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FDA Approves Vaccine to Block Meningitis Strain
A man receives a meningitis vaccine. (Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo) WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved the first vaccine to prevent a potentially deadly form of bacterial...
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Health Overhaul’s Subsidies at Supreme Court
In this March 28, 2012 file photo, protesters chant in front of the Supreme Court in Washington as the court concludes three days of hearing arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack...
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This Is Your Brain on Drugs
A Harvard-Northwestern study has found differences between the brains of young adult marijuana smokers and those of nonsmokers. In these composite scans, colors represent the differences — in the shape...
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Study: Mislabeled Shrimp at Restaurants, Grocers
In this April 20, 2011, file photo commercial fisherman Ted Petrie picks through a pile of shrimp on his boat in Grand Isle, La. An advocacy group, Oceana, conducted a DNA-based survey of shrimp sold...
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Obesity Increases Risk of Certain Breast Tumors Among African American and...
WASHINGTON, DC (AICR) — Two large new studies provide compelling evidence that obesity increases the risk of the most common type of postmenopausal breast cancer among both African Americans and...
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Africans Worst Responders in Ebola Crisis
In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, health workers prepare to place the body of a man who was suspected of dying from the Ebola virus into a grave on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia. The...
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A Look at Ebola Guidelines in Some States
In this Oct. 16, 2014, photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) JULIE WATSON, Associated...
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A Heart Risk in Drinking Water
(AP Photo) (New York Times) – Ana Navas-Acien can’t quite recall the moment when she began to worry about arsenic in drinking water and its potential role in heart disease. Perhaps it was when she read...
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Medicare Weighs Paying for End-of-Life Counseling
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare said Friday it will consider paying doctors to counsel patients about their options for end-of-life care, the same idea that spurred accusations of “death panels” and...
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After Botching Ebola, WHO to Pick New Africa Boss
In this Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014 file photo, Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses the media during a media conference in Gammarth, northeastern Tunisia. In a...
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Thousands Break Ebola Quarantine to Find Food
In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, Healthcare workers load a man, center, onto a ambulance as he is suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone. A doctor in...
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Gates Foundation Boosts Aid to Stamp Out Malaria
In this May 5, 2014 file photo, Microsoft co-founder and Berkshire Hathaway board member Bill Gates speaks during an interview with Liz Claman on the Fox Business Network in Omaha, Neb. Gates says he...
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Ebola Countries to Get $450 Million in Financing
In this Aug. 4, 2014, file photo, a Nigerian health official wearing a protective suit waits to screen passengers for the Ebola virus at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in...
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A Look at the Worst-Ever Ebola Epidemic by Numbers
Medical workers wearing protective equipment surround a simulated patient during a demonstration for media members on their training for working with possible Ebola patients, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014, at...
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Healthcare.gov Opens for Insurance Plan Shoppers
(AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File) Jayne O’Donnell, USA TODAY WASHINGTON (USA Today)—The federal health insurance exchange went live Sunday night for window shopping — a couple days later than some...
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Loss of Smell Could Predict Death for Elderly
A study published in the science journal PLOS ONE reveals that loss of smell in older adults could put them at an increased risk of death within five years. (Courtesy photo) by Dorothy Rowley Special...
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Fit 2 Change Combats Childhood Obesity Among Homeless Youth
by Roberto Alejandro Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Childhood obesity has quadrupled in teenagers, and more than doubled in children over the course of the last 30 years....
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Businesses Cash In as Women Chase Bigger Butts
In this Oct. 30, 2014 photo, Kelly Brabants, foreground, leads her “Booty by Brabants” class at The Club by George Foreman III gym in Boston. The class, started by Brabants a year ago, fits in 120...
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Public to Comment on 1st-in-Nation Tobacco Ban
Brian Vincent poses in front of a large display of tobacco products at Vincent’s Country Store in Westminster, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014. Local officials are contemplating what could be a first: a...
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Hospital Will Pay Duncan’s Medical Bills, Set Up Charity
This 2011 photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. In September 2014, Duncan became the first patient in the U.S. diagnosed with Ebola. (AP Photo/Wilmot Chayee)...
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