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• Invasive strep outbreak claims lives of 4 Alaskans

  29-11-2016 23:54
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four Alaskans have died this year in an outbreak of invasive strep bacteria that has mostly affected the homeless and Alaska Natives in the state's two largest cities, State epidemiologist Joe McLaughlin said Tuesday.
  
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• Q&A: A look at Texas' first homegrown case of Zika

  29-11-2016 23:17
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Health officials are going door-to-door in the Texas neighborhood of a woman who is believed to be the first person to contract the Zika virus by getting bitten by a mosquito in that state.
  
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• 9 Health Editors Share How They Practice Self Care

  29-11-2016 23:17
  
  Between long hours at work, weekend chores, dinner plans with friends, and time for your family, your calendar is overflowing. But can you remember the last time you took an hour, maybe even two, for yourself? If you had to think longer than a few seconds, you may want to consider taking a step back and reevaluating your schedule. Prioritizing everyone else in your life may seem honorable, but the reality is, totally neglecting yourself isn’t good for anyone. In order to take care of other
  
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• 9 Easy Ways to Practice Self Care This Week

  29-11-2016 23:17
  
  Between long hours at work, weekend chores, dinner plans with friends, and time for your family, your calendar is overflowing. But can you remember the last time you took an hour, maybe even two, for yourself? If you had to think longer than a few seconds, you may want to consider taking a step back and reevaluating your schedule. Prioritizing everyone else in your life may seem honorable, but the reality is, totally neglecting yourself isn’t good for anyone. In order to take care of other
  
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• GOP could repeal, before replacing, Obamacare

  29-11-2016 23:12
  
  Congress may vote to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law before coming up with a replacement, GOP leaders said Tuesday. The approach could allow congressional Republicans to take swift action ...
  
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• Drug epidemic stalls decline in white HIV patients for the first time in decades, new CDC figures reveal

  29-11-2016 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'We really risk stalling or reversing decades of progress on HIV transmission,' said Dr Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, as the agency released the data on Tuesday.
  
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• 20,000 Syrians have fled east Aleppo this week - Red Cross

  29-11-2016 22:41
  Some 20,000 people have fled intensified attacks on rebel-held eastern Aleppo in Syria since Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. The ICRC called again for access to east Aleppo, which it has not been able to reach with food, medicines and other relief supplies since April. Syria and its allies aim to drive rebels from Aleppo before Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president, a senior official in the pro-Damascus military alliance said, as pro-government
  
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• GOP prepares for House vote on medical research bill

  29-11-2016 22:33
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats put finishing touches Tuesday on a $6.3 billion medical research bill as GOP leaders prepared to try pushing the measure through the lame-duck Congress by next week.
  
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• First ever fetus to have open heart surgery in the WOMB to remove a tumor

  29-11-2016 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Diagnosed with a heart tumor before he was born, Tucker Roussin seemed to be beyond the scope of modern medicine. But his Vermont parents were given a lifeline by a team of Philadelphia surgeons.
  
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• Shannen Doherty Shows What Day 1 of Radiation Treatment Really Looks Like in Stunning Photo

  29-11-2016 22:01
  
  The 90210 star is being open and honest about her fight against breast cancer.
  
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• Health nominee Price may find that changing HHS isn't easy

  29-11-2016 21:57
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As an orthopedic surgeon, Tom Price is used to calling the shots in the operating room. If confirmed to run the federal Department of Health and Human Services, the doctor-turned-congressman from Georgia may find it a lot harder to exercise authority.
  
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• Reproductive rights groups condemn Trump's nominee for health secretary

  29-11-2016 21:49
  
  Selection of congressman Tom Price poses threat to abortion rights and contraceptive coverage for millions of women, activists sayDonald Trump’s decision to nominate one of Congress’s staunchest opponents of abortion as health secretary has drawn immediate condemnation from reproductive rights and public health groups.The groups warned that the selection of Tom Price – a six-term congressman from Atlanta’s suburbs who is best-known for laying plans to repeal and replace O
  
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• Newsreader Mark Austin feared for life of daughter with anorexia

  29-11-2016 21:31
  
  Journalist says his daughter needed ‘quick, significant’ intervention but he and his wife could not find it in the NHSITV newsreader Mark Austin and his wife feared their teenage daughter would die after she became “dangerously ill” with anorexia and depression.He revealed how his family had struggled to get the care she needed as her weight fell from about nine stone to less than six stones (38kg) and organ failure neared. Continue reading...
  
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• 'I Was Diagnosed With Cervical Cancer At 29 Weeks Pregnant'

  29-11-2016 21:30
  
  Gina Zapata-Murphy was sitting down for dinner when she got the call that would change her life.
  
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• HIV stigma

  29-11-2016 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May condemns continuing stigma against people living with HIV in the UK.
  
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• No country for old men and women, nor for children – shortcomings in UK care | Letters

  29-11-2016 20:52
  
  As a former community matron, I was interested to see your report highlighting malnutrition admissions to hospital, sometimes termed “social admissions” (Hospital admissions for malnutrition triple in decade, 26 November). My 91-year-old mother fell and was admitted earlier this year, and no cause was found except that she weighed 39kg. Living alone, she had always done her own shopping and cooking. My weekly visits supplemented her fridge contents, but I was unable to persuade her t
  
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• Surgeons attack plans to delay treatment to obese patients and smokers

  29-11-2016 20:40
  
  Royal College of Surgeons says Vale of York NHS policy is unfair, unrealistic and will condemn patients to prolonged sufferingSurgeons have criticised Theresa May after she became the first prime minister to back an NHS organisation’s plans to ration treatment to patients who smoke or are significantly overweight.
  The Royal College of Surgeons said Downing Street was endorsing an “arbitrary” scheme that would condemn people needing a new hip or knee to suffering pain for a long
  
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• Meet Tucker: First ever fetus to have open heart surgery in the WOMB to remove a tumor - and is now a thriving 3-year-old

  29-11-2016 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Diagnosed with a heart tumor before he was born, Tucker Roussin seemed to be beyond the scope of modern medicine. But his Vermont parents were given a lifeline by a team of Philadelphia surgeons.
  
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• Drug epidemic stalls HIV decline in whites who shoot up

  29-11-2016 20:34
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The long decline in HIV infections among white people who inject drugs has stalled, another grim side effect of the nation's drug abuse epidemic.
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About Working Out During Pregnancy

  29-11-2016 20:30
  
  Plus, go-to moves for each trimester.
  
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• Toddlers know when you are lying to them - even when they are just TWO years old

  29-11-2016 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of researchers analyzed the behaviour of more than 140 children in the United States aged 2-and-a-half using a methodology known as the ‘false belief task.’
  
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• Novo Nordisk reports Tresiba insulin achieves target in study

  29-11-2016 20:15
  By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk's long-acting insulin blockbuster Tresiba has a safe cardiovascular profile and reduces episodes of severely low blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes, the Denmark-based company said on Tuesday. Type 2 diabetics who need insulin to control their blood sugar risk having too low levels of glucose in their blood, which can cause tiredness, confusion and in some cases unconsciousness. The so-called DEVOTE study, involving more
  
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• World's oldest person Emma Morano celebrates 117th birthday

  29-11-2016 20:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world's oldest living person celebrates her 117th birthday - thanks, she says, to an odd diet.
  
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• A glass of wine a day does NOT damage your heart health

  29-11-2016 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research by the Radiological Society of North America dismisses fears that moderate alcohol consumption could be dangerous for one's health - but questions claims that it helps.
  
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• J&J raises Actelion takeover pressure with higher price - source

  29-11-2016 19:52
  By Pamela Barbaglia and Anjuli Davies LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare company Johnson & Johnson has raised its offer for Actelion , a source told Reuters on Tuesday, stepping up pressure on the Swiss biotech firm to accept a takeover deal. J&J had increased its offer, which has not yet been made public, after nearly two months of informal talks which have so far not resulted in a deal, the source added. The main stumbling block is that Actelion wants J&J to become a major sharehol
  
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• Massive Chernobyl shelter safely put over exploded reactor

  29-11-2016 19:42
  
  Workers completed a massive shelter over the Chernobyl nuclear plant's exploded reactor on Tuesday, one of the most ambitious engineering projects in the world that one expert said had closed "a nuclear ...
  
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• Novo Nordisk says Tresiba insulin achieves target in DEVOTE study

  29-11-2016 19:32
  Novo Nordisk's long-acting insulin blockbuster Tresiba has a safe cardiovascular profile in patients with type 2 diabetes, results released by the company on Tuesday showed. The so-called DEVOTE study, involving more than 7,500 patients, demonstrated Tresiba's non-inferiority of major adverse cardiovascular events to rival Sanofi's long-acting insulin Lantus (insulin glargine), the Novo statement said. Interim data from DEVOTE ensured the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of T
  
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• Five ways services are innovating

  29-11-2016 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ambulance services are looking at new ways to meet the growing demand.
  
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• Almost half of refugees in Chad going hungry after aid cuts, poor harvests - U.N.

  29-11-2016 19:09
  By Alex Whiting ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 40 percent of refugee families in Chad are going hungry after their food rations were cut two years ago, forcing many to reduce the number of meals and pushing some into debt, according to United Nations agencies. Chad in central Africa is home to nearly 400,000 refugees in camps, most of whom fled Sudan's Darfur region more than a decade ago, and 70,000 are from Central African Republic. Since 2014 most refugees have received about 4
  
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• Trump taps Obamacare critic to revamp health system

  29-11-2016 19:08
  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump named a vociferous critic of Obamacare and a health policy expert on Tuesday to help him repeal and replace President Barack Obama's signature healthcare program. Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopaedic surgeon from Georgia, will be Trump's Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, and consultant Seema Verma will lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful agency that oversees government heal
  
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• Watch This OITNB Star Bravely Open Up About Feeling Insecure at the Gym

  29-11-2016 19:05
  
  We heart you, Danielle Brooks.
  
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• 8 Things That Happen When You Stop Drinking Alcohol

  29-11-2016 19:00
  
  Hello, clear skin.
  
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• A glass of wine a day does NOT damage your heart health (but it doesn't help it either), study claims

  29-11-2016 18:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research by the Radiological Society of North America dismisses fears that moderate alcohol consumption could be dangerous for one's health - but questions claims that it helps.
  
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• Women Who've Actually Used Dental Dams—Yup, They Exist—Share What They're Like

  29-11-2016 18:30
  
  The lowdown on the contraception you’re not using (but should be).
  
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• 20,000 Syrians flee east Aleppo in 48 hours - Red Cross

  29-11-2016 18:15
  Some 20,000 people have fled intensified attacks on rebel-held eastern Aleppo in Syria in the past 48 hours, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. Between July and mid-November, more than 40,000 people fled areas of fighting in and near the government-controlled western part of Aleppo, it said, bringing the total who have left Syria's biggest pre-war city to 60,000 in the last five months.
  
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• Johnson & Johnson raising takeover offer for Actelion - source

  29-11-2016 17:48
  By Pamela Barbaglia and Anjuli Davies LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. healthcare company Johnson & Johnson is raising its offer for Swiss biotech group Actelion in an attempt to win it over for a buyout, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. Actelion shares closed up 10 percent at 209 Swiss francs, rebounding from negative territory. The source said Johnson & Johnson increased its offer amid reluctance by the Swiss biotechnology company to give up its independence.
  
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• Stephen Hawking says millions in danger as a result of the obesity epidemic

  29-11-2016 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The renowned theoretical physicist made the claim in a minute-long advert for GEN-PEP - a Swedish organisation that aims to boost young people's health.
  
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• Trump taps Obamacare critic to overhaul health system

  29-11-2016 17:32
  By Steve Holland NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump named a vociferous critic of Obamacare and a health policy expert on Tuesday to help him overhaul the healthcare system that Republicans have targeted since Democrats enacted sweeping reforms in 2010. Republican Representative Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from Georgia, will be Trump's Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, and consultant Seema Verma will lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful
  
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• What 'Gilmore Girls' Got Wrong About Sleeping with Someone Who's Engaged

  29-11-2016 17:31
  
  Warning: Spoilers ahead.
  
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• Bizarre-but-Legit Weight-Loss Advice: Eat Like an Animal

  29-11-2016 17:30
  
  Penguins, whales, and monkeys definitely know a thing or two about staying in shape.
  
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• Automakers fund European electric car charging sites to boost demand

  29-11-2016 17:25
  By Andreas Cremer and Bernie Woodall BERLIN/DETROIT (Reuters) - Four of the world's top carmakers have agreed to invest in thousands of fast-charging sites across Europe to boost mainstream acceptance of electric cars, the companies said on Tuesday. Spurred by the success of U.S. rival Tesla , which has received huge pre-orders for its Model 3 car, German rivals Volkswagen , Daimler's Mercedes, BMW an Ford Motor Co's European division have entered a joint venture to develop 400 charging stations
  
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• Demergers and destruction - activists press Europe conglomerates

  29-11-2016 17:16
  By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The days of the European conglomerate may be numbered, as activist shareholders are pressing diversified groups to spin off secondary businesses and focus on doing one thing well. In theory, spinning off business divisions allows the parent company and the spin-off alike to focus better on their respective strategies, while investors tend to value both more highly due to greater transparency. "I think demergers and the destruction of conglomerates is the ne
  
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• Soaring numbers of men WHITENING their skin, global study reveals

  29-11-2016 17:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Like the emergence of the 'metrosexual', there has been a spike in male-specific whitening products, explains Gideon Lasco, head of the global Chemical Youth Project.
  
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• Sens. Sanders, Warren call research bill gift to drug firms

  29-11-2016 17:14
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of the Senate's most liberal lawmakers are assailing a $6.3 billion medical research bill as a gift to drug companies, even as Republican leaders prepare to try pushing the measure through the lame-duck Congress.
  
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• World’s oldest person is 117 – video

  29-11-2016 17:08
  
  Italian Emma Morano, the last person born in the 19th century known to be alive, celebrates her 117th birthday at home in Verbania, northern Italy. Her life has spanned three centuries, two world wars and more than 90 Italian governmentsWorld’s oldest person: last living human born in 1800s prepares to turn 117Continue reading...
  
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• New wearable app will track seizures in epileptic children as scientists strive to amend woefully underestimated data

  29-11-2016 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Track It!, released today on the Apple Store to be used on the Apple Watch, allows patients with epilepsy to record seizure data, keep logs, and share information with clinics.
  
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• Water cut off to 650,000 Mosul residents after pipeline hit - official

  29-11-2016 16:48
  By Ulf Laessing MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Water supplies to about 650,000 residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul have been cut off after a pipeline was hit during fighting between the army and Islamic State militants, a local official said on Tuesday. "The maintenance team cannot reach the pipeline because it lies in an area being fought over," Hussam al-Abar, a member of Mosul's Nineveh provincial council, told Reuters in one of the 15 districts and suburbs of the city where running water ceased. T
  
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• Meet your housemates: Incredible images show the PARASITES hiding in your home 

  29-11-2016 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stunning images of the nasty parasites that could be lurking around your home have been revealed by a British scientist who collected samples from his home and garden in Milton Keynes.
  
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• 'I Quit Running with Headphones—Here's What Happened'

  29-11-2016 16:30
  
  "To run is to hurt. As it turns out, that’s one of the things I like about it."
  
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• Why health equality is the next goal for the Women’s Equality party | Hannah Peaker

  29-11-2016 16:08
  
  Our first conference highlighted government failure to address huge problems with the NHS and social care services, affecting women disproportionatelyWhen the Women’s Equality party was established, it had six core goals: equal representation, equal pay, equal education, equal treatment by and in the media, shared opportunities and responsibilities in parenting and caregiving, and an end to violence against women and girls. Though health had been discussed, it was concluded that the debate
  
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