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Is SFO next for enhanced Ebola screening at airports? Photo: David Tulis / Associated Press An ambulance carrying Amber Joy Vinson, the second health care worker to be diagnosed with Ebola in Texas, arrives at Emory University Hospital on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Atlanta. Vinson was one of the nurses ...
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Second Nurse With Ebola Arrives at Emory A Dallas health care worker found today to be infected with Ebola was transferred to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after she became the second person to contract the disease while working in the Dallas facility. Amber Vinson, 29, was one of the nurses ...
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Ebola raises concerns over hospitals' infection controls As public health authorities race to assess the U.S. medical system's ability to contain Ebola, the track record of the nation's hospitals in controlling other infections suggests a lot of them aren't prepared. From small, rural hospitals to sprawling urban medical ...
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Ebola Patient Shouldn't Have Boarded Plane, Officials Say WASHINGTON -- Top health officials said Wednesday that a nurse infected with Ebola never should have boarded a plane. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had announced earlier Wednesday that a second nurse who had cared for Thomas ...
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Amber Vinson, Dallas Ebola Patient, Says CDC Gave Her Green Light To Fly The Frontier Airlines plane that Amber Vinson flew from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday, flies out of Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Cleveland. Vinson is the second nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola at the Texas Health ...
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Nurses group says Dallas hospital put nurses at risk A national nurses group says a Dallas hospital's handling of the nation's first Ebola case was sloppy, putting health care workers and patients at risk of infection from the deadly virus. At a news conference Wednesday, leaders of National Nurses United recited ...
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Breast cancer awareness month offers little when disease has spread Photo: Michael Short / The Chronicle Above: Vickie Young Wen, who has stage 4 cancer and is waging her own “I Want More Than A Pink Ribbon” campaign, points to signs on her encouragement wall. Below: Wen poses for a portrait at her home in ...
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Extreme measures: US hospitals take on Ebola, but at what risk? CHICAGO (Reuters) - The infection of two U.S. healthcare workers who cared for a dying Ebola patient in Dallas is challenging assumptions about how to protect Western medical workers who perform advanced, life-saving procedures that may increase their ...
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Immune Therapy Can Lead to Remission in Leukemia WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental immune-system therapy can often lead to complete remission in leukemia patients who have run out of other options, a new study confirms. Researchers found that 27 of 30 children and ...
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What the Latest Ebola Infection Says About Odds of Widespread US Outbreak Fears that a widespread outbreak of Ebola in the United States were heightened today as health officials revealed that a second Dallas nurse infected with Ebola flew on an airplane just a day before being placed in isolation. And as troubling as this second ...
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Ebola Today: CDC Knew of Nurse's Fever Before Flight ... • 8:34 p.m. EST: Dallas to declare citywide disaster. Dallas County Commissioners plan to declare a disaster Thursday over “the potential for widespread or severe damage, injury, loss or threat of life resulting from the Ebola virus,” Dallas's local NBC affiliate ...
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Worst Ebola outbreak on record tests global response (Reuters) - Global health authorities are struggling to contain the world's worst Ebola epidemic since the disease was identified in 1976. The virus has killed nearly 4,500 people. Here is a timeline of the outbreak: March 22: Guinea confirms that a previously ...
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President Obama orders federal Ebola SWAT team to any hospital with an ... WASHINGTON---Seeking to reassure a nervous American public, President Obama on Wednesday ordered federal Ebola SWAT teams within 24 hours to any hospital that confirms a patient with the virus. "The key thing to understand about this disease is that ...
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Roche's InterMune wins FDA approval for lung disease treatment Weeks after Roche bought Brisbane drugmaker InterMune for $8.3 billion, the gamble paid off when the companies won approval for a treatment of a rare and fatal lung disease Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration approved InterMune's Esbriet for ...
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| Psoriasis Tied to Uncontrolled Blood Pressure WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People with more severe cases of psoriasis may be at increased risk of uncontrolled high blood pressure, a large study finds. Researchers looking at over 13,000 adults in the United Kingdom found that those ...
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2nd Texas health worker tests positive for Ebola The Ebola crisis in the U.S. took another alarming turn Wednesday with word that a second Dallas nurse caught the disease from a patient and flew across the Midwest aboard an airliner the day before she fell ill, even though government guidelines should ...
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Airline: CDC Warned 'Possibility' Ebola Nurse Had Symptoms on Plane The airline that unknowingly transported an Ebola-sickened patient on a flight from Ohio to Texas Monday has placed six crew members on paid leave out of “an abundance of caution, and said it was warned by health officials about “the possibility” that the ...
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Health officials probing death of Arizona boy for possible enterovirus PHOENIX (Reuters) - Health officials are investigating whether a potent virus that has infected hundreds of children nationwide killed a six-year-old boy in Arizona, officials said on Wednesday, adding that it would take more than a week to get an answer.
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Obama Cancels More Travel to Oversee Ebola Response, Urging 'Aggressive ... President Obama met with Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Susan E. Rice, the national security adviser, on Monday to discuss the Ebola situation. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times. Continue ...
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FDA Approves First 2 Drugs for Treatment of a Fatal Lung Disease The first two drugs that can slow the progression of a fatal lung disease won approval from the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, a decision that could open a new era for patients but also a new chapter in the controversy over high drug prices.
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T-Cell Therapy Puts Leukemia Patients in Extended Remission An experimental therapy has brought prolonged remissions to a high proportion of patients who were facing death from advanced leukemia after standard treatments had failed, researchers are reporting. The therapy involves genetically programming cells ...
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Ebola could test college commitments to international academic exchange U.S. colleges and universities have long prided themselves on an open-door policy that encourages enrollment of international students. Their commitment to that principle might get tested in coming months as the deadly Ebola virus ravages three west ...
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Boehner Urges Obama to Consider Travel Ban to Fight Ebola House Speaker John Boehner said President Barack Obama should consider a temporary ban on travel to the U.S. from countries where the Ebola virus is rampant. “This administration must be able to assure Americans that we will stop the spread here at ...
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Obama: Risk of Widespread US Ebola Outbreak 'Very, Very Low' President Barack Obama says the risk of a widespread Ebola outbreak in the United States is 'very, very low,' if all the proper protections are taken. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting on Ebola Wednesday, Obama called for an emergency federal medical team to ...
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Ebola deaths near 4500 as virus spreads in West Africa: WHO MONROVIA (Reuters) - A total of 4,493 people have died from the world's worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. WHO said a total of 8,997 ...
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Massachusetts nurses worry about Ebola preparedness As a second nurse fell ill in Dallas, the union representing thousands of Massachusetts nurses sounded alarms Wednesday about the adequacy of Ebola preparations at hospitals in the state. “For us, it's hit home,” said Donna Kelly-Williams, president of the ...
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Lawmakers Seek US Ban on Travelers From Ebola-Stricken Region A growing chorus of lawmakers is calling on President Obama to impose travel restrictions on passengers coming to the U.S. from West African countries stricken by Ebola. On Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner became the highest-ranking ...
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| RPT-China sends Ebola drug to Africa, eyes clinical trials (Repeats to reformat paragraph 12). By Adam Jourdan. SHANGHAI Oct 16 (Reuters) - A Chinese drugmaker with military ties has sent an experimental Ebola drug to Africa for use by Chinese aid workers and is planning clinical trials there to combat a deadly ...
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Deciphering Medicare's jargon: What the terms mean This image shows the website for updated HealthCare,gov, a federal government website managed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. (Photo: AP). 1 CONNECTTWEETLINKEDINCOMMENTEMAILMORE. The time to start shopping for ...
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Is 'Slow and Steady' Weight Loss Really the Best Approach? WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- An Australian study throws doubt on the notion that a more gradual approach to weight loss is always the most effective route to take. The study also found that whether you opt for a "crash" diet or something a ...
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Cancer can take serious toll on emotions as well as body Photo: Michael Short, The Chronicle Vickie Young Wen, who has stage 4 cancer and is waging her own "I Want More Than A Pink Ribbon" campaign, poses for a portrait at her home in Sunnyvale, CA, October 10, 2014. Buy this photo. Vickie Young Wen, who ...
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FDA: little evidence to drop Chantix boxed warning WASHINGTON • Federal regulators say Pfizer has provided low-quality evidence to support its request to remove a bold-letter warning from its anti-smoking drug Chantix about suicidal behavior. The twice-a-day tablet has carried the Food and Drug ...
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2nd Texas nurse tests positive for Ebola A Frontier Airlines employee wears rubber gloves as she directs passengers where to go at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Cleveland. Ohio health officials aren't sure how many people came into contact with a Texas ...
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Leaked photo of BC hospital's Ebola preparedness kit raises concerns A photo of what was claimed to be the only Ebola preparedness kit in a Fraser Valley hospital has nurses again sounding the alarm about B.C.'s readiness if the outbreak spreads to this province. The “Strict Precautions Kit,” which is marked “PPE against ...
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Doctors treat man addicted to Google Glass According to the doctors at the Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program (SARP), the man, who was initially admitted for alcoholism treatment, wore Google's smart headset for up to 18 hours a day, and reported feeling irritable and aggressive when stripped ...
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Nurses call on Obama to mandate safeguards against Ebola The nation's largest union of registered nurses Wednesday called on President Obama to mandate uniform standards at U.S. hospitals to protect healthcare workers from the Ebola virus. Full Coverage. Confronting Ebola in West Africa, U.S.. The worst Ebola ...
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Second death in NH from EEE A second person living in New Hampshire has died from Eastern equine encephalitis, health officials said Wednesday. Tweet · Pin It. Show Transcript Hide Transcript. Advertising. Video Transcript. FUTURE CAST AND THE WEEKEND, COMING UP. THANK ...
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New Ground Breaking Stem Cell Research Released This Week Human embryonic stem cells are eggs, fertilized in vitro, and used for research. These cells have the capability to develop into any type of cell in the body. Researchers have said that human embryonic stem cells have restored the sight of several nearly blind ...
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Eastern Equine Encephalitis kills second person in New Hampshire A second person in New Hampshire has died from EEE. (File/Jack Leonard/New Orleans Mosquito Control Board). | License Photo. CONCORD, N.H., Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Another person in New Hampshire is dead as a result of Eastern Equine Encephalitis, ...
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California closely monitors Ebola situation in US LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- California is closely monitoring the Ebola situation nationwide, though no case has been found yet in the state, health officials said on Wednesday. Californian health officials are closely monitoring the "evolving (Ebola) ...
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| American man has addiction to Google Glass Video; Image. Google Glass app 2:54. Play video. http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/. Technology journalist Chris Griffith introduces an Australian developed app for Google Glass that aims to help those with limited sight. The Australian; 06 Aug 2014 ...
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Exercising three times a week significantly cuts depression risk Exercising three times a week reduces the odds of developing depression by around 16 per cent, scientists said on Wednesday - and for every extra weekly activity session, the risk drops further. In a study conducted as part of a public health research ...
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2 Ebola outbreaks in Africa have different sources A second, smaller Ebola outbreak has been going on in Africa, and a new study shows it has a different source in nature than the massive epidemic raging now in the western part of the continent. The outbreak that began in July in the Democratic Republic of ...
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Man Gets Treated for Addiction to Google Glass Addiction to technology is a real thing. So is internet addiction. But a man who was admitted to the Navy's Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Program recently may have one of the first ever-cases of an addiction to Google Glass. Yeah, those digital glasses ...
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Stem Cell Therapy Shows Long-Term Effectiveness For Vision Loss A new study has become the first to show the long-term safety of stem cell transplants to treat human disease. According to WebMD, the research involved 18 people with macular degeneration. The disease is known as the leading cause of vision loss.
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Help available for seniors during Medicare enrollment Wednesday marked the first day of the Medicaid open enrollment period, and agencies are offering help to those who need it. The open enrollment period for the federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older remains open until Dec. 7.
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Local nurses' union criticizes Ebola training More than 800 nurses working at St. Louis hospitals are represented by a union. A National Nurses United Union representative says those nurses are not as prepared as they could be for the threat of Ebola. Loading… Post to Facebook. Local nurses' union ...
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Melton Lab Cells Could Help Cure Type 1 Diabetes A team of Harvard researchers led by natural sciences professor and Eliot House Co-Master Douglas A. Melton developed a scalable technique for creating human insulin-producing beta cells in vitro, a major stride towards an effective treatment for type 1 ...
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FDA Approves Two Drugs For Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis The Food and Drug Administration approved two new drugs that can slow the spread of fatal lung disease. Advertisements. The approved drugs, Boehringer Ingelheim's Ofev and Roche's Esbriet, are made to cure a lung scarring called as idiopathic ...
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Ebola Concerns Grow Among Pet Lovers, TAMU School of Vet Med Says No ... "He's basically like my kid now,” said Carmen Maloney, who has a 7-month-old dog. “I go out to restaurants and my boyfriend always makes fun of me and I'm always pulling out my phone showing pictures." Maloney says she would do anything for her dog.
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