Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Women's Heart Disease Symptoms To Watch Out For In Family And Friends and other top stories.

  • Women's Heart Disease Symptoms To Watch Out For In Family And Friends

    Women's Heart Disease Symptoms To Watch Out For In Family And Friends
    As if 2016 wasn't already difficult enough for us all to handle, we lost Hollywood mother-daughter legends Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher within one day each other as the holiday season wound down. On Dec. 23, Fisher suffered a heart attack while on a plane from London to Los Angeles. Medical personnel were able to remove her from the flight, and that night it was reported that she was in stable condition. However, she never regained consciousness, and to the world's shock, on Tuesday, Dec. 2..
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  • What triggers broken-heart syndrome?

    What triggers broken-heart syndrome?
    by Ryan Hughes, ABC7 NewsFILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003 file photo, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher arrive at the "Runway for Life" Celebrity Fashion Show Benefitting St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and celebrating the DVD relese of Chicago in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Jill Connelly, File)WASHINGTON (WJLA) - Fans and friends are mourning the loss of Debbie Reynolds.The star of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” died after a stroke Wednesday.Reynolds co..
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  • Mouse Study Hints at Why Obese People Struggle to Exercise

    Mouse Study Hints at Why Obese People Struggle to Exercise
    THURSDAY, Dec. 28, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Overweight mice may provide a hint as to why it's so hard to start -- and stick to -- your New Year's resolution to exercise more.Researchers found signs that the brains of obese mice may encourage inactivity."We know that physical activity is linked to overall good health, but not much is known about why people or animals with obesity are less active," said study senior author Alexxai Kravitz. Kravitz is an investigator in the diabetes, endocrinology..
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  • Gates Foundation in $140m anti-AIDS pact with Boston-based Intarcia

    Gates Foundation in $140m anti-AIDS pact with Boston-based Intarcia
    Sign up for the Talking Points newsletter, a recap of the most important business news, delivered fresh each afternoon, Monday through Friday. --- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is investing $50 million in Boston-based biotech firm Intarcia Therapeutics and plans to contribute another $90 million to the company in an effort to better prevent HIV in Africa.The Gates Foundation money will help fund a preventive HIV treatment based on a “mini-pump” technology Intarcia developed that also c..
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  • What happened in Washington state after voters legalized recreational marijuana

    What happened in Washington state after voters legalized recreational marijuana
    (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) The nation's first recreational marijuana shop opened nearly three years ago in Colorado. Since then, a growing body of research has shown that the availability of recreational marijuana — in Colorado and elsewhere — is having little to no effect on teens' propensity to smoke weed. That's the conclusion, at least, of the official statistics out of Colorado through 2015. It's what federal data shows nationwide through this year. And it's also backed up by other fed..
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  • Zika to weed: 8 huge health stories from 2016

    Zika to weed: 8 huge health stories from 2016
    From the elimination of measles in the U.S. to the advance of potential new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, 2016 was a jam-packed year for health news. Here are eight of the most noteworthy health news stories from this year: Zika's rise and retreat Although the Zika virus was identified in 1947, it erupted onto the world scene in 2015, and moved into greater global consciousness with lightning speed over the past year. During the summer of 2016, local transmission of the Zika virus was se..
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  • Obstetricians balk at FDA warning on anesthesia in pregnant women

    By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) - - Repeated or lengthy use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in infants, toddlers and pregnant women in their third trimester might damage children’s developing brains, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned this month. Upset that the warning about pregnant women was based solely on animal studies, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or ACOG, shot back its objection. “ACOG is unaware of data on pregnant wo..
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  • Nation's First Known Intersex Birth Certificate Issued in NYC

    Nation's First Known Intersex Birth Certificate Issued in NYC
    On Tuesday, 55-year-old Sara Kelly Keenan received something in the mail she's been waiting for her entire life: an accurate birth certificate. Keenan was born intersex, with male genes, female genitalia and mixed internal reproductive organs. Now, Keenan, who uses female pronouns, is making history. Hers is believed to be the first birth certificate ever issued in the United States that reads "intersex" in the gender field, instead of "male" or "female." Sara Kelly Keenan Courtesy o..
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