‘Heaviest woman’ leaves India for UAE after ‘losing 250kg’

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‘Heaviest woman’ leaves India for UAE after ‘losing 250kg’

BBC News
An Egyptian woman who was believed to have been the world’s heaviest has left an Indian hospital where doctors claim she lost more than 250kg.

MorningBreak: GOP Obamcare Repeal Vote Today; IUD Baby; Diet and Depression

MedPage Today
The House was scheduled to vote Thursday morning on a revised version of the Republicans’ bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, despite not having a Congressional Budget Office analysis of how much the latest bill would cost or its

Researchers use gene editing to eliminate HIV infection in mice

CBS News
Last Updated May 3, 2017 10:46 PM EDT. Have researchers taken a step closer to developing an eventual cure for HIV? A Temple University-led team hopes so, by using a gene editing technique to successfully remove HIV infection from lab mice.

Experts warn of increases in tick-borne Powassan virus

CNN
(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.

Low-gluten diet linked to heart attack risk

NHS Choices
“Gluten-free diet can do more harm than good for people without coeliac disease,” The Independent reports, as a new study found that the “trendy gluten-free diets loved by Gwyneth Paltrow and Russell Crowe may increase the risk of heart disease

In Minnesota’s worst measles outbreak, a battle of beliefs over vaccines

ABC News
An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus — and a battle of beliefs. The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages of 0 to 5

Some cling to landlines, but cell-only homes now dominate

Florida Times-Union
More than 39 percent of U.S. households have both landline and cellphone service. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File). NEW YORK – Deborah Braswell, a university administrator in Alabama, is a member of a dwindling group – people with a landline phone …

Frozen ahi sold on Oahu tests positive for hepatitis A

Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Straub Medical Center nurse Janelle Carroll administered a Hepatitis A vaccine to Brian Murdock in September. An additional Hep A vaccine booster is required six months later and is effective for about 25 years.

Does fasting on alternate days work? A new study weighs in

KSL.com
NEW YORK (CNN) – Whether you watch what you eat by counting your daily calories or practicing intermittent fasting, either approach can be effective for weight loss, a new obesity study suggests.

Letting a baby play on an iPad might lead to speech delays, study says

CNN
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.

New movement to Silence The Shame about mental health

Huffington Post
Openly talking about mental health is a hard, yet healthy conversation to have in the age of social media, police brutality, racial tension and Trump presidency.

Zika: Mild epidemic in the US could cost in the hundreds of millions

Outbreak News Today
Even a relatively mild Zika outbreak in the United States could cost more than $183 million in medical costs and productivity losses, suggests a computational analysis led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers, while a more

Researchers analyze what a warming planet means for mosquito-borne diseases

Medical Xpress
Workers in Ecuador spray insecticide to kill Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread dengue, chikungunya and Zika diseases. Stanford scientists are researching the temperatures that promote mosquito activity.

Prostate cancer symptoms – Simple blood test could help CURE disease

Express.co.uk
PROSTATE CANCER is one of the most deadly cancers among men in the UK and symptoms can be hard to spot. However, a new blood test could predict which men with advanced prostate cancer will respond to new targeted treatments for the disease.

J&J, Bayer Cleared of Responsibility in First Xarelto Trial

Bloomberg
Johnson & Johnson and Bayer AG aren’t responsible for a Xarelto user’s internal bleeding, a jury found in the first trial over the blood-thinning drug.
Alzheimer’s News Today  
This video from the Alzheimer’s Society explains that Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia. It occurs when abnormal deposits of plaque and tangles – made up of two key proteins, amyloid and tau – occur in the brain.

Durbin pleads against Obamacare cuts as he prepares for ‘heart tune-up’

CNN
Washington (CNN) Preparing for a procedure to fix an abnormal heart rhythm Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin called on his colleagues in Congress to reconsider their plans to cut funding for medical research and repeal Obamacare.

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