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Health news • May 12

Oatmeal vs. Avocado Toast: Which Is Better for Lowering Cholesterol?

Managing your cholesterol is key for overall health, especially if high cholesterol runs in your family or you've been told your levels are elevated.

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Health news • May 12

2 Maryland residents exposed to hantavirus while traveling near infected passenger

Maryland health leaders are monitoring two residents who may have been exposed to hantavirus during international travel.

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Health news • May 12

What to Know About the New Obsession With Testosterone

From politics to influencers and beyond, the hormone is being used not just for medical reasons but in pursuit of a new masculine ideal.

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Health news • May 12

How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough

The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here's how scientists discovered it.

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Health news • May 12

PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a momentous move

PCOS will now be known as PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), and for Alice Klein, who has the condition, it's been a long time coming.

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Health news • May 12

‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS.

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Health news • May 12

'The name was inaccurate': PCOS gets a new name after years-long effort

Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, has just been given a new name that experts say is much more accurate.

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Health news • May 12

She's trying to outrun pancreatic cancer. Breakthrough treatments give her hope

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal. But new treatments mean that may be changing, and people with the disease now have more reason to hope than ever...

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Health news • May 12

How France works to beat the hantavirus chain of transmission

Across France there's a race against time to break the chain of Hantavirus transmission. Twenty-two close contacts with the virus have been identified.

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Health news • May 12

Hantavirus Cruise Passenger in ‘Very Critical’ Condition, Was Initially Told Her Symptoms Were Just Anxiety

A French passenger on the MV Hondius cruise ship is now in critical condition following the ship's hantavirus outbreak. Her positive test comes after the...

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Health news • May 12

New Therapy Rewires the Brain To Restore Joy in Depression Patients

Scientists are rethinking how depression should be treated by focusing less on reducing negative feelings and more on rebuilding the brain's capacity for...

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Health news • May 12

New Daily Steps Goal Shows You Don't Need 10,000 to Keep The Weight Off

Hitting a weight-loss target is something to celebrate.

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Health news • May 12

The ‘Guardian’ Removed a Story About Hantavirus and Anxiety

This week, the Guardian published an article reporting that a French woman aboard the MV Hondius — the ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak...

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Health news • May 12

Live updates: Passengers from hantavirus-hit cruise ship being monitored at US medical units

Eighteen passengers from the cruise ship at the center of the hantavirus outbreak are back in the US and being monitored at medical units.

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Health news • May 12

‘Difficult’ mission to repatriate Australian hantavirus cruise passengers en route to long Perth quarantine

Health minister Mark Butler says six people from MC Hondius plus flight crew from charter plane to be isolated for weeks.

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Health news • May 12

What Pittsburghers need to know about hantavirus

The last time a case of hantavirus was identified in Allegheny County was in 2003, and the risk remains low in Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette...

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Health news • May 12

Two Maryland residents monitored for hantavirus after sharing flight with infected cruise ship passenger

Maryland health officials say two residents are being monitored for potential hantavirus exposure after flying with an infected MV Hondius cruise ship...

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Health news • May 12

Inside the Hantavirus Quarantine Unit in Nebraska Where 15 Americans Wait

The National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska is now the temporary home for many of the Americans who had been passengers on the MV Hondius.

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Health news • May 11

Common Sweetener May Harm Critical Brain Barrier, Risking Stroke

Found in everything from protein bars to energy drinks, erythritol has long been considered a safe alternative to sugar.

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Health news • May 11

Hantavirus and COVID: Similar fears, major differences

Hantavirus and COVID are comparable in a broad sense, but they differ in how they spread and where they originate, leading to different public health risks.

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