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An Experimental Ebola Cure May Also Protect Against Nipah Virus An experimental drug has protected monkeys against infection with Nipah virus, a lethal disease and emerging pandemic threat for which there is no approved vaccine or cure, scientists reported on Wednesday. The antiviral drug, remdesivir, is also being ...
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The Pakistan city where almost 700 people have been infected with HIV Ratodero, Pakistan (CNN) In a small farming community in southern Pakistan, villagers will no longer shake Hazar Khan Seelro's hand. Five people in the 70-year-old's family have been diagnosed with HIV in the past month. Seelro lives in the rural village of ...
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Teasing Kids About Their Weight May Make Them Gain More School can be tough on kids who have overweight or obesity. They're often cruelly teased and bullied. And this type of bullying may lead to long-term consequences, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Pediatric Obesity. The study ...
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Why Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer (CNN) Girls began queuing at their local school with their friends, waiting for their names to be called. Many were apprehensive. After all, most of them had not had a vaccination since they were babies. It was 2013 and a new vaccine had arrived in ...
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Tearful father of Oklahoma football star who overdosed testifies at landmark opioid trial (CNN) Craig Box couldn't hold back tears in an Oklahoma courtroom on Wednesday as he described his late son Austin as "a special young man." Austin Box, a football star at the University of Oklahoma, died of an opioid overdose at the age of 22 in 2011.
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Congo's Ebola epidemic inflicts heavy toll on children BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Eight-year-old Kennedy Muhindo was running a high fever and racked by stomach pain and diarrhoea. FILE PHOTO: A health worker updates data on a board at an Ebola transit centre in town of Katwa, ...
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Ultraprocessed foods are easy, cheap and could be killing you (CNN) "Ultraprocessed" describes many foods, including pre-prepared dishes found in grocery store freezers, packaged baked goods, dehydrated soups, ice cream, sugary cereals and fizzy beverages. Two separate studies published Wednesday in The BMJ ...
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What is rat lungworm disease? Five people in Hawaii recently found out. Hawaii public health authorities are urging both islanders and tourists to take precautions against rat lungworm, a parasitic worm that has infected five people in the state this year. Officials with Hawaii's Department of Health announced last week that lab tests ...
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How To Tell If You Have Work Burnout, It's Now A WHO Syndrome It's not an official medical diagnosis yet. But burn-out from work is now a "syndrome" in the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases, otherwise known as the ICD-11 in case you are too exhausted to say the whole thing. This is a step up from ...
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Colon Cancer Striking More Under 50, and More Often in Western States By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Colon cancer rates among those under 50 in the United States are rising, and they're rising the most rapidly in western states, a new study finds.
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Could Squeezing Your Arms and Legs Help Prevent Strokes? A simple squeeze to your arms and legs might benefit your brain — turns out, the added pressure may improve the regulation of blood flow to your brain as well as levels of stroke-protective molecules, a new study suggests. The study found that people who ...
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Years after facial transplants, patients' faces can move and feel again For the few dozen patients around the world who have received full or partial face transplants, blending in may be on the horizon. That's according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The report describes six face ...
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Overall cancer mortality continues to decline The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that, for all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the United States from 1999 to 2016. Overall cancer incidence rates, or rates of ...
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US Cancer Cases, Deaths Continue to Fall THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Good news on a major killer: U.S. cancer deaths continued to fall between 1999 and 2016. So finds the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, from a consortium of leading cancer ...
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New blood test uses DNA 'packaging' patterns to detect multiple cancer types Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a simple new blood test that can detect the presence of seven different types of cancer by spotting unique patterns in the fragmentation of DNA shed from cancer cells and circulating ...
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LAPD Employee Contracts Typhoid Fever, Another Showing Typhus Symptoms at Downtown LA Station A Los Angeles police station was being disinfected Wednesday after officials learned one worker was sickened with typhoid fever and a second was exhibiting typhus-like symptoms, the department said. The employees both work in LAPD's Central Division, ...
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Congo's Ebola epidemic inflicts heavy toll on children BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Eight-year-old Kennedy Muhindo was running a high fever and racked by stomach pain and diarrhoea. A health worker wearing Ebola protection gear enters the Biosecure Emergency Care Unit (CUBE) ...
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Blood Test Could Spot Multiple Cancer Types, Researchers Say By E.J. Mundell, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A gene-based blood test can accurately detect breast, colorectal, lung, ovarian, pancreatic, gastric or bile duct cancers in patients, researchers report.
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Do You Really Need 10000 Steps Per Day? There's nothing magical about the number 10,000. In fact, the idea of walking at least 10,000 steps a day for health goes back decades to a marketing campaign launched in Japan to promote a pedometer. And, in subsequent years, it was adopted in the U.S. ...
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'Bad' Cholesterol, Rare Alzheimer's May Be Linked By Steven Reinberg. HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Here's another reason to keep your cholesterol under control: New research suggests that LDL, or "bad," cholesterol may play a role in the development of ...
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Violence Continues to Stymie Ebola Response Efforts in DRC Interruption of response and potential violence are the biggest threats to containing the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the largest outbreak in the country since 1976, researchers found. This outbreak has featured ...
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Patients with food allergies may need mental health support (Reuters Health) - Many patients with life-threatening food allergies may feel anxious or overwhelmed at times, but it's rare for mental health professionals to be involved in their care, suggests a survey of U.S. centers of excellence in allergy treatment.
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10000 Steps A Day? Study In Older Women Suggests 7500 Just As Good For Living Longer Ten thousand steps a day. It's the default goal on many fitness trackers and smartphone apps — and the obsessive aim of many a self-quantifier. But a new study led by Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers finds there's nothing magical about the ...
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Sensor-Laden Glove Helps Robotic Hands 'Feel' Objects By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Holding an egg is a lot different from holding an apple or a tomato, and humans are naturally able to adjust their grip to avoid crushing or dropping ...
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Police: Pakistani man kills HIV positive wife in south KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's police say they have arrested a man who killed his HIV-positive wife and hung her body from a tree in southern Sindh province, where hundreds of people have tested positive for the virus. Wednesday's incident took ...
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Scientists Develop an Antibiotic Alternative Against 'Superbugs' By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- "Superbugs" strike fear in the hearts of scientists who are racing to find new drugs to fight these dangerous infections, but British researchers now ...
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Decline in Ebola cases comes amid fragile security situation It its latest weekly Ebola assessment, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Ebola cases have dipped slightly in the past weeks, but it warned that the decline should be interpreted with extreme caution, due to the complex environment and fragile security ...
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Vaccines aren't just for kids: Why it's important for adults to keep up with their immunizations With my first grandchild due in a matter of weeks, I knew I had to be current on my own vaccinations because the baby couldn't receive immunizations for some time to come. The very last thing any grandparent wants is to introduce so much as a sniffle to the ...
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The Great American Tick Invasion After spending mornings exploring the fields, forests, and gardens of their outdoor classroom just north of New York City, the students and teachers at Little Leaf at Andrus-on-Hudson nature school perform an essential task: the tick check. The preschoolers sit ...
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At Least 1 LAPD Officer Hit With Typhoid Fever One officer is being treated for the potentially life-threatening disease, and a second employee at the station has symptoms. By California News Wire Services, News Partner | May 30, 2019 1:25 am ET ...
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Key link discovered between tissue cell type and different forms of arthritis Pioneering research by scientists at the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham published today in Nature brings us a step closer to developing targeted therapies for inflammatory diseases. The research team shows, for the first time, that different types of ...
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Psychiatrists call for warnings over antidepressant withdrawal Patients suffering severe symptoms when they come off antidepressants too quickly need more help and support, the Royal College of Psychiatrists says. Current guidance suggests that most people should be able to withdraw from the drugs over four weeks.
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Just 4400 steps a day tied to women living longer, study says (CNN) We've all heard the advice to take 10,000 steps a day, but is that precise number really necessary to reap health rewards? The optimal number may be much less dependent on your age, new research suggests. Women whose step counters reached ...
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New Hampshire Man, 86, Bitten by Rabid Bat That Crawled Out of His iPad Case A New Hampshire man is lucky to be in good health after an unexpected visitor crawled out of his iPad case. Last Thursday, Roy Syvertson sat down in his living room to use his electronic device like usual, when he discovered a bat nested between the cover ...
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Energy drinks may be linked to frightening side effects for your heart Drinking 32 ounces in an hour increased the risk of electrical disturbances in the heart, an American Heart Association study found. Mauro-Matacchione/iStock. Energy drinks could cause electrical disturbances in the heart. Author photo. By ...
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You May Not Need the 10000 Steps a Day Your Fitness Tracker is Telling You to Take Walking 10,000 steps a day has become a ubiquitous benchmark for adequate physical activity, thanks largely to wearable fitness trackers that push users to hit that target. But according to one new study, it may be a more ambitious goal than necessary, ...
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Seeing disfigured faces prompts negative brain and behavior responses People with attractive faces are often seen as more trustworthy, socially competent, better adjusted, and more capable in school and work. The correlation of attractiveness and positive character traits leads to a "beautiful is good" stereotype. However, little has ...
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Woman's 'brain tumor' turns out to be parasite growing in her head Rachel Palma's symptoms were strange and disturbing: She was having hallucinations, insomnia and "horrific nightmares." Her right hand would suddenly give way and she'd drop things. She was having trouble finding the right words and made alarming ...
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CDC ruins appetites with unsettling tick warning As the warmer summer months approach, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is using an unusual, some might say unappealing, method to warn the public about tick bites. The CDC took to Facebook Wednesday to share a post of seemingly ...
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Ultra-Processed Food, Drink Tied to Heart Disease, Earlier Death Adults whose diet included more ultra-processed foods and beverages — such as ice cream, soda, and hamburgers — were more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) or die sooner than others who had a more wholesome diet, in two large ...
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Energy drinks may have unintended health risks NEW YORK (CNN) — Energy drinks may promise a boost, but experts are increasingly concerned that their cocktails of ingredients could have unintended health risks. A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that ...
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The IBD–gut bug connection A new study led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is the first to have observed the complex set of chemical and molecular events that disrupt the microbiome and trigger immune ...
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What is rat lungworm disease? Five people in Hawaii recently found out. By Lindsey Bever | The Washington Post. Hawaii public health authorities are urging both islanders and tourists to take precautions against rat lungworm, a parasitic worm that has infected five people in the state this year. Officials with Hawaii's Department of ...
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Breastfeeding moms' milk can transfer lifelong protection against infection to their babies Mothers' breast milk can provide protection against infection that lasts for life, finds new research in mice by an international team of scientists including experts at the University of Birmingham. Previously, it was generally thought that immunity against illness ...
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How to quell a cytokine storm: New ways to dampen an overactive immune system BRCA—the family of DNA-repair proteins associated with breast, ovarian prostate, and pancreatic cancers—interacts with a multipart, molecular complex that is also responsible for regulating the immune system. When certain players in this pathway go awry, ...
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Sensor-Laden Glove Helps Robotic Hands 'Feel' By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. WEDNESDAY, May 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Holding an egg is a lot different from holding an apple or a tomato, and humans are naturally able to adjust their grip to avoid crushing or dropping each object.
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Mice Regain Their Sense of Smell After New Stem Cell Therapy Smells, like the tangy scent of the ocean or the acrid odor of smoke, are powerful cues that shape our memories and warn us of imminent threats. But for approximately 12 percent of Americans over the age of 40, this crucial sense is significantly reduced or ...
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Wellness Wednesday: Protecting your family from skin cancer this summer SALT LAKE CITY - Utah has the unfortunate distinction of having the highest rate of melanoma in the nation—a rate more than double the national average. One area - the Summit County area - has a startling rate of over 70 cases for every 100,000 people.
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New Jersey Health Department is investigating a cluster of Legionnaires' disease cases (CNN) The New Jersey Department of Health is investigating 22 Legionnaires' disease cases in Union County, the department said in a news release. Five deaths were reported in older adults who had "other significant medical conditions," according to the ...
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2 LAPD employees being treated for salmonella typhi, department says LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Los Angeles Police Department employee has contracted salmonella typhi and one other employee has salmonella typhi-like symptoms, the department said Wednesday. The department said in a statement that the first employee ...
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