Rabies spreads through the saliva of infected animals, kills someone every 10 minutes, and strikes children under 15 in more than half of cases. Symptoms may take months to appear but death often follows within days, so anyone bitten needs care right away. Vaccinating pets breaks a common route.
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Drinking Alcohol linked to breast cancer
Following 87,724 postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative, researchers found that one or more drinks a day roughly doubled the risk of lobular and hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, but saw no increase in the far more common ductal type. Type of drink made no difference.
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Recognize and Prevent MRSA Infections
As children head back to classrooms and sports, the CDC explains how to spot a MRSA skin infection: a red, swollen, painful bump, warm to the touch, draining pus or accompanied by fever. It spreads through direct contact, shared towels or razors, and contaminated surfaces.
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Online Generic Levitra is better generic than Viagra Tablets
A promotional comparison of vardenafil and sildenafil citrate, both PDE-5 inhibitors used against impotence. It claims vardenafil costs less, acts within about 25 minutes and lasts more than five hours, against four to five hours for sildenafil, with similar side effects.
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Animals Can Harbor MRSA
Mercola points to journalist Maryn McKenna's reporting on MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant staph strain that kills 19,000 Americans a year, and to Grist's note that up to 70 percent of US antibiotics go to feedlots, where a novel MRSA strain has been found.
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Stalevo(carbidopa/levodopa and entacapone): Ongoing Safety Review: Possible increased cardiovascular risk
FDA told clinicians it is reviewing trial data suggesting patients on Stalevo may face higher risk of heart attack, stroke and cardiovascular death than those on carbidopa/levodopa alone, after the STRIDE-PD trial showed an imbalance in heart attacks. The review is ongoing.
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Blood Cancers: Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma
The CDC describes leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma and reports more than 61,000 blood, bone marrow and lymph node cancers diagnosed in the US in 2006, with nearly 30,000 deaths. Leukemia is the most common cancer and the leading cancer killer among people under 20.
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Pink Eye: Usually Mild and Easy to Treat
Conjunctivitis inflames the thin lining of the white of the eye and inner eyelid. Viruses, bacteria, irritants such as chlorine and allergens can all cause it. Viral and bacterial cases spread easily between people but are usually mild and often clear without treatment; handwashing limits spread.
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Painful Debilitating Disease More Devastating than Previously Recognized (2)
Part two reviews the animal evidence: mycoplasma causes chronic arthritis in mice, rats, fowl, swine, sheep, goats, cattle and rabbits, either by multiplying inside the joint or provoking an intense local immune response, and mycoplasma antigens turn up in great apes' immune complexes.
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Painful Debilitating Disease More Devastating than Previously Recognized
Dr. Mercola describes rheumatoid arthritis as more devastating than generally appreciated, with disability in 50 to 70 percent of patients within five years and half out of work within 10, and says 60 to 90 percent of his own patients improved on his protocol.
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Pertussis Disease - Questions & Answers (Whooping Cough)
A CDC question-and-answer on whooping cough: the US averaged more than 160,000 cases and 5,000 deaths a year before vaccines arrived in the 1940s, reports fell more than 99 percent by 1976, and cases have climbed since the 1980s, reaching over 13,000 with 18 deaths in 2008.
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Cancer and Men
Cancer claims nearly 300,000 American men a year. CDC says smoking causes about 9 of every 10 male lung cancer deaths, and that evidence is not yet clear enough on prostate cancer screening, so it backs informed decision making rather than a blanket recommendation.
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West Nile Virus
More than 29,000 US West Nile virus cases have been reported since 1999, over 12,000 of them serious and more than 1,150 fatal, and CDC estimates over 300,000 people have been sickened. Older adults and organ transplant recipients face higher risk; repellent on skin and clothes improves your odds.
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Untreated Dental Caries (Cavities) in Children Ages 2-19, United States
CDC data show untreated cavities fell sharply after 1971-1974 but remain common: 19.5 percent of children aged 2-5 and 22.9 percent of those 6-19 had them in 2001-2004. Rates were similar for boys and girls, but higher among Black children and Hispanic children of Mexican origin.
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Superbug may originate from India - study
British scientists reporting in The Lancet say UK patients carrying the NDM-1 superbug, resistant even to carbapenems, acquired it in India, often while travelling for surgery. Indian lawmakers dispute the claim, citing drug company funding and harm to medical tourism.
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Foodborne illness more likely linked to poultry, beef, and leafy vegetables, CDC says
CDC surveillance of 1,097 foodborne outbreaks in 2007 counted 21,244 illnesses and 18 deaths. Norovirus was the most common laboratory-confirmed cause, followed by Salmonella, and among outbreaks traced to a single commodity, poultry, beef and leafy vegetables led.
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Worldwide Superbug Threat Frightening
Researchers at Cardiff University and the Health Protection Agency described NDM-1, a gene that leaves bacteria resistant to virtually all known antibiotics and passes easily between species. Most UK cases traced to travel and hospital treatment in the Indian subcontinent.
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US Children and Adolescents with Spina Bifida
Using birth defects surveillance data from 10 U.S. regions, researchers estimate 3.1 per 10,000 children aged 0-19 were living with spina bifida in 2002, roughly 24,860 in all. Prevalence was highest at ages 4-7, higher in females, and lower in non-Hispanic blacks than whites.
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