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Measles Outbreaks Strain Local Health Departments Measles first appeared in Clark County, Wash., on New Year's Eve, when a child who had traveled from Ukraine arrived at an urgent-care clinic. By January 15, the outbreak had taken over the local health department, with two additional confirmed cases and ...
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Ebola crosses a porous border This week the Ebola virus crossed from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Uganda, but there are reasons to hope it can be contained on that side of the border, reports Olivia Acland. On Monday morning, a family was heading from the Democratic ...
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Without swift action on climate change, heat waves could kill thousands in US cities If global warming seems to some people like a distant or abstract threat, new research casts the phenomenon in stark, life-or-death terms. It predicts that in the absence of significant progress in efforts to curb emissions of temperature-raising greenhouse ...
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Salmonella outbreak connected to backyard poultry expands to 41 states, sickens hundreds: CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week announced the salmonella outbreak that has been linked to backyard poultry — such as chicks and ducklings — has expanded, sickening a total of 279 people across 41 states. The CDC ...
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Hancock pledges hospital food overhaul after listeria deaths Health secretary Matt Hancock has ordered a "root and branch" review of NHS food after two more patient deaths were linked last week to a listeria outbreak. The new deaths bring the number of suspected fatalities to five and doctors have warned that further ...
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Tick, mosquito disease cases multiply, straining resources for research, treatment More than 600,000 Americans contracted Lyme and other diseases from infected ticks and mosquitoes between 2004 and 2016, more than tripling the number of reported cases of vector-borne diseases. But the number of actual cases during the 12-year ...
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Teagan Appleby's seized medicinal cannabis returned A mother who had medicinal cannabis for her severely epileptic daughter confiscated as she arrived back from Holland has had the drugs returned. Emma Appleby had a three-month dose of THC oil and cannabidiol (CBD) seized at Gatwick Airport on 6 June ...
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US immigration authorities fear mumps outbreak in detention facilities Officials say they have quarantined 5,200 migrants at 39 detention facilities across the country, most after exposure to mumps. An outbreak of the mumps virus in the U.S. government's crowded immigration detention facilities is adding a new strain to a system ...
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Release of chronic wasting disease plan delayed; outreach continues About an hour ago. It's all about speed when it comes to controlling chronic wasting disease. And yet, the Pennsylvania Game Commission is delaying release of its disease management plan. That's by design, said Bryan Burhans, executive director of the ...
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12-year-old girl creates teddy bear-themed IV covers for children scared of needles Ella Casano is not your typical 12-year-old girl. The young girl from Fairfield, Connecticut has to receive an IV transfusion every six to eight weeks, which mean she consistently faces what most kids hate — needles. Ella Casano, 12, has an autoimmune ...
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Religious Exemptions For Vaccines No Longer Allowed In New York All children in New York, regardless of religious belief, are now required to get their vaccination amid the ongoing measles outbreak across the state. New Law Bars Vaccine Exemptions For Religious Reasons. A law passed on Thursday, June 13, bans ...
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Head Injuries Tied to Motorized Scooters Are Rising: Study SUNDAY, June 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Head injuries from riding electric scooters without a helmet are on the rise, a new study reports. Between 2008 and 2017, nearly 32,000 injuries were estimated nationwide, according to a review of records in the ...
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ICE Quarantines 5200 Detained Immigrants Who Were Exposed To The Mumps & Chickenpox U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reported seeing a dramatic increase in the number of immigrants exposed to highly-contagious viral infections. According to CNN, ICE has quarantined 5,200 immigrants for mumps or chickenpox ...
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Mental illness is a serious but treatable problem, experts say MARIETTA — Mental health experts say you have a one in five chance of experiencing mental illness at some point in your life. Mental illness affects people of all races and stations, even when expert help runs in the family, said Ann Keller, a licensed ...
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A bad tick year? Every year is a bad one, experts say. WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Ticks don't just hope you walk by so they can latch on. They formally quest for a victim by crawling to the top of leafy vegetation all over Delaware. There, they wave their teeny arms in hopes of catching a ride to a delicious meal of ...
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BAME doctors more likely to be investigated than white ones Nine years ago, a patient died under the care of surgeon David Sellu. He was jailed but his conviction was quashed after an appeal. Mr Sellu believes his race had an impact on how his case was handled, and he has raised concerns about how the General ...
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Health talk: What's so bad about processed foods? Scientists offer clues NEW YORK (AP) — Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there's something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us. Already, the spread of cheap, packaged foods has ...
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A deadly deer disease is spreading. Could it strike people, too? Jeannine Fleegle reached into a garbage bag, pulled out a severed deer head and placed it on a folding table. "This is no one's favorite time of year," Fleegle said, picking up a scalpel. It was a chilly morning, and Fleegle, a wildlife biologist for the ...
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Seven baby monkeys poisoned at US research center, documents reveal Seven infant monkeys were accidentally poisoned and died at one of the largest primate research centers in the US, internal documents shared with the Guardian have revealed. The young macaques died after their mothers were marked with dye at the ...
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How to check your moles Most moles are harmless, but some can be cancerous, so it's important to monitor them. A skin cancer screening specialist explains what to look for. Claire Crilly. Sun 16 Jun 2019 10.30 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via Email. Shares. 0.
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Tolono woman dealing with effects of West Nile infection TOLONO, Ill. (AP) — There was a time when Beth Swigart didn't pay that much attention to West Nile virus and the annual warnings about mosquito bites. That's changed since she got West Nile virus herself last fall and was ill for months. The 55-year-old ...
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Gift of Life offer men's healthcare and prostate cancer screenings in June (Editor's note: A man agreed to allow this reporter to follow him through each station at the 2018 Gift of Life's Men's Healthcare and Prostate Cancer Screenings with the stipulation we did not reveal his name or face. We agreed because who he is was not as ...
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Woman told to 'eat a salad' by fatphobic Tinder date loses 13 stone A 27 stone woman who was humiliated by a cruel Tinder date that told her to eat a salad shed 16 stone (Picture: Hannah Bean/ Caters News). Tinder matches can sometimes be awful. When Hannah Bean, a woman from Perth, Australia, was excitedly ...
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Excess weight, body fat associated with cardiovascular diseases According to a study published in the European Heart Journal, as body mass index and fat mass increase, so does the risk of aortic valve stenosis. ANI | Published: June 16, 2019 5:00 pm. Facebook share · Twitter share · Share on Whatsapp.
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Mum dies after mistaking symptoms of deadly disease for start of menopause A mum died from a brain tumour after thinking warning signs were the start of the menopause. Former nurse, Lucy Farnsworth, 52, went to see her doctor as she had started to forget things and initially put it down to the menopause . But when her GP saw she ...
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Anxiety Is The New Depression Dr. Gregory Jantz, Founder of The Center • A Place of HOPE, Mental Health Expert, Radio Host, Best-Selling Author of 37 Books. Women contemplating and feeling stressed. The sheer numbers speak for themselves – anxiety is the new depression.
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Excess weight, body fat cause cardiovascular diseases: Study Turns out, excess weight does more harm to the human body than we might think. According to a recent study, excess weight and body fat cause a range of heart and blood vessel diseases. In particular, the study published in the European Heart Journal, ...
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Guys Are Sharing How They've Helped Friends Deal With Depression Mental health remains a subject surrounded by stigma, which is slowly being broken down through open and honest conversations. Communication on this topic is especially crucial for men, who often suffer in silence; suicide rates among men continue to ...
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Strokes are beatable but don't ignore the brain Don't ignore the brain - take care of the grey cells like the way you take care of your heart. The message is simple and alarming - in India, the number of strokes is increasing and it is not wrong to say that it is lifestyle related. Two actors, Sanjay Dutt and Jackie ...
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'Every 20 seconds, 1 Indian suffers a brain-stroke' Every 20 seconds, one Indian suffers a brain stroke, or three every minute, and the numbers are increasing alarmingly due to changing lifestyles. At this rate, around 1.54 million Indians are affected by strokes every year and the worse is 90 per cent of stroke ...
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Why It's Important to Embrace Autism Research Research is very important for parents to understand—unfortunately, it isn't something that a lot of families have time for or can easily access. It may seem that research exists in an ivory tower. I want to inspire you to embrace research. It helps inform the ...
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Pakistan struggles with unprecedented HIV infections in children UN health teams are struggling to control an outbreak of HIV in southern Pakistan's Sindh province; most of those infected are children. Facing a lack of sufficient antiretroviral drugs, health authorities are concerned that if the HIV cases are left untreated, they ...
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Heavy red meat eaters at increased risk of death Increasing red meat consumption, particularly processed red meat, is associated with a higher risk of death, researchers warned. IANS. Leave a comment. June 16, 2019 15:17 IST. For the study, a team of researchers from Harvard University looked at the link ...
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Asthma Patients Skipping Doses Owing to High Cost Out-of-pocket costs are preventing many people from taking vital asthma medication, says a new study, calling for urgent interventions to promote discussions between patients and doctors about the cost of medicines to treat asthma. The most commonly ...
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"Virtual Biopsy" accurately detects skin tumors in 15 minutes A Rutgers University scientists have developed a new "virtual biopsy" device that can quickly determine a skin lesion's depth and potential malignancy without using a scalpel. The device performs virtual biopsies of skin lesions, by combining optical ...
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Cure for HIV: New drug to be used for treating HIV after experts find it more effective than stem cell treatment A group of researchers has found that a drug used to treat leukemia may be helpful in ridding HIV positive patients of the disease. The report was published by a UK newspaper and it revealed that some researchers have been conducting trials on monkeys ...
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International Men's Health Week 2019: 8 Medical Tests That Every Man Must Take and Why! International Men's Health Week is on and its all about highlighting the health issues faced by the males. The week starting from June 10 to June 16, 2019, is dedicated to all kinds of physical, mental, and social well-being, experienced by men. Did you know ...
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Is Restorative cannabis preliminary starts for Australian veterans with PTSD? An Australian-first preliminary utilizing medicinal cannabis to treat returned servicemen and ladies experiencing post-awful stress issue (PTSD) has been propelled today that targets defence personnel who have not had a reaction to traditional medications.
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Baby Blues vs. Postpartum Depression: 5 Similarities & 5 Differences All veteran moms will tell you that no matter how much you look forward to the birth of your little one, the stress will get to you at some point. You may love your baby with every fiber of your being, but sleep deprivation, lack of 'me' time, and added ...
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Brain tumour accounts for over 24000 deaths in India annually - IACR G Plus News | June 15, 2019 15:44 hrs. Banner. Representative Image. GUWAHATI: Brain tumour accounts for more 24,000 deaths in India annually, according to the Globocan 2018 report, released by International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR).
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation downsizes proposed low-income apartment project A Los Angeles-based foundation providing medical care for HIV patients downsized the density of its proposed apartment development in Fort Lauderdale for low-income people. AIDS Healthcare Foundation reduced to 500 from 680 the number of ...
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