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CDC worker flown back to USA after Ebola exposure An employer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been flown back to the USA from West Africa on a charter flight after being exposed to Ebola. The CDC employee is not sick, has no symptoms of Ebola and "therefore poses no ...
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Everest Study Finds High Altitude Affects BP WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- In a new study done from the heights of Mount Everest, Italian researchers found that your blood pressure steadily increases if you ascend to great heights. They also found that a drug widely used to treat ...
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| Light Therapy for Precancerous Skin Lesions WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Treating pre-cancerous skin spots with a type of light therapy may be more effective than the usual therapy -- freezing the lesions with liquid nitrogen, a new study suggests. Rough, scaly spots, called actinic ...
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Tripping seniors on purpose to stop future falls CHICAGO (AP) — Researchers are tripping seniors on purpose, and it's not some kind of warped practical joke. The experiment is among techniques being studied to prevent falls, the leading cause of injury in older adults. Falls in the elderly cost $30 billion ...
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| What Polyp Removal Says About Colon Cancer Risk WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors may be performing too many repeat colonoscopies on people who've had pre-cancerous polyps removed during an earlier colon cancer screening, a new Norwegian study suggests. Many of these ...
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Trapped in Venezuela: Airlines Abandon Fliers Amid Currency Dispute CARACAS, Venezuela—When this city's professional soccer club traveled to a key match in Peru, its tough rival wasn't the only challenge. The team also had to endure an arduous four-day journey, including four connecting flights, a layover in neighboring ...
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First Human Trials of Ebola Vaccine to Start The U.S. government and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will announce Thursday that they are starting the first human trials of a vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus. The National Institutes of Health will sponsor the first trial of the vaccine, one of several being ...
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Using Light Technique, Scientists Find Dimmer Switch for Memories in Mice A magnified image of a mouse's brain showing where the fiber optic cable is inserted in order to turn memory cells, highlighted in red, on and off. Credit Roger Redondo. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the ...
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Ebola vaccine from GSK to begin US clinical trials within weeks: sources NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. health officials will announce on Thursday that a human study of an Ebola vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline will begin within a couple of weeks and not later this year as the company estimated originally, according to people ...
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An $8.3 Billion Rebuke to the FDA Amid this summer's M&A fever, Roche's agreement Monday to buy the San Francisco biotech InterMune ITMN +0.27% InterMune Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $73.18 +0.20 +0.27% Aug. 27, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 9.95M AFTER HOURS $73.34 +0.16 ...
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Surgery No Help for Mild Knee OA Rheumatology. Surgery No Help for Mild Knee OA. Published: Aug 27, 2014. By Nancy Walsh, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete · Take Posttest. Arthroscopic surgery for degenerative meniscal tears in patients with mild ...
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CloudDX makes final cut in $10M Tricoder XPrize contest A tiny company from Mississauga, Ont., has made the final cut of companies competing to make a science fiction dream a reality and win the $10-million Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize. CloudDX is among 10 finalists for the 3-1/2-year-old prize, which aims to ...
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WHO explains how a suspected Ebola outbreak spread in Congo A billboard promotes hand washing to help prevent the spread of Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia. A suspected outbreak in Congo has killed 13 people but the government says it is a different strain of the virus than the one spreading through four West African ...
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Americans, Ex-Pats Send Relief Supplies to West Africa Health organizations from around the world are sending supplies and specialists to the West African countries that are dealing with the worst Ebola outbreak in history. On a smaller scale, ordinary Americans and African expatriates living in the U.S. are doing ...
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Giant panda 'faked pregnancy for extra treats and nicer accommodation' The planned first ever live-broadcast of a panda giving birth has been cancelled amid claims the expectant mother faked her pregnancy. Giant panda Ai Hin may have tricked staff at a breeding centre in China to receive more pampering and extra food rations, ...
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West Nile virus tests positive in mosquito samples in 2 Suffolk parks Add comment. West Nile virus tests positive in mosquito samples in 2 Suffolk parks. Published: August 27, 2014 8:44 PM By ZACHARY R. DOWDY zachary.dowdy@newsday.com. Travel deals. Mosquito samples from Blydenburgh County Park in Smithtown ...
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West Nile virus found in Oklahoma mosquitoes OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Public health authorities have found the potentially fatal West Nile virus present in Oklahoma County mosquitoes. An Oklahoma City-County Health Department spokesman on Wednesday confirmed a mosquito population is infected.
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Isolated systolic hypertension linked to angina; isolated diastolic hypertension ... Key clinical point: Isolated systolic and diastolic blood pressures are associated with increased risks for different types of cardiovascular disease. Major finding: High systolic BP was strongly associated with intracerebral hemorrhage (HR, 1.44) and stable ...
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Scientists grow complete new organ, take major step in regeneration A new report describes the first successful attempt to grow an entire new organ, transplant it into a recipient, and have it function normally. By John Tyburski, Daily Digest News Wednesday, August 27, 2014. Scientists grow complete new organ, take major ...
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Old dope, new tricks: the new science of medical cannabis Somewhere in this much-incinerated plant lies valuable medicine: perhaps a treatment for cancer or an antidote to obesity. Photo / Thinkstock. Medicinal cannabis is back in the news again after a planned trial to grow it in Norfolk Island was blocked by the ...
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U.S. Official Warns Ebola Outbreak Will Get Worse Health workers with buckets, as part of their Ebola virus prevention protective gear, at an Ebola treatment center in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Liberia's armed forces were given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border ...
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Mosquito tests positive for West Nile virus in Oklahoma County An Oklahoma City-County Health Department public health specialist confirmed one case of West Nile virus in a mosquito population in Oklahoma County. Related. Ammunition explodes in Midwest City... Guthrie assesses options after sales... 6th driest ...
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Memory Manipulation: Could It Make You Happier? Scientists have recently conducted a study that may change the way our memories our viewed. An experiment took place using mice to see about possible memory reversal. Scientists worked to see what attached certain emotions to memories, and why ...
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Mosquito tests positive for West Nile Health officials want more people to take a proactive approach to defend against West Nile. Tweet · Pin It. Show Transcript Hide Transcript. Advertising. Video Transcript. HIS FUNERAL STARTS IN FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH ON SOONER ROAD ...
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Scientists Find Mild Cases of MERS Among Patients' Families Chicago, Illinois: Fewer than half of Saudi Arabian patients in a study passed the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus to household members, and many of those who developed secondary infections contracted mild cases of MERS, global researchers ...
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Americans, Ex-Pats Send Relief Supplies to West Africa Americans, Ex — Health organizations from around the world are sending supplies and specialists to the West African countries that are dealing with the worst Ebola outbreak in history. On a smaller scale, ordinary Americans and African expatriates living in ...
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Pandering to the crowd: panda accused of faking pregnancy in bun fraud case Giant panda Ai Hin put on a 'phantom pregnancy', possibly because she wanted special treatment, her Chinese keepers say. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images. Hopes that tiny panda paws would be seen in the world's first live-broadcast cub delivery have ...
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Ebola zone countries isolated as airlines stop flights FREETOWN, Aug 28 – The three nations at the centre of the West African Ebola outbreak were left increasingly isolated Thursday as more airlines suspended flights to the crisis zone. Air France has agreed to Paris's request for a “temporary suspension” of ...
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Bad memories can be reversed 6 Good news to people who no longer want to remember their traumatic memories! A new study claims that traumatic memories can now be switched and turn into pleasant ones by a flash of a light. Advertisements. This news is good news to people who ...
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Families' plight to legalize medical marijuana continues The fight to legalize medical marijuana in Georgia continues, six months after it failed in the legislative session. Families gather to urge a medical cannabis bill at the state capitol. WMAZ. State lawmakers have now launched a new fight to get a bill back on the ...
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Making Science Fiction a Science Reality: Finalist Teams Selected for $10 ... XPRIZE, the global leader in incentivized prize competitions, has announced the 10 finalist teams competing for the $10M Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, a 3.5-year global competition sponsored by the Qualcomm Foundation for teams to develop a ...
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This Clever Giant Panda Faked Her Pregnancy To Get Better Food Giant panda Ai Hin is officially the sneakiest, smartest panda on the planet. She lives at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China and was scheduled to be the first ever giant panda to have her birth broadcast live… until the Chinese ...
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Memories may be rewired in the brain Rodent studies Memories might feel like they're forever, but two new studies on rodents suggest that it's possible to physically erase or rewire memories in the brain. "Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder," says Susumu Tonegawa of the ...
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Results Mixed With Home BP Monitoring Cardiovascular. Results Mixed With Home BP Monitoring. Published: Aug 27, 2014 | Updated: Aug 27, 2014. By Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of ...
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Tripping seniors on purpose to stop future falls CHICAGO — Researchers are tripping seniors on purpose, and it's not some kind of warped practical joke. The experiment is among techniques being studied to prevent falls, the leading cause of injury in older adults. Falls in the elderly cost $30 billion yearly ...
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Should Patients Be Self-Titrating Antihypertensive Medications? (HealthDay News) — Self-monitoring with self-titration of antihypertensive medications is associated with lower blood pressure for patients with hypertension at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published in the August 27 issue of the ...
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Teachers Baffled Over Nigeria School Closures Abuja — Some education officials are baffled by the Nigerian government's decision to delay school openings nationwide in an effort to prevent the spread of Ebola. With only one current case of the disease in the country in a year where hundreds of children ...
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Tomatoes 'key to prevent prostate cancer' A recent study done at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol suggests that men who eat over 10 portions of tomatoes every week can lower their risk of prostate cancer by 20 percent. Worldwide, prostate cancer happens to be the second most ...
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MERS Virus Doesn't Seem to Spread Easily: Study WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus are unlikely to pass it to others in their household, a new study suggests. Mostly confined to countries in the Middle East so far, the ...
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Ebola outbreak 'going to get worse' Residents are banned from leaving the Ebola-stricken West Point area of Liberia. Photo / AP. A leading American health official has warned that the Ebola outbreak sweeping West Africa will get worse. The disease has already killed more than 1400 people in ...
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Study Questions Surveillance Colonoscopy Gastroenterology. Study Questions Surveillance Colonoscopy. Published: Aug 27, 2014 | Updated: Aug 28, 2014. By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today. Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of ...
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Hopkins student team selected in competition to build 'Star Trek'-like device A team of Johns Hopkins University undergraduates has been selected in a competition to build a real-life version of the Tricorder, a fictional device used on the TV show "Star Trek" to diagnose the ailments of members of the Starfleet. The stakes are high ...
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MERS Virus Doesn't Spread Easily, Study Suggests Fewer than half of Saudi Arabian patients in a study passed the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus to household members, and many of those who developed secondary infections contracted mild cases of MERS, global researchers reported on ...
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Scientists Successfully Turn Bad Memories Into Good, Good Into Bad Scientists successfully changed the memory associations in lab mice. Image Courtesy: Rama, Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 France | Wikimedia Commons. Ever wish you could erase any one of those bad memories you've ...
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FDA warns consumers: Dietary supplements cannot treat concussions The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers about dietary supplements that falsely claim to prevent or cure concussions or other traumatic brain injuries. The FDA says supplements with labels that make these claims are not backed up by ...
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Overconfident Folks May Blind Others to Their Real Abilities WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Overconfident people are better at convincing others that they're more talented than they really are, and therefore are more likely to get promotions and reach high-level positions, a new study indicates.
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Second West Nile case in Adams County confirmed NATCHEZ — The Mississippi Department of Health confirmed Tuesday a second human case of West Nile Virus in Adams County. The new Adams County case is one of 15 human cases reported this year, including two deaths — the second of which was ...
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HTN Self-Management Beneficial in High-Risk Patients Self-monitoring with self-titration of antihypertensive medications is associated with lower blood pressure for patients with hypertension at risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published in the Aug. 27 issue of the Journal of the American ...
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Lack of Naturally Occurring Protein MK2/3 is Linked with Dementia Researchers have identified that the absence of a naturally occurring protein - MK2/3 - is strongly associated with initial signs of dementia. Like Us on Facebook. Dementia is not a disease but a group of symptoms that result from damage to the brain.
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Ebola vaccine from GSK to begin US clinical trials within weeks-sources NEW YORK Aug 27 (Reuters) - U.S. health officials will announce on Thursday that a human study of an Ebola vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline will begin within a couple of weeks and not later this year as the company estimated originally, according to ...
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