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Robots Already Helping Humans Deliver Better Care

By Anne HardingHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Bright yellow and looking like a headless deer, Spot can travel across ground too risky for

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Moderna to start final testing stage of coronavirus vaccine in July

FILE PHOTO: A sign marks the headquarters of Moderna Therapeutics, which is developing a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brian

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New Guidelines Say No to Probiotics for Digestive Woes

TUESDAY, June 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — There isn’t enough scientific evidence to support using probiotics to treat most digestive disorders, according to a new American Gastroenterological

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Nine U.S. States Seeing Spikes in COVID-19 Hospitalizations

By Robin Foster and E.J. MundellHealthDay Reporters WEDNESDAY, June 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — In another troubling sign that the spread of coronavirus might be accelerating,

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Eye Experts Call for Ban on Police Use of Rubber Bullets

TUESDAY, June 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Rubber bullets can cause severe eye injuries, blindness and even death, and they shouldn’t be used against protesters, claims a petition signed by

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Coronavirus spreads among fruit and vegetable packers, worrying U.S. officials

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) – From apple packing houses in Washington state to farm workers in Florida and a California county known as “the world’s salad bowl,” outbreaks of the

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WHO Backpedals on Claim That Spread of Coronavirus by People Without Symptoms Is Rare

WEDNESDAY, June 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A claim that transmission of the COVID-19 causing coronavirus by people without symptoms is “very rare” was quickly reversed by the World

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Deadly New Synthetic Opioid ‘Iso’ Hits American Streets

Latest Mental Health News By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 10, 2020 — A new synthetic opioid as powerful as fentanyl is causing overdose

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Russia’s coronavirus case tally passes the half million mark

FILE PHOTO: Paramedics wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walk towards a residential building to visit a patient during their working shift amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in

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Black Melanoma Patients Face Treatment Delays: Study

TUESDAY, June 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, wait longer for surgery than white patients, a new study finds. “We already knew

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