CDC: Death count 82 for 'choking game'
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At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad.
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By LINDA A. JOHNSON     -- A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from strep throat to syphilis dramatically increases the risk of cardiac arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study found...
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NEW YORK  - People with type 2 diabetes or elevated blood sugar are at increased risk of dying after being hospitalized for pneumonia, a new study hints.
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For the first time, cancer has surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85, health officials said Wednesday. The good news is that deaths from both are falling, but improvement has been more dramatic for heart disease.
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ATLANTA -- A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug is sometimes fatal.
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Only 48 percent of Ohioans at high risk for flu complications - including fatal pneumonia - were able to get a flu shot this fall, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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At least one U.S. child has died and 19 others have needed surgery since 2003 after swallowing magnets used in toys, the government reported Thursday.
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At least 82 youths have died from the so-called "choking game," according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad
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KINGSTON, NY -- State health officials are probing the deaths of four Ulster County residents who died in recent months of a rare brain disease.
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The health department has requested 95,800 doses from the CDC for people at high risk for influenza and their caretakers.
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The rate of sudden unexplained cardiac death is around eight times higher than thought, warn experts.
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US health officials from the CDC say that obesity is not killing as many people as first thought. They say the CDC will ask JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) to alter the figures it published in a study published last March.
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At least 82 U.S. youths have died since 1995 engaging in "the choking game" in which they try to experience a fleeting "high" by cutting off the oxygen supply to the brain, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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Two deaths have been attributed to a rare type of pneumonia that is occurring among US troops in Iraq at a higher than normal rate, according to a study in the December 22/29 issue of JAMA.
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Eighty-two people have died in a cholera epidemic in the Republic of Congo, according to figures from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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Deamonte Driver, the 12-year-old Prince George's County boy who died in February of an infection caused by an abscessed tooth, was one of more than 10,780 Medicaid-eligible Maryland children who had not seen a dentist in at least four years, a congressional analysis has concluded.
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Life expectancy in the United States has increased to almost 78 years, the country's highest on record, amid a downturn in deaths from heart disease, cancer and stroke, according to new federal estimates published on Wednesday.