Second D.C.-area man stricken with flesh-eating bacteria: media

(Reuters) - A flesh-eating bacterial disease has infected another Washington, D.C.-area man, local media reported on Thursday, just days after a man was released from a hospital following a near-deadly bout with the germ. Joe Wood of Stafford, Virginia, said he was swimming in the Potomac River near the town of Callao earlier this month when a scratch on his left leg became infected with vibrio vulnificus, an aggressive bacteria that feeds on flesh, Washington D.C.'s WTOP radio reported. Wood was admitted to the Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg on July 5 where an infectious disease specialist performed skin graft surgery on Tuesday, the report said. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

U.S. aid worker infected with Ebola to be moved to Atlanta hospital: official

(Reuters) - A U.S. humanitarian aid worker who was infected with Ebola in West Africa will be transferred back to the United States and treated in a special high security ward at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, hospital officials said on Thursday.

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Why We Don’t Have an Ebola Vaccine Yet

Human Trials Will Begin for Ebola Vaccine in September

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U.S. aid worker infected with Ebola to be moved to Atlanta hospital: official

(Reuters) - A U.S. humanitarian aid worker who was infected with Ebola in West Africa will be transferred back to the United States and treated in a special high security ward at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, hospital officials said on Thursday. The aid worker, who was infected while working to help contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, will be moved in the next several days to a special isolation unit it has set up in collaboration with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Earlier on Thursday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a news briefing that the State Department was working with the CDC facilitate options for potential medical evacuations of American humanitarian aid workers who have contracted Ebola in West Africa, although he did not mention the workers by name. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

Hairdo Trumps Exercise for Many Black Women, Study Finds

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Kids' Lunch Boxes Often Fall Short on Nutrition

Less than one-third of home meals met federal standards for school-served foods, study finds via Resurrection Health Care - Daily News More READ

An Argument Against Double Stuf Oreos

They’re terrible. Sorry not sorry.

They are wrong.

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The Oreo is a classic American treat. Your Grandpa ate Oreos.

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Burnout Common Among Transplant Surgeons, Study Reveals

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Some Jobs Harder on the Heart Than Others, Report Finds

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Once-Daily Inhaler Approved for COPD

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U.S. veterans agency employees falsified data to hide delays: USA Today

Employees at more than 100 medical centers run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs falsified appointment data and hid evidence of delayed medical care, according to a USA Today analysis of government data. Some 109 VA medical centers distorted data on the length of time veterans had to wait before receiving medical care, while 110 kept separate, secret records of the delays, the USA Today analysis of a VA internal audit found. The VA on Tuesday said it was recommending disciplinary action against six employees involved in data manipulation at VA centers in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Fort Collins, Colorado. "Employees who have been found to have manipulated data, withheld accurate information from their supervisors, and affected the timeliness of care veterans receive do not reflect VA's values, and their actions will not be tolerated," Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said in a statement on Tuesday. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

Probe exposes flaws behind HealthCare.gov rollout

Officials tell The Associated Press that a nonpartisan investigative report concludes that management failures by the Obama administration set the stage for the computer problems that paralyzed the HealthCare.gov website last fall.

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Media Cleanse: Results Guaranteed

If you are like many people, you probably spend your average three-minute wait in the supermarket checkout line skimming the magazine headlines that cover the aisle. If you are like me, what you find on those magazine covers makes you want to close your eyes until you reach the cashier. From Photoshopped cover models to tabloid headlines...

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Most States Let Medicaid Doc Pay Hikes Lapse

(MedPage Today) -- Just six states and the District of Columbia will use their own money in 2015 to sustain the federal Medicaid pay raise to primary care doctors, which was a key provision of the Affordable Care Act. via MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians Read More Here..

Spine Changes in PsA Predict Heart Risk

(MedPage Today) -- Sacroiliitis seen on a CT scan was associated with aortic vascular inflammation among patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, suggesting that such scans could predict cardiovascular disease. via MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians Read More Here..

Judge says unclear if NYC is fair when revoking licenses

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge in New York said it is an open question whether the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission treats drivers fairly in hearings over whether to revoke their licenses. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein made the assessment in a 50-page decision on Thursday, in which he reviewed challenges by drivers to revocations of licenses because of failed drug tests or some criminal convictions, including misdemeanors. Stein nonetheless declined to declare the TLC license revocation process unconstitutional. The 6-1/2-year-old lawsuit by seven former drivers, who seek class action status, claimed the TLC violated their due process rights by taking away their licenses or recommending revocation. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..

On first meeting, men prefer ‘nice’ women: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For heterosexual men, women who are “nice” are also “attractive,” according to a new study, but the same doesn’t hold true for women meeting a man for the first time.

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5 food writers subpoenaed in 'pink slime' lawsuit

Several food writers, including a New York Times reporter, have been subpoenaed by a meat producer as part of its $1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC in regards to the network's coverage of a beef product dubbed "pink slime" by critics.

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Australia urged to come clean on asylum-seekers' mental health

Australia's human rights commissioner said Thursday the government must come clean about conditions at offshore asylum-seeker camps after an inquiry heard of an alleged cover-up of mental health problems. The facilities have been under the spotlight in recent weeks following reports that up to a dozen mothers had attempted suicide at a detention centre on Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. The women did so under the belief that their babies would have a better chance of being settled in Australia if they were orphans, reports said. A leading psychiatrist alleged at a national inquiry into the mandatory detention of children seeking asylum that figures showing the extent of mental health issues had been covered up by the immigration department.

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Antibiotics in Chickens Develop Indians Antibiotic-Resistant: CSE Study

Indians are developing resistance to antibiotics and falling prey to a host of otherwise curable ailments due to large-scale uncontrolled use of antibiotics in the poultry industry, says a study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). The organization also sought implementation of a comprehensive set of regulations including banning of antibiotic use as growth promoters in the poultry industry as it puts lives of people at stake. ...

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Japan's smoking rate drops to record low

Japan's smoking rate has dropped below 20 percent for the first time, according to a new survey, as a recent rise in cigarette prices helped to further discourage the habit. The proportion of adult smokers stood at 19.7 percent as of May, down 1.2 percentage points from a year earlier and the lowest rate since the survey started in 1965. The number of smokers in Japan stands at about 20.6 million, according to the study published Wednesday, which is conducted by cigarette monopoly Japan Tobacco. The overall figures put Japan roughly on par with the United States, where the Centers for Disease Control estimates that some 18.1 percent of the adult population smokes.

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Liberia shuts schools as Ebola spreads, Peace Corps leaves 3 countries

By David Lewis and Emma Farge DAKAR (Reuters) - Liberia will close schools and consider quarantining some communities, it said on Wednesday, rolling out the toughest measures yet imposed by a West African government to halt the worst outbreak on record of the deadly Ebola virus. "This is a major public health emergency. It's fierce, deadly and many of our countrymen are dying and we need to act to stop the spread," Lewis Brown, Liberia's information minister, told Reuters. "We need the support of the international community now more than ever.

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World Breastfeeding Week 2014: BREASTFEEDING: A Winning Goal - for Life!

The World Breastfeeding Day has been observed by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) for the past 22 years. The theme for this years' World Breastfeeding Week that is being observed between August 1 to August 7, 2014 is 'BREASTFEEDING: A Winning Goal - for Life!' a href="http:www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/breastfeed_direction.htm" target="_blank" class="vcontentshlink"Breastfeeding/a is the first and best gift that a mother ...

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RNA That Regulates Cell Death Discovered

An RNA known as INXS that modulates the action of an important gene in the process of apoptosis, or programmed cell death has been discovered by University of Sao Paulo scientists. According to Sergio Verjovski-Almeida, professor at the USP Chemistry Institute and coordinator of a research funded by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), INXS expression is generally diminished in cancer cells, and methods that are capable of stimulating the production of this ...

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