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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Medical DailyHere's how you can use a psychological trick known as "anchoring" to give you a leg up in bargaining.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Medical DailyScience may be close to supporting those post-workout indulgences.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Newer Test for Down Syndrome Called 'Major Advance' Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Appears to be part of a national trend.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from WebMD Health Headlines
Strain of Shigella is easily transmitted and causes tough-to-treat diarrhea, CDC says -
Thursday, April 2, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessThe following post was originally featured on Eating Bird Food and written by Brittany Mullins , who is part of POPSUGAR Select Fitness . I don't know what it is about Greek salads, but they're so delicious. Perhaps it's the feta? The si...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Medical Xpress - spotlight medical and health news storiesThe placenta can be used to reliably measure arsenic exposure in pregnant women and how much of the toxic metal is transferred to their fetuses, a Dartmouth College study shows.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Medical DailyDifferent cultures have different beauty standards, but one academic wanted to find out what the most ideal man and woman were.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyThe age to receive full Social Security benefits should be closer to 70, according to a report. 'We're living longer and healthier than ever before, but the statutory age of retirement for receiving Social Security benefits doesn't refle...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Night Owls Run Higher Risk of Health Problems, Study Finds Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from LiveScience.comJoni Mitchell has said she suffers from the strange and controversial condition called Morgellons disease.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- A visit from a Russian patient brings up cultural competency issues for Fred N. Pelzman, MD.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Early Tests of Experimental Ebola Vaccine Show Promise Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyThe saying 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' may not hold up to scientific scrutiny. Baboons born in times of famine are more vulnerable to food shortages later in life, finds a new study. The findings are important because they...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from WebMD Health Headlines
Classical tunes seemed to relax felines the most, study says -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from Natural HealthIn this guest blog by Samantha Zipporah, full spectrum doula and holistic sexual health educator, the relationship between the natural cycles of the earth and the woman are poetically explored.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyUsing herpesvirus, molecular immunologists have discovered a cellular process that activates a critical immune defense against pathogens, which could have implications for developing drugs to bolster one's immunity to infection. Some her...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Medical Xpress - spotlight medical and health news storiesIn work that reconciles two competing views of brain structures involved in memory and spatial perception, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have conducted experiments that suggest the hippocampus - a ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Is it worthwhile to wait on that do-not-resuscitate order after brain bleed?
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessEnough of the snow and ice! We're dreaming about sandy beaches and warm waves, so we're planning ahead workout-wise, too. It's time to focus on the abs now that we can push our puffy jackets and chunky sweaters to the backs of our closet...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: More TV Time May Mean Higher Diabetes Risk, Study Finds Category: Health News Created: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Excess Weight Early in Life Linked to Colon Cancer Risk in Women Category: Health News Created: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Singaporean study also notes dietary intakes of soy and legumes may reduce risk.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessHowever you spend Easter Sunday, brunch is usually part of the program. Instead of filling up on empty calories that will make you feel sluggish and heavy, go the healthy route. Healthy doesn't mean you'll be missing out! These recipes t...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Shigellosis cluster was resistant to first-line antibiotic, the agency found.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessSmoothies are a refreshing and delicious way to offer your body quality nutrition, but when there's a laundry list of ingredients that require chopping, washing, and close measuring, some of the appeal dissipates. Here are 10 of our favo...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Health Impact News
I have been on just about every seizure medications there are, including clinical trial medications. None of them have ever stopped my seizures. I've been putting 2 tablespoons of coconut oil in smoothies every day. I have been seizure f... -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Man's Iced Tea Habit May Have Swamped His Kidneys Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyApproximately 2 million kidney disease patients in the world receive some sort of dialysis treatment. Now researchers say that in these patients, high parathyroid hormone levels and subsequent bone loss are major risk factors for worseni...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSThoratec Corporation, a world leader in device-based mechanical circulatory support therapies to save, support and restore failing hearts, today announced that it received final approval from the FDA to broaden enrollment of the HeartMat...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: All That Googling May Make People Feel Smarter Than They Are Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
- The Ironman series — triathlons with a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile run — is widely considered the ultimate test for endurance athletes. Shorter versions all over the world attract both serious athletes competing for priz...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessThere's a lot of confusing information out there about whether fat in dairy products is good for you. Dietitian Julie Upton, MS, RD, of Appetite For Health , is here to shed light on what you should be consuming for optimal health. If re...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Serving in Iraq, Afghanistan Not Behind Rising Suicide Rates in Military: Study Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSVirginia Hospital Center, for a remarkable third year, has been named one of America's 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics. In addition, Virginia Hospital Center is the only hospital in the Virginia, Washington, DC and Baltimore...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Psych CentralProof that others have found progress and recovery in mental illness is important. Proof that someone else struggled and found hope: That’s huge. In Same Time Next Week: True Stories of […]
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from WebMD Health Headlines
It's the amount of time spent gaming that has a greater impact, researchers contend -
Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Regaining one's bearings can be a struggle.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyPersonalized melanoma vaccines can be used to marshal a powerful immune response against unique mutations in patients' tumors, according to early data in a first-in-people clinical trial.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessOften we reach for coffee, sports drinks, or even (yuck) energy drinks to help us make it to that after-work HIIT training class. But before you gulp down a sugary or heart-racing formula, try a more natural option: a beet-infused, homem...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSQuest Diagnostics, the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today awarded Supplier Excellence Awards to five companies at its 2015 Supplier Forum.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from LiveScience.comA splash of bleach can kill germs on a kitchen counter, but it may also cause health problems in children, a new study finds.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyNew research suggests that Corexit EC9500A, an oil-dispersal agentl, contributes to damage to epithelium cells within the lungs of humans and gills of marine creatures. The study also identifies an enzyme that is expressed in epithelial ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Rodale News - HealthA cold glass of iced tea can be a healthy, refreshing drink (especially if it's unsweetened and doesn't have caramel coloring ). But even healthy foods can have their downsides, as shown by a new study in the New England Journal ...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Study finds many commonalities, but no evidence of excess mortality.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Medical DailySpot a liar with these tell-tale signs, from too much eye contact to a change in tone of voice, without a lie detector.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from WebMD Health Headlines
A green tea habit is tied to a lower risk for dementia and mild declines in thinking and memory among older people, a new Japanese study shows. -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Study Supports Use of Laparoscopic Surgery for Rectal Cancer Category: Health News Created: 4/1/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- No significant differences among three approaches to antibiotic therapy for community-acquired pneumonia.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Delay vaccine and risk altered immune response and increased infection.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[New Dawn] Amidst the death of Liberia's latest Ebola victim, who was widely believed to have been infected by an Ebola survivor boyfriend, the Partnership for Research on Ebola Vaccines in Liberia or PREVAIL, says it plans to launch a n...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from CBS News - HealthIs the $2 billion women's skin care industry losing face? The New York Times highlights the growing trend that could save you money, but there are some important differences to know before you buy. Dr. Elizabeth Hale, NYU Langone Medical...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from FOXNews.comEvery three weeks, Dr. Jennifer Pate, 47, receives life-saving intravenous immunoglobulin infusions. Without them, her immune system is defenseless against potentially lethal infection.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Philly.com Health and ScienceA week after the New Jersey State Assembly passed bills that would require the Health Department to improve the troubled medical-marijuana program and consider adding post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments that qualify fo...
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Forbes - HealthLast night the celebrity billionaire Mark Cuban ignited a firestorm on Twitter with the following recommendation to his 2.7 million followers: 1)If you can afford to have your blood tested for everything available, do it quarterly so you...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comIn my empowerment coaching practice, I work closely with clients to create their ideal lives, revamp what's going on for them and challenge them to live better overall. The one thing I've noticed with all of my clients who are successful...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > HealthCan you figure out what’s wrong with a 64-year-old woman who has episodes of erratic breathing?
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Washington Times stories: HealthJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A prescription drug monitoring system that supporters say would be the most secure in the country was approved Thursday by the Missouri Senate. Missouri is the only state in the U.S. without a system to track p...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Washington Times stories: HealthHOBART, Australia (AP) - A seriously ill man reached an Australian hospital on Friday more than two weeks after he suffered a medical emergency at a remote Antarctic base. The patient was admitted to a hospital in Hobart, Australia's mos...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comMotivational speaker and author Tim Storey is known as a "pastor to the stars." In 1992, he founded a small Bible study in the home of Hollywood actress Dyan Cannon. What began as an intimate group has now grown to a massive gathering kn...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comI have a friend who from the very moment we met, we were soul sisters. She had just moved out to LA from NY and was given my number by a mutual friend. From the moment I opened my door, there was an instant connection between us. We had ...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Society: Health | theguardian.comSearch warrants served following concerns about the deaths of four patients on Alderney Police have raided a doctors’ surgery after concersns were raised about the deaths of four patients in the Channel Islands. Ten officers from Guernse...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Washington Times stories: HealthST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Officials say the discovery of bird flu at another Minnesota turkey farm is unfortunate but not a crisis. Authorities confirmed Thursday that the H5N2 strain of avian influenza has been found at a turkey farm with ...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Concord] A Pratt -Traditional rulers, parents and teenagers last Tuesday discussed teenage pregnancy and rape and how they affect adolescents in Kailahun district.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is urging all Liberians to remain united and continue to have confidence and trust in the government's ability to rebuild the country during the post-Ebola recovery period. "I w...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Health | Mail OnlineHealthy teenagers can develop heart problems after drinking just one can of a high-caffeine drink. Cardiologists in Madrid found the popular drinks can cause heart attacks and erratic heartbeats.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from FOXNews.comA British teen who tugged at heart strings internationally after developing a rare disease that caused her body to mimic that of a 100-year-old’s has died at age 17, news.sky.com reported.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Ghanaian Chronicle] Community redistribution of gender roles is vital in reducing unpaid care work. Socially assigned roles pronounced on girls and women immensely affect them economically, social and politically.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Health - chicagotribune.comTwo women were arrested Thursday on charges they plotted to wage violent jihad by building a homemade bomb and using it for a Boston Marathon-type attack.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Global News : Health
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is advising consumers against eating Kirkland Signature brand roasted chicken salad and various Sobeys chicken salads due to possible listeria contamination. -
Friday, April 3, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Leadership] Some stakeholders in the health sector on Thursday advised the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, to give priority to the health sector to raise the country's GDP.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.com"How'd you like to lose weight, Fat Ass?" asked my friend Subash right after Christmas this year. The holidays had not been good to me. Scratch that -- the holiday food had not been good to me. Without my realizing, and we never realize,...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comWith the recent news that the World Health Organization's (WHO's) International Agency for Research on Cancer has labeled glyphosate -- the active ingredient in the world's most widely used weedkiller, Roundup -- as " probably carcinogen...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Malawi News Agency] Ntchisi -Couple counseling and testing can contribute towards reducing the spread of HIV and AIDS as it encourages couples to discuss risk concerns, hear information and messages together thereby enhancing likelihood...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comBeer-guzzling teenagers may be setting themselves up for a lifetime of anxiety or alcohol dependence. Binge drinking -- which 15 percent of high school students say they do, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- ...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Global News : Health
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from BBC News - HealthTailor-made cancer vaccines that target unique genetic errors in a patient's tumour have been developed in the US.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > HealthReaders solve the case of a 64-year-old woman who suddenly began to have episodes of rapid, erratic breathing.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.com"Mindfulness is not something that is only done in the meditation hall, it is also done in the kitchen, in the garden when we're on the telephone, when we are driving a car, when we are doing the dishes." -- Thich Nhat Hanh Mindfulness, ...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Washington Times stories: HealthMIAMI (AP) - Federal health officials said Thursday that they are still negotiating with the state over the potential loss of more than $1 billion for Florida hospitals, despite assertions that talks were being halted. Officials at the C...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comSeriously. Somewhere out there, there is a woman who is about 30 and played goalie for her high school soccer team. Twelve years ago, at a tournament in Southern Illinois over Easter weekend, she collided with me. I was playing forward o...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comAn alcoholic parent hits you. A close friend betrays your trust. A co-worker throws you under the bus. A significant other cheats on you. How do you respond? Unfortunately, some of you already know. You've been the struck child, the betr...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Health - chicagotribune.comAl-Shabab gunmen rampaged through a university in northeastern Kenya at dawn Thursday, killing 147 people in the group's deadliest attack in the East African country. Four militants were slain by security forces to end the siege just aft...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Health - chicagotribune.comChicago police arson detectives are asking for the public’s help finding a man who has set at least two fires in Chicago universities’ men’s restrooms.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from FOXNews.comMelanoma is one of the deadliest forms of cancer: In 2011, it killed over 9,000 people in the U.S. Utah has the highest rate of melanoma cases in the country.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > HealthHow well do you know this week’s health news.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > HealthThe science on statins and sexual function is inconclusive, but it does appear that taking a statin can affect a person’s sex life, in both positive and negative ways.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comBiogen Inc.'s recent revelation of promising early data from an experimental Alzheimer's treatment is something of a breakthrough: it's the first time that we have seen positive human data about a new Alzheimer's drug that can both reduc...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from FOXNews.comA trumpet player learned he had a rare medical condition that revealed itself only while he was playing the brass, according to a new report of the man's case
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from Health | Mail OnlineCleaning with bleach releases compounds which damage lung cells, making children more susceptible to infection, experts from the Center for Environment and Health, Belgium, found.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Health from NewserFrance is cracking down on websites that encourage young women to starve themselves. An amendment to a health bill passed yesterday punishes operators of pro-anorexia websites with up to a year in jail or an $11,000 fine, the Telegraph r...
- Iced tea is delicious; no one here is denying that. But like with most great things, too much of it can bring about dire consequences.Such is the story of an Arkansas man who drank so much iced tea that it led him to develop kidney failu...
- One day, cancer treatment regimens might include vaccines specially tailored to each patient. In a small preliminary study published Thursday in Science, researchers report successful use of these vaccines in three patients.Read full art...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Reuters: Health News(Reuters) - Children exposed to tobacco smoke at home are up to three times more likely to have attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) as unexposed kids, according to a new study from Spain.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from XINHUANEWSA candidate Ebola vaccine has demonstrated a high degree of efficacy, safety and could deal a final blow to the hemorrhagic fever that has killed some 10,000 people in West Africa.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from NYT > HealthCollard greens are a great beginning to the green spring vegetable season, writes Martha Rose Shulman.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from FOXNews.comXian-Ping Lu left his job as director of research at drug maker Galderma R&D in Princeton, N.J., to co-found a biotech company to develop new medicines in his native China.
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from The Washington Times stories: HealthSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A bird flu strain that's deadly to poultry has spread to a second turkey farm in one of the top turkey-producing counties of Minnesota, state and federal officials said Thursday. The U.S. Department of Agricultur...
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Friday, April 3, 2015 from Health - chicagotribune.comA man whose family reported him missing at sea more than two months ago was found floating on the overturned hull of his sailboat 200 miles off the North Carolina coast on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015 from The Washington Times stories: HealthBOSTON (AP) - Recovering heroin addicts, relatives of overdose victims and treatment specialists relayed emotional stories Thursday to Gov. Charlie Baker and other top state officials as they weighed possible solutions for the state's de...
