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| Leaders call for quicker response to Ebola at World Bank meeting Leaders of the three West African nations hardest hit by Ebola sought support from the international financial community Thursday amid warnings that the widening epidemic is devastating the region's fragile economies. The presidents of Liberia, Sierra Leone ... | |
| West Africans Make Plea for Long List of Ebola Needs WASHINGTON — The presidents of the three West African countries most affected by Ebola implored world leaders on Thursday to increase their support to fight the disease, saying that while the international response has expanded, it has been slow to be ... | |
| Antibiotics Control Cuts Kids' Hospital Readmission Meeting Coverage. Antibiotics Control Cuts Kids' Hospital Readmission. Published: Oct 9, 2014. By Ed Susman , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today. Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San ... | |
| CDC Chief: Ebola is Worst Outbreak Since AIDS A top U.S. health official says Ebola is the biggest world health crisis since HIV/AIDS. Dr. Thomas Frieden spoke Thursday at World Bank headquarters in Washington during a meeting on the Ebola outbreak that has crippled three West African nations and ... | |
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| Company called in for Ebola cleanup faces stigma of its own “What we did had to be done. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing,” said Erick McCallum, the owner of CG Environmental-Cleaning Guys. The company works regularly with first responders and governmental entities. By NAHEED RAJWANI. | |
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| Ebola basics: What you need to know The Ebola virus has now claimed nearly 4,000 lives during the current epidemic in West Africa, the largest outbreak since the virus was discovered nearly 40 years ago. According to the World Health Organization, more than 8,000 people have been infected ... | |
| CDC Director Compares Spread of Ebola to AIDS Pandemic The CDC director's warning comes as the spread of Ebola in West Africa grows, with new cases doubling about every three weeks. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT. HEADQUARTERS IN NEW YORK, THIS IS "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS" WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS. >>> GOOD ... | |
| Ebola: Fears grow that virus is spreading beyond West Africa In Northern Australia there is an anxious wait for a 57-year-old nurse who may have contracted the deadly Ebola virus. It comes after a man in the US died from the virus and a nurse in Spain was diagnosed with Ebola. The 44-year-old nurse was in a stable ... | |
| Tests show hospitalised Czech man does not have Ebola -media PRAGUE Oct 10 (Reuters) - Tests showed that a Czech man hospitalised with symptoms of Ebola does not have the virus, Czech media reported on Friday. The 56-year-old businessman who had recently travelled in Liberia was put in isolation at a Prague ... | |
| Hazmat Team Escorts Passenger Off Flight It is being reported the hazmat team responded to a call that a passenger on board said he had Ebola. That has not been confirmed. US Airways says the flight was checked and cleared to proceed. About Us · Careers · Contact · Privacy Policy – UPDATED ... | |
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| Study: College athletes more likely to carry MRSA "Staph is a problematic germ for us -- always has been, always will be," said Dr. Natalia Jimenez-Truque. By Brooks Hays | Oct. 9, 2014 at 4:39 PM | Comments. share with facebook. 0. share with twitter. 5. share with linkedin. 0. share with google. 0. email print. | |
| Stem cell research offers hope on type 1 diabetes When his two children were stricken with type 1 diabetes, Harvard stem cell scientist Douglas Melton says, he did what any father would want to do: He set out to cure the disease. After 15 years of effort, including some false starts and regulatory hurdles, ... | |
| What It Looks Like When There's an Ebola Scare on a Plane An Ebola scare on a US Airways flight leaving Philadelphia prompted officials to meet the plane when it arrived in the Dominican Republic after a passenger reportedly said he had Ebola. US Airways flight 845 to Punta Cana was inspected upon arriving ... | |
| Stem cells could be helpful to diabetics Sign up for home delivery of The Columbus Dispatch and find out What's In It for You. Subscribe. Already a subscriber? Enroll in EZPay and get a free gift! Enroll now. By Ariana Eunjung Cha The Washington Post • Thursday October 9, 2014 11:53 PM. | |
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| Caution advised with picking 'pink' charities Amid the sea of Breast Cancer Awareness Month fundraisers, experts warn some opportunists may seek to convert pink ribbons to greenbacks. "Whenever there's any major fundraising thing going on, there's always scammers," said Cpl. Darin Hickey, public ... | |
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| Stem Cell Research Offers Solution for Diabetes Treatment When scientist Douglas Melton at Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology set out to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, he was driven by a personal motive: both his children have the disease. Fifteen years later, he says he is on the ... | |
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| Walking the extra mile for breast cancer awareness Breast cancer awareness month is in full swing with several events taking place across the nation. / Toni Talley. Photo. COLUMBIA, S.C. (WACH) - Breast Cancer Awareness Month is in full swing with several events taking place across the nation. | |
| Your Genes Decide How Much Coffee You Can Drink There are people who only drink coffee occasionally and then there are those who can't start their days without a whole pot of coffee. A recent genetic study found that genes have a lot to do with the coffee drinking habits of a person. This was a large scale ... | |
| 'Bucket list' finished, boy dies hours after birth PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A couple who say they carried out a "bucket list" of trips for their unborn son, who suffered from a fatal condition, say they feel blessed he could spend his brief life with people who loved him. Shane Michael Haley died Thursday ... | |
| Airports begin screening for Ebola Hundreds of airport workers at LaGuardia Airport in New York have walked off the job over safety concerns over the Ebola virus. This strike comes as five major airports begin new security screening protocols to try to detect the deadly virus before it spreads. | |
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| Could Diabetics Produce Their Own Insulin? CBSNews -- In what could be the biggest breakthrough in years toward a cure for type 1 diabetes, researchers at Harvard University say they have developed a way of transforming stem cells to help diabetics produce their own insulin. CBSNews -- In what ... | |
| Ebola fears spread as Spanish nurse worsens, British man tested (Reuters) - Fears that the Ebola outbreak will spread globally rose on Thursday with the deteriorating health of an infected Spanish nurse, a British man who died in Macedonia being tested for the virus and more demands by U.S. lawmakers for travel bans. | |
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| Americans want flight bans for West African nations The same respondents were twice as likely to disapprove of the decision to send U.S. troops to West African countries. By Brooks Hays | Oct. 9, 2014 at 5:21 PM | Comments. share with facebook. 10. share with twitter. 23. share with linkedin. 0. share with ... | |
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| UK Airports to Begin Screening for Ebola Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) – Travelers to the U.K. arriving at Heathrow and Gatwick Airports and the Eurostar train terminals will now be screened for the Ebola virus. Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote reports on “Countdown.” (Source: Bloomberg). Please enable ... | |
| Ebola test results negative for Dallas County deputy The Texas Department of State Health Services says negative results were returned from a lab in Austin Thursday, indicating that a Dallas County deputy who had fallen ill does not have the Ebola virus. Loading… Post to Facebook. Ebola test results negative ... | |
| Spanish nurse's life 'at serious risk' String-like Ebola virus particles are shedding from an infected cell in this electron micrograph. Credit: flickr.com/NIAID. A Spanish nurse, who is the first person known to have been infected with Ebola outside Africa, is at "serious risk" of dying after her ... | |
| HealthCare.gov hit by minor glitch and functionality questions Obamacare website HealthCare.gov got off to a rocky start last October, when a rush of would-be customers crashed the insurance portal, making it nearly impossible for anyone to sign up for coverage online during the first few months of open enrollment ... | |
| Study: Contact Sports Boost Spread of 'Superbugs' THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- College athletes in contact sports such as football and soccer are more than twice as likely as other college athletes to carry a superbug known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), new ... | |
| Woman's Thyroid Tumor Yields Clues on How to Battle Cancer (HealthDay News) -- New gene mutations that were discovered in a thyroid cancer patient's tumor provide clues to drug response and resistance, researchers report. The 56-year-old female patient's deadly form of thyroid cancer unexpectedly "melted away" ... | |
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| Could diabetics produce their own insulin? In what could be the biggest breakthrough in years toward a cure for type 1 diabetes, researchers at Harvard University say they have developed a way of transforming stem cells to help diabetics produce their own insulin. Three million Americans have type 1 ... | |
| How Safe Is the Artificial Turf Your Child Plays On? Soccer coach Amy Griffin was in a Seattle hospital visiting a young goalie who was receiving chemotherapy when a nurse said something that made the hair on Griffin's neck stand up. It was 2009. Two young female goalies Griffin knew had been diagnosed ... | |
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