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• Drug Overdose Hits Record High

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• Dec 19, 2015 11:16 PM EST

• Despite efforts to prevent occurrence, the number of people who overdosed with opioid has gone up last 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported.

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• Failure to Enrich Flour with Folic Acid Leads to Thousands of Birth Defects

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• Dec 18, 2015 10:35 PM EST

• The failure to boost folic acid in flour is currently linked to at least 2,000 birth defects in the UK.

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• Donor Death Halts UCSF Living Donor Program

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• Dec 18, 2015 10:31 PM EST

• The death of a living donor is currently jeopardizing a transplant program of UCSF.

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• Flu season should be mild, CDC says

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• Dec 18, 2015 06:26 PM EST

• Last year at this time, flu was already around and was near its peak. It is later this year, which is a return to a more normal pattern.

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• FDA: Kids and teens should be banned from tanning beds

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• Dec 18, 2015 06:19 PM EST

• The FDA is proposing a ban on the use of tanning beds by anyone under age 18. Tanning devices greatly increase the risk of skin cancer.

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• Woman who survived Ebola may have become infectious again due to pregnancy

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• Dec 17, 2015 07:17 PM EST

• Newest Ebola cases in Liberia may be linked to a pregnant woman who survived the infection. Her pregnancy may have cause a resurgence of the virus in her.

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• Maryland raised its tax on liquor and the rate of gonorrhea infections went down

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• Dec 17, 2015 07:08 PM EST

• Was it a coincidence that the gonorrhea rate went down in Maryland after that state raised its liquor tax? A study says no.

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• France has its first cases of a mild but contagious H5N3 bird flu

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• Dec 17, 2015 06:58 PM EST

• Another avian flu has been found on farms in France, this one is mild, but highly contagious.

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• Nurse may have infected more than 1,000 people, including newborns, to TB

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• Dec 17, 2015 06:39 PM EST

• A nurse with an active case of tuberculosis may have inadvertently exposed hundreds of people to tuberculosis, including 350 newborn babies.

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• Martin Shkreli Arrested over Security Fraud Charges

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• Dec 17, 2015 06:34 PM EST

• The CEO and ex hedge fund manager whose claim to flame includes jacking up drug prices by as much as 5,000% has been arrested by federal authorities on Thursday morning, Dec. 17, in his home in Brooklyn.

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• Screening test being researched shows promise against ovarian cancer

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• Dec 17, 2015 06:31 PM EST

• A new way to use a blood test to screen for ovarian cancer is promising, but needs more study.

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• Rates for drinking, smoking, drug use by teens continue to decline

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• Dec 17, 2015 06:18 PM EST

• Teen alcohol, tobacco and drug use are continuing to go down.