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The Candida Diet: Separating Fact from Fiction
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:30:00 GMT
You’ll find a confusing mix of true and false information about candida diet and nutrition online. Let’s sort fact from fiction
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Life after Drowning
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:00:00 GMT
Public health advocates have been coming up with ways to save people for centuries, and they continue to do so
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1 in 7 Babies Exposed to Zika in the Womb Have Health Problems
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 18:45:00 GMT
Some of the children looked healthy at birth
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Gene-Silencing Technology Gets First Drug Approval after 20-Year Wait
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:35:00 GMT
The U.S. FDA decision comes after fits and stops for RNA-interference therapies
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Autism and DDT: What 1 Million Pregnancies Can—and Can't—Reveal
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:45:00 GMT
Analysis finds prenatal exposure to the pesticide is associated with a higher risk of severe autism with intellectual impairment
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Doctors Grapple with High Suicide Rates in Their Ranks
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 18:00:00 GMT
300 to 400 physicians kill themselves each year
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Tick- and Mosquito-Borne Diseases Are Increasing Dramatically
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:00:00 GMT
Climate change is one significant reason
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The Other Reason Mosquitoes Want to Suck Your Blood
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:30:00 GMT
Mosquitoes are more likely to bite hosts when they are thirsty, possibly increasing disease spread
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Ebola: What You Need to Know
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:30:00 GMT
As Ebola outbreaks occur again and again, the scramble for answers and medications is ongoing
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Can Talk Therapy Help People Who Are Unable to Experience Joy?
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:45:00 GMT
Researchers are developing new treatments for a depression symptom called anhedonia
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Why Does Ebola Keep Showing Up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:00:00 GMT
The country has been roiled by nine outbreaks of the disease
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War Zone Complicates Ebola Vaccine Rollout in Latest Outbreak
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 16:00:00 GMT
Health workers must plan vaccination effort amidst fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Inducing Labor at 39 Weeks Safe, Linked to Lower C-Section Risk
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 15:00:00 GMT
The big study finding upends conventional thinking
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Effort to Diversify Medical Research Raises Thorny Questions of Race
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 10:45:00 GMT
A federal study aiming to collect the health information of one million U.S. residents is limited by the very problems it hopes to solve
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Doctors Prescribe Fewer Opioids after Learning of Patient Deaths
Fri, 10 Aug 2018 16:00:00 GMT
Clinicians were contacted about fatal overdoses
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Is Your Gut Making You Depressed or Anxious?
Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:30:00 GMT
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen goes straight for the gut with three surprising mind-gut connections
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End of the Rainbow? New Map Scale Is More Readable by People Who Are Color Blind
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 10:45:00 GMT
The improved palette also avoids some of the problems existing data visualization schemes pose for people with typical vision
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Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men—Unless the ER Doc Is Female
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:00:00 GMT
Analyzing over 500,000 cases suggests having female physicians in the emergency room may save women’s lives
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Cities Need to Prepare for Water Day Zero
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:00:00 GMT
Cape Town's recent water crisis highlights the need for better urban planning and management
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Prosthetic Limb Restores a Sense of Body Position
Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:30:00 GMT
New device gives an amputee the ability to feel the location of his foot
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Some Sunscreen Harms Reefs—Warming Could Mean More of It
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 16:00:00 GMT
Worry over environmental damage is being pitted against public health concerns
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Advances in Treating Hep C Lead to New Option for Transplant Patients
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:00:00 GMT
People infected with the once-deadly virus can now be donors
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New Research about Eating, Sleeping, Eliminating and Snuggling
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:00:00 GMT
Recent research looks at basic bodily functions
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An Entirely New Type of Antidepressant Targets Postpartum Depression
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:00:00 GMT
The steroid drug is intended to help women who suffer from the hormone-driven condition
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A Public-Health Reason to Tune In to TV's Dear White People
Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:03:00 GMT
A season two story line shows how race, socioeconomic status and power dynamics influence sexual decision-making
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