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Plus, counseling does little to stop teens from drinking.
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So Wait: Eating Breakfast Doesn’t Help You Lose Weight? - You know that belief that eating breakfast helps you lose weight? It may be bunk, says a new study. Researchers found that people trying to lose weight who didn’t eat a meal first thing in the morning lost as much weight as those who did eat breakfast, says USA Today.(Photo: Olha_Afanasieva/Getty Images)
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Group Urges for High School to Start Later in the Morning - Think going to school before 8:30 is too early? So does the American Academy of Pediatrics, who claims that only 15 percent of high school students are starting school at that time. The group is concerned that teens are sleep deprived and that starting later can increase productivity and better grades, writes Health Day.(Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
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Third Doctor Dies From Ebola - A third top Ebola doctor has died from the virus this week, says the Associated Press. Seth Rogers, M.D., became one of the 1,400 people who have succumbed to the virus since last winter. Organizations such as WHO and Doctors Without Borders have been pulling their workers out of the Africa for the past month. (Photo: AP Photo/ Michael Duff)
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Alcoholics May Have Worse Flu Symptoms - Alcohol addicts have worse respiratory problems if they have the flu than non-alcoholics, says a new study. Why? Chronic drinking impacts alcoholics’ T-cells, which help the body fight against infection diseases and viruses. Doctors don’t know how to fix this problem, but have found that an anti-flu drug, Oseltamivir, helps alcoholics cope better with the flu. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Why Don’t Black Women With Kidney Failure Want Organ Transplants? - Black women suffering from kidney disease are less likely than Black men to want to get an organ transplant — even when friends and family have offered to donate one to them. Only 58 percent of them want the surgery compared to 87.5 percent of men. Only 28 percent have been evaluated for the procedure compared to 52 percent of Black men. It’s unclear as to why this disparity exists, Medical Xpress writes.(Photo: Charles Mann/Getty Images)
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Who’s Afraid of an American Ebola Epidemic? - Despite an extremely small chance of Ebola developing into epidemic proportions here in the U.S, 40 percent of Americans fear a major outbreak here. This recent poll also found that 50 percent of those without a high school degree believed that the disease would spread compared to 25 percent with a high school degree or more, Health Day reported. (Photo: Samaritan's Purse/AP Photo)
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African-American Youth Have Little Faith in Police - In the wake of the tragic death of Michael Brown, more than half of African-American youth (55.8 percent) have less faith in the police than youth of other races, says a new survey. Looking at dates between 2009-2014, the Black Youth Project from the University of Chicago also found that only 25 percent of Black youth ages 18-29 found that the legal system treats all people equally.(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Low Birth Weight Linked to Mom’s Diabetes - According to the Black Women’s Health Study, Blacks moms with diabetes have a 13 percent higher risk to give birth to underweight babies than Black moms who don’t have diabetes. Even worse: Babies with very low weight had a 40 percent higher chance of having a mom with diabetes, writes Science World Report.(Photo: Digitalskillet/GettyImages)
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Did California’s Health Care System Ignore Blacks? - Two African-American legislators have made claims that the state-run health care reform program in California ignored Blacks in their enrollment campaigns. Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown declared at a recent California Covered board meeting that this failure to do outreach to Black families will cost them $8 million in IRS penalties, writes Biz Journals. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)