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Texas Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola DALLAS, Texas, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A Texas health worker has contracted Ebola after treating a Liberian who died of the disease at a Dallas hospital last week, raising concern about how U.S. medical guidelines aimed at stopping the spread of the disease ...
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Dallas Nurse Contracts Ebola Virus, Elevating Response and Anxiety A hazardous-materials crew on Sunday cleaned outside the Dallas apartment building of a nurse who was infected with Ebola. Credit Larry W. Smith/European Pressphoto Agency. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...
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CDC head criticized for blaming 'protocol breach' as nurse gets Ebola CHICAGO (Reuters) - Some healthcare experts are bristling at the assertion by a top U.S. health official that a “protocol breach” caused a Dallas nurse to be infected with Ebola while caring for a dying patient, saying the case instead shows how far the nation's ...
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Breakthrough Replicates Human Brain Cells for Use in Alzheimer's Research The Boston neurologists Doo Yeon Kim, left, and Rudolph E. Tanzi grew diseased cells in a petri dish as a way to quickly and cheaply test treatments. Credit Dominick Reuter for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the ...
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'Breach in protocol' caused second US Ebola infection DALLAS — A health care worker who cared for the Ebola patient who died last week tested positive for the deadly virus, sending health officials scrambling Sunday to find the "breach in protocol" that resulted in her infection. The woman was among caregivers ...
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Boston patient deemed unlikely to have Ebola BRAINTREE — A man who recently visited Liberia is being assessed in a Boston hospital for a possible infection by the deadly Ebola virus, but physicians think he is at “extremely low” risk, health officials said Sunday. “This patient does not appear to meet ...
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Ebola Protocol Was Likely Breached In Texas, Medical Officials Say Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, speaks during a briefing on the U.S. government's response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa on October 3, 2014 in the Brady ...
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Boston patient does not appear to have Ebola, hospital says (Reuters) - A man in Massachusetts who was being evaluated at a Boston hospital for a possible Ebola infection does not appear to have the deadly disease, officials at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said on Sunday night. The patient, who recently ...
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Conjoined twin Texas babies to take first step to separation surgery HOUSTON (Reuters) - Conjoined 6-month-old twin girls will begin to undergo tissue expansion this month to stretch skin that will be used to cover patches of their bodies when they are separated in a surgery planned for December. The tissue expansion for ...
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Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts ... Dr. Francis Collins, head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a lack of funding has held back the agency's response to the Ebola crisis. | JEWEL SAMAD via Getty Images. Share · Tweet. Email. Comment. Share on Google+ · tumblr · stumble · reddit.
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Boston hospital monitoring patient for possible Ebola case (Reuters) - A man in Massachusetts who recently returned from Liberia is being evaluated at a Boston hospital for a potential case of Ebola after complaining of a headache and muscle aches, health officials said on Sunday. The patient is at Beth Israel ...
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Dallas health worker 2nd in U.S. to test positive for Ebola DALLAS — A nurse became the first person to contract Ebola within the United States, prompting local, state and federal officials who had settled into a choreographed response to scramble Sunday to solve the mystery of how she became infected despite ...
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Ebola scare causes temporary travel disruptions at LAX A person feared to have been exposed to the Ebola virus was on board a United Airlines flight that landed at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday,officials said. But the alarm mainly caused a disruption in travel and resulted in frustrated passengers ...
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La.: Don't bring waste from Ebola victim's personal items BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is seeking a temporary restraining order to block the disposal of incinerated waste from the Dallas Ebola victim's personal items and belongings at a Louisiana landfill. It has been ...
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Sick passenger who prompted Ebola scare at LAX recently visited Africa Health officials determined the sick passenger who sparked an Ebola scare Sunday afternoon at Los Angeles International Airport did not have the disease but had recently visited Africa. A female passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 703 that had departed ...
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Braintree, Massachusetts Clinic Evacuated, Patient Isolated Over Ebola Fears Oct 12 (Reuters) - A man in Massachusetts who recently returned from Liberia is being evaluated at a Boston hospital for a potential case of Ebola after complaining of a headache and muscle aches, health officials said on Sunday. The patient is at Beth Israel ...
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National Nurses Union rallies in Oakland after Dallas nurse diagnosed with Ebola OAKLAND -- They stood together in bright red T-shirts, holding placards and signs. They stood together in sorrow, and in anger. But mostly, nurses from throughout California stood together Sunday as a symbol of warning. The nation's hospitals aren't ready ...
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Ebola outbreak: Get up to speed with the latest developments (CNN) -- The news that a U.S. nurse tested positive for Ebola has heightened concerns about the virus. Health officials are moving quickly to increase monitoring of hospital workers treating Ebola and ensure the deadly virus does not spread. With multiple ...
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Obama Orders Immediate Federal Action To Help Halt Spread Of Ebola WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 12: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell for an update on the response to the Ebola diagnosis in Dallas, in the Oval Office of the White House October ...
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LAX Ebola scare highlights patchwork response plans A hazmat worker looks up while finishing up cleaning outside an apartment building of a hospital worker, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, in Dallas. The Texas health care worker, who was in full protective gear when they provided hospital care for Ebola patient ...
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Liberian Healthcare Workers to Launch Ebola-related Strike Healthcare workers in Liberia were to begin a strike Monday to press home their demands for a pay increase and other benefits. Liberia has the largest number of Ebola infections of any country, including about 2,300 deaths, and some say the strike could ...
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Pill with human faeces to help fight ailments This pill goes down easier if you forget what is in it. Inside the experimental capsule is human faeces — strained, centrifuged and frozen. Taking them for just two days can cure a dangerous bacterial infection that has defied antibiotics and kills 14,000 ...
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Liberian nurses threaten strike, seek more hazard pay over Ebola MONROVIA, Liberia — National officials are pleading with nurses and physician assistants to show up to work Monday amid a dispute over hazard pay that has prompted calls for a strike in the middle of the Ebola epidemic. A strike could deliver a serious ...
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Dallas Ebola Patient's Dog Will be Kept Safe, Mayor Says A dog belonging to a health care worker who tested positive for Ebola will not be euthanized, unlike a recent situation in Spain, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told USA Today. “This was a new twist,” Rawlings said. “The dog's very important to the patient and ...
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Chicago Marathon runner in critical condition CHICAGO (AP) — A 59-year-old man was in critical condition Sunday night after collapsing in the Chicago Marathon and receiving CPR. The man was stricken late in the race and taken to Mercy Hospital on Chicago's near South Side, where a hospital ...
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Research doesn't rule out transmission by floating droplets A CDC poster is meant to quickly show the best evidence on Ebola transmission, said a medical expert. It doesn't include details, possibilities or nuances from research. By SUE AMBROSE. SUE AMBROSE The Dallas Morning News. Staff Writer.
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NHS call centre workers to quiz those with potential Ebola symptoms Calls to the NHS's non-emergency 111 phoneline are to be screened for possible Ebola sufferers, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. Call centre workers are to question anyone phoning with possible symptoms of the disease about their recent ...
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| Smith & Nephew Says HP802-247 Fails To Meet Primary Endpoint - Quick Facts Smith & Nephew Plc. (SNN: Quote,SN.L) announced results from a Phase 3 study of HP802-247, a living cell spray-on therapy designed to work with the body's own cells to stimulate healing of venous leg ulcers or "VLUs". HP802-247 did not meet the primary ...
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Obama Calls for Better Protocol in US Ebola Cases President Barack Obama called for immediate steps to ensure the U.S. medical system is ready to follow the proper protocol for treating Ebola patients. Obama spoke Sunday with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell about the first case of ...
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Wearing of the Pink Watching NFL football in October can be very hard on the eyes, and I'm not just talkin' 'bout any game involving Washington's football team. Hot, shocking pink is plastered everywhere on those behemoth bodies crashing into each other. Cleats, cap rims ...
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Beating Ebola virus calls for training, teamwork EDITOR'S NOTE: This first-person account was written by Angela Hewlett, a physician specializing in infectious diseases. She is assistant medical director for the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit at the Nebraska Medical Center. My heart was ...
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Mercy Hospital officials say they are keeping Ebola virus on their radar Another person in the United States has been diagnosed with Ebola -- the first time the virus has spread from one person to another on U.S soil. 'Breach in protocol' led to Ebola case, CDC director says · medical equipment Ebola. The deadly Ebola virus has ...
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Health Break | Events stress importance of breast cancer awareness Where: Galen and Nancy Dreibelbis Auditorium, Mount Nittany Medical Center, 1800 E. Park Ave., State College. Info: 234-6727. Related event. “67 Women, 67 Counties: Facing Breast Cancer in Pennsylvania” photo exhibit, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 24-31, Lance ...
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Breast cancer victims 'left in needless pain': Terminally ill failed by care system Women with incurable breast cancer are needlessly suffering pain in their last months of life. Some are left in agony for years even though treatments are available, the charity Breast Cancer Care has warned. Its poll of more than 200 women with incurable ...
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Frozen Poop Pills Bring Awareness to Clostridium Difficile Colitis Media outlets have been touting a new study intended to correct and even prevent against a bacterium called Clostridium difficile (C. diff). Fecal transplants are a procedure intended to cure the most severe cases of this bacterium but the laborious methods ...
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El Paso man represents 1 percent of men with breast cancer Miguel Cano takes a swing at the Lone Star Golf Course. Cano is a male breast-cancer survivor. He was diagnosed last year. Male breast cancer makes up less than 1 percent of breast cancer cases. (VICTOR CALZADA — EL PASO TIMES). Miguel Cano is a ...
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Attorney general attempts to block Ebola waste disposal in Louisiana As children played nearby, a decontamination team removed items from the Dallas apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan had been staying. (Photo: Cody Marcom / WFAA). CONNECT 81 TWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. Louisiana ...
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Fecal pills likely to help patients with Clostridium difficile infection FMT capsules contain frozen samples of healthy feces and can be taken orally by patients suffering from CDI. Researchers found these pills are safe and comparably effective as stool transplants. (Photo : Public Domain). Fecal capsules containing healthy ...
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Study: Senior women are more likely to get Alzheimer's than breast cancer AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins Organizers of the South Carolina State Fair set up this wall of hope for people to write messages in support of loved ones who have dealt with breast cancer on Oct. 1 in Columbia. The fair is using pink as its color scheme to support ...
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Breach in Protocol Led to New Ebola Diagnosis, Says CDC Director A female health care worker who treated Thomas Eric Duncan has contracted Ebola, becoming the first person to get the disease in the United States, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today. Officials said the nurse was ...
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Brain cells replicated for Alzheimer's study For the first time, and to the astonishment of many of their colleagues, researchers created what they call Alzheimer's in a Dish, a petri dish with human brain cells that develop the telltale structures of Alzheimer's disease. In doing so, they resolved a ...
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Frozen Poop Pills Can Rid You Of Life-Threatening Infections (Photo : Hohmann Lab) Researchers imagined that a pill wouldn't require invasive procedures, nor would it be likely to cause vomiting. And by freezing the pills, doctors can avoid the process of finding a donor. Most of us would do anything for our health.
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Countries struggle to keep Ebola out as battle goes global North East Ambulance Service and Royal Victoria Infirmary staff taking part in a national exercise to test readiness for an Ebola outbreak. -- PHOTO: REUTERS. WASHINGTON - A Texas health-care worker who treated a man who later died of Ebola has tested ...
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Alzheimer's Evolution Replicated in Lab Brain Cells Being able to recreate a disease is one decisive step towards curing it. If until now researchers had the chance to observing the evolution of Alzheimer's disease on mice only, from now on they could be analyzing the disease in a Petri dish. Two researchers ...
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Boston patient does not appear to have Ebola, hospital says The ambulance used to transport a patient with possible Ebola symptoms is parked outside Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts yesterday. Photograph: Reuters. Topics: News · World · US · John F Kennedy · Las Vegas · Africa ...
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Liberia health workers strike over Ebola danger pay Healthcare workers in Liberia, the country hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, will go on strike from Monday to demand hazard pay for treating patients infected with the deadly disease, their union leader said. "Beginning tomorrow we will be on a nationwide ...
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Patient in isolation at a Boston hospital BOSTON (WPRI) – A male patient is in isolation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Hospital officials say the man has recently traveled to Liberia and is experiencing symptoms similar to that of Ebola. Dr. Kenneth Sands, Chief Quality Officer ...
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Dallas nurse's dog avoids Excalibur's fate, will not be put down Police officers stand outside an apartment where a nurse diagnosed with the Ebola virus resides on Oct 12, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. -- PHOTO: AFP. DALLAS - When cleaning crews went to seal off the home of a Dallas nurse who tested positive for Ebola, they ...
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Miata Jambawai: A nation's dying; where's the world? The writer is the country program manager for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Sierra Leone. She wrote this for the San Jose Mercury News. In late September, Sierra Leone embarked on a three-day national shutdown for an Ebola house-to-house ...
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Petri-dish form of Alzheimer's aids drug testing NEW YORK — For the first time, and to the astonishment of many of their colleagues, researchers created what they call Alzheimer's in a Dish: a petri dish with human brain cells that develop the telltale structures of Alzheimer's disease. In doing so, they ...
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