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Mystery skin disease Morgellons has no clear cause, CDC study says
Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:00 PM EST
A strange disease in which sufferers say they find fibers, fuzz and other debris sprouting from sores on their skin is not contagious and has no clear cause, the largest-ever study of the condition called Morgellons has found. Government health officials on Wednesday r …
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Calif. cuts whooping cough deaths to zero
Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:09 PM EST
For the first time in two decades, no one in California died from whooping cough last year, a public health victory that followed the deaths of 10 babies in 2010. The state also cut the total number of whooping cough cases by two-thirds, from a high of nearly 9,000 in 2010 to les …
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Despite mild flu season, don't skip shots, experts say
Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:52 AM EST
It’s been a remarkably mild flu season so far this year, with far fewer reports of the fever, coughing, aches and pains that usually make winter so miserable. Of the laboratory samples sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the second week of J …
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Delivery room rap: New dad freestyles to the fetal monitor
Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:54 PM EST
Some new dads can get nervous helping a woman in labor, but not Charles McDaniel. The expectant father had been through the drill with four previous babies, so when the fetal monitor started acting up during his wife’s delivery of their fifth child on Dec.
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'Miracle' baby born from single frozen sperm
Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:40 AM EST
Everyone knows it takes just one sperm and one egg to make a baby, but nature usually provides extra, just to be sure. In the case of 9-month-old Kenley Schiraldi of Campbell, Ohio, however, there was no back-up for the biology, requiring instead what scientists -- and her …
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FDA fines Red Cross nearly $9.6 million for blood safety lapses
Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:56 PM EST
Federal health officials have fined the American Red Cross nearly $9.6 million for sloppy and unsafe blood management practices, the second multi-million-dollar penalty levied against the agency in the last two years. The new Food and Drug Administration fine follows inspections …
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Keep baby's sex secret to prevent gender-based abortions, doc says
Mon Jan 16, 2012 1:46 PM EST
By MyHealthNewsDaily Doctors should not tell pregnant women the sex of their baby until 30 weeks into a pregnancy, one physician is arguing, taking a stance that is sure to be controversial. By not revealing a fetus' sex, doctors could prevent abortions related to the sex of the …
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Fewer kids die by drowning, study finds
Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:51 AM EST
By Linda ThrasybuleMyHealthNewsDaily contributor The rate of children hospitalized yearly due to drowning-related incidents has dropped by half since the early 1990s, a new report finds. The biggest drop occurred in the southern U.S., where drowning-related incidents fell from se …
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Woman loses arm to flesh-eating bacteria from bath salts
Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:05 AM EST
A New Orleans woman’s experiment with the illicit drugs dubbed “bath salts” cost her her arm -- and nearly her life -- after she was ravaged by flesh-eating bacteria that invaded an injection site. The 34-year-old woman showed up at a Louisiana h …
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Allergic to cold? Gene detectives find new clues
Wed Jan 11, 2012 5:08 PM EST
The first time the hives hit Joan Crawford, a 76-year-old administrator from Ringwood, N.J., she was heading to a party in New York City with her husband. "I remember we were walking west for about three blocks and it was very cold and the wind was hitting my face," she say …
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E. coli- tainted venison kabobs sicken Minn. students
Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:24 PM EST
A Minnesota high school science project that involved hunting and butchering deer -- including one road-kill capture -- and turning the meat into venison kabobs backfired when 29 students were sickened with a rare kind of E.
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Homicide no longer a top cause of death in U.S.
Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:54 PM EST
For the first time in 45 years, homicide dropped out of the top 15 causes of death in the United States in 2010, according to a new government analysis of mortality trends. Crime rates have been falling for decades, fueled by a range of social, demographic and law enfor …
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Loved one's death sends heart attack risk soaring
Mon Jan 9, 2012 4:00 PM EST
The loss of a loved one can literally turn heartache into heartbreak, a new study shows. Researchers found the risk of a heart attack jumped to 21 times higher than normal in the day following the death of a close relative or friend, according to the study publishe …
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Donating your body to science? Nobody wants a chubby corpse
Mon Jan 9, 2012 8:43 AM EST
It’s a rare day when Richard Drake turns down a dead body, but last week, he had no choice. At 6-foot-1 and 350 pounds, the deceased in question was simply too big for the Cleveland Clinic Body Donation Program, which provides specimens for anatomy classes at the Lerner Co …
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19 sickened by ground beef from Maine grocery chain
Thu Jan 5, 2012 5:11 PM EST
Nineteen people in seven states have been diagnosed with salmonella infections after reportedly eating ground beef from a chain of Maine-based supermarkets, government health officials said. The illnesses have all been traced to Hannaford, a Scarborough grocery chain th …
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Virginia first-grader dies from allergic reaction at school
Thu Jan 5, 2012 1:51 PM EST
The death of a 7-year-old Virginia girl from an apparent allergic reaction is raising new questions about how schools and parents handle potentially life-threatening conditions. Ammaria Johnson, a first-grader at Hopkins Elementary School in Chesterfield County, near Richmond, d …
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Does your body fight to stay fat? Maybe, research suggests
Thu Jan 5, 2012 8:22 AM EST
It’s the first week of January and many of us are gearing up to start our home versions of “The Biggest Loser.” We’ve got it all planned out: the low calorie meals, the hours pounding the treadmill. But even if we succeed in slimming down to the size …
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Trial herpes vaccine misses mark for protection in young women
Wed Jan 4, 2012 5:02 PM EST
An experimental herpes vaccine protected young women against only one of the two types of the sexually transmitted virus, dashing hopes for widespread use of the treatment, researchers reported in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. For reasons that aren …
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Peanuts in green beans? Food mix-ups spark odd recalls
Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:35 PM EST
A man expecting to find only green beans in a can of Winn-Dixie Brand Italian Green Beans was surprised this week to find a whole, in-shell peanut mixed in with the vegetables. The discovery sparked a flurry of activity at the Florida-based grocery chain, which quickly issued a …
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Maker of tainted wipes gets FDA nod toward reopening
Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:39 PM EST
Federal health officials have given a green light for a first step toward reopening for a Wisconsin business shut down after making and distributing contaminated medical wipes blamed for illnesses and deaths nationwide. Food and Drug Administration officials on Wednesday said th …
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Chicken jerky treats sicken 353 dogs, owners report
Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:37 AM EST
Reports of illnesses in dogs given chicken jerky treats have spiked dramatically following a new government warning about pet snacks made in China. The federal Food and Drug Administration has logged at least 353 reports this year of illnesses tied to imported chicken jerky prod …
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Tiny listeria survivor comes home for Christmas
Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:02 AM EST
Three months after she was born, Kendall Paciorek is finally home, just in time for Christmas. The premature girl from Fishers, Ind., is one of the tiniest victims of last summer’s deadly listeria outbreak in cantaloupe, which sickened 146 people, including 30 who died. Ke …
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Lingering shortage of ADHD drugs unravels lives
Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:22 AM EST
After nearly 10 months, the nationwide shortage of ADHD drugs has taken a toll on Kate Skinn. The 32-year-old Ohio woman had to take a medical leave from college because she can’t focus on her reading.
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Walk 3 mph or faster to outpace the Grim Reaper, scientists say
Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:31 PM EST
Seniors who walk briskly may be able to delay death, essentially outrunning the Grim Reaper, a new study suggests. Australian researchers with a wry sense of humor say they have calculated the average walking speed of the specter of death -- and it’s about 2 miles per …
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FDA cracks down on DIY sperm donor in Calif.
Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:42 PM EST
A California man is vowing to continue his do-it-yourself sperm donor operation, despite efforts of federal health officials to crack down on the free service. Trent C.
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JoNel Aleccia, health writer, msnbc.com are you promoting death?Propaganda. Are you ignorant?Complicit? An accounting and time will tell...you will be held responsible for this malfeasance and avarice.Sooner than you think. Retract this article.
In the article on Jacqueline Civitano, were the symptomatic children given an antiviral? Were the non-symptomatic children given an antiviral to prevent transmission? Did all of these children fight off the virus naturally? I would really appreciate knowing if the doctors are giving the antivirals and if they are prescribing them for the patients &/or family members. Thank you.
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news comment this am take peanut product and throw them away- wrong - wrong - wrong. drive a message home by returning products to the store and get your money back. why should people be allowed to profit by selling an unsafe product. it becomes news - it becomes a scare - it becomes trash in the landfill - and then what? who is marketing who?
JoNel,
A recent article on msn about "super lice" describes only the removal of shampoos or combs, but fails to address an equally important measure of sanitizing your entire house. For example, washing all bedding, sealing pillows in garbage bags, etc. Without these measures a child's scalp could be treated and then go to sleep with a pillow that contains eggs, or adult lice. One must assume everything to be contaminated.
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