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More Severe Strain of Flu Starting to Spread Widely: CDC
FRIDAY, Feb. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Americans aren't out of the woods yet, as the flu season continues to spread across the country, health officials reported Friday.
One major shift that's occurred is in the viruses that are circulating. At the start of the flu season, the predominant strain was influenza A H1N1, but now a more...
- Steven Reinberg
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A Hard Look at Smoking's Effect on Vision
FRIDAY, Feb. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- If life looks gray and cloudy when you smoke, you might not be imagining it.
Heavy smoking may actually damage color and contrast vision, researchers report.
They looked at 71 healthy people who smoked fewer than 15 cigarettes in their lives and 63 people who smoked more than 20 cigar...
- Robert Preidt
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- February 22, 2019
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Peanut Allergy Patch Shows Middling Results in Trial
FRIDAY, Feb. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Delivering "exposure therapy" via a patch to help curb peanut allergy in kids is somewhat effective, but not as good as delivering the tiny amounts of peanut by mouth, new research shows.
The international trial involved 356 children, aged 4 to 11, from five countries. All had been diagnosed wi...
- E.J. Mundell
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- February 22, 2019
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Mom's Prenatal Fish Oil Might Help Kids' Blood Pressure Later
FRIDAY, Feb. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Obese young children may have less risk for high blood pressure if their mother took the omega-3 fatty acid DHA -- found in fish oil -- during pregnancy, new research suggests.
The findings could be important since rising numbers of American children are obese and experiencing hikes in blood pr...
- Robert Preidt
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- February 22, 2019
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Opioid Overdose Deaths Quadruple, Centered in 8 States
FRIDAY, Feb. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled in the last two decades, and the highest rates are now seen in eight Eastern states, a new study shows.
Those states are: Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire and Ohio.
The researchers also found that...
- Robert Preidt
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- February 22, 2019
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Berkeley's Efforts Suggest Soda Taxes Do Cut Soda Sales
FRIDAY, Feb. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Tax it, and fewer folks will buy it.
So it goes with sugar-sweetened drinks, new research suggests.
The California city of Berkeley introduced the nation's first soda tax in 2014, and within months people were buying 21 percent fewer sugary drinks. Three years later, 52 percent few...
- Steven Reinberg
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- February 22, 2019
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