Sunday, June 12, 2016

HIV-positive congressional hopeful wants to help others with... and other top stories.

  • HIV-positive congressional hopeful wants to help others with...

    WASHINGTON (CNN) - A Florida congressional hopeful who disclosed this week that he is HIV-positive hopes he can help others with the illness.Bob Poe, a Democrat who is running in Florida's 10th congressional district, announced in a Facebook post that he has had HIV for the past 18 years. If elected, Poe would likely become the first member of Congress who has publicly disclosed that he has the illness."I'd like to share something deeply personal with you today, something that in the past, I've..
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  • The Severe Dangers of Opioid Painkiller Fentanyl

    The Severe Dangers of Opioid Painkiller Fentanyl
    Transcript for The Severe Dangers of Opioid Painkiller Fentanyl growing epidemic that's killing Americans in record Numbers. A painkiller significantly more powerful than heroin -- fentanyl. The Dea issuing an urgent warning. Now we take an in-depth look. Reporter: Fentanyl, the drug deadlier than heroin. Causing an epidemic of overdose deaths all across the country. Today the Dea issued a warning. I want to take a minute today to talk to you about something very important. It could kill you...
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  • More Than Ever, Americans Are Dying By Accident

    More Than Ever, Americans Are Dying By Accident
    The National Safety Council says more Americans are dying by accident, and opioid abuse is one of the leading causes. Toby Talbot/AP hide caption toggle caption Toby Talbot/AP The National Safety Council says more Americans are dying by accident, and opioid abuse is one of the leading causes. Toby Talbot/AP ..
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  • Doctors Aren't Washing Their Hands Enough & Here's How To Change It

    Doctors Aren't Washing Their Hands Enough & Here's How To Change It
    When we go into a hospital, we assume that the doctors taking care of us are highly educated professionals who take cleanliness very seriously.It turns out, that's only mostly true. A new study suggests that doctors are very serious about cleanliness, as long as they know they’re being watched.A study being presented via the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), found that hand-washing routines differed dramatically depending on whether people knew they were..
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  • Brain Study Offers New Insight into Pain Combat Veterans Experience

    Brain Study Offers New Insight into Pain Combat Veterans Experience
    A new study conducted by military researchers may help to explain the unique and painful symptoms U.S. military veterans often experience after serving in combat zones. The team of military scientists at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) in Maryland announced in a report Friday that symptoms like headaches and fuzzy thinking can point to a special pattern of brain scarring observed in men who died days or years after being exposed to powerful explosions. According ..
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  • A look at the graying of HIV

    A look at the graying of HIV
    SARASOTA — Survivors of the U.S. AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s are accustomed to being told they dodged a bullet. They know they are fortunate to be alive all these decades later.But on this 35th anniversary of the first public scientific notice of a rare and mysterious pneumonia afflicting five young gay men in Los Angeles, those who made it through the early years of panic, confusion and grief say it's not as if they can ever feel the disease is all in the past. It's more like they are..
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  • So You're Going To A Place With Zika? Here's What You Need To Know

    So You're Going To A Place With Zika? Here's What You Need To Know
    Maybe it's a dive trip to Belize. Or a cruise in the Caribbean. Or maybe you've snagged tickets to the summer Olympics in Rio. If you're traveling in places where Zika is circulating, there are a few things you need to keep in mind — and bring along. The first question is: Should you go on the trip at all? If you're pregnant — or trying to get pregnant — stop reading now and consider canceling that trip, says Catherine Spong, the acting director of the National Institute of Child Health and Hum..
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  • Wine Protects Against Diabetes?

    Wine Protects Against Diabetes?
    Study suggests wine consumption offers greater protection against type 2 risk, compared with beer or other alcoholic beverages. In a study published in Journal of Diabetes Investigation, researchers concluded that any amount of wine — with certain precautions — can have a positive effect for type 2 diabetes. The pooled RRs for different alcoholic beverages indicated that all wine, beer or spirits consumption was associated with decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, according to the  researchers. “..
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  • Colorado marijuana increasingly finding its way to Florida

    Colorado marijuana increasingly finding its way to Florida
    Caption + In this Feb. 10, 2016 photo, marijuana sits on a scale next to one-gram containers designed to look like shotgun shells, at Smoking Gun Apothecary, the new marijuana dispensary, in Glendale, Colo., a home rule municipality just outside downtown Denver. Smokin Gun Apothecary is on a site formerly occupied by the Denver areaÂ’s best known strip club, Shotgun WillieÂ’s. The strip club hasnÂ’t gone away, itÂ’s moved just across the parking lot. Both businesses have the same owner, who e..
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  • This Doctor Wants To Help California Figure Out Aid-In-Dying

    This Doctor Wants To Help California Figure Out Aid-In-Dying
    Lonny Shavelson has studied America's experiments with aid in dying. He's now helping patients and doctors in California come to grips with the state's new law. Courtesy of PhotoWords.com hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of PhotoWords.com Lonny Shavelson has studied America's experiments with aid in dying. He's now helping patients and doctors in Cali..
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