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| US health care workers struggle for strategy against Ebola ATLANTA — A nurse who fueled Ebola fears by flying to Cleveland after being infected by her dying patient was released Tuesday from a hospital isolation unit, where doctors defended her as a courageous frontline caregiver. Another nurse, held for days in a ... | |
| Home BP Monitors May Occasionally Miss the Mark TUESDAY, Oct. 28, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A small new study raises more questions about the accuracy of home blood-pressure monitoring devices. On average, researchers found, the readings were slightly inaccurate in up to 15 percent of patients. | |
| In Ebola response, Obama's 'czar' stays behind the curtain WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It's not often that a White House official gets mocked on both Saturday Night Live and a major daily newspaper before he makes his first public appearance. But Ron Klain's low-profile first week as President Barack Obama's ... | |
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| Kaci Hickox Won't Follow Maine Ebola Quarantine Rule, Lawyer Says Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital despite exhibiting no Ebola symptoms after arriving from West Africa, won't follow the quarantine imposed by Maine officials, her attorney said tonight. "Going forward she does not intend to ... | |
| LIBERIA: How Africa And Africans Are Responding To Ebola This is a three-part series to explore the efforts and highlight the work that Africans are undertaking to curb the spread of the Ebola virus, particularly in the hardest hit region of West Africa. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Ebola has infected ... | |
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| New Jersey Hospitals in Spotlight The experience of a nurse who complained about her quarantine in a makeshift tent inside a Newark, N.J., hospital after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is putting a focus on how the state's hospitals will handle those exposed to the disease. | |
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| Obama Warns That Acting on Fear Hampers Ebola Response President Barack Obama said the U.S. risks discouraging doctors and nurses critical in the fight to stop Ebola if authorities impose unneeded quarantines when they return from West Africa. Seeking to quell a debate that erupted over the weekend about ... | |
| Ebola free, Amber Vinson returns home Dressed in a gray suit and looking healthy, Amber Vinson was declared by doctors to be Ebola free on Tuesday. Loading… Post to Facebook. Ebola free, Amber Vinson returns home Dressed in a gray suit and looking healthy, Amber Vinson was declared by ... | |
| Prostate drugs treble heart death risk for some patients Common drugs to treat prostate cancer could treble the risk of heart death among those with a history of cardiac problems, a major study has found. One in three men diagnosed with prostate cancer are put on hormone therapy, to shrink tumours, slow their ... | |
| Ebola Treatment Successes in US Haven't Eased Fear of Missteps The second nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for a man at a Dallas hospital has recovered from the virus and been released. Amber Vinson left Emory University Hospital on Tuesday, four days after her colleague Nina Pham was released from the NIH ... | |
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| Australian Ebola "tsar" questions govt's West Africa visa ban SYDNEY Oct 29 (Reuters) - Australia's newly appointed Ebola tsar challenged the government's blanket ban on visas from West African nations affected by the deadly virus, saying the controversial measure was not supported by medical evidence. Opposition ... | |
| On Jonas Salk's birthday, some perspective on health scares On what would have been his 100th birthday, Google honored Jonas Salk, who discovered the polio vaccine, with a "Doodle," the search engine's daily, artful logo iteration. The Doodle depicts kids and adults running, playing, and holding up a newspaper ... | |
| Connecticut Father Sues Over School's Ebola Fears A Connecticut father sued a school district for not allowing his daughter to return to the third grade after a trip to a family wedding in Nigeria because teachers and other parents feared she might be infected with Ebola. To contact the editor responsible for this ... | |
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| Province releases Ebola preparation information for Islanders A health-care worker dons protective gears before entering into an Ebola treatment centre in the Hastings area of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. The province is working on public health and infection control measures and procedures to ... | |
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| Prostate cancer treatment linked to cardiac death risk An increased risk of dying from heart-related causes has been linked with a mainstay treatment of prostate cancer in a subgroup of men who have had prior heart attacks or congestive heart failure. heart with stethoscope. The authors say that the findings of ... | |
| Sex with more than 20 women helps reduce prostate cancer: study Men who have sex with more than 20 women during the course of their lifetimes are less likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, new research shows. But for homosexuals who have had sex with at least 20 men and virgins, the risk of being diagnosed is ... | |
| US cases prove Ebola is 'not a death sentence' When Amber Vinson walked out of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Tuesday, she became the sixth person in the country to be successfully treated for a disease that kills 70% of its victims in Africa, but has so far killed only one in the United States. | |
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| Extreme Violent Crimes Tied to Gene in Study of Criminals A gene previously linked to risk-taking and aggression appears to contribute to extreme violent behavior as well, according to a study that may open the way for treatments to prevent such behavior. The gene, identified in an analysis of more than 700 criminal ... | |
| Sophomore remembers mother, raises breast cancer awareness Her mother, Kathy LaLonde, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, but for 13 years, she fought it. Kathy worked full time, raised a family of three and gave endlessly to her community. She would occasionally have to stop in the hospital for treatments to ... | |
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| Metformin Best for Type 2 Diabetes First Treatment TUESDAY, Oct. 28, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- People newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who are initially given the drug metformin are less likely to eventually need other drugs to control their blood sugar, a new study suggests. The study found that, ... | |
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| Polio Vaccine: How the US' Most Feared Disease Was Eradicated Ebola may be the most feared disease right now, but for most of the 20th century, outbreaks of another disease left thousands of people paralyzed or confined to breathing machines: polio. Poliomyelitis, which was also sometimes called infantile paralysis, ... | |
| Google Celebrates Jonas Salk, Creator Of Polio Vaccine Google is celebrating the birth of the creator of the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk. Although Salk died in 1995 at the age of 80, his medical development continues to change the world each day. Salk was born in 1914 in New York City. He wanted to cure illness ... | |
| The cost of addiction A new report out this week provides yet more evidence of just how much the scourge of the nation's opioid epidemic has cost our communities and our country in both financial resources and human lives. A national study of hospital emergency department ... | |
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| Dallas nurse released from hospital Ebola isolation unit Amber Vinson, 29, the Dallas nurse who was being treated for Ebola, embraces Emory University Hospital epidemiologist Dr. Bruce Ribner, as she leaves a press conference Tuesday after being discharged from the hospital in Atlanta. Vinson worked as a ... | |
| Birth of Salk and death of polio In 1954, over 300,000 doctors, nurses, schoolteachers and other volunteers across the United States, Canada and Finland took part in one of the most complex and monumental medical trials in history. The plan was to test the effectiveness of a ... | |
| Extremely violent crimes tied to gene in study of 700 criminals NEW YORK - A gene previously linked to risk-taking and aggression appears to contribute to extreme violent behavior as well, according to a study that may open the way for treatments to prevent such behavior. The gene, identified in an analysis of more than ... | |
| US university to develop Ebola vaccine Colorado State University (CSU) in the United States (US) has been awarded US$2 million by the US Department of Defense to begin developing and manufacturing an Ebola vaccine, officials said on Monday. The university's Biopharmaceutical ... | |
| Preventing breast cancer DESPITE ALL the emphasis on the early detection of breast cancer with annual campaigns and rousing slogans, the incidence of this deadly disease continues to rise at an alarming rate - more than 60 per cent in the last 60 years. It is clear that the old ... | |
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| Glasgow Community Discusses Breast Cancer "Awareness is absolutely the most important. If people do not know what options are available for them and what they can do, then they won't get the treatment that they need to cure their breast cancer," said Dr. Donald Goodin, Hematology/Oncology, ... | |
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| New York's Rules to Let Travelers Pick Site for Isolation Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey answering questions Monday about Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was placed in quarantine at a New Jersey hospital, then released. Credit Jessica Hill/Associated Press. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the ... | |
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