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CDC worker monitored for possible Ebola exposure in lab error (Reuters) - A laboratory technician for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been placed under observation for possible exposure to the deadly Ebola virus due to an apparent mix-up in lab specimens, the Atlanta-based agency said on ...
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Ebola Sample Is Mishandled at CDC Lab in Latest Error A laboratory mistake at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta may have exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, federal officials said on Wednesday. The technician will be monitored for signs of infection for 21 days, the incubation ...
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| Animal research at NIH lab challenged by members of Congress (Reuters) - Animal research practices at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) facility in Poolesville, Maryland are being challenged by four members of Congress, who have asked the NIH director to commission a bioethical review of experiments being ...
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Sacramento dog survives 15-floor plunge, lands in hot tub On the morning Sam became a neighborhood legend, he was sunning himself on the balcony, 15 stories up one of Sacramento's tallest high-rises. The small dog liked it up there: It was warm when the fog cleared. He could hear the hustle of the city at his feet.
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Firm Recalls Caramel Apples Amid Listeria Fears A Missouri firm is recalling its Happy Apple brand caramel apples because of the potential that they could be contaminated with listeria. The recall comes after at least three deaths and at least 29 illnesses in 10 states have been linked to an outbreak of the ...
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CDC: Lab tech may have been exposed to Ebola (CNN) -- A technician from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be monitored for three weeks after possibly being exposed to the Ebola virus at one of the agency's Atlanta labs, the CDC said Wednesday. The CDC said in a written statement ...
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Of mice and men: Researchers point to differences in cell development Scientists say they have discovered a key factor in the lab formation of human primordial germ cells -- the precursors to egg and sperm -- and that it differs significantly from experiments involving rodent cells. lRelated Invasive species get by with a little help ...
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CDC Reports Possible Ebola Exposure at Containment Lab A mistake at a CDC biocontainment lab may have exposed one technician, and possibly more, to the Ebola virus, although the risk of contracting the deadly disease is low, federal health officials said Wednesday. A sample of material that may have contained ...
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FDA Continues Blood Libel of Gay Men The new FDA rules on blood donations by gay men continue to perpetuate falsehoods. Euronews may call it "a major victory for gay civil rights" but it is NO such thing. Previously, any gay man who ever had sex with another man, no matter how "safe" the sex, ...
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Blood Donation Ban Is Only The First Barrier To Medical Equality For Gay Men Some gay and bisexual men who want to donate blood will be able to once the Food and Drug Administration's new recommendations take effect. The revised policy will overturn the current lifelong ban on blood from men who have sex with other men and ...
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Flu season mild now but could grow worse, doctors say On the nation's official color-coded map identifying hot spots where this season's flu is flaring up, California is still green. That's a good thing. Southern states, by contrast, are flaming red with active flu cases. The Midwest is crimson bordering on ...
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Death toll in Ebola outbreak rises to 7588 - WHO GENEVA (Reuters) - The global death toll from Ebola has risen to 7,588 out of 19,497 confirmed cases recorded in the year-old epidemic raging in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. The virus is still spreading intensely in ...
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CDC Monitoring Tech For Possible Ebola Exposure ATLANTA (AP) — A laboratory technician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was being monitored Wednesday for possible accidental exposure to the Ebola virus that came during an experiment, officials said. The person working in a secure ...
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Error at CDC puts lab tech at risk for Ebola The error occurred Monday, when a high-security lab at the CDC, working with Ebola virus from the epidemic in West Africa, sent samples that should have been killed to another CDC laboratory, down the hall. By DENISE GRADY and DONALD G. MCNEIL ...
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Firm recalls caramel apples amid listeria fears WASHINGTON – A Missouri firm is recalling its Happy Apple brand caramel apples because of the potential that they could be contaminated with listeria. The recall comes after at least three deaths and at least 29 illnesses in 10 states have been linked to an ...
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| Tenth Egyptian dies of H5N1 bird flu: Health Ministry CAIRO (Reuters) - A five-year-old Egyptian child died from bird flu on Wednesday, the tenth death from the virus in the country out of 22 identified cases this year, the Health Ministry said. Ministry spokesman Dr Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said the boy came to a ...
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Study: Reading from tablets before bed alters sleep cycles If you're in bed reading this, you may feel sleepy tomorrow morning. A study has found that reading from a light-emitting device, such as an e-reader, before bedtime can shift your body's natural clock and delay the onset and characteristics of your sleep.
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Report: Ebola survival improving in Sierra Leone FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2014, file photo, a healthcare worker dons protective gear before entering an Ebola treatment center in Freetown, Sierra Leone. In a letter published online Wednesday, Dec. 24. 2014, by the New England Journal of ... more >.
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Christmas Aside, Sierra Leone Declares Five-Day Lockdown in Ebola-Hit North Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone A soldier inspects a woman with an infrared thermometer for signs of fever, one of the symptoms of Ebola, at a check point in Nikabo, a village in Kenema, Sierra Leone on August 27, 2014. Mohammed Elshamy—Anadolu ...
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UPDATE 1-CDC worker monitored for possible Ebola exposure in lab error (CDC confirms details of error and possible exposure of technician; adds byline). By Steve Gorman. Dec 24 (Reuters) - A laboratory technician for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been placed under observation for possible exposure ...
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Sierra Leone Trains New Ebola Burial Team A spokesman for Sierra Leone's government says a newly trained burial team will soon be deployed to those places most affected by the Ebola outbreak. Abdulai Bayraytay said, "They are ready to go into the field. In fact, …we have given the current burial ...
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Firm recalls caramel apples amid listeria fears WASHINGTON — A Missouri firm is recalling its Happy Apple brand caramel apples because of the potential that they could be contaminated with listeria. The recall comes after at least three deaths and at least 29 illnesses in 10 states have been linked to an ...
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Sierra Leone district declares three-day Ebola lockdown FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's northern district of Port Loko, the area with the highest rate of Ebola transmission, plans a three-day lockdown over Christmas as it seeks to contain the disease's spread. Sierra Leone is the worst-hit country in West ...
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The Ebola outbreak at 1 year: Doctors report hopeful signs, better survival in ... One year into the world's worst Ebola outbreak, doctors are reporting an encouraging sign: About 70 per cent of patients in a hard-hit area of Sierra Leone now survive. The Ebola death rate has fallen even though there are no specific medicines or vaccines to ...
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Gay advocates in North Jersey react to revised blood-donation rule Federal health officials are moving to end the nation's lifetime ban on blood donations from men who have had sex with other men, but gay advocates in North Jersey are wary about an officially favored new policy that would bar just donations from men who ...
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Flu beginning to spread across Rhode Island Influenza is beginning to spread through Rhode Island this winter, according to state health officials, but it's still too early to say whether this flu season is shaping up to be a particularly difficult one. "It's hard to tell what a flu season is going to be until you get to ...
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Ebola crisis dampens Africa's economic growth NAIROBI, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The rosy growth expectations for Africa have been overshadowed by the year-old, worst-ever Ebola outbreak originating and raging in West Africa. The global death toll from the deadly epidemic has risen to 7,588 out of 19,497 ...
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Queen Elizabeth II Praises Workers Who Fight Ebola LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II will use her traditional Christmas broadcast to call for international reconciliation and to praise medical workers fighting Ebola in Africa. The queen plans to say she has been "deeply touched" by the "selflessness" of doctors and ...
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Scientists one step closer to creating human egg, sperm WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- Israeli and British researchers said Wednesday they have successfully used human cells to create primordial germ cells that develop into egg and sperm for the first time. The study, published in the U.S. journal Cell, could ...
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Judge limits medical marijuana delivery app LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has ordered a smartphone application that facilitates the delivery of medical marijuana to stop its activities in Los Angeles and to remove all reference to marijuana delivery within city limits. Los Angeles County Superior Court ...
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Placer County issues listeriosis warning Placer County health officials on Wednesday warned that a nationwide outbreak of listeriosis associated with commercially produced caramel apples may have extended locally. Initial reports indicate that an El Dorado County resident recovering from ...
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After Being Pulled Over, 17-Year-Old Has No Words for What Cop Tells Her Next ... A teenage girl driving down a Wisconsin street was left astonished after a police officer pulled her over and gave her two tickets — just not the kind of tickets she was expecting. Audra Daniloff, 17, who suffers from a life-threatening condition, received an early ...
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Study: iPad glow disrupts sleep patterns WASHINGTON — Basking in the blue glow of tablets, smartphones and other electronic devices before bedtime could be messing up our sleep patterns more profoundly than we realize, and even affecting our long-term health, according to a new study ...
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Scientists use skin cells to make artificial primitive sperm and eggs in move that ... Researchers have used skin cells to make primitive artificial sperm and eggs in a move that could transform fertility treatment. Scientists in Cambridge made the sex cells by culturing human embryonic stem cells for five days under carefully-controlled ...
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Another Jewish baby has contracted herpes through bris Another Jewish baby boy has contracted herpes through a controversial religious circumcision ritual, marking the fourth case in 2014, the city's Health Department said. City health officials believe the baby boy got sick as a result of a centuries-old ritual known ...
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Smartphone-touchscreen use altering brain activity Increasing use of smartphone touchscreens is altering brain activity in relation to fingertips, says a new study. Researchers from Switzerland were intrigued to learn how people's brains were responding to increased use of their thumbs and other fingertips due ...
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Advertising Standards Authority: No Double Standard In Cigarette Advertisements The Advertising Standards Authority, or ASA, has clamped down on three ads promoting e-cigarettes on TV. This happened as more than 200 complaints were filed against the ads complaining that they were highly offensive. The rules concerning electronic ...
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Using Electronic Readers Late At Night Impacts Quality Sleep A survey of over 1,500 American adults revealed that 90 percent use an electronic device several nights each week for an hour before they went to bed. Electronic devices such as eReaders, laptops, cell phones and LED monitors emit blue light. Scientists ...
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Scientists take a step towards curing infertility with stem cells Stem cells are basically like biological alchemy. You can turn them in to almost anything, including it seems sperm or eggs. Researchers working jointly in the UK and Israel have figured out how to create precursor cells for gametes, you know the bits that ...
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Study shows heat waves may lead to increased hospitalization amongst seniors Studies have revealed that heat waves may lead to more frequent trips to hospitals amongst senior citizens. While heat can account for kidney failure, heat stroke, urinary tract infections and numerous other health problems among the masses but these also ...
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Larimer County: 42 hospitalized this week in rough flu season Health officials in Larimer County said Wednesday that 42 people have been hospitalized with influenza in the past week as part of what could become the county's worst flu season in a decade. Since Oct. 1, 83 people have been hospitalized with the flu in ...
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CDC monitoring tech for possible Ebola exposure ATLANTA — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say a lab technician is being monitored for possible exposure to the Ebola virus. CDC spokeswoman Barbara Reynolds says in an emailed statement Wednesday that the person working in a ...
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The Light From An iPad May Be Interrupting Your Sleep Could the glow of your iPad be messing up your sleep pattern? Recent findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) show that these devices could be interfering with our ability to get an adequate night's rest.
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Flu vaccinations required for county health workers Dr. Robert Levin, Ventura County public health officer, recently ordered that as of Jan. 1, 2015, all healthcare workers in Ventura County hospitals, clinics, skilled nursing and long-term care facilities, ambulances and other licensed healthcare facilities are ...
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Three e-cigarette TV adverts banned Three television adverts for electronic cigarettes have been banned, just weeks after the rules were changed so people could be shown using them. Two of the adverts featured a woman exhaling vapour which, according to the Advertising Standards Authority ...
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Teen survey: Marijuana use is down, but e-cigs are popular More teens than ever dropped the habit of smoking cigarettes last year, a national survey found, but the good news is tempered by the fact that e-cigarettes are gaining popularity among middle and high school students. The use of alcohol and cigarettes in ...
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Ban on gay men donating blood could be lifted as soon as 2015 And since he is not gay, he has been able to donate blood since he was 18 years old. He said he supports the Food and Drug Administration's recent recommendation to lift the lifetime ban placed on men who have sex with other men. "We've advanced so ...
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Asians Need Diabetes Screening At Lower Body Weight Asian Americans have a higher risk for type two diabetes at a lower body weight than other groups do, a new study has found. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has recommended lowering the body mass index (BMI) at which Asian Americans ...
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Oldest Man in America Dies at Age 110 Illinois man, verified as the country's oldest man, dies one month short of his 111th birthday. C. Conrad Johnson had credited daily prayers and early bedtimes for his longevity. (Photo : Ben Jacobson). C. Conrad Johnson of Illinois, verified as the oldest man in ...
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Use of smartphones alters brain – study A team of Swiss scientists set out on a quest to learn if using smartphones actually makes us smarter. Their study revealed that using a touchscreen device affects a part of the brain that processes touch. READ MORE: Sound of seduction: Scientists reveal ...
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