FRESNO, Calif. – Public health workers are warning more recent visitors to Yosemite National Park that they may have been…
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Arizona man survives after impaling himself through the head on pool fence
A man in his early 20s was impaled through the head Sunday as he climbed over a pool fence in…
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Health officials enlist police in growing meningitis scare
Health authorities scrambled on Monday to identify more cases of a rare form of meningitis, including enlisting local police to…
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Researchers find report from first doctor to treat Lincoln after gunshot wound
The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial…
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Michigan patient suffering from fungal joint infection, death toll at 14 in tainted steroid outbreak, CDC says
Health officials say 14,000 people may have received drugs linked to the national meningitis outbreak, and a Michigan patient is…
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US meningitis death toll rises to 29 with fatality in Virginia
Another patient has died in Virginia after contracting fungal meningitis from potentially tainted steroid injections supplied by a Massachusetts company,…
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Scientists convert skin cells into full functioning heart cells
In the first procedure of its kind, skin cells taken from patients suffering from heart failure were “reprogrammed” and changed…
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Woman addicted to drinking urine
Some people like to drink soda, others water – but for 53-year-old Carrie, she prefers to drink her own urine.…
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Hospital tech’s arrest sets off hepatitis scare in 8 states, shows flaws in system
Radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was a few weeks into a temporary job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian in…
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Chemicals in cosmetics linked to diabetes, study says
A chemical commonly used in cosmetics and plastics could increase the likelihood of Type 2 diabetes, a Swedish study found.…
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