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Pharmaceutical firm Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has been ordered by a US court to pay more than $110m (£85m) to a woman who says she developed ovarian cancer after using its talcum powder.
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MINNEAPOLIS – The young mother started getting advice early on from friends in the close-knit Somali immigrant community here. Don’t let your children get the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella – it causes autism, they said.
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It was the contraceptive device that was meant to stop his mum from becoming pregnant. And a hilarious photo showing a newborn baby clutching a Mirena implant just moments after he was born has gone viral.
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After spending two months in the hospital recovering from what might be the most ambitious weight-loss surgery of all time, 36-year-old Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty has officially gotten her doctors’ OK to go home.
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“Gray death” is a combination of several opioids blamed for thousands of fatal overdoses nationally, including heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil and a synthetic opioid called U-47700.
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(CNN) Summer is nearly here, and it’s bringing fears of a rare tick-borne disease called Powassan. This potentially life-threatening virus is carried and transmitted by three types of ticks, including the deer tick that transmits Lyme disease.
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Kelly Wallace is CNN’s digital correspondent and editor-at-large covering family, career and life. Read her other columns and follow her reports at CNN Parents and on Twitter @kellywallacetv.
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HIV has no cure. But it’s not quite the implacable scourge it was throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Education, prophylactics, and drugs like PrEP have cut down its transmission.
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Michel M. Keller is one in a million and she hopes you can be, too. More people should learn mental health first aid, said Keller, a staff development manager for Westmoreland Casemanagment and Supports Inc., which has offices in New Kensington, …
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The lessons learned from the world’s worst Ebola epidemic and progress made in developing vaccines mean future outbreaks should be far less damaging, health experts said on Thursday.
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