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Notre Dame, Indiana - New research from the University of Notre Dame places a new upper limit on the total number of people who could become infected by the Zika virus in the first wave of the current epidemic.
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Phoenix, Arizona - A non-surgical treatment that uses a patient’s own bone marrow stem cells to treat chest pain or angina improved both symptoms and the length of time treated patients could be physically active, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2016 Scientific Sessions.
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Atlanta, Georgia - The American Cancer Society (ACS) has endorsed HPV vaccination recommendations from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the principal source of guidance on U.S. immunization policy. The ACS’s updated guideline supports the ACIP recommendation to vaccinate males as well as females at ages 11 to 12 to protect against HPV, which is associated not only with cervical cancers, but also penile, anal, oropharyngeal (mouth/throat), and other cancers.
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Baltimore, Maryland - Physicians like the majority of their patients, but a majority like some more than others, a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds.
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Washington, DC - For HIV-infected mothers whose immune system is in good health, taking a three-drug antiretroviral regimen during breastfeeding essentially eliminates HIV transmission by breast milk to their infants, according to results from a large clinical trial conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and India.
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Jacksonville, Florida - Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working with the Florida Department of Health to investigate the first Zika case that appears to have no connection to travel or sexual contact transmission.
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