Health News
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Humanitarian Work May Raise Risk of Anxiety, Depression
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:00PM October 05, 2012 CommentResearchers offer recommendations to improve mental health of aid workers
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Shootings at Hospitals a Rarity, Study Finds
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:00PM October 05, 2012 CommentPeople known to assailant are usually intended targets, researchers say
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Japanese firm buys Montana pharmaceutical company
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:54PM October 05, 2012 CommentBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — A Japanese pharmaceutical company is acquiring Bozeman-based LigoCyte Pharmaceuticals in a $60 million deal to expand its vaccine division, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. announced.
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Heavy Smokers, Drinkers May Face Pancreatic Cancer Earlier in Life
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:00PM October 05, 2012 CommentStudy found diagnoses came almost a decade sooner than for people without those habits
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Same Part of Brain Recognizes Faces and Objects, Study Finds
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:00PM October 05, 2012 CommentFusiform face area 'lit up' identically on MRI whether auto lovers looked at cars or people
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Health Highlights: Oct. 5, 2012
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Late-Preterm Babies Needing ICU Catch Up With Other Preemies: Study
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:00AM October 05, 2012 CommentBy age 3, both groups show similar developmental progress
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Officials Seeking Patients Who May Have Received Contaminated Steroid
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:00AM October 05, 2012 CommentThe drug has been linked to rare form of meningitis tied to 5 deaths and at least 30 illnesses in 23 states
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Severely Obese Americans on the Rise
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:00AM October 05, 2012 CommentStudy shows a decade of growth among those with 100 pounds excess weight, but trend is slowing
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Rare Breast Cancer Poses New Set of Challenges
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:00AM October 05, 2012 CommentExperts say standard diagnostic and treatment methods don't work for inflammatory breast cancer
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Survivor of Aggressive Breast Cancer Stresses Need for Quick Action
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:00AM October 05, 2012 Comment'Listen to your body,' woman urges, to fight off inflammatory breast cancer
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Health Tip: Reduce Your Risk of Falling
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:00AM October 05, 2012 CommentSeniors should keep at least one hand free
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Health Tip: Manage Your Child's Allergy
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:00AM October 05, 2012 CommentLimit exposure to potential triggers
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Study: Free Birth Control Leads to Fewer Abortions
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concludes. The findings were eagerly anticipated and come as a bitterly contested Obama administration policy is poised to offer similar coverage.
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Outbreak spotlights risks from custom-mixed drugs
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:38AM October 05, 2012 CommentTwo people blinded in Washington, D.C., in 2005. Three dead in Virginia in 2006 and three more in Oregon the following year. Twenty-one dead polo horses in Florida in 2009. Earlier this year, 33 people in seven states with fungal eye infections.
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Study: Free birth control leads to fewer abortions
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:07PM October 04, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concluded Thursday. The findings were eagerly anticipated and come as a bitterly contested Obama administration policy is poised to offer similar coverage.
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Some answers about meningitis outbreak
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:28PM October 04, 2012 CommentFederal and state health officials are investigating an outbreak of a rare and deadly form of meningitis. Some details:
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Defective generic pill revives quality concerns
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:42PM October 04, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans than ever are taking generic drugs, as blockbuster medicines like Plavix and Lipitor become available in low-cost versions. But the government's revelation this week that it mistakenly approved a defective generic antidepressant could stoke longtime concerns about the quality of knockoff drugs.
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Minn. lawmakers want Lou Gehrig's medical records
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:37PM October 04, 2012 CommentMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Some Minnesota lawmakers hope to force the release of Lou Gehrig's medical records, saying they might provide insight into whether the Yankees star died of the disease that came to take his name or whether repetitive head trauma played some kind of role.
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Oklahoma to end Planned Parenthood contracts
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:25PM October 04, 2012 CommentOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is withdrawing federal funding to three Planned Parenthood clinics in Tulsa that for 18 years has allowed them to provide food and nutritional counseling to low-income mothers — a decision that mirrors efforts in other conservative states to defund the group and one its director described Thursday as a "short-sighted political maneuver."
