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In Quick Response, Mali Thwarts an Ebola Outbreak Mali's Ebola scare is not yet over. But with a quick diagnosis, extensive communication, and no shortage of luck, authorities and partners may be able to limit the number of cases to one. Video by Nicholas Loomis on Publish Date November 10, 2014.
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Regular pot habit changes your brain, may even lower your IQ, study says (CNN) -- Using marijuana at an early age could have long-term consequences on your brain and it may even lower your IQ, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers found that compared to nonusers, ...
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Laundry Detergent Pods Are A Poisonous Threat To Children According to data from a new study published online November 10 in the Journal, Pediatrics, laundry detergent "pods"–the brightly colored and swirling objects that clean our clothes–caused more than 700 U.S. children to become sick, and led to at least one ...
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New York doctor is free of Ebola A New York doctor has recovered from Ebola and is scheduled to be released from the hospital Tuesday. The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which runs the city's public hospitals, said Monday in a written statement that physician Craig ...
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Clinic where Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest 'failed to identify deteriorating ... It was a tragicomedy of errors. In a blistering report released Monday, the feds ripped the Upper East Side clinic where comedian Joan Rivers went into cardiac arrest. The report concluded that Yorkville Endoscopy "failed to ensure that patient care services ...
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How Ebola spread to Mali: The lessons learned When the father of Mali's first confirmed Ebola victim, a 2-year-old girl, fell ill while working at a private clinic in neighboring Guinea, fellow townspeople suspected witchcraft. The man's father advised him to return to their native village of Sokodougou, more ...
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After Ebola recovery, doctor set to leave hospital An emergency room doctor who was the first Ebola patient in the nation's biggest city was scheduled to be released from a hospital after beating the virus. With Dr. Craig Spencer's recovery, there are no Ebola patients currently under treatment in the U.S. But ...
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UCSF develops site to make sense out of sugar science UCSF on Monday unveiled a repository of sugar science, designed to collect the evidence against sweetened foods and disseminate that information to the public — and persuade people to boot fructose and most other refined sugars out of their diets to ...
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Federal Inquiry Finds Numerous Violations During Joan Rivers's Treatment Joan Rivers died at Mount Sinai Hospital on Sept. 4. Credit Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story Share This Page. Continue reading the main story. Continue ...
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Last US Ebola Patient Is Cured: Dr. Craig Spencer to Be Released Dr. Craig Spencer, the Doctors Without Borders volunteer who was infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea, is free of the virus and will be released Tuesday, New York City health officials say. "Dr. Spencer poses no public health risk and will be ...
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Estimates lowered of how many people will sign up for Obamacare in 2015 The Obama administration has substantially scaled back estimates of how many people will sign up for insurance in 2015 through the federal healthcare law, projecting that millions fewer Americans will use marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act.
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Governments, groups striving to become as agile as the Ebola virus The news out of West Africa in recent days — good and bad — has demonstrated a fundamental challenge in the fight against Ebola: The virus is more nimble than the human response to it. The landscape of infection and disease has changed dramatically in ...
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'Miracle' Woman Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro Survives After 45 Minutes Without ... Doctors glanced up at the monitors to call the time of death for a patient whose heart hadn't beat in 45 minutes and who hadn't breathed in three hours. Then, they saw it: a blip on the screen. Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro was alive. "She spontaneously ...
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| Medicare to Cover Lung Cancer Screening for Long-Time Smokers MONDAY, Nov. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Annual lung cancer screenings for long-term smokers may soon be covered by Medicare, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Monday. The reimbursement proposal would ...
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New York doctor now Ebola free, will be released from hospital New York (CNN) -- Dr. Craig Spencer, who was diagnosed with Ebola in New York City last month, is now free of the virus and will be released from the hospital Tuesday, city officials said. "Dr. Spencer poses no public health risk and will be discharged from ...
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Fujifilm expects Avigan to be promising drug to treat Ebola TOKYO (Reuters) - Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on Tuesday that it expects its influenza drug Avigan to become a highly effective drug to treat Ebola. "So far, four Ebola patients have recovered after being treated with the drug," Shigetaka Komori, Fujifilm's ...
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| Medicare Proposes Paying for Lung Cancer Screenings for Older Longtime ... WASHINGTON — Medicare will cover annual screenings for lung cancer for older Americans with long histories of heavy smoking, the federal government said Monday in a proposal that would cover an estimated four million people, many of whom are at ...
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Report: Clinic treating Joan Rivers made several errors A federal report released Monday reveals that the Manhattan clinic that treated Joan Rivers made numerous serious mistakes before her death. And it confirms that a selfie had been taken of a surgeon and the comedian while she was under sedation.
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New York doctor cleared of Ebola, which means there are no known Ebola ... The doctor who contracted Ebola in West Africa before returning to New York City has been declared free of the virus, hospital officials announced Monday. This news means that 41 days after the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States, there are no known ...
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Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex. But authors of the study say they can't tell whether it's the cause or the result of chronic marijuana ...
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Hundreds of kids harmed by detergent 'pods:' Study CHICAGO (AP) — Accidental poisonings from squishy laundry detergent packets sometimes mistaken for toys or candy landed more than 700 U.S. children in the hospital in just two years, researchers report. Coma and seizures were among the most serious ...
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NY agency notes clinic errors in Rivers' treatment FILE - This Oct. 5, 2009 file photo shows Joan Rivers posing as she presents "Comedy Roast with Joan Rivers " during the 25th MIPCOM (International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite) in Cannes, southeastern France.
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NYC doctor, WSU grad to be released after Ebola recovery NEW YORK — An emergency room doctor who had Ebola has recovered and is scheduled to be released from the hospital on Tuesday, health officials said. The city Department of Health said Monday in a statement that Dr. Craig Spencer "has been declared ...
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Chronic Pot Smoking May Alter Brain, Study Suggests MONDAY, Nov. 10, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Long-term marijuana use appears to alter a person's brain, causing one region associated with addiction to shrink and forcing the rest of the brain to work overtime to compensate, a new study reports. MRI scans ...
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Health-Law Enrollment in 2015 Won't Meet Forecast Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell talks about the coming health-care exchange enrollment period in Washington on Monday. Getty Images. By. Louise Radnofsky. Louise Radnofsky. The Wall Street Journal. CANCEL.
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Your Always Knew Your Cat Was Half Wild But Now There's Genetic Proof A new study on house cats has found that our feline companions are actually only semi-domesticated. People began domesticating cats around 9,000 years ago but DNA researchers from Washington University in St. Louis found that house cats still have ...
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Joan Rivers' doctors failed to weigh comedian to determine correct anaesthetic ... The clinic where the late Joan Rivers suffered a cardiac arrest during a routine throat procedure failed to weigh her to determine how much anaesthetic she would need, according to a government agency report. Rivers died on Sept. 4 at the age of 81 in a ...
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Ebola nurse, boyfriend moving to Freeport, Maine FILE - In a Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 file photo, Kaci Hickox comes out of her house to speak to reporters, in Fort Kent, Maine. Hickox's plans for the end of the deadly disease's 21-day incubation period on Monday, Nov. 11 include a dinner out with her boyfriend, ...
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After Ebola recovery, doctor set to leave hospital NEW YORK — An emergency room doctor who was the first Ebola patient in the nation's biggest city was scheduled to be released from a hospital after beating the virus. With Dr. Craig Spencer's recovery, there are no Ebola patients currently under treatment ...
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Kidney Dialysis Company Expands Into The Hospital Business Critics of America's health care system say it's really a "sick care" system. Doctors and hospitals only get paid for treating people when they're sick. But that's starting to change. Health insurance companies and big government payers like Medicare are starting ...
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Ebola nurse to be advocate for health workers A Maine nurse who battled politicians over her quarantine said she will continue speaking out on behalf of public health workers. Loading… Post to Facebook. Ebola nurse to be advocate for health workers A Maine nurse who battled politicians over her ...
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Joan Rivers Death Investigation Says Clinic Made Multiple Errors During ... Joan Rivers seen on Jan. 31, 2014 in New York. A new report cites the clinic that treated her for numerous failures. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York City clinic where Joan Rivers suffered a fatal complication during a medical procedure made several errors, ...
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CBS News' Lara Logan quarantines herself after Ebola report in Liberia WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Lara Logan is under self-imposed quarantine for 21 days in South Africa, after the CBS News' reporter traveled to Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak for 60 Minutes. CBS sent Logan to report from a hospital treating Ebola ...
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Statins Could Reverse Learning Deficits Associated With Noonan Syndrome Researchers discovered statins, a widely-prescribed cholesterol drug, could reverse learning deficits caused by a genetic disorder called Noonan syndrome. Share This Story. The disorder can also cause unusual facial features and heart defects and there is ...
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Cigars less harmful than cigarettes? New study proves this notion wrong People may have chosen to smoke cigars because they thought they were dealing with the lesser evil. Unfortunately, according to a study, cigars can be just as bad for you as cigarettes. (Photo : Michael Ivanov). Over 13 billion cigars were smoked in the ...
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Americans smoking from past 30 years also gets Medicare Insurance for Lung ... Americans with a long history of smoking can now expect to get some federal government's protection in the form of Medicare and Medicaid annual screening coverage, and this is actually to save potentially save some 20,000 lives that could have been ...
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Longtime and older smokers get more coverage from Medicare 2 The federal government announced today that Medicare will now cover annual screenings for lung cancer for older Americans. The annual screening also includes Americans with long histories of smoking. Medicare expects to cover 4 million people are at ...
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Study: Detergent Packets Can Be Hazardous to Children Today Raniyah Avent is a healthy three year old– but two years ago she swallowed a laundry detergent packet similar to this one. "She was foaming at the mouth, couldn't move, couldn't breathe," her mother Angela recalls. "She was just laying there."
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Medicare extends coverage for older, longtime smokers WASHINGTON - Medicare will cover annual screenings for lung cancer for older Americans with long histories of heavy smoking, the federal government said Monday in a proposal that would cover an estimated 4 million people, many of whom are at greatest ...
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Ebola finds new hotspots outside Liberian capital A schoolteacher brought his sick daughter from Liberia's capital to this small town of 300 people. Soon he and his entire family were dead and buried in the forest nearby, along with an increasing number of residents. The community of Jenewonde has ...
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Cigars Are Just As Deadly As Cigarettes, New Research Reveals It's unlikely that most people are regularly smoking cigars--at least like they smoke cigarettes. Yet recent findings published in the journal Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Like Us on Facebook ...
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CBS' Logan quarantined after Ebola report NEW YORK - Lara Logan of CBS News is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for three weeks as a precaution after visiting an American-run hospital treating Ebola patients in Liberia for a "60 Minutes" report that aired Sunday. CBS said Monday that ...
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Free flu shot clinics offered this month in Glenn County Free flu shots and flu mist will be offered to Glenn County residents at three clinics this month. The Glenn County Public Health Department providing influenza vaccine to all persons 6 months of age and older, as supplies last. The clinic will be: Willows >> 4-6 ...
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Smoking Cigarettes and Cigars Causes the Same Damage A noticeable number of people nowadays proclaim of smoking cigars being less harmful as compared to smoking cigarettes. Little cigars, which are smaller version of their bigger traditional siblings, are available everywhere. Smoking cigars is equally harmful ...
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One in seven women risk dying in childbirth in Ebola-hit countries LONDON (Reuters) - The rate of women dying in childbirth in West African countries hit by the Ebola epidemic is soaring, with as many as one in seven at risk of death as fear of contact with bodily fluids prevents people helping them, aid charities warned on ...
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Mali Hopes to Declare 108 Free of Ebola Mali will reportedly declare 108 people Ebola free after undergoing mandatory 21-day quarantine to prevent a possible outbreak of the deadly disease, reports confirmed on Monday. Mali became the sixth country in West Africa to declare a confirmed case of ...
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£1.6m from Scotland to fight ebola outbreak More than £1.6 million has been raised in Scotland to help aid teams to fight the ebola virus outbreak in west Africa. The money is part of £20 million raised in the UK following an appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). The funds will enable the ...
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REPORT: Thousands of children poisoned by laundry pods a year Children are being admitted to hospitals across the nation because of accidental exposure to laundry detergent pods. A recent study shows the numbers average to about one child being admitted to a hospital a day. Even more surprising, most of the incidents ...
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RPT-Fujifilm expects Avigan to be promising drug to treat Ebola (Repeats to more subscribers with no changes). TOKYO Nov 11 (Reuters) - Fujifilm Holdings Corp said on Tuesday that it expects its influenza drug Avigan to become a highly effective drug to treat Ebola. "So far, four Ebola patients have recovered after being ...
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Laundry detergent pods can put children at risk SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – If your children get a hold of these detergent pods, they could go to the hospital. The Journal Pediatrics published a two year study on the serious poisoning risks of laundry detergent pods. "The big concern is that they're so ...
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