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Haiti, DR to eliminate cholera with $2.2 billion (Update)
(AP)—Haiti and the Dominican Republic will require $2.2 billion over the next 10 years for an ambitious plan to eliminate cholera, an official from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 28, 2012 |
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Most HIV-positive US youth don't know they're sick, study finds
More than a quarter of new HIV infections in the United States strike young people aged 13 to 24 and 60 percent of those don't know they're sick, health officials said Tuesday.
HIV & AIDS
Nov 27, 2012 |
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CDC: HIV spread high in young gay males
(AP)—Health officials say 1 in 5 new HIV infections occur in a tiny segment of the population—young men who are gay or bisexual.
HIV & AIDS
Nov 27, 2012 |
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BioMAP screening procedure could streamline search for new antibiotics
Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a new strategy for finding novel antibiotic compounds, using a diagnostic panel of bacterial strains for screening chemical extracts from natural sources.
Medications
Nov 26, 2012 |
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Yellow fever-hit Darfur gets help from US Navy
US Navy medical experts have arrived in Sudan to help analyse samples of suspected yellow fever, which has killed 127 people in the Darfur region since early September, health officials said on Friday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 23, 2012 |
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Infant sleep positioners cause death, health officials say
Bolsters used to keep sleeping babies on their backs pose a suffocation hazard, health officials warned Wednesday after a recent death raised the 'sleep positioners' toll to at least 13 US infants.
Health
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Bay Area nurses picketing after going on strike
(AP)—Union officials say hundreds of nurses in the San Francisco Bay area are braving rain showers to walk picket lines after going on strike Tuesday.
Health
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Diabetes rates rocket in Oklahoma, South
The nation's diabetes problem is getting worse, and health officials say the biggest changes have been in Oklahoma and a number of Southern states.
Diabetes
Nov 15, 2012 |
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Scores isolated after new Ebola outbreak in Uganda
(AP)—Scores of Ugandans were isolated on Thursday to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola which has already killed three people.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 15, 2012 |
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Cash cuts increase smoking death risk for world's poor, study says
Proposed funding cuts within the international body responsible for tobacco control will leave the world's poorest countries more vulnerable to smoking-related diseases, a study suggests.
Health
Nov 15, 2012 |
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Two dead in new outbreak of Ebola in Uganda (Update)
A fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in central Uganda has killed at least two people, the health minister said Thursday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 15, 2012 |
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2 Calif. deaths from mushrooms despite warnings
(AP)—The deaths of two residents of a Northern California assisted living facility and the hospitalization of four others come despite warnings from health officials not to eat mushrooms picked in the wild.
Health
Nov 11, 2012 |
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Steroid-meningitis toll now 32 dead, 438 sickened, CDC says
(HealthDay)—Thirty-two people have now died and 438 have been sickened in the fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections, U.S. health officials reported Friday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 10, 2012 |
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US city plans to provide transgender surgeries
(AP)—San Francisco is preparing to become the first U.S. city to provide and cover the cost of sex reassignment surgeries for uninsured transgender residents.
Other
Nov 09, 2012 |
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Darfur yellow fever deaths double to 67: UN agency
The number of people believed to have died from mosquito-borne yellow fever in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region has doubled to 67, health officials said on Tuesday.
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Nov 06, 2012 |
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