Health magazine: news updates - Page 44

Polio Makes Comeback In Venezuela After Decades

Jun 12, 2018 • 1 comment

Polio has been reported in Venezuela, a crisis-wracked country where the disease had been eradicated decades ago, the Pan-American Health Organization reports. The organization said the child had no...

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US Farm Belt Tries To Head Off Another Surge In Suicides

Jun 12, 2018 • 1 comment

Responding to signs of rising despair in rural America over a farming downturn exacerbated by the current trade war fears, agricultural leaders are mobilizing to try to prevent another...

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Canada Senate Passes Law Legalizing Recreational Marijuana

Jun 12, 2018

Canada's Senate passed a law Thursday legalizing recreational marijuana, moving it closer to becoming the first member of the Group of Seven nations to legalize the production, sale and consumption...

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Women's health

Blood Test May Predict Premature Birth

Jun 11, 2018

US and Danish researchers said Thursday they have developed an inexpensive blood test that may predict with up to 80 percent accuracy whether a pregnant woman will give birth prematurely. While...

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US Suicide Rate On The Rise

Jun 11, 2018

The suicide rate across the United States has risen 30 percent since 1999, and nearly 45,000 people took their lives in 2016, officials said Thursday. Suicide presents a "growing public health...

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Health Sector Gives Blockchain Glowing Prognosis

Jun 7, 2018

By Etienne BALMER Securing safe interchange of patient data, improving the conduct of clinical tests and medicine traceability, and lowering costs. These are just some of the potential boosts for...

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Breast cancer

Immunotherapy cures late-stage breast cancer in world first: study

Jun 6, 2018

Paris, June 4, 2018 (AFP) - A woman with an aggressive form of breast cancer which defied chemotherapy and spread to other organs, was cured with an experimental treatment that triggered her immune...

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Ulcerative colitis

FDA approves new treatment for moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis

Jun 1, 2018

What are your opinions, thoughts, concerns? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approval of Xeljanz (tofacitinib) to include adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative...

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Men’s health

Women's Health Week

May 13, 2018

Women's Health Week is 5/13/2018 to 5/20/2018. It is a special observance led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health with the goal to empower women to make...

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Game-Changing Study Finds Dozens of Genes Tied to Depression

May 2, 2018

Scientists have uncovered dozens of genes that increase the risk of depression ; a major finding that underscores the complexity of the disease and reveals why antidepressant therapies work well for...

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Could 'one puff' of cannabis ease depression?

Apr 26, 2018 • 2 Likes • 2 comments

A new study sheds light on how different quantities of tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol — the psychoactive compounds in cannabis — affect levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. Researchers...

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Diabetes (Type 2)
Diabetes insipidus

Bariatric surgery successes lead to type 2 diabetes treatments

Apr 25, 2018

Bariatric surgery has long yielded almost immediate health benefits for patients with type 2 diabetes, and new findings on the reasons for remission may be the key to developing drug alternatives to...

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