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Family of Dead US Ebola Patient Question Hospital Care Hours after Dallas Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan died, his family called for an investigation into his care as top infectious disease doctors said he may have survived if his treatment had begun earlier. The family cited his initial release from a hospital ...
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Ebola patient dies in Texas; 5 US airports to screen for fever DALLAS (Reuters) - The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died on Wednesday, underscoring questions about the quality of care he received, and the government ordered five airports to start screening passengers from West Africa for ...
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FDA Panel Recommends Boston Scientific's Watchman Heart Device A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel narrowly voted to recommend that regulators approve a controversial heart device made by Boston Scientific Corp. BSX +3.06% Boston Scientific Corp. U.S.: NYSE $12.14 +0.36 +3.06% Oct. 8, 2014 4:00 ...
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Gene-Therapy Trial for 'Bubble Boy Syndrome' Shows Promise Gabriel Andrés Solis Riquelme was diagnosed with the genetic condition SCID-X1 when he was almost five months old. Gabriel is now 3 years old and has been enrolled in a gene-therapy trial. Riquelme family. Eight of nine children enrolled in a ...
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Officials to take temperature of travelers from Ebola-stricken countries at 5 US ... Travelers arriving from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa will start to have their temperatures taken upon arrival at five U.S. airports as part of extra screening measures being implemented in the coming days, officials said Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT.
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Spanish nurse with Ebola may have touched her face with a glove when ... Maria Teresa Romero Ramos, a Spanish sanitary technician who became the first case of Ebola transmission outside of Africa, said she followed all the appropriate protocols when entering the room of an Ebola patient at Carlos III Hospital, but she ...
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Easier Time in Health Marketplace Is Promised WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials said Wednesday that consumers would have a much easier time buying health insurance in the federal marketplace this fall, and although they promised that HealthCare.gov would not crash, they provided few ...
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Newly Vigilant, US Is to Screen Fliers for Ebola A woman at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where starting Saturday, arrivals from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea will have their temperature taken. Credit Robert Stolarik for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading ...
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Spain, Amid Protests, Destroys Dog of Ebola-Infected Nurse MADRID — A dog named Excalibur who belonged to an Ebola-infected nurse was destroyed on Wednesday, even as protesters and animal rights activists surrounded the Madrid home of the nurse and her husband. An online petition calling for the dog's life ...
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Ebola: More fears, more measures as first patient diagnosed in the US dies (CNN) -- As the death of the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. sparks more fears, airports are beefing up screening for people from affected nations. With developments pouring in from all corners of the world, here's what you need to know Thursday ...
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Ebola-infected nursing assistant's dog euthanized, Spanish officials say A dog belonging to a Spanish nursing assistant diagnosed with Ebola has been euthanized, health officials in Madrid confirmed Wednesday. In a statement, Madrid's Ministry of Health officials said they had euthanized Excalibur, the tawny mixed-breed ...
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Spain euthanizes pet dog of Ebola-infected woman Excalibur, the dog of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola, barks from her balcony in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Three more people were placed under quarantine for Ebola at a Madrid hospital where a Spanish nurse became infected, ...
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News Guide: A Quick Look at Ebola Developments The first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died in Dallas, and the government says it will begin taking the temperatures of travelers arriving from West Africa at five U.S. airports. A look at the essential developments worldwide: THE LATEST. Thomas ...
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Ebola burial teams in Sierra Leone go back to work Photo: John Moore / Getty Images MONROVIA, LIBERIA - OCTOBER 08: A burial team from the Liberian Red Cross prays before collecting the body of an Ebola victim from his home on October 8, 2014 near Monrovia, Liberia. The Ebola epidemic has killed ...
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'Exceptional responders' may point to personalized cancer therapy For years, they have been among modern medicine's most arresting fables: a 54-year-old woman sees her tumors melt away in a clinical trial, but no one else with the same lethal thyroid cancer responds. An elderly man with advanced bladder cancer enrolls ...
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| FDA Advisory Committee Panel Votes In Favor Of The WATCHMAN™ Left Atrial ... MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- After reviewing updated data and analysis for the Boston Scientific Corporation BSX, +3.06% WATCHMAN™ Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Device, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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Medical experts go over what-ifs in Dallas Ebola case People in protective gear inside a Frisco CareNow clinic watch as emergency personnel prepare to transport a possible Ebola patient. 1, of, 2, Next Image. By DIANNA HUNT and SHERRY JACOBSON. DIANNA HUNT and SHERRY JACOBSON The Dallas ...
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Five U.S. airports to screen for Ebola Death of Liberian patient in Dallas raises questions about hospital decision to initially send him home. Mark Berman, Brady Dennis and Lena H. Sun. | The Washington Post. First Published 1 minute ago • Updated 1 minute ago. Washington • The first person ...
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US Ebola patient dies; airport screening expanded The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died Wednesday despite intense but delayed treatment, and the government announced it was expanding airport examinations to guard against the spread of the deadly disease. By MIKE STOBBE and ...
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Britain to Step Up Ebola Fight in West Africa LONDON—Britain is committing a total of 750 military personnel, a navy hospital ship and three helicopters to Sierra Leone in a significant ramping up of its effort to help fight the Ebola outbreak there, the government said on Wednesday. An outbreak of the ...
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Ebola Infection in Spain Might Be Human Error In this image made from undated video provided by the Madrid Regional Health Authority on Tuesday, medical workers in protective clothing clean the Madrid hospital room of priest Miguel Pajares, who died in August after contracting Ebola. Associated Press.
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Redesigned Obamacare site touted as simpler, faster version Administration officials provided few operational details to back up their confidence in the revamped federal health-insurance website. By Robert Pear. The New York Times. PREV of NEXT. Andrew Slavitt: Website testing has started.
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Susan G. Komen Partners With Fracking Firm, Despite Possible Cancer Links DENVER, CO - SEPTEMBER 28: The 22nd annual Susan G. Komen race for the cure in Denver, CO on September 28, 2014. (Photo By Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post) | Helen H. Richardson via Getty Images. Share · Tweet. Email. Comment.
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US Ebola patient dies; airport screening expanded President Barack Obama speaks during a phone call about Ebola, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House Washington. The government plans to begin taking the temperatures of travelers from West Africa arriving at five U.S. airports as ...
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How the Ebola outbreak spun out of control With Ebola infections increasing, and the death toll rising, the World Health Organization is now calling Ebola “the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times.” In just the past few days, the virus has infected a nurse in Spain and claimed ...
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New and (hopefully) improved insurance marketplace web site is unveiled Consumers using the federal healthcare.gov website when open enrollment begins next month should expect a faster website with a shorter application form and features making it easier to use on mobile devices, Obama administration officials said ...
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Sierra Leone burial crews end strike FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Burial teams went back to work one day after organizing a strike over pay and abandoning the dead bodies of Ebola victims in Sierra Leone's capital. In neighboring Liberia, however, health workers said Wednesday that they ...
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Texas Ebola victim to be cremated Texas authorities will follow federal guidelines and cremate the body of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person killed by the Ebola virus in the United States. The 42-year-old Liberian died Wednesday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
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Patient at Toronto's Sick Kids hospital tests positive for enterovirus D68 A young patient who suddenly developed muscle weakness after experiencing a respiratory illness has tested positive for Enterovirus D68 at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, the hospital confirmed Wednesday afternoon. The patient was one of three ...
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EBOLA: West African virus not only concern The Franklin County Health Department is preparing for the possibility of treating patients infected with Ebola amid reports of the virus making its way into the United States from West Africa, Ransom, health department director, said. Read more... “We are ...
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Ebola in SoCal? No, and people are working to keep it that way Kaiser conducts drills, O.C. reviews infectious disease plans, East Coast airports given new screening protocols. Tweet. Most Popular. Officials identify teenage crash victims; some cause of deaths given · Teenage crash victims remembered at vigil · When ...
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Restaurants Are Working to Voluntarily Cut Calories From Menu Items Recent findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine show that many large chain restaurants are cutting calories from their menus. More specifically, they have introduced newer food and beverage options, on average, that contain 60 ...
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Spanish Ebola nurse's dog Excalibur is PUT DOWN over fears it could transmit ... A Spanish ebola victim's pet dog was put down last night over fears it could transmit the disease, prompting outrage from animal lovers who chanted 'murderers' outside the woman's home. Fury erupted after a government health spokesman confirmed that ...
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US brings in airport screening, so why won't the UK test air travellers for Ebola? Britain is refusing to screen for Ebola victims at its borders – despite the U.S. saying it will introduce the safeguards this weekend. The UK receives more air passengers from the affected West African countries than any other nation, but health officials here say ...
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US Life Expectancy Reaches Record High The US birth rate may have plateaued in the 1990s, but that doesn't mean there aren't more people strolling - or scootering - on our sidewalks. A new set of statistics has revealed that US life expectancy has reached a new record high, with the average person ...
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Fullerton Fire Department will raise funds and awareness for breast cancer this ... The Fullerton Fire Department presented their plans to raise awareness for breast cancer as part of breast cancer awareness month. (Amanda Sharp / Daily Titan). October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Fullerton Fire Department (FFD) is doing ...
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The American life span is longer than ever before As major diseases succumb to improved treatment and awareness of lifestyle, U.S. life expectancy increases. Figure now stands at 78.8 years, CDC report says. (Photo : CDC). Improvements in medical treatments of major diseases have brought life ...
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Terminally ill Brittany Maynard Says She Will End Life Nov. 1 The terminally ill 29-year-old newlywed Brittany Maynard has taken to social media and the airwaves to tell the world she wants to die with dignity through assisted suicide on Nov. 1. She issued an emotional video explaining her decision. The video was then ...
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Healthcare.gov Marketplace Has Been Revamped This Year The Affordable Care Act—aka, “Obamacare”—has had its share of ups and downs. Everyone should remember the debacle that was the inaugural open enrollment process. But then even if you could get into the website it was confusing—how they tracked ...
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'Ebola Dog' Excalibur Euthanized Monkeys, bats and a menagerie of animals can spread Ebola. Now there's worry that dogs — or one dog in particular — might spread it, too. Officials in Madrid got a court order to euthanize the pet of a Spanish nursing assistant who has the deadly virus.
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Long-empty jail taking in American Indian inmates After months of debilitating headaches, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard learned earlier this year she had terminal brain cancer.She had been married for less than a year, but rather than focusing on building a family, her life became devoted to hospital stays, ...
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Nurse Tested for Ebola in Australia After Work in Africa Volunteers pick up bodies of people who died of the Ebola virus on October 8, 2014 in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photographer: Florian Plaucheur/AFP via Getty Images. A nurse who treated Ebola patients with the Red Cross in Sierra Leone was hospitalized in ...
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Average life expectancy in US reaches record high (NBC) - A new government report finds the average life expectancy in the U.S. reached a record high of 78-point-eight years in 2012. The ten leading causes of death Including heart disease, cancer and lower respiratory illness did not change from 2011 and ...
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Fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone Back home in the United States after three weeks helping fight the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone, Dr. Suzanne Donovan is flying to Nairobi this weekend -- at the invitation of the United Nations -- to speak about Ebola management to representatives from seven ...
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Soldiers fly out from Northern Ireland base to aid Ebola fight in Sierra Leone Soldiers based in Northern Ireland are to be deployed to Sierra Leone on a humanitarian mission to combat the Ebola outbreak. Also in this Section. Padlocks left on the Lagan Weir by couples pledging undying passion have to go when new bridge opens ...
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Rialto Police Don Pink Patches To Raise Awareness For Breast Cancer RIALTO (CBSLA.com) — Police in Rialto are sporting pink patches to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research. The public can also get a patch by donating $20 to the fund. Officials said 100 percent of the money raised goes to Michelle's Place ...
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4-Year-Old Boy Died Suddenly from Enterovirus Infection, Officials Say Public health officials had said that enterovirus D68 first looks like a cold or flu and is rarely fatal. Those facts have been called into question after a young boy died in his sleep with only mild symptoms. Written by Cameron Scott | Published on October 8, 2014.
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Terminally ill mom: Assisted suicide isn't the answer A terminally ill woman wrote a letter to a woman in Oregon who's received national attention for her decision to end her life Nov. 1. Brittany Maynard, 29, was diagnosed with a lethal and aggressive form of brain cancer. Doctors said she had less than six ...
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India among top 5 financial contributors to Ebola response India is among the top five contributers to the UN Ebola response with a contribution of USD 12.5 million, according to a fact sheet released by US Secretary of State John Kerry here. The US with USD 113.8 million tops the list to the UN Ebola response.
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US Ebola patient Thomas Duncan dies in hospital The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola within the US has died, Texas hospital officials have said. Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, who caught the virus in his native Liberia, was being treated with an experimental drug in isolation in a Dallas hospital. Earlier the ...
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