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Ebola-infected missionary describes her battle with the deadly virus Smiling and appearing robustly healthy, a U.S. missionary infected with Ebola while working in Liberia on Wednesday shared publicly her battle with the deadly virus for the first time. Nancy Writebol, 59, of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been recovering in an ...
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| E-Cig Vapor May Be Less Toxic Than Tobacco Smoke WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Secondhand vapor created by one brand of electronic cigarette harbors fewer hazardous chemicals than regular cigarette smoke, although the researchers report the finding doesn't leave e-cigarettes in the ...
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| Skin Cells Used to Create Heart Valve for Kids WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- While artificial heart valves have long been available to adults, making permanent valves for children has been challenging because kids' bodies keep growing. But researchers say they've found a way ...
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Brazil's maternal milk banks model for globe RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thirty years ago, poor Brazilian women were paid to give away their breast milk, leaving their children at risk of malnourishment. Equipment at the few milk collection centers that existed was so costly it limited the country's ability to ...
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After Slow Growth, Experts Say, Health Spending Is Expected to Climb WASHINGTON — Government experts on Wednesday predicted a rebound in national health care spending as expansions in coverage and improvements in the economy take hold after four years of exceptionally slow growth in the nation's medical bills.
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Gates Foundation awards $25 million to HIV vaccine research PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Oregon researchers developing a vaccine that has shown promise in preventing HIV infection in primates said on Wednesday they have been awarded a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Oregon Health ...
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Melanoma risk is higher for flight crews that work at 40000 feet Airline pilots have a heightened risk of being diagnosed with melanoma and of dying as a result, probably because of their exposure to UVA radiation, a new study says. Airline pilots have a heightened risk of being diagnosed with melanoma and of dying as a ...
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Antibiotics Eliminated In Hatchery, Perdue Says Perdue, one of the country's largest poultry producers, said on Wednesday that it would no longer use antibiotics in its hatcheries, one of the last places it was using such drugs routinely. The elimination of antibiotic use in hatching chicks is the latest step the ...
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3rd Missionary With Ebola Is Identified Nancy Writebol, a missionary who recovered from Ebola, with her husband, David, in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday. She said she remembered feeling incredibly sick, but never afraid. Credit Chris Keane/Getty Images. Continue reading the main story.
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US missionary with Ebola identified, as survivor shares story CHARLOTTE N.C. (Reuters) - A third U.S. missionary infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia was identified on Wednesday, even as a fellow aid worker with the same Christian organization publicly shared her battle with the deadly virus for the first time.
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Cuts at WHO Hurt Response to Ebola Crisis Health workers prepared to enter a high-risk ward at an Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, run by Doctors Without Borders. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story.
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UN says $600 million needed to tackle Ebola as deaths top 1900 WASHINGTON/CONAKRY (Reuters) - The United Nations said $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight West Africa's Ebola outbreak, as the death toll from the worst ever epidemic of the virus topped 1,900 and Guinea warned it had penetrated a ...
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Great Dane dined on 43 socks; all were removed in successful surgery A veterinarian found 43 1/2 socks in a Great Dane's stomach during surgery in Portland, Ore. The animal hospital that removed the socks submitted the dog's X-ray, shown above, for a tongue-in-cheek industry award. A veterinarian found 43 1/2 socks in a ...
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Ebola outbreak: Johnson & Johnson get OK to fast-track vaccine trials Scientists will fast-track tests on another Ebola vaccine, this time from Johnson & Johnson, in another sign that the world's worst outbreak of the virus is mobilizing research into the deadly disease. J&J said on Thursday that clinical trials of its new vaccine, ...
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Health Care Spending To Tick Up In 2014, But Just A Little Felue Chang, who is newly insured under the Affordable Care Act, receives a check-up from Dr. Peria Del Pino-White this April in Hollywood, Florida. After five years of historically low inflation, national health care spending will grow a bit faster this year, ...
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British nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is released from a London ... A doctor in Nigeria continued to treat patients after developing symptoms of Ebola and may have exposed scores of people to the deadly virus, the United Nations health organization warned Tuesday, raising fears that the outbreak could escalate in Africa's ...
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Obamacare, Improving Economy Fuel Faster US Health Spending Health spending, which slowed last year to growth of 3.6 percent, will roar to 6 percent growth annually for the next decade thanks to the ability of more Americans to buy medical services from an improving economy and the Affordable Care Act. A new report ...
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People With OCD May Have Higher Odds for Schizophrenia: Study WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) may be at higher risk for schizophrenia, a new study suggests. Still, the findings shouldn't cause undue worry in people with OCD, one expert said.
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Locals inspired by ALS ice bucket challenge When Craig Gianinno began to see posts online of people dumping ice buckets on their heads, the baseball coach at Serra High School in San Mateo had no knowledge of the backstory. Then he saw the SportsCenter feature on former Boston College ...
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How an e-cigarette could lead to cocaine E-cigarettes designed to help people quit smoking may act as a ''gateway'' to harmful illicit drugs, researchers have said. Like conventional cigarettes, the devices are said to raise the risk of addiction to banned substances such as cannabis and cocaine.
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| E-cigarette vapor may be less toxic than cigarettes, study says Add comment. E-cigarette vapor may be less toxic than cigarettes, study says. September 3, 2014 7:56 PM. Travel deals. Secondhand vapor created by one brand of electronic cigarette harbors fewer hazardous chemicals than regular cigarette smoke, ...
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Pilots, flight crews face higher risk of skin cancer Airline pilots and flight crews may face as much as twice the risk of the type of skin cancer known as melanoma compared with the general population, according to a new analysis of existing research. However, it's not clear whether exposure to the sun during ...
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Study: More breast cancer patients should keep their healthy breasts Women with cancer in one breast are increasingly opting to remove their healthy breast as well, a new study finds. Improvements in reconstructive surgery may be one reason why. Women with cancer in one breast are increasingly opting to remove their ...
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J&J Ebola vaccine to start clinical trials in early 2015 Sept 4 (Reuters) - Scientists will fast-track tests on another Ebola vaccine, this time from Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N, in another sign that the world's worst outbreak of the virus is mobilizing research into the deadly disease. J&J said on Thursday that clinical ...
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CMS: Health spending to hit $5.2T within 10 years U.S. healthcare spending will rise to $5.2 trillion by 2023 as the economy grows and baby boomers become eligible for Medicare, government actuaries said Wednesday. The new forecast from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) showed ...
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Perdue Says Its Hatching Chicks Are Off Antibiotics Chicks in the Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md. The company says all its chickens are now raised using "no antibiotics, ever." Dan Charles NPR. 1 of 4. View Slideshow. Perdue used to inject its fertilized eggs with gentamicin but phased out the practice over ...
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Ebola death toll jumps to more than 1900: WHO A health care worker wearing a full body suit burns infected items at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy hospital of Monrovia on Sept 3, 2014. Thursday, Sep 04, 2014. AFP. WASHINGTON - More than 1,900 people have now died of Ebola in west Africa, the World ...
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has Catawba College connection Leah Ryan, right, graduated from Catawba College this year and now works for ALS SUBMITTED PHOTOLeah Ryan, right, graduated from Catawba College this year and now works for ALS Therapy Development Institute in Massachusetts. She has helped ...
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San Diego County resident with West Nile Virus hospitalized A La Mesa man was recently hospitalized with West Nile Virus and an El Cajon woman, who was treated as an outpatient, is listed as probably having the virus, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) reported late last week.
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Double mastectomy doesn't boost survival for most Removing both breasts to treat cancer affecting only one side doesn't boost survival chances for most women, compared with surgery that removes just the tumor, a large study suggests. The results raise concerns about riskier, potentially unnecessary ...
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Home Health Care Aides are in High Demand, but There's a Catch Now Hiring One of the fastest growing industries in the United States right now, and for the next several years at least, is the home health care industry. With home health care aides being in high demand, it would seem that (economically speaking) that there ...
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Higher risk of skin cancer for pilots and flight crews Pilots and crews on airlines are almost twice as likely to develop melanoma, according to a new study. By Vanessa Blanchard, Daily Digest News Wednesday, September 03, 2014. Higher risk of skin cancer for pilots and flight crews. A new study has found ...
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Gates Foundation Grants $25 Million to HIV Vaccine Research Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and the namesake of the philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is focused on eliminating disease and poverty throughout the world. (Photo : Wikimedia Commons). Share This Tweet This. Researchers in ...
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Oregon Research Team Receives $25 Million to Find HIV Vaccine from Gates ... Bill Gates has been incredibly active after he retired from Microsoft. With a huge fortune accumulated after years of high-tech entrepreneurship, the IT innovator decided to act towards reducing the world's poverty by funding original ideas. Bill and Melinda ...
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Scientists in bid to find how aspirin beats cancer Up to 3,000 women with breast cancer are to be recruited for a study to find out if a history of taking aspirin has helped to reduce the spread of the disease, it emerged yesterday. Share. Go To. Comments. The study follows recent findings showing that women ...
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Las Vegas: 1st West Nile virus case reported in Clark County The Southern Nevada Health District is reporting a case of West Nile virus in a male over the age of 50 with the more serious neuroinvasive form of the illness. This is the first human case of West Nile illness in Clark County in 2014. There were nine cases ...
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Flight Crews at High Risk of Skin Cancer Pilots are at high risk of developing and dying from melanoma because of their constant exposure to UVA (ultraviolet A) radiation. A study published in JAMA Dermatology revealed that airline pilots are 2.22 times more like to develop skin cancer than an ...
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Lumpectomy Is Better Than Double Mastectomy, Says Study According to the new study, a lumpectomy could increase the survival rates of the breast cancer patients more than the double mastectomy. This study reported that these patients have the possibility of surviving up to 10 years as compared the double ...
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Ebola survivors: Hospital staff exposed in Africa The hospital in Liberia where three American aid workers got sick with Ebola has been overwhelmed by a surge in patients and doesn't have enough hazard suits and other supplies to keep doctors and nurses safe, a missionary couple told The Associated ...
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Ebola vaccine injected into two womens, says National Institutes of Health A new Ebola vaccine, tested on monkeys in its earliest trials, now finds itself being tested on humans. The National Institute of Health is on a mission to fast-track an Ebola vaccine so that it makes its way to infected parties as soon as possible. To this end, two ...
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First Human West Nile Case Confirmed in Winnebago County NEENAH -- State and local health leaders are recommending everyone to protect themselves against mosquito bites after this year's first human case of West Nile Virus is confirmed in Winnebago County. The chances of a person contracting West Nile are ...
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Uninformed breast cancer patients more apt to consider removing the other ... NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – More than half of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer consider removal of the second, unaffected breast to prevent cancer spread, and according to a new survey, they tend to have more anxiety and less knowledge ...
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Two Women Receive Experimental Ebola Vaccine in Fast-Tracked Trial The first two doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine have been injected into human subjects in the National Institutes of Health's fast-tracked clinical trial. A 39-year-old woman was the first person to receive the vaccine, which had previously only been tested ...
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Ebola outbreak racing out of control, says UN officials WASHINGTON: The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa is racing ahead of efforts to control it and at least $600 million is needed to get the unprecedented epidemic under control, UN health officials said on Wednesday. "This Ebola epidemic is the largest, ...
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Ebola Vaccine Tested On Two Women In a report released by the World Health Organization, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed the lives of more than 1,900 people. To meet the demand for an effective Ebola vaccine, a fast tracked clinical trial was initiated to test a drug that could ...
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National breast cancer clinical study rolled out A national clinical study to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients has been rolled out. It follows research funded by the Irish Cancer Society and Health Research Board, which found that women prescribed aspirin regularly before a diagnosis were less ...
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Worldwide Phenomenon: Stupidest take on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge yet? The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has gone to the dogs! Or more specifically, up Margaret Cho's anus. And I mean this literally. In case you have not seen the video, just click play on the below video. Margaret Cho's take on the “Ice Bucket Challenge” defeats the ...
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Now is a great time for a flu shot Officials are getting an early start this year in promoting the annual flu vaccine by telling people to arrange to be vaccinated now before flu season kicks in next month. By John Tyburski, Daily Digest News Wednesday, September 03, 2014. Now is a great time ...
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This is your captain speaking: use sunscreen The incidence rate was attributed to ultraviolet rays filtering into planes at high altitude through cockpit windscreens and windows on the fuselage, the study's author said. Washington - Airline pilots and cabin crew are twice as likely to suffer from skin cancer ...
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Help others step out of the darkness, and walk for suicide prevention Many Americans know too little about suicide and mental illness. The recent deaths of actor and comedian Robin Williams and Gus Deeds, son of state Sen. Creigh Deeds, may change that. Their suicides serve as a poignant backdrop this week, ...
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