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CDC Advises Baby Boomers To Take Hepatitis C Test – Daily Gossip


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CDC Advises Baby Boomers To Take Hepatitis C Test
Daily Gossip
If some decades ago, hepatitis C was a pretty challenging disease, nowadays medicine can handle it better. With that in mind, the CDC is advising baby boomers… Continue reading

CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C – Reno Gazette-Journal


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CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C
Reno Gazette-Journal
AP For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a one-time… Continue reading

CDC to Baby Boomers: Get Tested for Hepatitis C – ABC News


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CDC to Baby Boomers: Get Tested for Hepatitis C
ABC News
(ABCNEWS.com) For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. Anyone born from 1945 to 1965 should get a… Continue reading

CDC says baby boomers should get hepatitis test – Boston Globe


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CDC says baby boomers should get hepatitis test
Boston Globe
By Mike Stobbe | AP ATLANTA – For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. Anyone born from 1945 to… Continue reading

CDC recommends hepatitis C tests for all baby boomers – Washington Post


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CDC recommends hepatitis C tests for all baby boomers
Washington Post
The federal government Friday called for all baby boomers to be tested for hepatitis C, which kills more Americans each year than AIDS and is the leading reason… Continue reading

FDA approves 7 companies to sell generic Plavix – CBS News


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FDA approves 7 companies to sell generic Plavix
CBS News
(CBS/AP) The popular blood thinner Plavix is going generic, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday, giving lower cost options for the people who take the blood thinner… Continue reading

Sugar Makes You Stupid, But Omega-3s Will Smarten You Back Up – Forbes


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Sugar Makes You Stupid, But Omega-3s Will Smarten You Back Up
Forbes
Though we may not have fully come to terms with it, in theory we know that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is an adversary of health. Lots of… Continue reading

Mom battling flesh disease undergoes 5th surgery – Greenville News


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Mom battling flesh disease undergoes 5th surgery
Greenville News
We're working on the following obituaries for Friday morning's newspaper: Talmadge “Eddie” Parham of Fountain Inn (JM Dunbar Funeral Home and Crematory); Gregory Alan Wilson of Richmond, VA; Johnny… Continue reading

Coffee linked to lower risk of death – Los Angeles Times


Toronto Star
Coffee linked to lower risk of death
Los Angeles Times
Researchers tracking health and coffee consumption found that coffee drinkers had a lower risk of death during the course of the study. Subjects who averaged four or five… Continue reading

Early notice of flesh-eating bacteria may have saved mom – msnbc.com (blog)


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Early notice of flesh-eating bacteria may have saved mom
msnbc.com (blog)
Lana Kuykendall, a 36-year-old mother to newborn twins, is in critical condition as she fights off a flesh-eating bacteria, just days after a Georgia woman was diagnosed… Continue reading

Q&A: The debate over statins – BBC News


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Q&A: The debate over statins
BBC News
Cholesterol is a fatty substance made from the food we eat. It is essential for the body to work well, but too much 'bad cholesterol' (called low-density lipoprotein) is unhealthy. High… Continue reading

Thought-controlled robotic arm demonstrated – Science a Gogo


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Thought-controlled robotic arm demonstrated
Science a Gogo
by Will Parker A paralyzed woman has been able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own by using her thoughts to direct a robotic arm. Previously,… Continue reading

Study suggests lower death risk for coffee lovers – Reuters


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Study suggests lower death risk for coffee lovers
Reuters
(Reuters) – Older people who reported drinking a few daily cups of coffee were less likely to die over the subsequent 14 years than were those who abstained from… Continue reading

Bodies Inert, They Moved a Robot With Their Minds – New York Times


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Bodies Inert, They Moved a Robot With Their Minds
New York Times
Two people who are virtually paralyzed from the neck down have learned to manipulate a robotic arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach out… Continue reading

OraSure In-Home HIV Test Kit Moves Closer to FDA Approval – BusinessWeek


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OraSure In-Home HIV Test Kit Moves Closer to FDA Approval
BusinessWeek
By Anna Edney on May 16, 2012 OraSure Technologies Inc. (OSUR) (OSUR) soared 32 percent in early trading after US regulatory advisers backed its bid to bring… Continue reading

Federal Panel Backs Easier Home Test for HIV – New York Times


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Federal Panel Backs Easier Home Test for HIV
New York Times
WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of experts on Tuesday recommended the approval of the first rapid, over-the-counter HIV test, meaning Americans may soon be able to give… Continue reading

Groundbreaking $100M study aims to stop Alzheimer’s before it starts – CBS News


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Groundbreaking $ 100M study aims to stop Alzheimer's before it starts
CBS News
(CBS News) Alzheimer's disease cannot be cured but it can be prevented. The government announced Tuesday a $ 100 million study to test an Alzheimer's… Continue reading

US sets 2025 goal to tame Alzheimer’s – BBC News


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US sets 2025 goal to tame Alzheimer's
BBC News
The US says it will seek an effective treatment for Alzheimer's by 2025, as it faces an ageing population and spiralling health costs. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the… Continue reading

Woman with flesh-eating bug mouths ‘Where am I?’ – The Seattle Times


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Woman with flesh-eating bug mouths 'Where am I?'
The Seattle Times
After 10 days in the hospital, a Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection isn't letting the breathing tube in her throat stop her from mouthing… Continue reading

30% of US adults have sleepwalked, study finds – USA TODAY


USA TODAY
30% of US adults have sleepwalked, study finds
USA TODAY
By Janice Lloyd, USA TODAY To sleep: perchance to sleepwalk, ah, that is not unusual after all, finds a study Monday in Neurology. People with depression were 3.5… Continue reading