President Donald Trump’s decision to end a provision of the Affordable Care Act that was benefiting roughly 6 million Americans helps fulfill a campaign promise, but it also risks harming …
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University Gives Students Incentives to Get Healthy
Students are not supposed to “zone out” in class, but that’s a required part of the curriculum in the Healthy Brains, Healthy Bodies course at the University of Vermont. Faith …
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A groundbreaking treatment for a rare form of hereditary blindness has moved closer to U.S. approval. This week advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended the experimental gene therapy, …
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Clearing forests for farm fields makes room for crops, but often squeezes out natural predators that can help clear the fields of crop-eating rodents. After his neighbors tried unsuccessfully to …
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California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday declared a state of emergency to combat a hepatitis A outbreak that has claimed 18 lives in San Diego. Brown said the federally funded …
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Eighteen U.S. states vowed Friday to sue President Donald Trump’s administration to try to stop him from scrapping a key component of Obamacare — subsidies to insurers that help millions …
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The Carter Center, a nonprofit organization run by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, said Friday that it had helped eliminate elephantiasis, a disfiguring tropical disease, from two states in Nigeria …
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America’s weight problem isn’t getting any better, according to new government research. Overall, obesity figures stayed about the same: About 40 percent of adults are obese and 18.5 percent of …
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The former coach of banned marathon runner Rita Jeptoo has been acquitted in a Kenyan court of charges that he helped administer the banned blood-booster EPO to her. Italian …
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The massive brooding stone figures peering from Easter Island’s hillsides are emblematic of the enigmatic people who once thrived on the dot of land in the middle of the Pacific. …
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After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria blitzed the nation, most Americans think weather disasters are getting more severe and see global warming’s fingerprints. A new poll from the Associated …
your ads here!WHO Urges Action to Stop Animal TB, Its Spread to Humans
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging action to stop the spread of tuberculosis from animals to humans. The health agency warns zoonotic TB, as it is called, infects about …
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In the future, the noise of car engines revving around the streets of Paris might become just a memory. In its latest initiative to reduce air pollution, Paris City …
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SpaceX has launched and landed its second rocket in three days, this time from the U.S. East Coast. The unmanned Falcon — recycled following a February flight — blasted off …
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West Africa is most at risk of fatal hemorrhagic fever epidemics, including Ebola, researchers said Wednesday, calling for greater preparedness to save lives. A study in The Lancet medical journal …
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NASA is using an asteroid’s close flyby to test Earth’s warning network for incoming space rocks. The small asteroid was on track to pass within 27,200 miles (43,800 kilometers) of …
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In his new autobiography, retired astronaut Scott Kelly gives an unflinchingly blunt take on his U.S. record-breaking year in space and the challenging life events that got him there. This …
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There have been four outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu in farms in central and northern Italy since the start of the month and about 865,000 chickens, ducks and …
your ads here!WHO Warns of Child Obesity Epidemic, With Tenfold Increase In 40 Years
A new study shows there has been a huge increase in the number of obese and overweight children around the world in just a couple of generations. In one of …
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A study shows there has been a tenfold increase in the number of obese and overweight children and adolescents worldwide in just 40 years. In one of the biggest epidemiological …
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Spacewalking astronauts hustled through a lube job and camera swaps outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, their second trip outside in less than a week. Astronaut Mark Vande Hei …
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Miroslav Lajcak, president of the 72nd session of the U.N. General Assembly, has an ambitious agenda of global issues he wishes to focus on in the coming year, and moving …
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