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| Crew disinfects home where Ebola patient stayed Oct. 3, 2014: A hazardous material cleaner removes a blue barrel from the apartment in Dallas. (AP). DALLAS – A hazardous-materials crew on Friday decontaminated the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient was staying when he got sick, while ... | |
| First womb-transplant baby born A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical first, doctors report. The 36 year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. The British medical journal The Lancet ... | |
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| Does Enterovirus Cause Paralysis? Doctors Still Mystified Federal health experts issued another call Friday for doctors and hospitals to be on the lookout for a mysterious symptom that causes muscle weakness in some children who have had recent viral infections. Two reports issued by the Centers for Disease ... | |
| Water tests clean, but Mercer Island continues boil alert Some Mercer Island restaurants reopened Friday with limited menus as officials kept up their search for the source of bacterial contamination that has shut down the city's water supply twice in the past week. By Sandi Doughton. Seattle Times science reporter. | |
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| U.S. Ramps Up Ebola Troop Deployments, Total May Near 4000 Liberian soldiers patrol in Monrovia's West Point slum on September 6, 2014. The death toll from the Ebola epidemic has climbed above 2,000, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on September 5, as it voiced hopes a vaccine could be available in ... | |
| Ebola Q&A: Dr. LaPook answers your questions Now that Ebola has arrived on U.S. soil, public concern is growing and a lot of people have questions about how the disease is spread, how it can be contained, and what they can do to protect themselves and their families. CBS News chief medical ... | |
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| Ebola death toll rises to 3439: WHO GENEVA (Reuters) - The world's worst Ebola outbreak on record has now killed 3,439 people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. There had been 739 deaths in Guinea and 623 deaths in Sierra Leone by the end of Oct. 1, and 2,069 deaths ... | |
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| Ebola and Travel A Liberian man, who became infected with the Ebola virus in Monrovia and flew to the United States, this week became the first case in the West African outbreak diagnosed in this country. His presence has raised questions about contagion on planes and the ... | |
| Try these pink products to fight breast cancer Limited edition Breast Cancer Awareness bottle of Clinique's Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion with a Clinique key chain, $38, with $10 from each purchase going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Available at department store Clinique ... | |
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| Home Where Ebola Patient Stayed Disinfected After days of scrutiny about their treatment, a family that was living in the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient was staying when he got sick was moved to a private residence in a gated community. Meanwhile, a hazardous-materials crew on Friday ... | |
| Cobb jail inmate's initial Ebola tests negative so far Dr Fitzgerald talks about precautions the public can take against Ebola infection. Dr. James O'Neal, Director of Health Protection (left), Dept of Public Health, Dr Brenda Fitzgerald, commissioner of the Georgia Dept of Public Health, and Neil Warren, Cobb ... | |
| Ebola patient's family moved to undisclosed location Five days after Thomas Eric Duncan was admitted to a hospital with a suspected case of Ebola, a crew is decontaminating the apartment where he stayed. Loading… Post to Facebook. Ebola patient's family moved to undisclosed location Five days after ... | |
| An ingestible pill with needles could be the new form of injection Imagine swallowing a pill with tiny needles instead of getting an injection. Then again, imagine swallowing a pill with tiny needles. It may sound painful, but according to the researchers who developed the novel capsule - which could replace painful injections ... | |
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| Journalist with Ebola was named reincarnated lama Dr. Mitchell Levy, father of Ashoka Mukpo, an American freelance cameraman who is diagnosed with Ebola, talks with a reporter at his home in Providence, R.I., Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Levy's son, Ashoka Mukpo is scheduled to fly to the Nebraska Medical Center ... | |
| Things to Know About Respiratory Bug Plaguing Kids A wave of severe respiratory illnesses has swept the country in the last two months, propelled by what was long considered an uncommon germ. The enterovirus 68 has caused serious breathing problems in many children, and now is being eyed as possible ... | |
| Ebola patient moved to Dallas to marry mother of his child Thomas Eric Duncan moved overseas to Dallas to marry the mother of his estranged son, his family has told their church. Instead, he ended up in an isolation ward as the man who brought Ebola to the United States. Duncan met Louise Troh in Liberia many ... | |
| CDC: Deaths from Prescription Opoids Quadruple in 10 Years CDC analyzed recent mortality data from 28 states to determine the scope of the heroin overdose death increase and to determine whether increases were associated with changes in OPR overdose death rates since 2010. This report summarizes the results ... | |
| Seattle Suburb Told to Boil Water Through Weekend Residents of a wealthy Seattle suburb were told to boil their drinking water through the weekend despite 15 new water samples testing clean of E. coli contamination Friday. It was the second time in a week people were ordered to take precautions with tap ... | |
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| US readies 4000 troops for Ebola mission WASHINGTON: The US military expects to increase the number of troops deployed to Liberia to fight the Ebola outbreak to nearly 4,000, up from a planned 3,000-strong force, the Pentagon said on Friday. About 200 soldiers are already in Liberia setting up a ... | |
| First womb transplant baby born A baby in Sweden was born in September after his mother had a womb transplant. According to doctors, the woman was born without a uterus. The 36-year-old woman received the uterus from a 60-year-old friend. Doctors said the baby was born prematurely, ... | |
| HHS adds four new substances to carcinogens list Not surprisingly, two of the four newly listed carcinogens can be found in tobacco smoke. By Brooks Hays | Oct. 3, 2014 at 4:42 PM | Comments. share with facebook. 12. share with twitter. 33. share with linkedin. 0. share with google. 1. email print. Two of the ... | |
| 4-Year-Old New Jersey Boy Who Died Had Enterovirus: CDC It's still not clear if the respiratory illness played a direct role or was a contributing factor in his death, however, state health officials say. HS Football Team Forfeits Games Amid Hazing Allegations. The child attended Yardville Elementary School in Hamilton ... | |
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| HHS Adds Four Substances to Carcinogen List The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just added four new substances to the official federal list of carcinogens. This is a list they update every year as they learn more about or find new developments of carcinogens—biological, chemical, ... | |
| Officials plan for possible Ebola outbreak in US (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Fear continues to grow nationwide as officials prepare for a possible Ebola outbreak. Late Friday afternoon, officials held a news conference at the White House seeking to reassure the public that there's little chance of an outbreak in ... | |
| Another child dies of EV-D68 5 With the EV-D68 virus causing respiratory illness to children, a new disease is also alarming health authorities after multiple children hospitals are reporting incidence of muscle weakness with their patients. It often affects the limbs and muscles. | |
| CDC Says Heroin Overdoses Doubled in Two-Year Span (NEW YORK) -- Tony Bennett, who made history this week by becoming the oldest artist with a No. 1 album, said he has a secret to his success.One, he said, most may not believe... Latest News: Why Cristin Milioti Sobbed When She Learned Her Character's ... | |
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| Baby born to woman who received womb transplant in Sweden IN A medical first, a woman in Sweden has given birth after receiving a womb transplant, said the doctor who performed the pioneering procedure. The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born ... | |
| Don't like needles? Try swallowing them instead If you are afraid of needles, there may be a new pill that can help. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have come up with an oral alternative to injections -- a capsule that contains a pill with tiny needles that ... | |
| Cynicism dies hard in Ebola-hit Liberian slum West Point, a squalid township of 75,000 jutting from Liberia's capital Monrovia into the Atlantic Ocean, has been awash with cynicism since being quarantined at gunpoint after riots in August. PHOTOS. Medical personnel at the Ebola treatment centre at ... | |
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| Woman has baby after womb transplant A 36-year-old in Sweden has become the world's first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant, according to The Lancet medical journal. The baby boy was born last month, it said, describing the event as a breakthrough for infertile women. | |
| HIV emerged in Belgian Congo in 1920s Johannesburg: The global HIV pandemic started in the 1920s in Kinshasa, capital of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a study published by the journal Science. HIV is known to have been transmitted from primates and apes to ... | |
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| HIV's origins traced by study to Kinshasa in 1920s File - This picture taken on September 17, 2014 shows a vegetables' seller holding a Congolese Ministry of Health's information leaflet on Ebola virus on Moral's market in the Bandal area in Kinshasa. AFP PHOTO/ JUNIOR D. KANNAH. Connect; Tweet; RSS ... | |
| Aid agencies fail to mobilize Ebola resources Even as Ebola swept through his family, killing them one by one until almost everyone was gone, four-year-old Sam somehow survived. An ambulance attendant, Foday Gallah, had to leave Sam behind as he rushed the boy's parents and siblings to the Ebola ... | |
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| Breast reconstruction beautifies the mind, body Editor's Note: Today's story is the first in a monthlong series on cosmetic surgery procedures. Beauty most certainly comes from within, but in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate self-empowerment — from ... | |
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