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by Linda Carroll
Across the nation fewer and fewer teens are giving birth, especially Hispanic girls, according to a new government report.Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that from 2007 to 2011, the overall rate of teen births plummeted a full 30 percent. The biggest decline was among Hispanic teens, whose birth rate dropped 34 percent. Among non-Hispanic black teens there was...
 
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by JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.As the floor shook like an earthquake beneath her and ceiling tiles and insulation fell overhead, the 25-year-old huddled with four nurses, braving both the peak contractions of childbirth and the wrath of the worst twiste...
 
Posted yesterday at 5:40pm
by Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News
The Youngstown, Ohio, baby turned blue again and again as his little airways collapsed and kept air from reaching his lungs. But doctors used a 3-D bioprinter to custom-make a splint that is holding his airway open and helping him breathe.Now 19-month-old Kaiba Gionfriddo is into everything, says his mother, April Gionfriddo."Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hosp...
 
Posted yesterday at 5:29pm
by JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
Doctors treating victims hurt badly in Mondays devastating Moore, Okla., tornado should be alert for a rare but deadly complication of wind-whipped debris: fungal infections like those that killed five people after the Joplin, Mo., twister in 2011.Thats the word from government experts in fungal infections, who documented 13 serious cases of necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis -- terrible soft ti...
 
Posted yesterday at 5:29pm
by Kim Carollo, Contributor, NBC News
A dog may not only fill a home with joy, it fills a home with a whole lot of bacteria, new research suggests. But that doesn't mean you have to kick your pooch out of the bed.Research from North Carolina State University published Wednesday in the journal PLoS ONE found homes with dogs have both a greater number of bacteria and more types of bacteria than homes without dogs. The findings were par...
 
Posted yesterday at 5:02pm
by Vitals
By Matthew PerroneAssociated PressA federal panel of medical experts said that an experimental insomnia drug from Merck & Co. Inc. appears safe and effective, despite evidence from company trials that the pill can cause daytime sleepiness and difficulty driving. A majority of Food and Drug Administration panelists voted Wednesday that Merck's sleeping aid, suvorexant, helped patients get t...
 
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by Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News
Government researchers have just done the first genetic survey of all the fungi that live on our skin. Their findings? Theyre in your ears, theyre in your nose and, yes, they are in the goop between your toes.Humans are covered with hundreds of different types of fungus, the team at the National Institutes of Health found. Whats surprising is that one family covers most of our bodies, but our ...
 
Posted yesterday at 1:09pm
by Lela Davidson
On the morning after a tornado destroyed parts of Moore, Okla., it was tough dropping off my daughter at school. Storms also hit here in Rogers, Ark. on Monday, but they were mild compared to Oklahoma. Still, wedrove past fallen tree limbs and leaves everywhere. I tried not to cry listening to the radio report about the children in the Plaza Towers Elementary School, and the mother who picked up h...
 
Posted yesterday at 1:09pm
by Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News
Researchers have developed a stripped down synthetic flu vaccine that they believe will not only work better than current vaccines, but might last longer, too -- saving people from having to get a fresh flu shot every year.They say its the first step toward a new generation of influenza vaccines, designed entirely in the lab, using nanoparticles instead of the decades-old approach that uses chi...
 
Posted yesterday at 12:53pm
by Maggie Fox, Senior Writer, NBC News
Researchers have developed a stripped down synthetic flu vaccine that they believe will not only work better than current vaccines, but might last longer, too -- saving people from having to get a fresh flu shot every year.They say its the first step toward a new generation of influenza vaccines, designed entirely in the lab, using nanoparticles instead of the decades-old approach that uses chi...
 
Posted yesterday at 12:42pm
by The Associated Press
Editors note: A graphic image of the patient post surgery is at the bottom of the page.A 33-year-old Polish man received a life-saving total face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident, in what his doctors said Wednesday is the fastest timeframe to date for such an operation.Face transplants are extraordinarily complicated and relatively rare procedures that in ...
 
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Posted yesterday at 9:19am
by Kavita Varma-White
Survivors of Mondays devastating tornado in Oklahoma are coming to grips with their post-storm realities, and theres one person who knows all too well what they are feeling. Stephanie Decker understands the emotions of fear, shock and loss after the disaster -- and also the gratitude for what remains and the hope for whats to come.Decker, a 38-year-old mom of two from Henryville, Ind., survived...
 
Posted yesterday at 9:19am
by The Associated Press
Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws. Doctors at the Oncology Center in Gliwice said the 27-hour operation was performed May 15, just weeks after the accident. The head of the team of doctors, Adam Maciejewski, said it was the world's first life-saving face transplant c...
 
Posted Tuesday evening
by JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer, NBC News
Two people have died and five others have been hospitalized in a mysterious cluster of respiratory illnesses in southeast Alabama, state health officials said. The victims, all adults, had symptoms including fever, cough and shortness of breath, but the cause of the illnesses is unknown, said Dr. Mary McIntyre, the acting state epidemiologist for the Alabama Department of Public Health. The hospit...
 
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