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Health news • May 17

Polymarket Spreads Sensationalist Garbage About Hantavirus Case in U.S.

Did you see a tweet from Polymarket that a suspected hantavirus case has been reported involving a high school student in New York? It's technically true.

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Health news • May 17

Fish oil might actually be bad for you–so what’s a better alternative?

An April study from the Medical University of South Carolina found that fish oil could actually do more harm than good.

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Health news • May 17

Combining Cannabis and Tobacco Triples Psychosis Risk

Combining cannabis and tobacco increases the long-term risk of developing psychosis threefold in high-risk individuals.

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Health news • May 17

"My Boss Kept Commenting on My Body": Why My Fake 'Weight Loss Journey' Made Him Threaten to Cry.

Workplace bullying is no laughing matter, and there are many ways to effectively deal with it. Sometimes you don't even need to escalate the matter.

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Health news • May 17

Canadian national health agency confirms 1 positive hantavirus test

Canada's national health agency confirms that one of four Canadians returning from a cruise ship with a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive.

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Health news • May 17

Demand for cruises appears undimmed despite hantavirus and other onboard outbreaks

Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships are making headlines, but they're unlikely to dim vacationers' growing love of cruises.

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Health news • May 17

Tick bites surge, sending many to ER

Several regions are seeing increased tick activity due to warmer temperatures, especially in the Northeast and Midwest, according to the CDC.

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Health news • May 17

Midlife fitness linked to longer, healthier lives, study finds

A comprehensive study found that people who were most fit in their 40s and 50s developed major illness later, and lived longer.

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Health news • May 17

I Normally Have a Much Higher Sex Drive Than My Husband. Then He Got Injured, and, Uh, Wow.

How to Do It is Slate's sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It's anonymous! Dear How to Do It,. I'm a cis woman with a much...

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Health news • May 17

‘Don’t kiss, snuggle’ poultry: 4 sick in Georgia from multi-state salmonella outbreak

Four people in Georgia are sick from a salmonella outbreak that's already confirmed to have made almost 200 people ill.

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Health news • May 17

Canadian cruise passenger gets a presumptive positive hantavirus test result after ship outbreak

One of four Canadians who returned home from a cruise ship where there was a hantavirus outbreak received a “presumptive positive” test result for the virus...

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Health news • May 17

Scientists Reveal That Eating Almonds Every Day Could Transform Your Gut, Metabolism, and Appetite

A new feeding study suggests that replacing common processed snacks with a daily serving of almonds may do more than improve nutrition.

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Health news • May 17

Omaha Steaks, Nerf basketball and Hazmat suits: Former contagion patients describe life in quarantine amid Hantavirus

As more than 40 Americans remain in quarantine for up to six weeks following a hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, former patients who spent time...

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Health news • May 17

‘We’re in for a bad year’: Scientists see warning signs for Lyme disease, tick-borne illnesses

(NEXSTAR) – As the weather warms up, scientists have a dire warning before you head outdoors. When it comes to ticks, “unfortunately, it seems that we are...

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Health news • May 17

People’s Pharmacy: What type of magnesium should I take to treat restless leg syndrome?

Q. I have a question about magnesium. My neurologist suggested taking this several years ago for restless leg syndrome. None of the medicines he had...

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Health news • May 17

Scientists reveal how seven days of fasting transforms the human body

Scientists have discovered that the human body undergoes a dramatic internal transformation during extended fasting, with major changes appearing only after...

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Health news • May 17

What we know about the latest Ebola outbreak after WHO declares global health emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda a “public health emergency of...

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Health news • May 17

Silent signs of Hypertension a heart surgeon says you should never ignore before it’s too late

I have spent four decades in the operating theatre and an equal number at the bedside, watching hypertension quietly carve away years of life long before a...

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Health news • May 17

Got maggots? These doctors are bringing the bugs into their practice on purpose

The lowly maggot gets a bad rap, mostly known for feeding on corpses and rotting meat.

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Health news • May 17

Hantavirus can survive in semen 6 years after infection: Study

(NewsNation) — A 2023 study suggesting the hantavirus can live for years in semen and be transmitted sexually long after infection is getting attention...

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