Sunday, October 9, 2016

Ben Stiller Reveals Secret Battle With Prostate Cancer and other top stories.

  • Ben Stiller Reveals Secret Battle With Prostate Cancer

    Ben Stiller Reveals Secret Battle With Prostate Cancer
    Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images Ben Stiller revealed on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show Tuesday that he was diagnosed with "immediately aggressive" prostate cancer at the age of 48. The Zoolander 2 actor, now 50, appeared on Howard Stern's program with his surgeon and discussed his experience for the first time publicly. "It came out of the blue for me," Stiller said of the diagnosis. "I had no idea."Although Stiller had no family history of prostate cancer, his doctor was able to detect the d..
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  • Zika vaccine race spurred by crisis and profit potential

    Zika vaccine race spurred by crisis and profit potential
    NEW YORK –  The race to find protection against the Zika virus is fueled by something often missing from tropical disease research: the potential for big profit. The prospect of a blockbuster vaccine against a mosquito-borne virus has accelerated the pace of development and attracted the interest of big drugmakers, including Sanofi SA , GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Takeda Pharmaceuticals. Although Zika infections are mild or asymptomatic in most people, demand for a vaccine is expected to be strong ..
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  • Johnson & Johnson letter on cyber bug in insulin pump

    The following is the text of a letter mailed to patients on Monday by Johnson & Johnson's Animas diabetes unit describing a cyber security vulnerability in its Animas OneTouch Ping insulin pump:"Dear Valued Animas® OneTouch® Ping® Pump User, Since 2008, the OneTouch® Ping® insulin pump system has been helping people with diabetes perform at their best, and we are committed to providing our customers with safe and reliable products. We have been notified of a cybersecurity issue with the OneTou..
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  • FDA Warns Public About Danger Of Homeopathic Teething Remedies, Provide List Of Products To Be Avoided

    FDA Warns Public About Danger Of Homeopathic Teething Remedies, Provide List Of Products To Be Avoided
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA warned the public, especially parents, against the use of homeopathic teething tablets and gels on Friday, Sept. 30. The teething remedies were reported can cause seizure among babies. Teething is the process of growing baby's teeth. This is a very challenging experience among parents, and soon-to-be-parents. When the baby starts teething, it may bring sleepless night to him, and he may cry all-night due to the pain of the process. This is the reason..
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  • Democratic and Republican doctors treat patients differently

    Democratic and Republican doctors treat patients differently
    New research says politicized medical issues, like abortion or marijuana use, get different treatment recommendations along physicians' party lines. (Gillian Brockell/The Washington Post) How will your doctor help you deal with issues like pregnancy, drug use or safety? A new study suggests that instead of looking at their résumés or diplomas, you might want to check their voting record. Apparently, Democratic and Republican doctors don’t just vote differently. When faced with hypothetica..
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  • Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize for Study of 'Self-Eating' Cells

    Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan Wins Nobel Prize for Study of 'Self-Eating' Cells
    “I grew very frustrated,” he told the Journal of Cell Biology in 2012. He switched to studying the duplication of DNA in yeast. That work led him to a junior professor position at the University of Tokyo where he picked up a microscope and started peering at sacks in yeast where cell components are degraded — work that eventually brought him, at age 43, to the discoveries that the Nobel Assembly recognized on Monday. Dr. Ohsumi later moved to the National Institute for Basic Biology, in Okazaki..
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  • 8 sickened in multistate salmonella outbreak linked to shell eggs

    8 sickened in multistate salmonella outbreak linked to shell eggs
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers against consuming shell eggs manufactured by Good Earth Egg Company after eight people in three U.S. states have reported illness that officials have determined is caused by salmonella Oranienburg. As of Tuesday morning, the Bonne Terre, Missouri-based company had not issued a recall for the eggs, according to the FDA. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two of the people sickened in the outbreak have been hosp..
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  • Health Highlights: Oct. 4, 2016

    Health Highlights: Oct. 4, 2016
    Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Cigarette Smoke Toxins Remain in Home Long After Smoker Quits: Study Toxins from tobacco smoke persists in smokers' homes for at least six months after they quit and remain a threat to nonsmoking residents, according to researchers. The team studied 65 smokers who were quit smoking and discovered that tiny particles from burning tobacco get into surfaces such as carpets, wallpaper, cei..
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  • Sanofi's dengue vaccine approved in 11 countries

    Sanofi's dengue vaccine approved in 11 countries
    PARIS –  Sanofi Pasteur, Sanofi's vaccines unit, said on Tuesday that its dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia, had received market approval in eleven countries. More on this... To date the vaccine has been approved in Mexico, the Philippines, Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore, the statement said. Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by four virus serotypes (1 to 4) as categorized by the World Health Organisation. Overall, the diseas..
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  • Amid water crisis, Flint faces a Shigellosis outbreak

    Amid water crisis, Flint faces a Shigellosis outbreak
    That's exactly what's happening in Flint, the county health director told CNN.A water crisis has plagued residents there for more than two years. Last year, people experienced rashes and hair loss when high levels of lead were found in the local water supply. In 2014, the area faced one of the worst outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease in US history.Still afraid and mistrustful of the water, people in Flint -- who are still forced to use either filtered or bottled water because of damaged water p..
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Wells Fargo Scandal Gets Banks To Ask Employees What Makes Them Proud to Come to Work .Six-year-old boy's letter to Obama offering injured Syrian child a home goes viral .
US Home Prices Continued Brisk Growth in July, Case-Shiller Says .How We Got Here: DNA Points to a Single Migration From Africa .

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