In 1997, my stepmother Faith Fancher, a longtime television reporter with KTVU Channel 2, was diagnosed with breast cancer. At 46, she underwent a mastectomy and breast reconstruction. Afterward, she said she felt like …San Jose Mercury News · 7 hours ago
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She lost both of her arms and a leg after contracting a rare flesh-eating bacteria, but now, she's been given not one — but two — helping hands. Aimee Copeland, a 25-year-old graduate student from Georgia, tragically lost …New York Daily News · 10 hours ago
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NEW YORK - JUNE 28: A boy takes a leap into a New York City public swimming pool June 28, 2002 on the opening day of the city's public pools. With a week of temperatures in the 90s, a large turnout arrived for the first …FOX News · 1 day ago
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(CNN)-- A human embryo, containing about a couple hundred cells, is smaller than the period at the end of a sentence. Scientists need strong microscopes to see these precursors to life, and to take from them stem cells …CNN · 14 hours ago
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DENVER -- Days after a gunman entered a suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 moviegoers and injuring 70 others, Gov. John Hickenlooper and Colorado health officials began talking about revamping a state mental …The Miami Herald · 1 day ago
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were …Washington Post · 2 hours ago
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Open Paradigm Project, in collaboration with MadinAmerica.com, Occupy Psychiatry, and leading organizations in the movement to reform mental health …Yahoo! News · 15 hours ago
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LONDON (Reuters) - Four more people in China have died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll from the H7N9 virus to 36 from 131 confirmed cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The …Chicago Tribune · 1 day ago
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an …The Miami Herald · 14 hours ago
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Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed with one has been rising for more than a decade, according to a report released on Thursday by the U.S.Denver Post · 1 day ago
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For people who aren’t so good at math, a mild form of brain stimulation may improve your proficiency. The relatively new form of electrical stimulation is apparently gentler than previously tested methods, so you don’t …Forbes · 1 day ago
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FRIDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- Liver transplants to treat a common type of liver cancer are a viable option for people infected with HIV, according to new research. The Italian study, published May 10 in the journal …Philadelphia Daily News · 1 day ago
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LONDON (Reuters) - British fertility experts have devised a new IVF technique that takes thousands of snapshots of a developing embryo that they say can help doctors pick those most likely to implant successfully and …Chicago Tribune · 5/16/2013
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It has long been understand that right-handed people -- who make up about 90 percent of the population -- have left-hemisphere dominant brains, and left-handed people the reverse. But the division of labor isn't actually that …CNET News · 1 day ago
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(CNN)-- Key structural changes have been identified in the brain images of some patients with mild cognitive impairment which could help determine who's at greatest risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. Researchers at …CNN · 8 hours ago
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WASHINGTON (AP)—States should cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half—from 0.08 blood alcohol level to 0.05—matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries, a …San Jose Mercury News · 1 day ago
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WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A report released earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls allergy rates among U.S. children an "epidemic." According to the …Yahoo! Finance · 1 day ago
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relationships impotence stress bed couple love romance attraction sex mental illness generic heart brain obsession stalking depression sleep disorder / iStockPhoto Having depression may double the risk of stroke for …CBS News · 1 day ago
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Gluten is a protein that is found in certain grains, including wheat, barley and rye and triticale (a cross between wheat and rye). What problems prompt people to avoid gluten? Gluten causes inflammation of the small …Los Angeles Times · 15 hours ago
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New research finds that talking on your mobile phone can increase your blood pressure. Researchers from Italy's Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital enlisted 94 men and women who had mild to moderate high blood pressure.New York Daily News · 5/16/2013
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