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Pentagon: Military Mistakenly Shipped Live Anthrax Samples
In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) ROBERT BURNS, AP National...
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India Tops World Hunger List with 194 Million People
In this Aug. 25, 2014, photo, tea worker Puliya Mahali looks in vain while sitting in her house in Bundapani, 120 kilometers (75 miles) from Siliguri in the Indian northeastern estate of West Bengal....
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NIH: Major Study Finds Earlier HIV Treatment Improves Health
In this Feb. 3, 2015 file photo, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP...
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Breast Cancer Could be ‘Stopped in its Tracks’ by New Technique, Say Scientists
Most breast cancers are hormone sensitive, meaning they are fuelled by the female hormone oestrogen. (Rui Vieira/AP Photo) (The Guardian) – Certain breast cancers spread to the bones using an enzyme...
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Indoor Air Purifiers May Aid Heart Patients
Honeywell’s HEPA Clean Compact air purifier (Reuters Health) – People with heart conditions may benefit from using indoor air purifiers, suggests a small study from China. While the study can’t say...
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D.C. Doctor’s Rx: A Stroll in the Park Instead of a Trip to the Pharmacy
A thirteen-basin cascade fountain is one of the most dramatic features of Meridian Hill Park (Courtesy of Wikipedia) (The Washington Post) – Robert Zarr is walking from his Columbia Heights medical...
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FTC’s Drug Settlement a Win for the Lawyers
Teva Pharmaceuticals CFO Eyal Desheh, second left, Chairman Dr. Phillip Frost, third left, and CEO Jeremy Levin, fourth left, applaud during opening bell ceremonies of the New York Stock Exchange...
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New Eye Test on Smartphone is as Accurate as Paper Test
LONDON (UPI) – A smartphone app was used to perform vision tests as accurately as paper tests and illuminated vision boxes during a study in rural Kenya. Tests carried out in patients’ homes using...
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Jamaican Scientist Announces Breakthrough in Developing Cancer Drug from...
Dr. Lawrence Williams (Courtesy RJRNewsOnline.com) (RJRNewsOnline.com) — Imagine a Jamaican being offered US$100 million for a patent, in relation to cancer research done on a local plant. Imagine...
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‘Viagra for Women’ Gets Push for F.D.A. Approval
One flibanserin tablet, a drug aimed at boosting female libido. (Allen G. Breed) Andrew Pollack, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times) — Is sexual desire a human right? And are women entitled to...
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HIV Treatments Have Taken On a Whole New Monster
This April 12, 2011 electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows an H9 T cell, blue, infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),...
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Concerns Remain for ‘Viagra for Women’ Twice Rejected by FDA
In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, file photo, a tablet of flibanserin sits on a brochure for Sprout Pharmaceuticals in the company’s Raleigh, N.C., headquarters. Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the makers of the...
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Creating Stronger Paths for Health and Learning for Children
De’Borah Gibson-Harris and daughter Za’niyah are clients of Raising St. Louis, a partnership between health, education and community organizations to create better health and educational outcomes for...
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Don’t Take a Seat: Panel Says You Should Stand for 2 Hours
In this Aug. 13, 2014 photo, workers sit at desks at Firstkontact Center, a call center in the northern border city of Tijuana, Mexico. If youre sitting in an office, you should probably read this...
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Women’s Libido Drug Flibanserin Aims to be Female Answer to Viagra
One flibanserin tablet, also known as “Viagra for women.” (Allen G. Breed) (NBC News) – Amanda Parrish noticed her new neighbor up the street right away. She had recently divorced and had four...
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Is Type 2 Diabetes Caused by Bacteria in the Gut?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonies from a patient grow in a blood agar plate. The white areas around the colonies indicate where MRSA infection is attacking and destroying the red...
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More Than 10M Enrolled This Year Under Obama’s Health Law
This Nov. 12, 2014 file photo shows the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, on a laptop screen, shown in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR,...
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America Despises its Elderly: Why Seniors Have to Choose Between Food and...
(Salon) – Elder abuse is defined as “harmful acts toward an elderly adult, such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional or psychological abuse, financial exploitation, and neglect.” Financial...
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Facts About Needle Exchanges and Hepatitis C
In this May 26, 2015, photo, the Chad’s Hope long-term drug addiction treatment center for men is shown in Manchester, Ky. Public health officials warn that if the region doesn’t get the IV drug abuse...
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Painkillers, Antidepressants Increase Risk Of Homicide
Capsules of fluoxetine, the chemical name for the popular antidepressant Prozac, are sorted at a packaging line at Barr Laboratories in Forest, Va., Tuesday, July 31, 2001. (AP Photo/The News &...
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