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| Is $1125 hepatitis pill from Bay Area drugmaker worth it? After shaking up the health care industry with a $1,000 hepatitis C pill, Gilead Sciences of Foster City won approval Friday for a new version of that treatment that works faster, drops the usual injections and boasts an already-controversial $1,125 price tag. | |
| Liberian's Last Days in Dallas With Ebola Come Into Focus Friends and family members mourn during a memorial service for Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan on Wednesday at Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas. Associated Press. DALLAS—On the night of Sept. 25, a Liberian immigrant walked into the emergency ... | |
| New York's JFK Airport to Begin Ebola Screening Program NEW YORK — Stepped up efforts by the U.S. to halt the spread of the Ebola virus will start at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Saturday, where teams armed with thermal guns and questionnaires will screen travelers from West African ... | |
| FDA approves hepatitis C drug that costs $1125 per pill FILE - This Thursday, March 12, 2009, file photo shows Gilead Sciences Inc. headquarters in Foster City, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File). WASHINGTON – Federal health officials have approved a daily pill that can cure the most common form of hepatitis ... | |
| Ebola fight in Sierra Leone puts battlefield in homes “It's basically admitting defeat,” Dr. Peter Kilmarx, the leader of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention team in Sierra Leone, said of the treat-at-home policy. By ADAM NOSSITER. The New York Times. PREV of NEXT. Sory Sesay, 2, who has ... | |
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| Many Newborns Have Risky Ride Home From Hospital? FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Many newborns are at risk on their first trip home from the hospital because their parents install or use car safety seats incorrectly, a new study warns. Researchers looked at 267 families with newborns and found ... | |
| Las Vegas sounds false alarm as global Ebola fears spread A commercial plane was briefly quarantined on a Las Vegas airport tarmac on Friday, sending airline shares down as worldwide fears increased that Ebola could spread outside West Africa, where it has killed more than 4,000 people. Airline and hospital ... | |
| Ebola: National exercise to test UK's plans for virus A national exercise will be held later to test how the UK would deal with a potential outbreak of the Ebola virus. The eight-hour exercise will see actors in various parts of the UK simulate symptoms of the virus to test the responses of emergency services, ... | |
| Ebola: US troops battle invisible enemy in Liberia Monrovia, Liberia (CNN) -- The general and his soldiers have spent more than a decade at war in Iraq and Afghanistan but this could be one of their toughest battles yet. Their enemy this time is not soldiers or militants. It is Ebola -- invisible and killing ... | |
| FDA OKs Once-a-Day Drug for Chronic Hepatitis C FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Harvoni, a daily pill that treats the most common form of hepatitis C, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday. It's the first combination pill (ledipasvir and sofosbuvir) approved to treat the ... | |
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| Ebola joke, vomiting passenger spark scares in US, goes viral NEW YORK: Jitters in the US over Ebola were underlined on Friday after an air passenger's joke sparked a full-on alert, while another plane was quarantined at Las Vegas airport because someone vomited onboard. In the joke incident, a Hazmat (hazardous ... | |
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| Ebola death toll tops 4000 as US steps up actions in Liberia MONROVIA, Liberia -- Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law ... | |
| Ebola advances in West Africa Ebola continues its relentless expansion through West Africa, the region where the pandemic first emerged, despite the resources deployed by other countries and new health protocols aimed at preventing the virus from spreading. In Liberia and Sierra Leone ... | |
| Deputy details day of Ebola scare Sgt. Michael Monnig had visited a clinic in Frisco because of stomach pains. But when his temperature read 101.7 degrees, Monnig said, his Ebola fears began to feel real. Loading… Post to Facebook. Deputy details day of Ebola scare Sgt. Michael Monnig ... | |
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| Ebola death toll rises to more than 4000 Photo: John Moore / Getty Images A woman crawls towards the body of her sister as Ebola burial team members take her sister Mekie Nagbe, 28, for cremation on October 10, 2014 in Monrovia, Liberia. Nagbe, a market vendor, collapsed and died outside her ... | |
| Ebola patient's temperature spiked to 103 degrees Thomas Eric Duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees during the hours of his initial visit to an emergency room — a fever that was flagged with an exclamation point in the hospital's record-keeping system, his medical records show. Loading… Post to ... | |
| Flu Shot Slowdown Peeves Pediatricians Manufacturing difficulties have slowed distribution of this year's flu vaccine, annoying some pediatricians and forcing some people to wait to get the shot they want, experts say. Blame it on the antiquated technology that is still used to make most influenza ... | |
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| Las Vegas sounds false alarm as global Ebola fears spread REUTERS - A commercial plane was briefly quarantined on a Las Vegas airport tarmac on Friday, sending airline shares down as worldwide fears increased that Ebola could spread outside West Africa, where it has killed more than 4,000 people. Airline and ... | |
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| Jet with ill boy quarantined, cleared in Las Vegas A commercial airliner was quarantined on the airport tarmac in Las Vegas for more than an hour Friday while paramedics and health officials evaluated a mother and a child who vomited during a flight from New York, authorities said. Chris Carlson ... | |
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| 'Giant leap' to type 1 diabetes cure The hunt for a cure for type 1 diabetes has recently taken a "tremendous step forward", scientists have said. The disease is caused by the immune system destroying the cells that control blood sugar levels. A team at Harvard University used stem cells to ... | |
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| Ebola hospital defends patient's care The Texas hospital that treated Ebola victim Eric Duncan has said his nationality had no bearing on the care he received before his death. Some of his relatives have said he did not get as good treatment as other people because he was Liberian. | |
| WHO: Ebola death toll rises to more than 4000 Liberian lawmakers on Friday rejected a proposal to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf the power to further restrict movement and public gatherings and to confiscate property in the fight against Ebola. One legislator said such a law would have turned ... | |
| High cholesterol may trigger return of prostate cancer Prostate cancer may occur more often in men with high cholesterol, according to a new study. Here, prostate cancer is seen through a microscope. (Photo : National Institutes of Health). High cholesterol and triglycerides could encourage the return of prostate ... | |
| Region turns out in pink for breast cancer awareness Sharon Bartkovich with the College of Coastal Georgia wears bracelets from all of the breast cancer awareness half- and full marathons she's completed. Buy this photo · Goodyear School wears pink. Provided ... | |
| High Cholesterol and Prostate Cancer's Return FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- After surgery for prostate cancer, elevated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides may be linked with greater risk of the cancer's return, a new study suggests. In a review of more than 800 men who had had their ... | |
| Prostate Cancer Recurrence Risk Rises With Triglycerides Oncology/Hematology. Prostate Cancer Recurrence Risk Rises With Triglycerides. Published: Oct 10, 2014. By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete · Take Posttest. Elevated triglycerides after radical ... | |
| Even Decaf Coffee May Help the Liver FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Another study suggests that coffee might actually be healthy for your liver, and that even decaffeinated coffee may have this effect. Prior research had suggested that drinking coffee may help protect the organ, but ... | |
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| Triglycerides Hike Prostate Cancer Recurrence Endocrinology. Triglycerides Hike Prostate Cancer Recurrence. Published: Oct 10, 2014. By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today. save. |. A. A. Post Test Complete · Take Posttest. Having high triglycerides after radical prostatectomy raises the risk ... | |
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| Foundation created for boy who died of virus The family of a 4-year-old New Jersey boy who died from a virus causing a severe respiratory illness across the country has launched a foundation to support special needs children in his memory. Andy Waller spoke Friday about the creation of The First Day ... | |
| | North Country Public Radio | New Method Sought to Make Ebola Drug Grown From Tobacco Biotechnology researchers and U.S. officials are rushing to try to make more of what may be the most promising experimental drug to treat Ebola after supply ran out in August. The drug, ZMapp, is made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. Mapp and its partners ... | |
| Major breakthrough in diabetes treatment Scientists announced a breakthrough that could one day free millions of diabetes sufferers from a lifetime of insulin injections. The discovery described in the journal Cell on Thursday and led by stem cell researcher Douglas Melton is a method of growing ... | |
| Hepatitis C treatment Harvoni gets FDA nod The first complete treatment for hepatitis C that requires taking only one daily pill won approval Friday from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, called Harvoni and developed by Gilead Sciences, could shorten the duration of treatment and provide the ... | |
| Some recommended reading as American Ebola scare wanes With the death of Thomas Eric Duncan and the declining likelihood that he spread the virus in Dallas, the American Ebola scare may finally be waning. But for those who still read everything they can get their eyes on, here are a few takes you might have ... | |
| US to begin Ebola screening at airports Increased efforts by the US to halt the spread of the Ebola virus will start at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport today. Teams with thermal guns and questionnaires will screen travellers from West African countries hit hardest by the outbreak. | |
| Las Vegas Announces False Alarm Amid Global Ebola Scare (Photo : REUTERS/JAMES GIAHYUE) A car drives past a public health advertisement against the Ebola virus in Monrovia October 8, 2014. share on facebook. share on twitter. Las Vegas state officials temporarily quarantined a commercial flight plane on ... | |
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| Ebola joke, vomiting passenger spark scare Jitters in the US over Ebola have been underlined by an air passenger's joke which sparked a full-scale alert and the quarantining of another flight because someone vomited on board. In the joke incident, a Hazmat (hazardous materials) team in blue suits ... | |
| Hospitals prepare for possible ebola outbreak The threat of Ebola in America has raised questions in communities all over the country. Local hospitals are preparing for the worst. Twin Cities Community Hospital had a tabletop discussion on Ebola prep with department heads. With international travels ... | |
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