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| How Did The Ebola Patient Escape for Two Days? The man diagnosed with Ebola virus in Dallas first started feeling ill on September 24 and he showed up at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on September 26th, complaining of fever and abdominal pain. The hospital had just been through a drill for such a ... | |
| More Ebola cases in USA likely, health experts say A day after a man in a Dallas hospital was diagnosed with Ebola, public health officials said it's likely that more people will come to the United States carrying the deadly virus. "I would expect that so long as there is such a widespread epidemic in Africa, that ... | |
| Ebola Victim Thomas Eric Duncan's Nephew: I Had to Call CDC The first person diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the U.S. wasn't appropriately treated for suspected infection until after a relative personally called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, his nephew told NBC News on Wednesday night. | |
| Exclusive: US nears solution for safe disposal of Ebola waste WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States is days away from settling the critical question of how hospitals should handle and dispose of medical waste from Ebola patients, a government official said on Wednesday. Experts have warned that ... | |
| Officials: Second person being monitored for Ebola DALLAS — Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday. All who have been in close contact ... | |
| Ebola In The ER: The Importance Of Taking A Travel History When Thomas Eric Duncan went to visit the emergency department (ED) with fever and abdominal pain on September 26, the fact that he recently arrived from Liberia was a key element in his initial contact with the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital System ... | |
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| Four Deaths Are Linked to a Respiratory Illness At least four people have died after contracting a severe respiratory illness that has spread to more than 40 states, public health officials announced on Wednesday. The deaths were the first to be linked to the nationwide outbreak of enterovirus 68, which has ... | |
| Ebola Suspected in UN Worker's Death UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations lost its first staff member from what a spokesman for the organization on Wednesday called a “probable” case of Ebola in Liberia. The victim, a Liberian woman, had worked for the peacekeeping mission in Liberia for ... | |
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| Low-cost Program Cuts Teen Pregnancy Rate OB/Gyn. Access, Education Can Knock Down Teen Pregnancy. Published: Oct 1, 2014. By Shalmali Pal, Contributing Editor, MedPage Today. Reviewed by F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE; Assistant Professor, Section of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine. | |
| Ways to waste cash: iPants, Ebola scams and start-up TV No one, really, can expect to lose weight by wearing caffeine-laced lingerie, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Loading… Post to Facebook. Ways to waste cash: iPants, Ebola scams and start-up TV No one, really, can expect to lose weight by ... | |
| Ebola patient was allowed to leave Dallas hospital last week An ill man who later tested positive for Ebola was not admitted to a Dallas hospital despite saying that he had traveled to Texas from Liberia, allowing him to continue interacting with people before he returned days later and was placed in isolation. | |
| Ebola Virus Has Killed More Than 3300 People, WHO Says Bodily fluids present an infection risk to medical workers treating patients with ebola. What gear do they wear? WSJ's Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer. More than 3,300 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to the World ... | |
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| For This October: A New Kind of Breast Cancer Awareness This year, October-as-breast-cancer-awareness-month seems a bit off, post-peak, tired. It's been like this for a while now, waning over years. As National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) ages it may appear unnecessary – as in no longer useful, ... | |
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| Girl's death first tied to enterovirus NEW YORK — A 10-year-old girl who died last week in Rhode Island is the first confirmed death from a respiratory virus that has hospitalized hundreds of children across the United States, health authorities said. The girl died of a staphylococcus aureus ... | |
| XX Files: Informing women about breast density Several states have recently passed legislation requiring mammography providers to notify women about breast density. Nearly 40 percent of women have dense breast tissue, but it wasn't always clear how one's breast density might affect the interpretation of ... | |
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| Hagel, Indian PM Held Talks On Defense Issues: Pentagon US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Blair House to discuss a range of bilateral defense issues they face, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters on Wednesday. Kirby said the ... | |
| Jealousy Increases The Risk of Dementia Recent findings published in the journal Neurology show that jealousy may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Like Us on Facebook. A 40-year-old study revealed that women who are anxious or moody throughout their middle age are more likely to ... | |
| Low Levels of Vitamin D Not Likely Cause of Type 2 Diabetes The findings were published online October 1 in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology by Zheng Ye, PhD, of the MRC Epidemiologic Unit, University of Cambridge School of Medicine, United Kingdom, and colleagues. Previous observational studies have found ... | |
| Free birth control cuts teen pregnancy, abortions FILE - In this undated image provided by Merck, a model holds a Nexplanon birth control hormonal implant. In results published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, giving teens free birth control encourages them to use ... | |
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| The ability to smell may be linked to a person's life span A recent study found that those who had the least sensitivity to smells were three times more likely to die within the next five years. A person who is losing their ability to smell may be doing so because of an increased risk for death, a new study claims. | |
| Sense of smell 'may forecast lifespan' Checking the person's sense of smell in later life can help doctors predict the possibility of them remaining alive in the next five years, according to a PLOS One study suggests. A study was conducted on 3000 adults and found that 39% of persons who had ... | |
| Ebola crisis: UK aid cuts 'hit fight' against virus People watch as a burial team enters their community to collect a dead body suspected of A burial team collect a suspected Ebola victim in Liberia. More than 3,000 people have been killed by the virus. Continue reading the main story ... | |
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| Study: A smell test could predict a person's lifespan A new study suggests that evaluating a person's sense of smell later in life could predict how likely they are to still be living five years later. Researchers from the University of Chicago asked 3,000 adults between the ages of 57 and 85 to smell and identify ... | |
| Portsmouth medical center listed on DoD health care review PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY/AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel released the findings of a 90-day review of the entire military health care system on Wednesday, listing underachieving facilities, including Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. The Department ... | |
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| York County child recovering from enterovirus A child from York County tested positive for the first confirmed case of enterovirius D68, the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. It was the first confirmed test in the state. Maine CDC said the child was hospitalized but has been ... | |
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| Outracing Vows of Aid, Ebola Swamps a City in Sierra Leone MAKENI, Sierra Leone — “Where's the corpse?” the burial-team worker shouted, kicking open the door of the isolation ward at the government hospital here. The body was right in front of him, a solidly built young man sprawled out on the floor all night, his ... | |
| Another Government Website Rollout That Is Found Wanting If the federal government's new Open Payments website were a consumer product, it would be returned to the manufacturer for a full refund. Open Payments is the government's site for publishing payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals by drug and ... | |
| Microneedle pill can save you from needles Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and MIT researchers have developed a way to avoid injections for people who fear needles. A novel drug capsule can now be swallowed instead of being injected. The catch is, the capsule contains microneedles that ... | |
| Organ transplant patients face higher risk of skin cancer When doctors informed Darrell Johnson that his lung transplant would put him at higher risk of skin cancer, he didn't give it a lot of thought. His concerns at the moment were bigger. A genetic disease had slowly robbed his lungs of the ability to expand and ... | |
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| (Not) smelling an early death iol scitech dec 13 nose REUTERS The hazards of smell loss were 'strikingly robust,' according to researchers, who said that olfactory dysfunction was better at predicting mortality than a diagnosis of heart failure, cancer or lung disease. Washington - A ... | |
| Gluten timing does not prevent celiac disease FILE - In this Monday, April 30, 2007 file photo, application technologist Jennifer Gaul holds a handful of wheat gluten at MGP Ingredients Inc. in Atchison, Kan. In results published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, a study ... | |
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| Failing sense of smell strong predictor of death, study tells WASHINGTON - A declining sense of smell in older people is a strong predictor of death within just five years, according to new research. A declining sense of smell in older people is a strong predictor of death within just five years, according to new research, ... | |
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| Failing sense of smell strong predictor of death Thirty-nine per cent of study subjects who failed a simple smelling test died within five years, according to a new study. PHOTOS. File photo of women smelling mangoes at a mango festival in New Delhi. (AFP/RAVEENDRAN). Enlarge; Caption. | |
| Sense of Smell May Predict Longevity A defective sense of smell appears to be a good predictor of longevity, a new study has found. Researchers tested a nationally representative sample of 3,005 men and women aged 57 to 85 on their ability to identify five smells: rose, leather, orange, fish and ... | |
| 2 white Ohio women sue over sperm from black donor CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio woman and her partner have sued a Chicago-area sperm bank after she became pregnant with sperm donated by a black man instead of a white man as she'd intended. Jennifer Cramblett was five months pregnant and happy ... | |
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