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Expert: Dallas hospital did things right - and wrong DALLAS – Doctors and nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas caring for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan did many things right, including donning proper equipment early, isolating the patient and meticulously disposing of soiled sheets and ...
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Ebola Today: Yale Student Does Not Have Ebola, Nor Does the Woman Who ... Want Bill Murray In Your Movie? The Director of 'St. Vincent' Knows How to Get Him · You Don't Win Friends with Salad—Not on 'Top Chef' Boston. Must Reads. Watch Gisele in a New Short Film from Chanel · Neil Patrick Harris Says He'll Host Oscars in ...
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Transfer of Ebola patients reflects a tacit shift in strategy The federal government effectively began to restrict the care of Ebola patients to hospitals with special bio-containment units Thursday, and the Obama administration labored to reassure jittery Americans and increasingly skeptical lawmakers that public ...
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Ebola outbreak: What is risk of catching it on a flight? People who flew on a plane with a Texas nurse on the day before she came down with symptoms of Ebola are being tracked down by public health officials. What are the chances of catching the virus from another airline passenger? The Ebola outbreak has ...
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Obama open to appointing Ebola 'czar,' opposes travel ban WASHINGTON Oct 16 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said he was considering appointing an Ebola "czar" to coordinate the fight against the virus in the United States, but he remained opposed to a ban on travel from West Africa. Obama's administration ...
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Ebola outbreak: CDC, Frontier Airlines hunt passengers who flew with nurse Authorities expanded their efforts Thursday to contact passengers who flew on two flights in the last week with a nurse who was stricken with the Ebola virus. Amber Joy Vinson, 29, a nurse at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who cared earlier this month ...
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Sugary drinks warning signs change habits of US teens Signs warning shoppers how much exercise they need to do to burn off calories in sugary drinks can encourage healthier choices, US research suggests. A study of teenagers' purchasing habits found they bought fewer sugary drinks and more water when ...
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Texas health worker isolated on cruise ship over possible Ebola contact Two Texas health workers have contracted Ebola after treating a Liberian who died of the disease in Dallas. Slideshow. (Reuters) - A Texas health worker who may have had contact with specimens from the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United ...
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Obama mulls Ebola "czar" WASHINGTON - Under pressure to select an Ebola "czar" to lead the U.S. response against the disease, President Barack Obama conceded Thursday it "may be appropriate for me to appoint an additional person" to head the administration effort.
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Congress presses for Ebola travel ban Members of Congress sharply questioned top public health officials Thursday about banning travel from West African countries where the Ebola virus is out of control to the United States, demanding to know why the administration has not adopted that tactic.
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Obama Signs Executive Order Authorizing Use Of Reservists For Ebola Response US President Barack Obama makes a statement for the press after a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House October 15, 2014 in Washington, DC. Obama canceled campaign and fundraising travel for Democrats to attend the meeting on Ebola after ...
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Ebola Hot Take Of The Day: Travel Bans Would Make Things Worse. Let's Do ... It seems pretty clear that the possibility that an Ebola-related travel ban will be imposed in the near future is growing with each passing day. Those who provide informed expertise about this sort of thing advise against such a policy. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of ...
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Panel Votes to Keep Strong Warning on Smoking-Cessation Drug An FDA panel rejected an effort by Pfizer to remove boxed warnings on the label for its smoking-cessation drug. iStock. By. Thomas M. Burton And. Thomas M. Burton. The Wall Street Journal. CANCEL. BiographyThomas M. Burton · Tom.Burton@wsj.com · @ ...
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Obama May Name 'Czar' to Oversee Ebola Response Jeff Hulbert of Annapolis, Md., protesting Thursday by the White House against flights from West Africa, was a tourist attraction. Credit Mladen Antonov/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story.
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William Pooley, British Nurse Who Survived Ebola, Will Return to Sierra Leone LONDON — A British volunteer nurse who survived Ebola said he is returning to West Africa where he caught the disease "because there is still a lot of work to do out there." William Pooley was the first known U.K. citizen to be infected in the current outbreak ...
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US Sen. Rand Paul says Ebola "incredibly contagious," contradicts world health ... CONCORD, N.H. — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told a group of college students Wednesday the deadly virus Ebola can spread from a person who has the disease to someone standing three feet away and said the White House should be honest about ...
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Andrew Cuomo gets campaign boost from conservative group Gov. Cuomo's reelection hopes got a boost from a surprising source Thursday — the conservative Tax Foundation — while challenger Rob Astorino proposed term limits for all state officeholders. The Tax Foundation, once derided by a Cuomo aide as a ...
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US not ruling out Ebola travel ban WASHINGTON — A top public health official told a House panel Thursday that the Obama administration has not ruled out imposing restrictions on travel to and from West Africa to help protect Americans from Ebola. "We will consider any options to better ...
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CDC director's challenge: Deadly Ebola virus and outbreak of criticism ATLANTA — “I am not protecting West Africa,” Tom Frieden, pacing in his office, tells an unhappy U.S. senator on the other end of a call from Washington. “My number one responsibility is to protect Americans from threats.” Then: “Respectfully, sir, I don't agree ...
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Airline Passenger Showing Signs of Ebola Taken to Hospital in Madrid Medical staff wearing protection suits stand next to an Air France plane in Madrid on Thursday when a passenger showing symptoms of Ebola was taken to a local hospital. European Pressphoto Agency. MADRID—A passenger on an Air France AF.
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FDA Panel Votes To Keep Warning On Pfizer Smoking-Cessation Drug An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted to keep boxed warnings of neuropsychiatric risks on the label for Pfizer inc.'s (PFE: Quote) smoking-cessation drug Chantix. In April, Pfizer submitted a labeling supplement for varenicline ...
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Spain checks six more patients over Ebola fears MADRID: Spanish doctors identified six more cases of possible infection with the deadly Ebola virus on Thursday as a nurse being treated for the disease showed signs of improvement, officials said. Among the new suspect cases was a Spanish missionary ...
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Ebola spreads to last healthy district in Sierra Leone FREETOWN (Reuters) - Ebola has killed at least two people in what was the last remaining district in Sierra Leone unaffected by the virus, a government health officer said on Thursday. Sierra Leone is one of three West African nations at the epicentre of the ...
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African Safari Demand Wilts Far From Ebola Danger Zone Clients pass giraffe on a Ride Kenya safari based at Ol Donyo Wuas Lodge in the Mbirikani Group Ranch, Chyulu Hills. Photograph via Conde Nast Traveler. Far from the heart of West Africa's Ebola outbreak, the safari industry is taking a hit as alarm over the ...
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Yale student tests negative for Ebola, but state steps up preparations Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Public Health Commissioner Dr. Jewel Mullen during a briefing on Ebola at the state's emergency operations center Thursday. Preliminary testing indicates that the Yale doctoral student admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with ...
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Nurses Bear Brunt of Workplace Exposure to Infections Such as Ebola Concerns about hospital workplace safely are echoing around the health-care system in light of the two Dallas nurses who contracted Ebola. Nurses associations say nurses and aides are on the front lines and aren't always adequately protected from ...
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Women can play an active role in breast cancer detection each month Mammograms can detect breast cancer before a lump is ever felt; however, a significant portion of the disease is caught when a woman conducts a self-examination outside of a clinical setting, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF).
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Fall is half-way over and EEE continues to linger BOSTON (WWLP) – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced the second case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis infection found an animal this year. According to the DPH, the infection was found in a five year-old horse from the Worcester ...
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Two New Drugs Approved for Fatal Lung Disease We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. {shareThisContent}. {fontSizerContent}. WebMD News from HealthDay. Oct. 16, 2014 -- Two newly-approved drugs can slow the progression of a deadly ...
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British-American Ebola patient tells US politicians to 'settle down' A British-American Ebola patient being treated in the US has called for politicians to "settle down" after watching them debate the response to the disease on television. Ashoka Mukpo, 33, a freelance television cameraman who contracted the virus in Liberia, ...
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Ebola: UN trust gets just $100000 of $1 bn needed, Colombia only donor in a ... United Nations/Washington: A United Nations trust fund seeking nearly $1 billion for rapid, flexible funding of the most urgent needs to fight Ebola in West Africa has received a deposit of just $100,000 nearly a month after it was set up. The U.N. Office for the ...
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Pet Doctor: One Medicine concept comes to forefront in Ebola battle The concept of One Medicine has been discussed by the veterinary and human medical fields more and more in recent years. It is based on the realization that people and animals are affected by many of the same diseases and conditions, and what we learn ...
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Presbyterian Hospital Moving Ebola Patient Nina Pham DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas are moving nurse Nina Pham, the first American to contract Ebola on U.S. soil, across the country. Pham is being transferred to the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center ...
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SI Hospital Officials Meet to Go Over Ebola Protocol There have been no cases of Ebola diagnosed in New York, and while officials hope it stays that way, they are preparing just in case. NY1's Arlene Borenstein filed the following report. If someone walks into Richmond University Medical Center with Ebola-like ...
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Senator: Ebola can spread 'three feet away' Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is seen during an interview with the Associated Press at the state GOP party headquarters Thursday Oct. 16, 2014 in Concord, N.H. The possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate was in the nation's first presidential primary state ...
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EEE found in Westminster horse, pushing town's risk level to 'critical' WESTMINSTER -- Residents are being urged to take precautions against mosquito bites, after the discovery of Eastern Equine Encephalitis in a 5-year-old horse here pushed the town's EEE risk to "critical," the Department of Public Health announced ...
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GA. nurses' group: healthcare workers are ready for Ebola Nurses' groups around the nation complain that hospitals are putting under-trained healthcare workers at risk. The groups are demanding hospitals do more to protect and educate their staffs after two Texas nurses contracted Ebola while caring for a patient.
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FACT NOT FEAR: No Ebola in Fruita FRUITA, Colo. A patient at family health west in Fruita has been released and is recovering from flu like symptoms. NOT* Ebola. Several online reports indicated the CDC was on scene, something the hospital says is not true. As they're required to do, ...
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Airline contacting passengers on same flights as nurse infected with Ebola (CNN) -- A nurse infected with Ebola may have had symptoms sooner, authorities say, and an airline is notifying passengers who were on the same flights she took from Dallas to Cleveland. In addition to Amber Vinson's return trip, Frontier Airlines is also ...
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Spain checks 6 more patients over Ebola fears An ambulance transporting a Spanish missionary, recently returned from Liberia, arrives at the specialist disease unit in Madrid's Carlos III hospital. (Pierre-Philippe Marcou, AFP). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us ...
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Texas Hospital Worker Isolated on Cruise A health worker from the Dallas hospital that diagnosed the first U.S. case of Ebola has voluntarily entered isolation on a cruise ship, according to the U.S. Department of State. While the worker didn't have direct contact with the deceased Ebola patient and is ...
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Obama approves reservists for Ebola fight, government under fire WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama authorized calling up military reservists for the US fight against Ebola in west Africa on Thursday, as lawmakers criticized his administration's efforts to contain the disease at home. Obama's move came after ...
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Priest, air passenger among six hospitalized in Spain for Ebola tests MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish authorities reported four new patients with suspected Ebola symptoms on Thursday, including a feverish passenger who started shaking on an Air France flight to Madrid and a Spanish priest who had recently been in Liberia.
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Obama's Next Executive Order: Sending The National Guard to Fight Ebola in ... President Obama will sign an executive order as soon as today deploying National Guard troops to Ebola stricken countries in West Africa according to a report from NBC News. President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order Thursday ...
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Exponential Ebola Exponential expansion of an infectious disease occurs when the rate of growth is proportional to the number of people currently infected. The mathematical formula for exponential growth is: In the case of Ebola, xt represents the total number of people ...
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Europe Evaluates Ebola Measures as Possibility of New Cases Arises in France ... PARIS — Several new suspected cases of Ebola were reported in Europe on Thursday, amid heightened fears that measures to prevent the virus from spreading here are insufficient and that more people, especially health personnel attending to Ebola ...
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Ebola outbreak: Harper tells Obama more help on the way Canada is about to announce new measures in the fight against Ebola, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday amid increased fear over the spreading virus. The prime minister made the promise in a phone chat with ...
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Governors Take New Steps to Fight Ebola The governors of New York and Connecticut on Thursday separately announced new public-health measures for handling Ebola cases as concern grew about authorities' capacity to contain the deadly virus. New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks ...
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Lupica: CDC finally reveals truth by saying it knows little about how Ebola is ... It was Ivy Baker Priest, former treasurer of the United States, who once said, “I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.” It is worth remembering the line now as you think of the conga line of famous doctors, led by Tom Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Ebola infections with no symptoms are possible. And they could help fight the ... Thomas Eric Duncan had chills and a fever and was using the bathroom often on Sept. 28. They were all symptoms of the Ebola virus that Duncan was eventually diagnosed with at Texas Presbyterian Hospital. At the time, however, he was staying in a small, ...
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