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FDA: Smokeless Tobacco Can Advertise as "Lower Risk"
The maker of eight smokeless tobacco products known as snus can market them as being lower risk than regular cigarettes for giving users cancer, lung disease, and stroke, the FDA said Tuesday.
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FDA May Put Strong Warning on Breast Implants
The FDA wants breast implant makers to warn women that breast implants are not lifetime devices, and that the risk of complications rises the longer a patient has the implant.
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Bedtime May Be Best Time for Blood Pressure Meds
People who took all their blood pressure meds at night had lower blood pressure around the clock compared to volunteers who took their medication in the morning.
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Obesity May Be Upping Rates of Pancreatic Cancer Worldwide
Colon cancer rates and pancreatic cancer deaths rose by 10% worldwide between 1990 and 2017, according to a new study of global trends in digestive diseases.
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Disneyland Visitors May Have Been Exposed to Measles
People who were at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and a Starbucks in Los Angeles on Oct. 16 may have been exposed to measles, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health says.
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Could AI Beat Radiologists at Spotting Bleeds in the Brain?
A computer program trained to look for bleeding in the brain outperformed two of four certified radiologists, finding abnormalities in brain scans quickly and efficiently, the researchers reported.
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Nasal Swab Could Help Gauge Smokers' Odds for Lung Cancer
The experimental nasal swab relies on the fact that most lung cancer patients are current and former smokers. It's meant to be a noninvasive means of separating high-risk patients from low-risk...
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Banned Trans Fats Linked to Higher Dementia Risk: Study
Most trans fats were banned in the United States last year. But foods with less than a half-gram of trans fats can be labeled as containing zero, so some foods still contain them.
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New Drug on the Horizon for Flu's Ills?
The new pill, which targets the genetics of influenza viruses, has shown that it can reduce fever and respiratory symptoms in lab animals, as well as reducing the overall amount of virus in their...
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More TV, Smartphone Time Means More Sugary Drinks for Teens
Researchers analyzed data from more than 32,400 U.S. students in grades 8 and 10. They found that more than 27% exceeded recommended sugar intake and 21% exceeded recommended caffeine intake from soda...
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Windy, Humid Days Could Bring More Pain
People with chronic pain conditions are more likely to suffer pain on humid and windy days, according to a study that used smartphones to assess pain-weather connections.
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Always Removes Female Symbol From Pad Wrapper
Always isn’t the first commercial entity to move toward a more gender-neutral approach. Thinx, a company that makes period-proof underwear, uses the tagline “For people with periods.” Last month, toy...
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Theme Park Thermal Camera Helps Spot Breast Cancer
In 2017, the FDA warned health care providers and thermography device makers not to mislead people into believing thermal imaging could take the place of a mammogram.
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How Young Is Too Young to Leave Kids Home Alone?
Nearly every social worker said leaving a child 6 years or younger home alone for four or more hours represented neglect. More than 80% agreed if the child was 8 or younger, as did more than half if...
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Los Angeles Vape District A Black-Market Gateway
A seedy section of downtown Los Angeles has become the go-to place for those who trade in wholesale — and sometimes counterfeit — vaping products. As more people fall ill with a mysterious lung...
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Kids' Trampoline Injuries Take Another Bounce Upwards
Overall, trampoline-related fractures accounted for about 3.6% of all broken bones occurring among American kids in 2008, but that number rose to nearly 6.2% by 2017, the study found.
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Many Women Are Sharing Breast Milk, and That Has Health Experts Worried
There is a risk of dilution, or contamination with viruses or bacteria, particularly with donor milk obtained online, explained Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter, who chairs the AAP's Section on Breastfeeding.
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One Region Is Being Hit Hardest by U.S. Opioid Crisis
Fueled mainly by fentanyl and heroin, overdose (OD) deaths are soaring in an area that runs east from Minnesota and Illinois and north from West Virginia and Virginia, according to the U.S. Centers...
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Don't Delay Very Early-Stage Breast Cancer Surgery
Longer delays in surgery for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) breast cancer lead to a higher risk of invasive ductal carcinoma and a slightly lower survival rate, researchers found.
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Most Popular BP Drugs Might Not Be the Best
Crunching the numbers, the Columbia team calculated that about 3,100 major cardiovascular events among the patients who first took ACE inhibitors could have been prevented if they'd first been treated...
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