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'Tis the Season to Overeat

Here are some holiday weight-watching tips.

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UN Ebola response efforts at ‘full capacity’ following warehouse fire

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Emergency personnel try to contain a fire on 18 December 2014 at a warehouse at the main humanitarian logistics base in Conakry, Guinea, which contained critical Ebola response supplies.

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Asians Need Type 2 Diabetes Screening at Lower Body Weight: Experts

ADA says this group tends to put on pounds around the waist, a particularly bad spot for diabetes risk.

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Number of Americans Taking Statins Keeps Rising: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Even more should be taking them to cut risk of heart attack and stroke, cardiologist says.

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Longer cooling, lower temperature no improvement for infant oxygen deprivation

U.S. National Institutes of Health network findings do not support changing current treatment

The standard treatment for newborns whose brains were deprived of oxygen appears to work better than proposed alternatives, according to a study from a National Institutes of Health research network. The standard treatment involves lowering an infant ’s body temperature by about 6 degrees Fahrenheit for 72 hours. Attempts to improve on this treatment by further lowering body temperature or increasing the duration of cooling were of no additional benefit, the researchers concluded.

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Smartphones May Charge Up Your Thumbs

Study finds boost in brain signals from fingertips in people who use touch screens.

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UNICEF Ebola response: 400+ survivors receive psycho-social support and kits to restart their lives

More than 400 Ebola survivors have taken part in four separate survivor conferences over the past few days in the districts of Kailahun, Kenema and Bo, where they learned more about protecting their communities, were informed as to how their bodies defeated the disease, and received psycho-social support.

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Asians Need Type 2 Diabetes Screening at Lower Body Weight: Experts

ADA says this group tends to put on pounds around the waist, a particularly bad spot for diabetes risk.

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Experimental Ebola, Marburg Vaccines Effective in Trials

Two experimental Ebola vaccines, and one against the related Marburg virus, have proven to be safe and effective in generating an immune response against the deadly infections.

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Number of Americans Taking Statins Keeps Rising: CDC

Even more should be taking them to cut risk of heart attack and stroke, cardiologist says.

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