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| What Will It Take To Finally End Congo's Ebola Outbreak In 2020? Last fall, Félix Tshisekedi, the president of Democratic Republic of Congo, made a triumphant prediction: Before 2019 was over, the Ebola outbreak that had ravaged his country for more than a year would finally be brought to a close. Already, health workers ... | |
| Mystery Chinese virus: How worried should we be? A mystery virus - previously unknown to science - is causing severe lung disease in the Chinese city of Wuhan. More than 50 people have been infected. Seven are currently in a critical condition. A new virus arriving on the scene, leaving patients with ... | |
| As wildfires get worse, smoke spreads, stokes health worries PARADISE, Calif. — First came the flames, a raging firestorm propelled by 50 mph (80 kph) wind gusts that incinerated Kelsey Norton's house and killed 85 people in her community. Then came the smoke — not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 ... | |
| As wildfires get worse, smoke spreads, stokes health worries PARADISE, Calif. —. F irst came the flames, a raging firestorm propelled by 50-mile-per-hour winds gusts that incinerated Kelsey Norton's house and killed 85 people in her community. Then came the smoke — not just from the forest but also from 14,000 ... | |
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| More details emerge on new coronavirus in Wuhan cluster Shortly after initial news emerged that a new coronavirus has been identified in Wuhan's unexplained pneumonia outbreak, Chinese scientists close to the investigation revealed a few more details via Chinese media, including that they isolated the virus from ... | |
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| Confirmed Case Of Measles In Boston BOSTON, MA — After a Northeastern University student who lives in Boston was diagnosed with measles yesterday, the Boston Public Health Commission is warning people about potential exposure in 10 public places the infected individual visited — from ... | |
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| Flu Cases Surge Early, Could a Tough Season Lie Ahead? By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay). THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- This year's flu season has already turned bad quickly, and experts worry the worst is still to come. Flu cases and flu-related hospitalizations have risen ... | |
| Green Tea Drinkers May Live Longer By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- People who love their green tea may also enjoy longer, healthier lives, a large new study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 100,000 Chinese adults they tracked ... | |
| DNA damage linked to plastic additive Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the New York State Department of Health have discovered how a common plasticizer associated with human reproductive abnormalities likely does its damage at the molecular level. For years, scientists have ... | |
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| Slimming Down 'Tongue Fat' Might Help Ease Sleep Apnea By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter. FRIDAY, Jan. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- People with sleep apnea are often told to lose weight to ease their symptoms. Now a new study suggests that shedding fat in a particular trouble spot may be key: the tongue. | |
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| Vaping Kills a 15-Year-Old in Texas Cases of lung illness and deaths from vaping have tapered off since peaking in September, health officials said on Thursday, but the outbreak also reached a grim new milestone: The youngest death, of a 15-year-old, was reported by Dallas County Health ... | |
| 'My ability to see depends on men giving blood' A woman who would lose her vision if there was not enough male blood available to treat her condition is urging more men to donate. Jo Daniels, 39, from Bristol, has the autoimmune disease Sjorgen's syndrome, which attacks her tear glands and leaves her ... | |
| Plant-based, Keto, Whole30: What All Those Trendy Diets Mean Many fad diets have come and gone through the years. Some are effective guidelines that help people manage their weight or address health concerns. And others have been renounced as unhealthy or even dangerous by professionals once they hit the ... | |
| 4-Year-Old May Lose Vision After Battling Flu Jan. 9, 2020 -- Jade DeLucia, 4, of Iowa may be going home today after a bout of the flu landed her in the intensive care unit fighting for her life and her eyesight. Jade was flown to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital and diagnosed with the ... | |
| A Fat Tongue May Be Blocking Your Airways While You Sleep Millions of Americans stop breathing in their sleep, and there may be a strange reason why: Their tongues are too fat. Yes, you read that right: Fatty tongues seem to worsen the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), at least in cases related to obesity, ... | |
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| As wildfires get worse, smoke spreads, stokes health worries First came the flames, a raging firestorm propelled by 50 mph wind gusts that incinerated Kelsey Norton's house and killed 85 people in her community. Then came the smoke - not just from the forest but also from some 14,000 houses and their contents that ... | |
| Processed Foods Are Making Americans Obese THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- The convenience and lower cost of processed foods is hard to resist. But ready-to-eat meals and snacks are making Americans obese and unhealthy, a new study suggests. As more people eat cheaper ... | |
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| Study Finds Racial Disparities With Breast Cancer Diagnosis Racial and ethnic minority women are more likely than white women to be diagnosed with breast cancer at a later stage, according to a study released Thursday. The JAMA Oncology study, which included more than 177,000 women in its sample, found that ... | |
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| Harvard researchers say these habits can keep you healthy longer Got room for another New Year's resolution? How about several? Harvard researchers say these five habits will not only make you live longer, they'll keep you healthy longer. □ Not smoking. □ Eating a healthy diet. Read full article. □ Regularly exercising. | |
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| Avoid these five risk factors and live longer, study says (CNN) How would you like to add seven to 10 healthy, disease-free years to your life as you age? Try eliminating these five bad health habits: smoking, not exercising, being overweight, drinking too much alcohol and eating an unhealthy diet. A 'blue ... | |
| Body Temperature 2.0: Do We Need to Rethink What's Normal? We seem to be getting cooler. Since 1851, when the standard was set at 37 degrees centigrade, or 98.6 Fahrenheit, the average human body temperature has steadily declined. Researchers studied three databases: 23,710 readings obtained between 1862 ... | |
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| Doctors are doing unnecessary pelvic exams on teens More than a million girls and young women have gotten an unnecessary medical procedure in recent years that could traumatize them or jeopardize their ability to carry a pregnancy to term. That procedure is the Pap test, a common way of screening for ... | |
| Losing tongue fat improves sleep apnea Losing weight is an effective treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), but why exactly this is the case has remained unclear. Now, researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that improvements in ... | |
| How to Protect Your Home from Colds and the Flu Home sweet home — it may seem like the safest place to be, but when it comes to germs and pathogens, like cold and flu viruses, it's actually quite vulnerable. Turns out your house is replete with all sorts of germs and bacteria hiding in plain sight. And while ... | |
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| Study Finds No Association Between Powder Use and Ovarian Cancer An analysis of 4 US cohorts showed no statistically significant association between use of powder in the genital area and incidence of ovarian cancer, according to a study published in JAMA.1. The study analyzed data from a total of 252,745 women with a ... | |
| Fox Valley sees jump in number of flu cases With a big increase in the number of people testing positive for the influenza virus in the last few weeks, health departments in the Fox Valley are urging anyone who's not been vaccinated to get a flu shot. The flu season has "gotten off to a fast start this year," ... | |
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| Cigarette Smoking Linked to Higher Rates of Depression It is well-established that cigarette smoking is linked to a greater risk of physical health problems, including lung cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and low birth weight. Now a new study finds that smoking is significantly linked to depression as well. | |
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| Fatty tongues could be main driver of sleep apnoea A sleep disorder that can leave people gasping for breath at night could be linked to the amount of fat on their tongues, a study suggests. When sleep apnoea patients lost weight, it was the reduction in tongue fat that lay behind the resulting improvements, ... | |
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