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| Spain gets rare Ebola drug to treat stricken priest A Spanish priest has received one of the world's few doses of an experimental Ebola drug, raising ethical questions about how to allocate scarce medicines for a fatal disease at at time when the virus has infected at least 1,848 people in West Africa. The drug ... | |
| Heart Med Digoxin Tied to Higher Death Risk in Some MONDAY, Aug. 11, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Digoxin, a drug that's been used to treat heart problems for about 200 years, might increase the risk of dying in certain patients. New research suggests that for people who have a particular type of irregular heart ... | |
| Company suspends Anatabloc, CigRx sales The company formerly known as Star Scientific announced Monday that it is suspending sale of its nutritional supplements CigRx and Anatabloc until it resolves issues with the FDA. The former chief executive of Star Scientific, Jonnie Williams, has figured ... | |
| | Business Insider Australia | Intercept Releases Positive Data on Liver Drug Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. ICPT +1.10% Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $237.18 +2.58 +1.10% Aug. 11, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 295,496 AFTER HOURS $374.00 +136.82 +57.69% Aug. 11, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed ... | |
| Ethics test: Who gets experimental Ebola drug? MADRID — Now it's not just two Americans, but a Spaniard as well: the three non-Africans known to have Ebola got some of the very few doses that exist of an experimental drug aimed at treating the deadly disease. None of the more than 1,700 Africans ... | |
| Scientists Create a 3-D Model That Mimics Brain Function A new three-dimensional model, created from silk and collagen gel, which mimics basic neural functions. Credit Tufts University. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page. Continue ... | |
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| Lupus Patients Face High Rehospitalization Rates MONDAY, Aug. 11, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- One in six hospitalized lupus patients requires readmission to the hospital within a month after discharge, according to a new study. While patients' disease severity contributed to readmission rates, other ... | |
| The Ice Bucket Challenge story... and 6 creative ways to do it When 29-year-old Pete Frates learned he had ALS two years ago, he decided to approach it the same way he tackled everything. “When he was first diagnosed [he said] 'Look we are going to go after this thing,'” says John Frates, Pete's dad. “Pete has always ... | |
| FDA Approves Highly Accurate At-Home Colon Cancer Test MONDAY, Aug. 11, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a new at-home, DNA-based stool test that screens for colorectal cancer with more than 90 percent accuracy. The decision was based on an FDA ... | |
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| Liberia: US Authorities Allow Use of Experimental Ebola Drug MONROVIA/DAKAR—. U.S. authorities have approved a request from Liberia's government to send sample doses of the experimental ZMapp drug to treat Liberian doctors infected with Ebola, the Liberian president's office said. A statement on the Liberian ... | |
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| FDA Approves DNA-Based Test for Colon Cancer The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths. The Cologuard test from Exact Sciences detects irregular mutations in stool samples ... | |
| Liberia doctors to receive experimental Ebola drug August 9, 2014: A man's temperature is measured before he is allowed into a business center, as fear of the deadly Ebola virus spreads through the city of Monrovia, Liberia. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh). MONROVIA, Liberia – Liberia announced Monday that it ... | |
| Scientists create 3D model that mimics brain function A doughnut created in a lab and made of silk on the outside and collagen gel where the jelly ought to be can mimic the basic function of brain tissue, scientists have found. Bioengineers produced a kind of rudimentary gray matter and white matter in a dish, ... | |
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| Nigeria won't disintegrate, says Jonathan PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday reassured Nigerians and the international community of a rancour-free poll in 2015 and also dismissed prediction of the country's possible disintegration. Speaking at the interfaith conference with the theme, “the ... | |
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| FDA Approves First DNA-Based Test For Colon Cancer WASHINGTON (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths. The Cologuard test from Exact Sciences ... | |
| Scientists create functioning 3D brain-like tissue Scientists have created a 3D tissue that works just like a section of a rat's brain would. By Vanessa Blanchard, Daily Digest News Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Scientists create functioning 3D brain-like tissue. Scientists in the United States reported on Monday ... | |
| Ebola outbreak: Liberian doctors to receive experimental drug Liberia announced Monday that it would soon receive doses of an experimental Ebola drug and give it to two sick doctors, making them the first Africans to receive some of the scarce treatment in a spiralling outbreak. The U.S. government confirmed that it had ... | |
| FDA approves an at-home colon cancer test The first non-invasive screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday. This at-home stool test was found to screen for colorectal cancer with more than 90 per cent accuracy. | |
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| ALS Ice Bucket Challenge goes viral If you are on Facebook you probably know about the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, you might have even taken it. It started out as a way to raise awareness for ALS also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and to raise some money, but it has become a national ... | |
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| Lung cancer rate is declining? 9 Good news, according to the National Cancer Institute, there is a decreasing rate of lung cancer cases in the past years. The bad news, there is a new type of cancer on the rise. Advertisements. For some reasons like increased price of tobacco and increase ... | |
| 3D tissue helps scientists study brain injury This image shows confocal microscope image of neurones (greenish yellow) attached to silk-based scaffold (blue). The neurones formed functional networks throughout the scaffold pores (dark areas)(Source: Tufts University) ... | |
| Antibacterial products in soaps could harm unborn babies: study Expecting mothers may take note that exposure to some common antibacterial substances used in cosmetics can lead to reproductive problems and may even affect the size of your newborn, a study shows. “We looked at the exposure of pregnant women and ... | |
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| Business Highlights ___. US agency moves slowly on investigation requests. DETROIT (AP) — People are waiting longer than they should for an answer when they petition the government to open an investigation into what could be serious safety problems. The Associated Press ... | |
| Toddler was 'patient zero' in ebola crisis A toddler known as 'patient zero' who died before Christmas is believed to be the first victim who sparked the ebola crisis. The two-year-old child died in a Guinea border town shortly before Christmas — although the first outbreak was not recognised until ... | |
| Nigeria's Lagos now has 10 Ebola cases: health minister ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos has 10 confirmed cases of Ebola, up from seven at the last count, and two patients have died, including the Liberian who brought the virus in, the health minister said on Monday. All were people who had ... | |
| New Concerns About an Old Heart Drug A large new study found that one of the oldest and most commonly used heart medications may shorten the lives of patients with atrial fibrillation, a common type of irregular heartbeat that afflicts about three million Americans. The findings are prompting some ... | |
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| FDA approves first DNA-based test for colon cancer WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths. The Cologuard test from Exact Sciences detects irregular mutations ... | |
| Common Antibacterials May Affect Newborn Babies Antibacterial compounds present in soaps and other household products may have a negative impact on the unborn children of pregnant women, according to a study presented at the recent American Chemical Society meeting. The FDA is reviewing the ... | |
| Osteoporosis Drugs Do Not Prevent Breast Cancer After All In recent years, several large studies involving tens of thousands of women found a potentially useful connection between bisphosphonates, the popular bone drugs, and a lower risk of breast cancer. But new research published Monday in JAMA Internal ... | |
| AIDS activist takes up a new fight: defending FDA Associated Press AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves traveled to Washington D.C. to confront, provoke and challenge officials at the Food and Drug Administration. advertisement | your ad here. By Matthew Perrone. WASHINGTON— As an AIDS activist in the ... | |
| 1st panda triplets survive in China | Bangkok Post: news HONG KONG - A Chinese zoo has unveiled newborn panda triplets billed as the world's first known surviving trio, in what it hailed as a "miracle" given the animal's famously low reproductive rate. Newborn panda triplets inside an incubator at a safari park in ... | |
| Missionaries return to US and Ebola quarantine CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Three missionaries who worked with patients infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia are back in the United States, spending the next several weeks on the campus of a North Carolina-based mission. SIM USA said in a news release ... | |
| Breast Cancer Rates not Influenced by Osteoporosis Drugs There had been some indication in previous studies that osteoporosis medication would also have the added benefit of reducing tumor rates. The latest study contradicts that claim. Bisphosphonates have been connected to a lower risk of breast cancer in ... | |
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| Apple prepares Healthkit rollout amid tangled regulatory web SAN FRANCISCO: Apple Inc has been discussing how its "HealthKit" service will work with health providers at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins as well as with Allscripts, a competitor to electronic health records provider Epic Systems, ... | |
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| Brooklyn Center woman grieves for 9 relatives lost to Ebola Cynthia and her husband, Andrew Kwennah, are part of a community of nearly 30,000 Liberians concentrated in the northern Twin Cities suburbs who are anxious for any scrap of news from family and friends living in the outbreak zones of Liberia, Sierra ... | |
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