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| CDC Responds Rapidly to New York Ebola Case President Barack Obama gives a hug to Dallas nurse Nina Pham in the White House in Washington on Friday. Ms. Pham was just released from the hospital after being declared Ebola free. Olivier Douliery/Press Pool. By. Betsy McKay,. Betsy McKay. The Wall ... | |
| Cuomo and Christie Order Strict Ebola Quarantines Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, center left, and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, center right, at a news conference Friday. Credit Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue ... | |
| Studies Link Cold Sore Virus to Alzheimer's Risk FRIDAY, Oct. 24, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The virus that causes common cold sores -- herpes simplex -- might increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, two studies by Swedish researchers suggest. In fact, being a carrier of certain antibodies to the virus can ... | |
| Ebola Patient in New York Is Called a Doctor at Ease in Danger Above, the apartment building at West 147th Street in Harlem on Friday where Dr. Craig Spencer, who tested positive for Ebola on Thursday, lived with his fiancée. Credit Tina Fineberg for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue ... | |
| US military starts training its Ebola rapid-response team SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - As health officials were trying to manage a patient infected with Ebola in New York, U.S. military personnel in Texas were in the first stages of training a new rapid-response team that could head to hospitals the next time an outbreak ... | |
| Dallas nurse is Ebola free: 'I feel fortunate and blessed' The Dallas nurse being treated for Ebola at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., is free of the virus and was discharged on Friday, the NIH says. Nina Pham appeared outside the hospital shortly before noon on Friday at a briefing ... | |
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| Cancer-killing stem cells engineered in lab Scientists from Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of turning stem cells into killing machines to fight brain cancer. In experiments on mice, the stem cells were genetically engineered to produce and secrete toxins which kill brain tumours, without ... | |
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| Nina Pham, Free of Ebola, Makes White House Detour on Way Home President Obama embraced Nina Pham, the first person in the country to be infected with Ebola, in the Oval Office on Friday. At right are her mother and sister. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading ... | |
| Ebola crisis: 'Many exposed' to infected Mali girl Health officials fear many people may have been exposed to Mali's first Ebola victim - a two-year-old girl. She recently arrived from Guinea, one of the worst affected countries, and has since died. The girl showed symptoms, including a bleeding nose, while ... | |
| WHO says Ebola vaccine plans accelerating as trials advance GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) - Trials of Ebola vaccines could begin in West Africa in December, a month earlier than expected, and hundreds of thousands of doses should be available for use by the middle of next year, the World Health Organization said on ... | |
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| US military starts training its Ebola rapid-response team SAN ANTONIO Oct 24 (Reuters) - As health officials were trying to manage a patient infected with Ebola in New York, U.S. military personnel in Texas were in the first stages of training a new rapid-response team that could head to hospitals the next time an ... | |
| Ebola vaccine trials could start in Africa in December: WHO LONDON: One million doses of an Ebola vaccine will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has announced. Vaccines, "several hundred thousand" of which will be produced in the first half of the year would be initially made available ... | |
| Expert Says Ebola Vaccine Development Takes Time As early as 2003, researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health knew what made the Ebola virus tick, and animal experiments of candidate vaccines showed promise. The problem, according to infectious-disease specialist William Schaffner of ... | |
| WHO: Millions of Ebola vaccine doses ready in 2015 LONDON — The World Health Organization says millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready for use in 2015 and five more experimental vaccines will start being tested in March. Still, the agency warned it's not clear whether any of ... | |
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| NYC's first Ebola patient in isolation amid city jitters NEW YORK — The nation's most emblematic big city is coming to grips with Ebola as a doctor who tested positive for the deadly virus remained in hospital isolation Saturday while officials traced his recent travels, quarantined his fiancée and close friends and ... | |
| Woman quarantined in New Jersey develops fever TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The New Jersey Department of Health says a woman who arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport from West Africa and was the first traveler to be quarantined under an Ebola watch has developed a fever. She is in isolation and ... | |
| Mali monitors 43 people as it tackles its first case of Ebola Health authorities in Mali are monitoring 43 people known to have been in contact with a 2-year-old girl, the West African nation's first Ebola case. As Malian officials scrambled to head off the threat, authorities in neighboring Ivory Coast were hunting for a ... | |
| Mom recovering after emergency surgery to save quadruplets "She is on strict bedrest [sic] for the remainder of her pregnancy," said Ashley's husband Taylor Gardner. By Brooks Hays | Oct. 24, 2014 at 5:42 PM | Comments. share with facebook share with twitter share with linkedin share with google. email print. | |
| Ebola-Stricken Doc Described as Driven Do-Gooder Dr. Craig Spencer, the physician now being treated for Ebola in New York City, is the kind of globe-trotting do-gooder who could walk into a small village in Africa and, even though he didn't know the language, win people over through hugs alone, according ... | |
| Military medical team members describe specialized Ebola training Members of the Defense Department's medical support team formed to assist civilian hospitals with Ebola patients, if needed, practice putting on and taking off protective suits Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, at San Antonio Military Medical Center in Texas. Jennifer ... | |
| Toddler With Ebola In Mali May Have Infected Many People: WHO Transmission Electron Micrograph Of The Ebola Virus Rna Virus, The Cause Of Hemorrhagic Fever. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) | BSIP via Getty Images. Share · Tweet. Email. Comment. Share on Google+ · tumblr · stumble · reddit. BAMAKO, Mali ... | |
| Is Riverside County ready for Ebola? Healthcare facilities in Riverside County are preparing for a worst-case scenario – receiving a patient with the Ebola virus. Dr. Cameron Kaiser, public health officer for the Riverside County Dept. of Public Health, confirmed no cases have been received in the ... | |
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| Free of Ebola, nurse Nina Pham returns to Texas Nina Pham arrived about midnight Friday at Fort Worth's Meacham International Airport. After she was geeted by her father, she received scrubs signed by her co-workers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. | |
| House panel faults CDC's Ebola response WASHINGTON – Both Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee said they believed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had not been acting quickly or consistently enough to protect health care ... | |
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| Quadruplet mom-to-be recovering after emergency surgery A shocked and ecstatic Ashley Garnder holds up four sonogram photos showing her four babies. (A Miracle Unfolding-Gardner Quadruplets). A Utah mother expecting quadruplets is back recovering in her home state Friday, after being flown to California for ... | |
| Cancer Treatment of The Future is Almost Here A method that has previously been previously tested in mice and shown to be successful is now being prepared for human trial. The project is an entirely new approach to cancer treatment. Special stem cells that were produced in a laboratory were able to ... | |
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| Mom had an emergency surgery to save her quadruplets Ashley Gardner a proud mom of four beautiful babies had an emergency surgery in order to save all four of them. Both parents are hoping that their babies will stay strong and they will be fine. The couple is from Utah, so they had to fly all the way to Los ... | |
| Game changer: Doctors transplant 'dead' hearts SYDNEY: Australian surgeons said on Friday they have used hearts which had stopped beating in successful transplants, in a world first they said could change the way organs are donated. Until now, doctors have relied on using the still-beating hearts of ... | |
| WHO eyes mass Ebola vaccines by mid-2015 Geneva, Oct 25 – Hundreds of thousands of Ebola vaccine doses could be rolled out to West Africa by mid-2015, the World Health Organization said Friday, after new cases of the virus were reported in New York and a two-year-old girl died in the first case in ... | |
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| WHO eyes mass Ebola vaccines by mid-2015 GENEVA: Hundreds of thousands of Ebola vaccine doses could be rolled out to West Africa by mid-2015, the World Health Organization said Friday, after new cases of the virus were reported in New York and a two-year-old girl died in the first case in Mali. | |
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| Doctors transplant 'dead' hearts in surgical breakthrough SYDNEY: Australian surgeons said on Friday they had used hearts which had stopped beating in successful transplants, in what they said was a world first that could change the way organs were donated. Until now, doctors have relied on using the ... | |
| Dallas nurse receives thanks, hug from Obama BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A nurse who caught Ebola while caring for a Dallas patient who died of the disease walked out of a Washington-area hospital virus-free Friday and into open arms. Nina Pham got a hug from President Barack Obama in the Oval Office ... | |
| Komen acceptance of drilling-linked money raises ire Dana Dolney, left, director and co-founder of Friends of the Harmed, and Karuna Jaggar, right, executive director of Breast Cancer Action, speak to Kathy Purcell, executive director of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Pittsburgh affiliate, after delivering ... | |
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| Issa: CDC Chief Bumbled Ebola Response Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were critical of Centers For Disease Control and the Department of Homeland Security. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (Photo by ... | |
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| | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center News | Living with Stage 4: The breast cancer no one understands Teri Pollastro,a 54-year-old Stage 4 patient from Seattle, said, “People don't understand the word metastatic to begin with. ... When I'd tell them I was Stage 4, they'd give me pity or stay away or see me a year later and think I was a ghost. They couldn't believe ... | |
| In a breakthrough, 'dead' heart used for transplant in Australia In a major breakthrough, a team of doctors, including an Indian-origin surgeon, on Friday said they had successfully performed the world's first heart transplant in Australia using a “dead heart”, a development that could save many lives. The procedure, using ... | |
| On Ebola, Uncertainty & Imperfection We crowded into a small room at my internal medicine clinic and looked at each other. Some decisions had to be made. Soon. We were charged to answer one fundamental question: What would we do if a patient suspected of having Ebola were to walk in ... | |
| Sex and Ebola: How risky? When Dr. Craig Spencer went to volunteer in West Africa with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, it took him far away from his home, family, friends and other people he loves, including his fiancé Morgan Dixon. Once he returned, Doctors ... | |
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