed the world, begin with maggot sausage and insect ice cream, says scientist (CNN) Lobsters are not pretty. Dip these unsightly creatures into warm butter and they instantly become a different matter to most of us. Why, then, do we gag at the thought of eating insects? One Australian researcher hopes to change that. University of ...
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'Avengers' moviegoers in California may have been exposed to measles (CNN) California public health officials are warning moviegoers who went to see "Avengers: Endgame" and other films at an Orange County movie theater last Thursday that they may have been exposed to measles by a woman in the audience. The woman ...
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Patients' drug costs surge for some neurologic conditions (Reuters Health) - Many patients with neurologic disorders like multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and Parkinson's disease have seen steep increases in their out-of-pocket costs for drugs in recent years, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers examined data on ...
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Patients are paying up to 20 times more for neurological drugs since 2004, study finds (CNN) Out-of-pocket costs for Americans with neurologic conditions have risen so rapidly over 12 years, a new study says, that doctors need better access to drug price information "to minimize patient financial burden." The study, published Wednesday in the ...
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'Social' Hormone-Based Therapy May Aid in Autism By Dennis Thompson. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Hormone-based treatment might improve social function in people with autism, a pair of new clinical trials suggests. Both focused on vasopressin, a hormone that ...
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Experimental treatment could be 'game-changing' for genetic ALS, experts say (CNN) An experimental treatment for the rapidly progressive disease ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, has been called potentially "game-changing." The treatment, called tofersen, was found to slow the decline of muscular function associated with a ...
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Cruise ship in St. Lucia quarantined over confirmed measles case A cruise ship with nearly 300 passengers and crew was ordered quarantined in the Caribbean port of St. Lucia after a case of measles was confirmed on board, island health officials said Wednesday. One female crew member has a confirmed case and St.
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Summer camp leads to emergency and a $142K medical bill when snake bites girl It was dusk as Oakley Yoder and the other summer camp kids hiked back to their tents at Illinois' Jackson Falls last July. As the group approached a mound of boulders blocking the path, Oakley, then 9, didn't see the lurking snake — until it bit a toe on her ...
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Treatments Targeting Social Behavior Hormone Show Promise With Autism By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Hormone-based treatment might improve social function in people with autism, a pair of new clinical trials suggests. Both focused on vasopressin, ...
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Some states now require doctors to prescribe overdose antidote with opiods It's increasingly likely that someone you know has the opioid overdose rescue drug naloxone in their pocket or medicine cabinet. In fact, a new mobile app, NaloxoFind, will tell you whether anyone nearby is carrying the lifesaving drug. In the last five years, ...
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Obesity: How to help your child eat healthily Across the UK, record numbers of children are obese - but one city appears to have bucked the trend. Figures presented at an obesity conference suggest Leeds has managed to reduce child obesity rates by 6.4% over recent years. A key part of the city's ...
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Cannabis users who mix weed and workouts tend to exercise more Study finds people report being more motivated to exercise, and recovering faster, when they used marijuana around workouts. Marija Jovovic/iStock. Eight in 10 cannabis users said they mixed marijuana with exercise. Author photo. By ...
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Diet Sodas May Not Help Kids Cut Calories By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Kids who favor diet sodas over sugary ones don't consume fewer calories over the course of a day, a new study finds. And they average 200 more calories daily ...
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DRC Ebola cases near 1500 after deadliest month The surge of Ebola cases continued today, with the ministry of health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recording 15 new cases and 14 deaths in an outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces. April was the deadliest month of the 9-month long ...
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1st Gene Linked to Polycystic Ovary Syndrome By Serena Gordon. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common cause of infertility and type 2 diabetes, but little is known about its origins. Now, new research suggests a gene involved in ...
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Ambien, other sleep aids get FDA's 'Black Box' warning label Ambien and other prescription sleep medications are getting a new "black box" warning label from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This type of label is the strongest that the agency issues, calling attention to side effects that can lead to serious ...
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Omitting Chemo Feasible in First-Line HER2+ Breast Cancer? Dropping chemotherapy from a first-line regimen of trastuzumab (Herceptin) and pertuzumab (Perjeta) didn't compromise overall survival at 2 years in advanced HER2-positive breast cancer, although disease progression resumed much faster, a randomized ...
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Alternative medicine practitioners may market bogus celiac tests, treatments (Reuters Health) - Looking online for alternative medicine providers to diagnose or treat celiac disease is a bad idea because many websites market unproven or ineffective tests and treatments, researchers say. "We know that complementary and alternative ...
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Hormone reduces social impairment in kids with autism A pilot study led by Antonio Hardan and Karen Parker found that social behavior in children with autism improved after they inhaled a hormone called vasopressin. Steve Fisch. Social behavior improved in children with autism after they inhaled a hormone ...
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First Measles Case Arrives In PA, Continues National Resurgence After months of mumps cases, Pennsylvania finally has its first case of measles. The good news for residents in the eastern part of the state is that it was recorded in Pittsburgh, and it is not connected to the national outbreak of measles nationwide.
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Church of Scientology cruise ship quarantined in St. Lucia because of confirmed case of measles A cruise ship has been quarantined at the Caribbean port of St. Lucia because of a confirmed measles case, health officials said Wednesday. Officials ordered 300 passengers and crew members on Monday not to leave the ship after determining one female ...
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Quitting Smoking May Cut Bladder Ca Risk in Older Women Quitting smoking significantly reduced the risk of bladder cancer development in postmenopausal women, with the largest risk reduction occurring in the first decade after smoking cessation, researchers reported. Among women (ages 50-79) in the ...
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Taco Bell employee tests positive for hepatitis A; co-workers vaccinated: report A Taco Bell employee in central Florida tested positive for hepatitis A last month and likely exposed the restaurant's patrons to the disease during his infectious period, the Pinellas County Health Department said. The information was revealed in an email that ...
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How to deal with anxiety: Coping tips and natural remedies Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults, the Anxiety and Depression Association of America estimates. How to deal with anxiety attacks: The association describes a panic attack as the abrupt onset of ...
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'Avengers: Endgame' midnight crowd might have been exposed to measles, officials warn Orange County officials warned Wednesday that a woman with measles may have exposed others in the region to the contagious disease. The patient, the first to come down with measles this year in the county, lives in Placentia and contracted the illness ...
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'Vampire Facial' at New Mexico Spa Likely Exposed 2 People to HIV Last September, officials began investigating a spa in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for potentially exposing its clients to blood-borne infections through their "vampire" facials and other spa treatments. Now, the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) has ...
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Study: Teen, Young Adult Overdose Attempts Soar By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Suicide attempts by drug overdoses and other "self-poisonings" more than doubled among U.S. youth in the last decade, a new study reveals. And attempts by girls and ...
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Plant-Based Diets Help Reduce Kidney Disease Risk Long Term A diet that favors plant-based foods, as well as a completely vegetarian diet, modestly reduces the long-term risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the general population provided individuals are not overweight or obese to begin with, a new ...
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After safety mess, Sanofi's dengue shot nabs a sharply limited FDA nod The FDA has approved Sanofi's controversial dengue vaccine Dengvaxia with major limitations to its use. (Sanofi/Vincent Moncorgé). Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Print. Sanofi's controversial dengue vaccine Dengvaxia has finally snagged an U.S. ...
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How You Can Get Lung Cancer Even If You Don't Smoke As many as 20 percent of people in the United States with lung cancer have never smoked. Here's some of the factors why the disease is on the rise with nonsmokers. Share on Pinterest As many as 20 percent of people in the United States with lung cancer ...
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Morning Exercise Kick-Starts Seniors' Brains By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Want a quick brain boost? A morning session of exercise and short walks throughout the day provide a number of brain benefits for older adults, a new study ...
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Groundbreaking Blood Test to Identify Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ME/CFS patients have waited many, many years to finally hear this news –– a biomarker for chronic fatigue syndrome has been identified! Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a blood test that can accurately detect ...
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