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Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone KISSI TOWN, Sierra Leone — Military choppers thunder over the slums. Nearly a thousand British soldiers are on the scene, ferrying supplies and hammering together new Ebola clinics. Crates of food and medicine are flowing into the port, and planeloads of ...
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Ebola crisis: French President Hollande to visit Guinea French President Francois Hollande is to arrive in Guinea, becoming the first Western leader to visit a nation hit hard by the deadly Ebola virus. He will deliver "a message of solidarity" to Guinea, where more than 1,200 have died of Ebola. France has pledged ...
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US adult smoking rate dips just under 18 percent It was the lowest percentage of cigarette smokers since an annual survey began keeping track in 1965, according to the authors of a study published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. By KAREN KAPLAN. Los Angeles Times (TNS) ...
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For many in Sierra Leone, Ebola care is a cruel mirage Isatu Sesay writhed in pain as her family and neighbors called an Ebola hotline more than 35 times, desperate for an ambulance. When help finally came, it was too late. FROM WIRE REPORTS. Published: 27 November 2014 11:20 PM. Updated: 27 ...
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Ebola outbreak: volunteers vaccinated in Halifax experiment The first doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed partly in Canada were injected into the first volunteers in Halifax today. The small clinical trial is meant to find out whether the vaccine is safe in humans and whether it creates an effective ...
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| FDA regs highlight harms of indoor tanning (Reuters) - Early in 2014, the United States Food and Drug Administration moved tanning lamps into a new category of "moderately harmful" medical devices, and with good reason, researchers say. In a review of the evidence that indoor tanning does ...
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Experimental Ebola vaccine draws eager test volunteers Two years ago, Khandra Sears contracted malaria for the good of science. Two weeks ago, the 33-year-old postdoctoral fellow became a test subject in research to stop another scourge: Ebola. She was injected with 100 billion particles of a chimpanzee cold ...
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Covenant House to offer free HIV testing for World AIDS Day There are an estimated 2,000 people living with HIV/AIDS in West Virginia — a number that includes the roughly 400 who don't know they're infected with the virus, and the population Covenant House hopes to reach this World AIDS Day. "We're trying to ...
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Ebola hitting Sierra Leone hard as vaccine trials show promise ROME (GlaxoSmithKline/CNN) - There have been promising results from the first human trials of an experimental Ebola vaccine. MOREAdditional LinksPoll. The process has been fast-tracked in light of the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa that has ...
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Canada to deploy military health staff to Sierra Leone in Ebola fight Medical staff wearing protective suits gather at a health facility near the Liberia-Sierra Leone border in western Liberia November 5, 2014. Credit: Reuters/James Giahyue. Related Topics. World ». Stocks. Merck & Co Inc. MRK.N. $59.66. ----. 11/21/2014.
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FDA Implements New Calorie Count Rules To Combat Obesity (Photo : Wikimedia Commons/Bill Branson) The FDA issued a new calorie count rule to help Americans combat obesity. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently released an order requiring all chain restaurants and amusement parks to display ...
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Breakthrough Drug for Bladder Cancer May Be the Cure Breakthrough Drug for Bladder Cancer What is considered the first significant revolution in bladder cancer research in the past 30 years has been announced in a study published on the 27th of November. This new breakthrough drug for bladder cancer falls ...
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Argentine Probe Sparks Dispute Between Government, Judiciary Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, seen at the Argentine Construction Association Convention in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, faces a federal probe into her private business activities. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. By. Taos Turner. Taos Turner.
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FDA Enforces a Nationwide Calorie Display Rule On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it had finalized preparations and was ready to enforce a nationwide calorie display rule on restaurant chains, retail food establishments, movie theaters and supermarkets. According to ...
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Powdered Measles Vaccine Scores Promising Results Powdered Measles Vaccine Scores Promising Results A new form of powdered measles vaccine has been developed and just successfully passed the initial trials of a long session of testing planned out in the near future. On paper, in the incipient phases of ...
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Research Team Develops and Successfully Tests Artificial Pancreas The Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM—Le Institute de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal) has recently executed a clinical trial which compared three alternative treatments for type 1 diabetes. The trial has confirmed that an external artificial ...
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Powdered Measles Vaccine Passed Early Safety Human Testing A powdered measles vaccine developed by researchers from University of Colorado is showing promising results in early human testing. Advertisement. The researchers develop the dry delivery technique that eliminates the need for needles and produces ...
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| Tanning Lamps Reclassified As Class II Medical Devices In the United States, roughly 30 million people use tanning beds each year, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Females between the ages of 16 and 29 years old account for approximately 70 percent of the users. Consequently, they have ...
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Early tests bring promising results for new powder measles vaccine Researchers at University of Colorado have developed a powder measles vaccine that has been found safe for human testing. Professor Sievers and his fellow researchers have designed a new dry delivery method that removes the need of needles as well ...
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New Powered Measles Vaccine Passed the Initial Test- Study Says Researchers of University of Colorado manufacture a powder measles vaccine which is safe for human testing. Generally, the majority of American believe that measles is no longer modern day disease. However, a recent report demonstrates that this year ...
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Scientists uncover vulture's secrets to eating death Vultures snack on death, merrily munching away on rotting flesh that would make other animals ill. So how do they do it? The answer, apparently, lies in their guts. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications on Nov 25, scientists say that after ...
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Hollande embarks on trip to Ebola-hit Guinea French President Francois Hollande on Friday begins a visit to Guinea, making him the first Western leader to travel to a country hit hard by the deadly Ebola virus. Guinea has already lost 1,200 people to the disease which has killed over 5,600 in total and ...
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Ebola outbreak: Australian health workers travel to Sierra Leone to man ... A contingent of Australian health workers will travel to Ebola-stricken West Africa today to man a government-funded care facility. Canberra-based company Aspen Medical has been given $20 million by the Government to run the 100-bed facility in Sierra ...
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Gut check: How vultures dine on rotting flesh, and like it WASHINGTON -- They snack on danger and dine on death, merrily munching on rotting flesh that would certainly sicken or kill any person and most other animals. But how do vultures do it? VULTURES feast on road kill as commuters pass by real estate for ...
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Sweeping changes: FDA strengthens calorie-posting requirements On Tuesday, Nov. 25, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new requirements about calorie labeling that would stretch even into movie theaters and bars. Menu labeling was part of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), requiring chain restaurants ...
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Smoking Rate At an All-Time Low Smoking among adults is at an all-time low. Only 17.8% still light up. The latest numbers are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's three million fewer smokers than in 2005. The CDC reports smoking cigarettes is the leading preventable ...
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994 new cases of HIV/Aids detected in Sindh this year KARACHI: At least 994 new HIV/Aids cases, including 83 women and six children, have been detected across the province this year, said an official of the Sindh Aids Control Programme (SACP) here on Thursday. "These numbers could be alarming for ...
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Europe, Central Asia failing to curb HIV - WHO London - Despite major advances in treating and preventing HIV, Europe and Central Asia have failed to tackle the epidemic, with about 136 000 people becoming newly infected with the incurable AIDS virus last year, health officials said on Thursday.
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Aust team heads to Africa to fight Ebola Aid groups have welcomed the first deployment of Australian health workers to west Africa, but warn more help is still needed amid expectations a UN deadline for containing the outbreak will not be met. A group of 17 Australian health workers, comprising six ...
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HIV/AIDS activists push for more funding to address HIV/AIDS stigma WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an ongoing effort to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic physicians, healthcare workers and human rights activists want the government and the public to place more emphasis on the stigma associated with the deadly disease that ...
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World AIDS Day focuses on prevention, treatment Those who grew up in the '80s and '90s heard about AIDS regularly. The then-young disease was a constant feature in newscasts and in school education programs. Over the years, great strides have been made in treatment, and the death toll has slowed in ...
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'It's awesome': Family hears son's heartbeat in Vietnam war veteran Eight months after Matthew Heisler died in a house fire, his family was given the chance to hear his heartbeat again. This time, the steady sound was coming from the body of Tom Meeks, a Vietnam veteran who had received Matthew's heart following his ...
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Medtronic Gets Approval From US Regulators To Buy Covidien US antitrust regulators, the Competition Bureau have today approved their consent to Medtronic INC's purchase of Covidien PLC. The commission also approved of a three way deal between Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline. The consent agreement filed with ...
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Smoking Rates Falling Despite Growing Population A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides some great health news. It appears that the smoking rate has fallen from 21 percent in 2005 to just 18 percent last year. Thus, the total number of smokers in the United States has ...
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Breakthrough bladder cancer therapy shows benefits in trial Breakthrough bladder cancer therapy shows benefits in trial A new breakthrough therapy for advanced bladder cancer has demonstrated its potential benefits in an early-stage trial. Evaluated by Queen Mary University of London, the antibody functions by ...
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Calories count More than 20 years ago, the federal government decided that consumers are entitled to basic information about the nutrition in their food. Soon, Americans will have easy access to nutrition facts not just about store-bought food, but also about food served at ...
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Scientists Create Breakthrough Drug to Fight Advanced Bladder Cancer A new cancer-fighting drug undergoing trials at the Queen Mary University of London has been found effective in fighting advanced bladder cancer, a press release from the university's School of Medicine has said. MOSCOW, November 27 (Sputnik) ...
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Novartis Heart-Failure Treatment to Get Speedy EU Review ZURICH— Novartis AG on Friday said an important new drug for treating heart failure has been granted an accelerated review by European authorities, improving its chances of approval in Europe next year. Basel-based Novartis said LCZ696, a heart-failure ...
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Minnesota plans events for World AIDS Day Minnesota health officials are planning free educational events and HIV testing for World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 to promote public awareness of the disease. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton encouraged residents to regularly test for HIV, increase their awareness of ...
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Warnings Ebola response still not enough The first deployment of Australian health workers to Ebola-stricken West Africa has been welcomed, but there are fresh warnings efforts to halt the march of the disease are still falling well short of what's needed. The deployment of 17 Australians to Sierra ...
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Wiser dining: FDA puts calorie disclosure on the menu The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved final labeling rules for many of the places where Americans dine. The verdict? No more excuses for that bucket of movie popcorn. The big surprise is that the FDA is sticking to fairly comprehensive ...
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Honoring abundance by wasting less: Thanksgiving comes of age My mother-in-law is an inventive, skilled cook who comes from a long line of Texas farmers and ranchers. Her family members, she says, "waste nothing." So there's an edge to the story she tells about her first Thanksgiving as a young wife, when she ...
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Handle food properly for a healthy Thanksgiving For Martha Souder, the problem isn't what she eats, but when she eats. Illustrates HEALTH-EXERCISE (category l), by Vicky Hallett and Lenny Bernstein (c) 2010, The Washington Post. Moved Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. (MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington ...
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Heart Donor's Family Meets Vietnam-Vet Donee The family of Matt Heisler is proud to know someone got his heart, the same heart his sister says she "felt in all of my hugs." About Us · Careers · Contact · Privacy Policy – UPDATED · Terms of Service · Site Map · Advertise · Ad Choices · Outlook.com.
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OU student, 19, with nut allergy dies in hospital A 19-year-old Oakland University student who was in a coma for a week with a severe allergic reaction to peanut butter died Wednesday night at a Pontiac hospital, according to reports from the university. Chandler Swink, a sophomore and aspiring nursing ...
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Organ donor's ND family listens to his heart inside another The heart of a 21-year-old who died in a fire will keep beating in the chest of a Vietnam veteran. Matthew Heisler, a student from the University of North Dakota, died in a house fire in March, but thanks to his decision to become an organ donor, his heart saved ...
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New FDA rules will put calorie counts on menus WASHINGTON -- Counting your calories will become easier under new government rules requiring chain restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores -- and even movie theaters, amusement parks and vending machines -- to post the calorie content of food ...
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Blood test could pick up risk of cancer five years in advance, say Harvard scientists A blood test could determine a person's risk of developing blood cancer five years before any signs of the disease emerge, scientists at Harvard University have discovered. Researchers found that people with mutations in their blood were 13 times more likely ...
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South African disease lab on frontline of Ebola fight South African professor Janusz Paweska hesitates for a moment as he describes his work trip to the heart of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. "Obviously we had to touch the tubes," he says. "I wonder if I should tell you but I opened them with my hands -- I ...
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Celiac disease showing up in many forms and at all ages (Reuters Health) – A classical set of celiac disease symptoms no longer reflects the profile of most newly-diagnosed patients, according to a new study from Italy. Instead, doctors need to take other symptoms into account and consider the possibility of celiac ...
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