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• Seven-year-old Inspires Alabama Law That Continues to Save Children's Lives

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• Sep 28, 2014 10:54 PM EDT

• A seven-year-old who suffered from a congenital heart defect inspired the creation of a law making a birth screening test mandatory.

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• Dangers Of Miscarriage Affect Women Physically and Emotionally

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• Sep 29, 2014 01:09 AM EDT

• Miscarriage is not a simple thing – hence, it is a scar women go through both physically and emotionally.

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• Enterovirus Seen As Probable Cause Of Paralysis In Children In Colorado

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• Sep 29, 2014 01:08 AM EDT

• Enterovirus 68 is an acute respiratory illness that shares epidemiologic and biologic characteristics with human rhinoviruses. It can cause severe respiratory disease that affects breathing and respiration.

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• Cancer That Claimed Canada’s Hero May Be Treatable Today

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• Sep 27, 2014 10:11 PM EDT

• According to a doctor from Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, osteosarcoma, a cancer that claimed Canada's hero Terry Fox, has an 80% cure rate today.

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• Fingerprint May Help Save Children's Lives by Tracking Vaccine Schedules

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• Sep 27, 2014 09:42 PM EDT

• A fingerprint-based recognition system may be what parents and healthcare workers need to help keep track of vaccination schedules of babies and toddlers.

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• Curry May Help the Brain Heal

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• Sep 27, 2014 09:12 PM EDT

• A special compound in curry spice known as aromatic turmerone has shown great promise in regenerating nerve stem cells in the brain.

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• Swiss Nurse Bitten By Young Ebola Patient Flown Back to Switzerland for Observation

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• Sep 27, 2014 08:33 PM EDT

• A nurse that was working in an Ebola treatment facility in Sierra Leone had to be evacuated out of Africa as a precaution after a child, infected with the Ebola virus, bit him.

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• US Southern States Are Now The Dominant Locations For HIV And AIDS In The Country

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• Sep 27, 2014 08:10 PM EDT

• Experts say that the number of HIV and AIDS cases within the southern states have escalated drastically over the past few years and is now the highest across all regions of the United States. Conditions worsen eyes people living with HIV or AIDS in these areas…

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• CDC Estimates Nearly 1.5 Million In Sierra Leone And Liberia Infected With Ebola By January

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• Sep 27, 2014 08:05 PM EDT

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States has issued a recent forecast about the possible rise in the number of Ebola cases. The numbers that were released suggested that over 1 million people within the countries of Sierra Leone and …

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• New App Helps You Talk about STD with Your Partner

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• Sep 27, 2014 04:01 PM EDT

• A new app called Healthvana makes sharing your STD status easier.

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• People Who Exercise More Tend to Drink More on Social Days

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• Sep 27, 2014 03:37 PM EDT

• A very interesting study points out the strong correlation between exercising on social days and drinking more.

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• Ebola Vaccinations May Begin in January, WHO Says

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• Sep 26, 2014 11:00 PM EDT

• If the two human trials produce good results, there may be Ebola vaccines available by January.