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• Zikas Making Some People Sick. Its Making Other People Crazy.

  

  Is Zika a form of government mind control? Did it come from the Illuminati? Are vaccines actually causing microcephaly? Nope, nope, nope.The Zika virus is real. It really does cause microcephaly and other birth defects. And it definitely didn’t come from the Rockefellers. But as the Zika virus continues to spread locally in the Miami area, conspiracy theories about its origins are spreading, too. Just last week, for example, some Miami Beach protestors argued against aerial pesticide spraying in..

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• Doctors say flu mist doesn't work, more will have to endure "a little pinch" this year - KTRK

  HOUSTON (KTRK) -- It's time to start thinking flu season. Doctors across the nation are getting ready but the CDC advisory committee has recently made a big recommendation that will affect many of you who dread "the needle"."Okay Miss Mia you're getting your flu vaccine okay," said a nurse as she prepared the needle. It can be painful to some, but moms like Samira Bush never take any chances especially when it involves their children."(I do it) just to protect them," said Bush. "Make sure they'..

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• Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan Pledge Billions To Fight All Disease

  

  Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan on Wednesday pledged more than $3 billion toward a plan to “cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children’s lifetime.” Speaking through tears at a San Francisco event to announce the initiative, Chan said she hoped to spare parents the pain she had seen while delivering difficult news as a pediatrician. Beck Diefenbach / Reuters “In those moments and in many others we’re at the limit of what we understand about t..

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• Sorry, Your Fitness Tracker Is Probably Useless

  

  (Reuters Health) - For young adults on a long-term healthy diet and exercise program, tracking activity with a wearable device may not lead to additional weight loss, according to a new study. Over 24 months, people who used wearable activity trackers lost 2.4 kilograms (5.29 pounds) less than a group on a similar program but using a website to track their progress. “We should not simply tell everyone to go and buy an activity monitor and that it will help them to lose weight,” said lead author ..

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• Pediatricians Say Codeine Is Not Safe For Children

  

  Codeine is not safe to give to kids. The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a statement this week urging parents and doctors to stop giving children under the age of 18 both prescription and over-the-counter medications that include codeine, such as cough syrup and pain relievers.  “People have this very false misconception about codeine, thinking that it’s safer than other opioids,” Dr. Joseph Tobias, one of the study’s lead authors, told The Huffington Post. “Our whole push for writing this..

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• Polls: Voters favor legalizing pot, outlawing capital punishment

  

  Ballot initiatives that would make smoking marijuana for recreation legal for all adults and outlaw the death penalty have jumped out to big leads, according to two new polls released Wednesday night. Prospects look especially strong for Proposition 64, the marijuana initiative, which has the support of 60 percent of likely voters, a poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California shows. The measure is opposed by 36 percent of respondents, while only 4 percent said they were undec..

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• FDA launches mobile app competition to aid opioid abuse epidemic

  

  Federal health officials are asking the public for mobile app designs that would help connect opioid abusers to carriers of the prescription drug naloxone, which can help reverse overdose. In 2014, 2 million Americans were dependent on opioids and 28,000 died of opioid overdose, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the 2016 Naloxone App Competition on Monday to recruit “computer programmers, public health adv..

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• Blue Bell recalls ice cream for Listeria; blames supplier

  

  Within days of heralding their products' return to grocery stores in three states, officials with Blue Bell Creameries LP quietly recalled two flavors of cookie dough ice cream from 10 states because of Listeria concerns. Discovered to have had ...

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• Smoking can cause permanent damage to DNA

  

  Smoking cigarettes can leave a lasting imprint on human DNA, altering more than 7,000 genes in ways that may contribute to the development of smoking-related diseases, a new study says.Reviewing results from blood samples taken from nearly 16,000 people in 16 prior studies, the researchers also found that for those who stopped smoking, most genes “recovered” within five years of quitting.“Although this emphasizes the long-term residual effects of smoking, the good news is the sooner you can sto..

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