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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Returns To ‘Fox And Friends’ After Surgery
Elisabeth Hasselbeck returned to Fox and Friends this morning after taking a month off due to “a bit of a scare,” she said this morning, adding she had the “blessing of it not being cancer.” “I had a tumor in my abdomen. The doctor said, 'You got to get it out by the end of the month, we don't…
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A Disease We Thought Was History Is Making An Alarming Comeback
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Business InsiderObamacare: Six Tools to Make You a Smarter Health-Care Shopper
While shopping for health insurance is painful, these websites should help the medicine go down
BusinessWeekLose the Pooch! The Best Exercises for Lower Abs
By Jessica Smith for SHAPE.COM The term “lower abs” is actually a misnomer—your rectus abdominis muscle, or abdominal wall, actually covers your entire midsection and connects at your pelvis.
Yahoo HealthWorld Bank: Ebola fund would create incentives
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A proposed global emergency fund to contain the next Ebola outbreak would also provide an incentive for drug companies to develop vaccines to fight other future pandemics, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Friday.
Associated PressReport: A new Ebola patient is headed to Nebraska
A surgeon with Ebola is expected to arrive at the Biocontainment Unit at the Nebraska Medical Center on Saturday, a government source tells The Associated Press.
The Week (RSS)The Science Behind Lebron's Weight Loss
LeBron James lost a bunch of weight over the summer — an estimated 10 to 12 pounds. And he did it on a very special low-carb diet. But how does it really work? We got answers from the expert who put Dwight Howard on a very similar diet.
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Senators general manager Bryan Murray battling serious cancer
Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray announced in July he was fighting cancer. Murray has Stage 4 colon cancer that has spread to his liver and lungs, he shared in a video on TSN with Michael Farber. "There is no cure at this point for me," Murray said.
SB NationIndian drug makers arrested over sterilisation deaths
Indian police said Friday they have arrested the head of a drug manufacturing company and his son on suspicion of destroying evidence in the case of 13 women who died after a mass sterilisation programme.
AFPBig Data Has the Potential to Transform Health Care
If the vast amount of health data collected by every source from insurance records to exercise apps is pooled, analytics can help create a much healthier society.
EntrepreneurSickle cell trait tied to kidney disease among blacks
By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – African Americans with sickle cell trait - generally thought to be benign, unlike sickle cell disease - may still be at increased risk of kidney disease, a new study suggests. Based on data for more than 2,000 people, researchers found that about 19 percent of…
ReutersMore than one in five US high school students smoke
The smoking rate of 23 percent among US adolescents is higher than in the adult population, of whom 18.1 percent smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Nine out of ten smokers tried their first cigarette by age 18," said Tim McAfee, director of the CDC's Office on…
AFPHospital quality increases, accrediting group says
CHICAGO (AP) — More U.S. hospitals are giving patients the recommended treatments for common conditions, according to an annual report released Thursday by an independent accrediting group.
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How Wikipedia page views could predict disease outbreaks
Say you're feeling sick, and you visit Wikipedia to see if your symptoms match those of the flu. Wikipedia logs that visit — and makes public the number of people who visit every single one of its pages. In a paper published today in the journal PLOS Computational Biology, they present an algorithm…
Vox.comNY lawmakers probe care for mentally ill inmates
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The head of the troubled New York City jail system said Thursday it's critical to send mentally ill inmates to treatment programs instead of a lockup.
Associated PressPerry-Appointed Board Backs Health Coverage Expansion
A board of medical professionals appointed by Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that the state should provide health coverage to low-income Texans under the Affordable Care Act, a move the Republican-led Legislature has opposed. The 15-member Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency…
WochitVA fires Pittsburgh hospital network's director
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs has fired the director of the Pittsburgh VA Healthcare System a month after officials determined she committed unspecified "conduct unbecoming a senior executive" and wasteful spending.
Associated PressThe Health Dangers Lurking In Your AirBnB
By Amanda MacMillanHoliday travel season is almost here, and this year more people than ever could opt for nontraditional lodging once they reach their destination -- renting rooms, apartments or entire houses on home-sharing websites like Airbnb, HomeAway and VRBO. (Airbnb had 1 million guests in…
Huffington PostStudy: More Teens Are Smoking E-Cigarettes
A CDC study shows a sharp rise in e-cig use by high school students; those who reported using e-cigs in the last 30 days rose to 4.5% in 2013 from 2.8% in 2012. Tripp Mickle joins the News Hub. Photo: ...
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2 Girls Who Want to Fight Malaria With Code
Malaria was eradicated from United States of America in 1952-53. This is a disease that still puts 3.3 Billion people at risk. That is almost half the population of this world. It takes 10 minutes with Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) to find out if one has Malaria or not. There are Anti-Malarial Drugs…
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