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 A measles outbreak centered around Portland, Ore., and neighboring Vancouver, Wash., has sickened at least 53 people, most of them children. According to the health department in Clark County, Wa...
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 A measles outbreak centered around Portland, Ore., and neighboring Vancouver, Wash., has sickened at least 53 people, most of them children. According to the health department in Clark County, Wa...
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 There are some red flags to this saturated fat.
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 Brian Whitfield sat on the floor of his office, back against the wall, gun in hand and a heavy-duty garbage bag nearby. Whitfield says he still can’t pinpoint why he felt so intensely depressed or abandoned in those moments. The chaos began about five years before, in 2011, when Whitfield visited multiple doctors for pain from knee and back injuries he had sustained while serving in the Marine Corps several years earlier.
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 If you won’t be able to leave your house for a few days or if the power is out for longer than a couple of hours, what to feed your family becomes a major concern. The food experts at Consumer Re...
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 If you won’t be able to leave your house for a few days or if the power is out for longer than a couple of hours, what to feed your family becomes a major concern. The food experts at Consumer Re...
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 Spoiler: quality matters more than quantity.
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 How Safe Is Deet? Deet is the most widely used insect repellent in the U.S. It has been around longer than any other active ingredient, and many scientists say it’s the gold standard for all rep...
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 How Safe Is Deet? Deet is the most widely used insect repellent in the U.S. It has been around longer than any other active ingredient, and many scientists say it’s the gold standard for all rep...
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 It could explain why that number on the scale is rising.
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 Pelvic pain and a strong need to pee are just some of the warning signs.
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 Even human waste can be put to use this way. All of Rwanda’s prison kitchens reuse waste from inmates, mixed with cow dung.
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 The Fuller House star's daughters are influencers and YouTube stars.
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 The couple is celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary.
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 It's been 10 years since her late husband's fatal accident.
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 Grab some Easter candy and baking supplies, and get ready to be inspired!
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 Being a kid in the summer is often about playing outside, but if you don’t protect your child from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, he or she has a greater chance of developing skin cancer as an adult...
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 Being a kid in the summer is often about playing outside, but if you don’t protect your child from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, he or she has a greater chance of developing skin cancer as an adult...
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 No doubt about it: If you’re using sunscreen properly, you’re going to go through a lot of it over the course of a summer. Let’s do the math. It takes a full ounce to cover your body, and you nee...
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 No doubt about it: If you’re using sunscreen properly, you’re going to go through a lot of it over the course of a summer. Let’s do the math. It takes a full ounce to cover your body, and you nee...
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The US Food and Drug Administration approved a treatment Friday for a genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy that causes infants' muscles to waste away, potentially killing them before age 2. 
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Herbal remedies have been used by healers around the world for centuries to prevent and treat disease. But it's in China that the practice has been most extensively used and documented. 
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Americans have struggled with the many food labels and their meanings for years. Sell by, best by and best if used by -- what are the differences? 
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State and local health officials have consulted with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in recent months about the possibility of preventing individuals from flying to prevent measles transmission. 
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Dr. Scott Allen and Dr. Pamela McPherson were used to working behind the scenes, quietly documenting the devastating things they'd seen. 
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The skyrocketing prices of insulin are a nationwide issue and Colorado has become the first state to pass legislation that tackles the problem. 
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Aid Access, which provides abortion pills by mail to the United States, is defying an order to stop from the US Food and Drug Administration. 
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Late last year, officials at the New York State Department of Health knew they had to act fast to stem the tide of a growing measles outbreak in ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. 
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A mystery source of banned, ozone-destroying chemicals has been pinpointed to eastern China. 
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Malaria has been eliminated from Algeria and Argentina, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, an important milestone in fighting the mosquito-borne disease. 
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A Customs and Border Patrol station in south Texas has stopped taking detainees in for processing because some people have displayed signs of flu-related illness. 
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Several operating rooms have been shut down in a Washington children's hospital because of mold. 
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Vermont's attorney general is suing eight members of the Sackler family, alleging they personally oversaw Purdue Pharma's deceptive marketing of opioids. 
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Cannabidiol, the non-psychoactive ingredient in hemp and marijuana, could treat opioid addiction, a new study says. Given to patients with heroin addiction, cannabidiol, also known as CBD, reduced their cravings for the illicit drug as well as their levels of anxiety. 
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Providers at the only three clinics in Alabama that offer abortion services want patients to know their doors are still open. 
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On the morning of September 25, 2000, when Kevin Hines looked out from the Golden Gate Bridge, it must have been a magnificent sight. The sun bouncing off the coastline of Marin County to the left and backlighting the coast of San Francisco to the right, with Alcatraz straight ahead. There were probably boats of different types and sizes in the glittering water and an occasional sea lion breaking the surface. 
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Teva Pharmaceuticals, one of the biggest makers of generic drugs, has agreed to pay $85 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Oklahoma attorney general over allegations that the company contributed to the state's opioid painkiller epidemic. 
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"One man's food is another man's poison." - Lucretius (99-55 B.C.) 
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Pride Month offers numerous events where members of the LGBT community can celebrate who they are. 
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Snakebites kill more than 200 people a day around the world, but Thai firefighter Pinyo Pookpinyo was one of the lucky ones. 
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Toilet provisions for women in the UK must be boosted so there are two female toilets to every male one, according to a new report on the state of public facilities. 
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Mice that were fed large quantities of resveratrol, a compound present in red wine, experienced a significant drop in blood pressure, a new study showed. Could the same effect happen in humans? 
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The reasons why women get abortions are varied and personal. For some, it was because they were victims of rape or incest. Some were in abusive relationships and others weren't ready to be mothers. 
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Frank Baez got his first healthcare experience as a teenager, mopping floors and cleaning patients' rooms as a hospital janitor at New York University. 
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I live in the Bay Area, where, according to my very unscientific estimate, approximately 8 out of 10 parents self-identify as enlightened. These are the moms and dads who broach thorny topics like race, poverty and sexism with their young children, undeterred by their complexity and high stakes. 
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Chants of "Mr. John! Mr. John!" drowned out Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" as 83-year-old school custodian John Lockett stepped into a corridor lined with adoring kids. 
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Hours after they began the process of allowing him to die, French doctors were ordered to restore the life support of a man in a vegetative state whose controversial case has divided his family and the public. 
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The humble tuna sandwich, once a lunchbox staple, is making less frequent appearances in school cafeterias across the nation. American children are eating relatively little fish and shellfish in comparison to meat, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. 
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A jury said Roundup gave a California couple cancer. So it gave them the largest award of any personal injury case this year and the 8th biggest in US history. 
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Implementing a sales tax may help get Americans to stop drinking sugary drinks, if a new study about Philadelphia soda consumption is any indication. 
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With more urinals than cubicles, men - unlike women - rarely queue, a report says.
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Sepsis survivor Tom Ray wants better awareness and faster diagnosis of the potentially deadly disease.
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France is divided over the case of Vincent Lambert, who has been in a vegetative state since 2008.
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The competition regulator says that four drugs firms forced the price of an anti-nausea tablet up by 700%.
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The mental health hospital charity cares for those with mental health and learning difficulties.
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Researchers used detailed images of the heart to look for signs of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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AI appears better than specialist doctors at diagnosing the disease from lung scans, say researchers.
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More women are seeking surgery, possibly to get a body that looks good in trendy gym clothing, says surgeon.
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Nurses are warning drug use can cause breathing and heart problems - and sometimes death.
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A lack of support in schools and the community in England is contributing to the problem, says a report.
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If the trend continues, age screening guidelines may need to be reconsidered, researchers say.
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Doctors say the surgery could be the difference between some children learning to walk or not.
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Robyn used to drink and smoke marijuana, but says her impending little girl changed her life.
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Liat Malka was 35 and single when she decided she wanted a child. The sperm donor she found had died five years previously.
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Getting enough sleep is fundamental to our wellbeing, but one key factor is often overlooked.
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Hailey wanted to travel the world as a doctor, until a mystery condition left her shaking uncontrollably.
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The brain, heart, bones and skin can all be affected by the hormonal changes brought on by the menopause.
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Dani Donovan's drawings, showing what it's like to have ADHD, have resonated with many online.
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Thousands of Cuban doctors work in healthcare missions around the world. Some medics say conditions can be nightmarish.
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The cutting edge Hollywood technology being used to help rehabilitate injured military personnel.
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Ashley says his childhood circumcision has left him physically and psychologically damaged.
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Nurses at a hospital in Dorset speak about the times they have been attacked by their patients.
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A night shift in the hospital on the frontline of the fight against malaria.
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A veterinarian in Thailand stepped in to help a woman give birth on the side of the road in Bangkok.
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Changes in hormones can have big effects on the body and how we behave.
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A Cornwall dog owner had the skin torn off her middle finger by a lead wound tightly round her hand.
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Patients can take aspirin without raising their risk of another stroke, a study suggests.
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There were 795 cases of mumps in the first three months of 2019, versus 1,031 in the whole of 2018.
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