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To Calm Nervous Families, Pakistan Changes Polio Vaccination Tactics After serious setbacks in April led to a cluster of new polio cases, Pakistan is revamping its vaccination strategy in a renewed effort to wipe out the virus. The country is one of just three — along with Afghanistan and perhaps Nigeria — in which polio is still ...
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Officials fighting US measles outbreaks threaten to use rare air travel ban Health officials in five states have warned people believed to be infected with measles and planning to travel that they could prevent them from getting on planes. All eight individuals agreed to cancel their flights after learning the officials could ask the federal ...
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Health officials considered banning individuals from flying to prevent measles transmission (CNN) State and local health officials have consulted with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in recent months about the possibility of preventing individuals from flying to prevent measles transmission. This year there have been such ...
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Summer camps harden vaccine rules amid measles outbreak As the United States battles its worst measles outbreak in 25 years, summer camps are tightening their policies on vaccines, with some prepared to turn away children whose parents opted not to vaccinate them against the disease. With more than 10 million ...
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Black men not at higher risk of dying from prostate cancer, study finds For African American men, the risk of dying from prostate cancer is the same as that of white men when access to care and treatment are equal, a new study finds. This casts doubt on the widely held belief that, when it comes to African American prostate ...
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Scientists spy on superbugs to see how they outsmart our antibiotics Scientists have discovered yet another way that single-celled organisms have outsmarted us. The tiny bacteria that live inside our guts have an ingenious way of withstanding the onslaught of antibiotics we throw at them, according to a report published ...
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UPDATE 2-UN creates new Ebola chief role to tackle security, political issues in Congo ... * U.N. steps up fight against Ebola epidemic in eastern Congo. * 1,241 have died since Aug. 1, virus spreads. * Armed groups issuing threats to responders, health workers -WHO (Adds WHO weekly update, paragraphs 3-5; quotes from U.N. coordinator ...
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Skin cancer rates are rising. On this 'Don't Fry Day,' UV expert offers tips to stay safe in the sun. Summer unofficially kicks off each Memorial Day weekend, as our first real chance to head outdoors for a few days and enjoy the warmth and sunshine. "Don't Fry Day" is an annual reminder, led by the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention, to practice ...
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Restarting Antiplatelet After ICH Cuts Recurrence Risk in Half MILAN — Despite expectations that restarting aspirin or clopidogrel (Plavix, Sanofi-Aventis) following an intracranial hemorrhage (ICH)–associated stroke might increase risk for a recurrent brain hemorrhage, researchers have found the opposite. Restarting ...
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Open Communication Helps Teens Manage Type 1 Diabetes By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It's a simple concept, but new research reinforces the idea: Teens with type 1 diabetes benefit when they feel their concerns have been heard. Teens with ...
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Brainstorm Health: Heart Disease, Amazon Emotion Detection, JPMorgan and Purdue Good afternoon. I have some good news and some, well, not-great news. Cancer deaths in the U.S. fell sharply – and I mean really sharply – between 1999 and 2017 among 45 to-64 year-old Americans, according to a new Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ...
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Civilians face tough task finding therapist skilled in PTSD treatment This is a Kaiser Health News story. Lauren Walls has lived with panic attacks, nightmares and flashbacks for years. The 26-year-old San Antonio teacher sought help from a variety of mental health professionals — including spending five years and at least ...
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Colon Cancer Screenings Increase When Medicaid Arrives By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). FRIDAY, May 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- There were greater increases in colon cancer screening rates in states that expanded Medicaid than in those that did not, a new study finds. It also found that ...
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UN names Ebola chief to tackle world's 2nd largest outbreak: 'We have no time to lose' UN names Ebola chief to tackle world's 2nd largest outbreak: 'We have no time to lose' originally appeared on abcnews.go.com. United Nations officials on Thursday named an emergency Ebola response coordinator to help bolster efforts to contain the ...
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Bipolar Disorder a Risk Factor for Parkinson's? By Maureen Salamon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Struggling with bipolar disorder is hard enough, but now a new study from Taiwan suggests these patients are seven times more likely to develop ...
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FDA Clears First Zika Blood Test for Routine Use The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the ZIKV Detect 2.0 IgM Capture ELISA (InBios International Inc) for routine use in detecting Zika virus immunoglobulin (IgM) antibodies in human blood. This the first diagnostic test for Zika the FDA has ...
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New Gene Variations for Type 2 Diabetes Found By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It has long been known that lifestyle affects a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Now, researchers report that they have identified rare variants of four genes that ...
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Snakebites: The hidden health crisis that kills 200 people a day (CNN) Snakebites kill more than 200 people a day around the world, but Thai firefighter Pinyo Pookpinyo was one of the lucky ones. When the tip of his thumb was bitten by a king cobra, he made it to a Bangkok hospital within 15 minutes. There, he was given ...
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5-Day Partial Irradiation Effective in Early Stage Breast Cancer For most women with early stage breast cancer, treatment options have been limited. Either remove the breast via mastectomy, or remove the tumor and irradiate the entire breast for weeks. But new research indicates that, for some women, a third option can ...
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Watch out for mosquitoes, ticks and diseases that could spoil your summer vacation International travelers must be wary of measles, ebola and yellow fever. But even people who travel within the U.S. or enjoy "stay-cations" at home need to be aware of infectious diseases that spread in the summertime. The annual summer travel advisory ...
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Can we turn down the emotion on traumatic memories? New research shows just how pliable memory is if you know which regions of the hippocampus to stimulate. The discovery could someday lead to personalized treatment for people haunted by particularly troubling memories. What if scientists could ...
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Daily Self Weigh-in and Tracking Prevents Holiday Excess People who weighed themselves daily and tracked fluctuations via an app avoided weight gain over the holiday season compared with those who didn't monitor themselves in this way, show the results of the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of its kind.
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Virtual reality can spot navigation problems in early Alzheimer's disease Virtual reality (VR) can identify early Alzheimer's disease more accurately than 'gold standard' cognitive tests currently in use, suggests new research from the University of Cambridge. The study highlights the potential of new technologies to help diagnose ...
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Early Checks Show More Mosquitoes in the Forecast Thursday, the Texas Department of State Health Services sounded the alarm for a possible increase in West Nile virus cases this year – citing a mild winter followed by heavy, widespread rain this spring. In Plano, an early count of mosquitoes trapped in April ...
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Keto Vs. Atkins: What's the Difference? If you been reading all about the ketogenic diet and feeling a little déjà vu, you're not alone. The high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet sounds a lot like the Atkins Diet, which was developed by the late cardiologist Robert Atkins in the '70s and took off again in the ...
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DFW Airport visitors may have been exposed to measles this month, officials say Updated at 1 p.m.: Revised to include additional information from airline and airport officials. Travelers who were at the DFW International Airport earlier this month may have been exposed to measles, officials said Thursday. A person who passed through ...
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'We have no time to lose': UN names Ebola chief to tackle 2nd largest outbreak United Nations officials on Thursday named an emergency Ebola response coordinator to help bolster efforts to contain the growing outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that has killed more than 1,200 people in 10 months. David Gressly ...
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Purdue infiltrated WHO, manipulated opioid policies to boost sales, report finds Infamous OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma used front organizations and sponsored research to deceive the World Health Organization and corrupt global public health policies with the goal of boosting international opioid sales and profits, according to a ...
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Children with Long-Term Conditions Could Benefit from CBT Children and young people with long-term medical conditions who are suffering mental health issues could benefit from receiving cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), say UK investigators in a review that points to the need for more research in the area.
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New Gene Variants for Type 2 Diabetes Found By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It has long been known that lifestyle affects a person's risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Now, researchers report that they have identified rare variants of ...
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Spanish flu may have lingered two years before 1918 outbreak and vaccine could have treated it The most severe pandemic in recent history, killing some 50 million people worldwide, the Spanish influenza, may have emerged up to two years earlier than previously believed. And, according to a new and influential study, its early manifestation was ...
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Half of US States Now Report Measles Cases With Maine reporting its first measles case, half of the United States has now been hit with the highly contagious infection, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The case was reported in a vaccinated school-aged child who had ...
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Rat lungworm disease: 3 new cases of potentially debilitating parasite confirmed in Hawaii Three visitors to Hawaii's Big Island in recent months have been infected with rat lungworm disease, a potentially debilitating parasite, health officials say. Hawaii's Department of Health said Thursday it received confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease ...
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Oral Health and Your Growing Child When should a child first see the dentist and how should you care for their growing teeth? Your child's oral health depends on a wholesome diet and teaching them good hygiene habits — along with early exams and intervention when there's an issue.
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Risk of Breast Cancer Death Could Be Reduced by Low-Fat Diet Women who eat a balanced low-fat diet and daily portions of vegetables, fruit, and grains have a 21% lower risk of dying from breast cancer, according to research that will be presented at the 2019 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 55th Annual ...
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Hawaii confirms 3 recent cases of rat lungworm disease in US visitors, says one tourist ate slug on a dare Health officials in Hawaii have announced three recent cases of rat lungworm disease in U.S. visitors to the state from Dec. 2018-Feb. 2019, including one that involved an adult who ate a poisonous slug on a dare. The case from December brought last year's ...
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Indianapolis 500 officials will offer measles vaccine at race Some fans attending Sunday's Indianapolis 500 can get measles vaccines at the track's infield medical center. IndyCar medical director Geoffrey Billows said Thursday a "very limited supply" of vaccines will be available at the medical building near the ...
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Ohio sees rising number of hepatitis A cases, health officials working to assist local leaders CLEVELAND — Ohio continues to fight an outbreak of hepatitis A, with nearly 2,300 cases statewide since the beginning of 2018, and the Ohio Department of Health is now committing $650,000 to help local health departments control the outbreak.
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Female fruit bats take food from males in exchange for sex, study finds Male Egyptian fruit bats will allow female bats to take food straight from their mouths and scientists believe they know why: the bats are trading food for sex. A study, published on Thursday in Current Biology, analyzed three bat colonies in captivity for a year, ...
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UGA research: Daily self-weighing can prevent holiday weight gain Researchers at the University of Georgia have shown that a simple intervention – daily self-weighing – can help people avoid holiday weight gain. Participants in a 14-week UGA study who weighed themselves daily on scales that also provided graphical ...
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1 sickened in Michigan as salmonella outbreak linked to backyard chickens, ducks A federal health agency says backyard chickens and ducks are the likely source of a multi-state salmonella outbreak that has sickened 52 people, including at least one person in Michigan. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saidthat there ...
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Can the Bacteria in Your Belly Ease Your Worrying Mind? THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- It seems an unlikely way to ease anxiety, but new research suggests that regulating the bacteria in your gut might help. How? By eating the right foods and using supplements when appropriate, the researchers ...
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AHA News: With Grit and Gratitude, Stroke Survivor Plays On THURSDAY, May 23, 2019 (American Heart Association News) -- Dave Kim can hardly remember a time he wasn't making music. He plays three instruments – most notably the electric violin – and has performed at countless weddings and in concerts around ...
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Thousands of cancer diagnoses tied to a poor diet, study finds OXFORD, England — Your diet may have more impact on your cancer risk than you might think, a new study has found. An estimated 80,110 new cancer cases among adults 20 and older in the United States in 2015 were attributable simply to eating a poor ...
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3 Hawaii island visitors confirmed to have contracted rat lungworm disease The state Health Department has received confirmation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of three unrelated cases of rat lungworm disease diagnosed in visitors to Hawaii island. All three were adults from the U.S. mainland visiting ...
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Empty nesters are having 'more adventurous' sex. And the 50-plus crowd credits aging When their children are grown and flown, what will parents do with their lives? One thing they intend to do is have sex. A survey by dating app Lumen found that respondents – both single and those in a relationship – plan to have sex until they are, on average ...
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Genetics could be the trigger for specific heart problem CHARLESTON, S.C. — Ever been to a large sporting event, such as a football or baseball game with 60,000 screaming fans? What you don't hear through the screams is a clicking sound in the chests of about 1,500 of these fans who have a heart valve ...
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Use of Alternative Medicine as a Replacement for Conventional Cancer Treatment As the interest in and value of "natural" remedies increase, the use of complementary therapies has also increased.1 Complementary therapies include dietary supplements, mind-body strategies, body manipulation, acupuncture, and alternative medicine ...
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'Cancer screening should be as easy as booking a flight' Making an appointment for breast and cervical cancer screening should be as simple as booking a plane ticket online, says the man behind an overhaul of the current system in England. Prof Sir Mike Richards said text reminders and out-of-hours ...
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Is listening to our internal body clock the key to getting a better night's sleep? When it comes to getting a good night sleep, most of us are guilty of flouting the rules. Staying up for just-one-more-episode, chugging the caffeine post 4pm and scrolling Insta pre lights out. Most of the time we do these things, despite the bad sleep ...
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