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Scientists Genetically Modify Fungus To Kill Mosquitoes That Spread Malaria An Anopheles coluzzi mosquito, which can transmit malaria, with a genetically modified fungus emerging from the body after the insect's death. A green fluorescent protein was included to mark the fungus, shown under a UV light. Courtesy of Brian Lovett hide ...
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LAPD fined for filthy conditions and rats at headquarters, where employee fell ill An LAPD employee at the downtown station contracted the bacteria that causes typhus fever, and records show the state has fined the department for rodent infestations and failure to train employees about the disease. The California Department of Industrial ...
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New US Measles Cases Break 25-Year-Old Record, Health Officials Say The number of new measles cases in the United States so far this year has hit 971, exceeding a record established 25 years ago that covered a whole year of new measles cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.
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US measles cases in first five months of 2019 surpass total for any year since 1994 The United States has reported 971 cases of measles in the first five months of 2019, the greatest number since 1994, when 963 cases were reported for the entire year, federal health officials said Thursday. The agency has typically been updating its measles ...
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US measles cases reach highest number in nearly three decades, CDC says (CNN) There have been 971 cases of measles reported in the United States this year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. This means 2019, which is not quite half over, now has the greatest number of cases in a single year in ...
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US measles cases reach highest level in 27 years The number of measles cases reported in the U.S. this year has now reached a level not seen in 27 years, causing concern among public health officials that the country could soon lose its measles elimination status. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
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These Mole Rats Felt No Pain, Even From Wasabi's Burn If you've ever taken a big bite of wasabi, you know what comes next: a painful zing that creeps over your whole scalp. You aren't the only animal that feels this way. The condiment's sinus-burning kick comes from a chemical compound called allyl ...
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Union: LA officer gets typhoid fever, 5 others show symptoms LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles police detective has been diagnosed with typhoid fever, a rare illness typically spread through contaminated food or water, and at least five other officers who work in the same station are showing symptoms, union officials ...
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Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research Say you are prescribed medication for depression, anxiety or even just to sleep. Would you want to take it if you knew that the drug had only been tested on men and male animals? Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University in Boston, ...
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Sad during pregnancy? It's more common than you may think The physical side effects of pregnancy are well-known — nausea, fatigue, that telltale swell of the belly. But pregnancy can also have serious effects on a woman's mental health. And while postpartum depression gets a lot of attention (and rightfully so, as it ...
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Race disparity in US prostate cancer deaths disappears with equal care (Reuters Health) - Black men are more likely to die of prostate cancer than white men in the U.S., but a new study suggests this racial disparity may be largely due to differences in the medical care men receive. Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with ...
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GM fungus rapidly kills 99% of malaria mosquitoes, study suggests A fungus - genetically enhanced to produce spider toxin - can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria, a study suggests. Trials, which took place in Burkina Faso, showed mosquito populations collapsed by 99% within 45 days.
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Measles Cases Reach Highest Level in More Than 25 Years, CDC Says There have been more measles cases in the United States the first five months of 2019 than there were in all of 1994, when the last large outbreak occurred, federal health officials said on Thursday, in part because of the spread of misinformation about ...
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Companies Report Progress on Blood Tests to Detect Cancer By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer. A California company says its experimental blood test was able to detect many types of cancer at an early stage and gave very few false alarms in a study that included people with and without the ...
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'How can she have HIV?':Pakistan town struggles with surge in infections RATODERO, Pakistan (Reuters) - Doctors in a town in Pakistan are struggling to cope with a surge in patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, with nearly 700 cases since April, most of them children. A two-year-old HIV-positive girl, who is under ...
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Researchers avoid 'messy' hormonal female mice. And that hurts women Is sexism getting in the way of good science? An essay published in Thursday's edition of the journal Science argues that the stereotypes that have plagued women since at least the 1800s — that they are emotional creatures who are more prone to ...
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Pancreatic cancer specialist explains treatment advances and challenges With Alex Trebek's recent announcement that his pancreatic cancer is in remission, many people have wondered if this difficult cancer is now easier to treat. Pancreatic cancer remains a major cancer killer, but advances are happening. As a medical ...
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Women Under 50 More Likely to Get Cancer Than Men Men are more likely than women to get and die from cancer – unless they're between the ages of 20 and 49. Overall cancer death rates have been falling for years, driven largely by plummeting smoking rates and earlier disease detection and treatment.
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What 10000 Steps Will Really Get You In America, the conventional wisdom of how to live healthily is full of axioms that long ago shed their origins. Drink eight glasses of water a day. Get eight hours of sleep. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Two thousand calories is a normal diet.
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US Cancer Cases, Deaths Continue to Fall By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). 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 ...
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How the Microbiome Might Predict Diabetes, Premature Birth and Gut Diseases Over the last 10 years, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has invested $170 million to better understand the universe of bacteria that live within us—the so-called microbiome. In the first phase of the project, researchers focused on cataloguing the myriad ...
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Teasing Kids About Weight Linked to More Weight Gain By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- New research illustrates a heartbreaking, vicious cycle: Teasing kids about their weight not only bruises their self-esteem, it also appears to trigger more ...
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Many Feel 'Frozen' When Heart Attack Strikes By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- When a heart attack occurs, delaying treatment by even a few minutes could be deadly. But many people wait hours after symptoms set in to get care -- either ...
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Naked mole rat genes could hold the secret to pain relief without opioids Anyone with an annoying roommate story knows that a difficult living situation can change you in many ways. Now, imagine that instead of just eating all of your food from the refrigerator, that annoying roommate could actually cause genetic changes designed ...
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'Highly Processed' Food Linked to Earlier Death By Amy Norton. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- People who get many of their meals from packages may have heightened risks of heart disease, stroke and premature death, two large studies suggest. The findings ...
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Trial: Gains Seen on Inoperable Pancreatic Cancer By Robert Preidt. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A new treatment protocol for locally advanced pancreatic cancer can enable surgical removal of previously inoperable tumors and improve survival rates, according to a ...
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UK satellite 'sets sail' for return to Earth A British satellite in space has just "set sail" to return to Earth. TechDemoSat-1 was launched in 2014 to trial a number of new in-orbit technologies but has now reached the end of its operational life. To bring it out of the sky faster than would ordinarily be the ...
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'Thousands of excess deaths' from popular heartburn drugs A new study links long-term use of proton pump inhibitors to fatal cases of cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and upper gastrointestinal cancer. Past research has linked extended use of these drugs, which treat heartburn, ulcers, and acid reflux, ...
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Ancient feces reveal parasites in 8000-year-old village of Çatalhöyük Microscopic egg of whipworm from Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Black scale bar represents 20 micrometres. Image Credit: Evilena Anastasiou. New research published today in the journal Antiquity reveals that ancient faeces from the prehistoric village of Çatalhöyük ...
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Changes to immune genes link paternal smoking with childhood asthma Children exposed to paternal tobacco smoking before birth are more likely to develop asthma—and associated changes to immune genes predict the level of risk. These are the findings of a new study of Taiwanese families, whose lifestyle and genetic ...
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80% of antibiotics prescribed before dental visits are unnecessary Around 80% of antibiotics prescribed for infection prophylaxis before dental visits are unnecessary, findings from a large retrospective cohort study published today in JAMA Network Open suggest. Dentists prescribe approximately 10% of antibiotics in the ...
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Childhood adversity linked to early puberty, premature brain development, mental illness Growing up in poverty and experiencing traumatic events like a bad accident or sexual assault can impact brain development and behavior in children and young adults. Low socioeconomic status (L-SES) and the experience of traumatic stressful events ...
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Union: LA officer gets typhoid fever, 5 others show symptoms LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles police detective has been diagnosed with typhoid fever, a rare illness typically spread through contaminated food or water, and at least five other officers who work in the same station are showing symptoms, union ...
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'Sugar taxes' and warning labels could finally get people to eat less junk food and drink fewer sugary drinks Policy interventions could help consumers sour on sugary sodas and fruit juices. So-called "sugar taxes" and front-of-package nutrition labels may have a real impact, according to experimental research published in the International Journal of Behavioral ...
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Typhoid Fever In The LAPD: What You Need to Know The LAPD says at least one officer has tested positive for Salmonella Typhi — the bacteria that causes typhoid fever. The officer, who does not have typhoid fever itself, is a detective assigned to the Central Division located on Skid Row, the department said.
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'How can she have HIV?':Pakistan town struggles with surge in infections By Syed Raza Hassan. RATODERO, Pakistan (Reuters) - Doctors in a town in Pakistan are struggling to cope with a surge in patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, with nearly 700 cases since April, most of them children. Health officials ...
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Dire Consequence of Persistent Heartburn Drug Use Scientists in the U.S. have linked long term use of a common class of heartburn drug with fatal cases of cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and upper gastrointestinal cancer. Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) drugs suppress the production of gastric ...
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Mumps outbreak hits UF, report says; are more students infected? Most of the 12 confirmed cases of mumps in Alachua County involve students at the University of Florida, and school officials believe more may be infected, according to a report from WGFL, the CBS affiliate in Gainesville. "This is a little more than usual,'' UF ...
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ASCO: Grail's blood test identifies 12 cancers before they can spread in early study results Since its presentation at last year's ASCO meeting, Grail has refined its approach to target DNA methylation instead of the genetic code itself. Epigenetic methylation can present abnormal patterns that betray the presence of cancer, and can contribute to ...
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A Less Invasive Fix Works Well for Abdominal Aneurysm By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Bulges (aneurysms) in the abdominal aorta can pose real danger, but research suggests a less invasive method may be as good a fix for the problem as ...
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Middle-Aged Men May Need to Check For Thinning Bones By Amy Norton. HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Brittle bones are often seen as a woman's health issue, but low bone mass may be more common among middle-aged men than generally thought, a small study suggests.
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Chief medical officer considering tax on unhealthy food England's chief medical officer says she is considering taxing unhealthy food to persuade parents to buy more fresh fruit and vegetables. Prof Dame Sally Davies has been asked to urgently review what more can be done to meet the government's target of ...
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LAPD officers being treated for typhoid fever, typhus-like symptoms LAPD officers being treated for typhoid fever, typhus-like symptoms originally appeared on abcnews.go.com. At least one officer with the Los Angeles Police Department has contracted the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella typhi, and another one ...
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Pediatricians don't always get adequate suicide-prevention training (Reuters Health) - Although experts supervising new pediatricians and teaching trainee doctors agree that preventing child and teen suicide is important, most also say current training isn't adequate, according to a new U.S. study. The training isn't always ...
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Sweeping study of more than 100000 people finds that ice cream, pizza and bacon could be killing us Processed food could mean an early death sentence for those who overeat treats like ice cream, pizza and bacon. Two separate studies from France and Spain published in The British Medical Journal this week suggest eating processed food leads to an ...
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Children under five dying at higher rate in Congo Ebola epidemic - WHO GENEVA (Reuters) - Children under five infected with Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are dying at a higher rate than other patients as their parents shun special treatment centres, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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Polio: Pakistan transmission continues to be widespread, Iran reports additional WPV1 environmental sample By NewsDesk @bactiman63. In an update on the global polio situation, at the twenty-first meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) regarding the international spread of poliovirus, the Committee ...
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'Controlled Burns' Better for Kids' Health Than Wildfires: Study By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, May 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Recent forest fires in the western United States have put a spotlight on a fire-management approach called controlled burning. Health researchers are ...
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Researchers discover a new way to protect against high-dose radiation damage Radiotherapy is one of the most effective ways to destroy cancer cells and shrink tumors. Around 50 percent of patients with tumors located in the gastrointestinal cavity (liver, pancreas, colon, prostate, etc) receive this type of treatment, which has increased ...
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A new molecular mechanism could explain the origins of the depressive symptoms in Huntington's disease About 40 percent of the affected patients with Huntington's disease—a neurodegenerative pathology- show depression symptoms, even in early stages before the apparition of the typical motor symptoms of the disease. An altered function of Cdk5 kinase—an ...
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