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What We Know About the Texas Ebola Patient The first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola outside of Africa during the ongoing epidemic is being treated at a Dallas hospital. Federal and state health officials say the patient traveled from Liberia on Sept. 19. Here's what we know about him and the risk to ...
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CDC confirms first case of Ebola in US June 20, 2014: The Centers for Disease Control sign is seen at its main facility in Atlanta, Georgia. (Reuters). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday that a patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for ...
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Ebola Outbreak in Nigeria Appears to Be Contained A student washed her hands as classes resumed in Lagos last week. Credit Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page. Continue reading the main story.
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Ebola Is Diagnosed in Texas, First Case Found in the US Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the infected individual came to the United States from Liberia. Video by Associated Press on Publish Date September 30, 2014. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...
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Acupuncture May Not Help Chronic Knee Pain TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Acupuncture doesn't improve knee pain any more than "sham" acupuncture, according to a new study. "Among patients older than 50 years with moderate to severe chronic knee pain, neither laser nor needle ...
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Spouse personality may affect career success NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The personalities of husbands and wives may affect their spouses' success at work, suggests a new study. Husbands and wives who were conscientious and helped create satisfying home lives for their spouses were linked to ...
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Plant-based vaccines challenge big pharma for $3 billion flu market NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two tiny companies are preparing to challenge some of the world's largest drug makers in the battle for dominance in the $3 billion global market for influenza vaccines, armed with little more than tiny tobacco plants. The use of plants ...
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Rights body mulls forced sterilization of HIV-positive woman BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will consider its first case of forced sterilization of a person living with HIV in Latin America, a rights group has said. The U.S.-based Center for Reproductive Rights, ...
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Government confirms first case of Ebola in US Federal health officials on Tuesday confirmed the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S., a patient who recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas and a sign of the far-reaching impact of the out-of-control epidemic in West Africa. The unidentified patient was ...
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Colon Cancer Survivors' Obesity and Cancer Risk TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Colon cancer patients who are overweight or obese when diagnosed appear to face a slightly higher risk for developing a second weight-related cancer, new research suggests. The finding didn't speak to the ...
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Paralyzed Children Latest Worry in US Viral Outbreak Doctors across the country are investigating whether a respiratory virus that has hospitalized hundreds may have caused at least 17 children to develop paralysis. Boston Children's Hospital is treating four children who developed severe muscle weakness or ...
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Worst Ebola outbreak on record tests global response (Reuters) - International agencies and governments are fighting to contain the world's worst Ebola epidemic since the disease was identified in 1976. The virus, which causes fever and bleeding, has killed at least 3,000 people. Here is a timeline of the ...
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Paramedics, ER staff under Ebola observation in Dallas DALLAS — Three Dallas Fire-Rescue paramedics and several emergency room workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital are off work and under observation after making contact with the patient being treated for Ebola. None of the individuals has been ...
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Obamacare Sunshine Act sheds light on $3.5B paid to doctors A worker uses a scaning device to double-check prescription medicines in an automated dispenser. A worker uses a scaning device to double-check prescription medicines in an automated dispenser. (STAN HONDA / AFP/Getty Images). By Peter Frost, Alex ...
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BRAIN initiative is underway, funding new ways to map cells, circuits Scientists will aim to capture the workings of the human brain in comprehensive recordings, to watch the brain while in motion and to reimagine the world's most complex biological organism as a buzzing network of interlocking circuits with the award of $46 ...
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What you need to know about the Ebola outbreak When did the man infected with Ebola arrive in the US? A man who traveled to Dallas from Liberia has been found to have Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Tuesday. He was screened for fever before boarding the plane — a ...
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City Sanitation workers get in the pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month New York City's Strongest will be in the pink this month. The 6,300 members of the Sanitation Department will be wearing pink ribbons on their green uniforms for the next 31 days in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “This has touched a lot of us ...
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| Mexico says Ghanaian patient shows no signs of Ebola virus MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A 52-year-old man from Ghana who has been hospitalized in Mexico does not shows signs of the deadly Ebola virus, the country's health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday night. The patient displayed fever-like symptoms and ...
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Mass. researchers get $10m in federal grants for brain research WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts researchers were awarded about $10 million in federal grants to gain insight into the fundamental workings of our brain with its complicated network of cells and circuitry systems. “This could transform how we study the brain ...
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| No Difference in Survival for Different Heart Valves A new study published in JAMA suggests that younger patients who need aortic valve replacement (AVR) may now be more eligible to receive bioprosthetic valves. Each year about 50,000 people in the U.S. undergo AVR surgery. Older patients generally ...
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The Ebola epidemic is about to get worse Ebola is spreading faster than anyone would like to admit, and the current, slow international response to the deadly disease is morphing into a modern tragedy. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta confirmed the first ...
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Health officials look for link between respiratory infection outbreak, paralysis-like ... Federal health officials are investigating illnesses with paralysis-like symptoms among children in Missouri, Colorado and Virginia that may be related to the outbreak of severe respiratory infections that has swept the nation. Three cases of the neurologic ...
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Nigeria appears to contain Ebola outbreak, CDC says NEW YORK — With quick and coordinated action by some of its top doctors, Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, appears to have contained its first Ebola outbreak, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. As the epidemic rages ...
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Two young BC patients with enterovirus 68 showing paralysis-like symptoms Two young patients infected with enterovirus D68 have shown symptoms of paralysis, according to health authorities in British Columbia. Among eight lab-confirmed cases of EV-D68, two patients with “paralytic symptoms” – a child and a young adult -- were ...
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Herceptin Best for Certain Breast Cancer Patients, Study Says TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Herceptin is the best drug treatment for a type of breast cancer called HER2-positive and should remain the standard of care for that type of tumor, according to new findings from a long-term clinical trial.
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Chris Christie touts work on drug addiction Chris Christie, refocusing his attention after a politically rocky 2014, called attention to destigmatizing drug addiction on Tuesday at an event at the largely African-American church in Newark where singer Whitney Houston was memorialized. Christie, who ...
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Acupuncture may not be effective for knee pain: Study In their study, real acupuncture using needles and lasers was no more helpful than sham acupuncture for chronic knee pain among people 50 years old and older. "It is surprising that our study showed acupuncture was not effective compared to sham ...
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Traveler from Liberia is first Ebola patient diagnosed in US (Reuters) - A man who flew from Liberia to Texas has become the first patient infected with the deadly Ebola virus to be diagnosed in the United States, health officials said on Tuesday, a sign the outbreak ravaging West Africa may spread globally. The patient ...
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NIH Issues First Research Grants Under Brain Initiative WASHINGTON—The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday issued the initial $46 million in research grants under President Barack Obama's Brain Initiative, kick-starting projects such as classifying cell types in the brain and creating futuristic human brain ...
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Denver-area children stricken by partial paralysis puzzle neurologists Medical experts at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora provide an update Monday on enterovirus 68 and the potential link to muscle weakness. From left to right are Dr. Sam Dominguez, a microbial epidemiologist at Children's; Dr. Chris Nyquist, the ...
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Delmarva take preemptive action against Enterovirus 68 The number of confirmed cases of the uncommon respiratory illness has increased to 277 in 40 states. Loading… Post to Facebook. Delmarva take preemptive action against Enterovirus 68 The number of confirmed cases of the uncommon respiratory illness ...
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Spotlight on women's health risks Breast cancer gets a lot of attention — and not just during October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. There's a good reason for that, as any of the quarter-million American women diagnosed with breast cancer each year will tell you. But breast cancer ...
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month gives University students a chance to fight back This is what Debbie Richardson, a West Virginia woman fighting breast cancer, told Tory Cross, president of Illini 4000, during the registered student organization's Bike America in 2012. Richardson was a part of Illini 4000's Portraits Project, a collection of ...
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Minnesota gets 3 grants in landmark federal BRAIN project Research teams at the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic will receive nearly $5 million over the next three years in the first batch of grants from the National Institutes of Health's prodigious initiative to map the human brain. The so-called BRAIN (Brain ...
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How Exercise May Protect Against Depression Exercise may help to safeguard the mind against depression through previously unknown effects on working muscles, according to a new study involving mice. The findings may have broad implications for anyone whose stress levels threaten to become ...
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Doctors: Number of kids with Enterovirus symptoms waning RICHMOND, Va. — Doctors said the number of children with symptoms of Enterovirus D-68, the respiratory illness has infected children in 40 states, appears to be going down in Central Virginia. According to the head of Pediatrics at Bon Secours Saint Mary's ...
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Breast cancer study Rochester, N.Y. - Perjeta is a new drug is extending the lives of some women with stage four breast cancer by more than one year. When combined with the benefits of a second drug, patients are living as long as four and a half years more. Rochester doctors ...
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Gene Study Finds No Proof Vitamin D Guards Against Type 2 Diabetes TUESDAY, Sept. 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- There's no genetic evidence that high levels of vitamin D can prevent type 2 diabetes, a new study says. Some previous research had suggested that elevated levels of vitamin D might protect people against ...
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Spouse personality may affect career success NEW YORK - The personalities of husbands and wives may affect their spouses' success at work, suggests a new study. Husbands and wives who were conscientious and helped create satisfying home lives for their spouses were linked to future job ...
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Health care enrollment expected to be easier this year Local experts on the Affordable Care Act expect this year's open enrollment period to run a bit smoother. "We really think this year is going to be much better," Brenda Jackson, the county's director of Social Services, said at a Tuesday night panel discussion ...
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Viagra TV ad targeting women for first time TRENTON, n.j. — Pfizer, the maker of the world's top-selling erectile dysfunction drug, on Tuesday began airing its first Viagra TV commercial that targets the less-obvious sufferers of the sexual condition: women. In the new 60-second ad, a middle-aged ...
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Viagra ads is getting vulgar 5 There is no more uncomfortable situation than sitting in front of the TV with the entire family then suddenly the new Viagra ads appear. The new Viagra ads involves a woman asking men with ED to check with their doctor and ask about Viagra.
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Apple accepting donations for City of Hope in honor of Breast Cancer ... Apple has just begun accepting donations from iTunes Store customers who wish to contribute to the fight against breast cancer. The company's new donation campaign runs throughout October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The full amount, i.e., ...
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Johnson & Johnson to buy private drug developer for $1.75 billion Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $1.75 billion in cash to buy privately held Alios BioPharma Inc, which is developing a drug for a common respiratory viral infection in children for which there is no approved treatment. J&J said Alios would also give it access ...
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Vitamin D does not prevent development of type 2 diabetes London: A new study has revealed that there is no substantial proof that vitamin D helps in preventing the development of type 2 diabetes in people. The study, conducted by scientists at the University of Cambridge, challenge evidence from earlier ...
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Targeted Drugs Build on Efficacy Record in Melanoma Meeting Coverage. Targeted Drugs Build on Efficacy Record in Melanoma. Published: Sep 29, 2014. By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today. Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San ...
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How CBC News prepared the crew for travel to an Ebola zone CBC News arrived in Liberia this week to cover the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which has claimed thousands of lives in West Africa and captured the attention of people worldwide since the disease surfaced again 10 months ago. The danger of ...
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Imagining a world without cancer GREENVILLE — Cancer knows no boundaries, so many have been affected both in the fight against cancer either personally or alongside a family member or friend. It is certain there are many in Greene County who have known some of their darkest days in ...
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Packers Going Pink Tomorrow Night The Packers will recognize National Breast Cancer Awareness Month at tomorrow night's Packers-Vikings game, with Lambeau Field and Packers players prominently featuring the color pink in several ways. Fans will receive pink rally towels when they enter ...
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Database shows $3.5 billion in industry ties to doctors, hospitals Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5 billion worth of financial ties with drug and medical-device makers in the last five months of 2013. The details ...
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