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Exclusive: CDC to hire lab safety chief after Ebola, bird flu mishaps CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to hire a chief of laboratory safety, a new post that has taken on more urgency after a CDC scientist was possibly exposed to Ebola in a laboratory last week. Creating a new ...
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Source of Ebola Outbreak Might Be Bats, Study Says The toddler in Guinea who is thought to have been the first case in the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa may have caught the virus from bats in a hollow tree near his village, scientists said Tuesday. A study, led by scientists from the Robert Koch ...
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Ebola nurse may be offered recovered patients' plasma Nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who is battling Ebola at a London hospital, could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus. The treatment contains antibodies that should help fight the infection. British nurse William Pooley has donated plasma, ...
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First Ebola boy likely infected by playing in bat tree The Ebola victim who is believed to have triggered the current outbreak - a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea - may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, say scientists. They made the connection on an ...
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'Severe' flu season could grip US, CDC doc warns A deadly influenza strain has the U.S. in the grip of what could develop into a "severe" flu season, with widespread cases already reported in 36 states, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expert said Tuesday. The H3N2 strain, the most common flu ...
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Scottish woman tests negative for Ebola; patient with virus moved to London London (CNN) -- A woman in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland who'd fallen ill tested negative for Ebola, the Scottish government said Tuesday. A spokesman for the government said the woman had been in West Africa recently, though she had no direct ...
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How a "fat gene" may influence your weight The year in which you're born might affect the activity of a gene that could raise your odds for obesity, a new study finds. Members of families who share an obesity-prone mutation of the FTO gene are more likely to carry extra weight if they were born after ...
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CDC To Hire Lab Safety Chief After Ebola, Bird Flu Mishaps CHICAGO, Dec 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to hire a chief of laboratory safety, a new post that has taken on more urgency after a CDC scientist was possibly exposed to Ebola in a laboratory last week. Creating a ...
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Ebola crisis: Reporting from the front line in Sierra Leone Five or six patients stood in the doorway of the Ebola treatment centre in eastern Sierra Leone's Kenema town on 23 June. Among them were two children in the white makeshift tarpaulin structure perched on top of a slope. They stood for a few minutes and ...
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Hangover cure is elusive but symptom relief fizzles and flows NEW YORK Dec 30 (Reuters) - Revelers are preparing to ring in the New Year with parties and celebrations, and those whose heads are still ringing will spend their first waking hours of 2015 searching for hangover relief. Although there are drinks, tablets ...
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Flu season shaping up to be brutal You may want to wash your hands often and stock up on tissues. We're in the midst of what looks like a "very early and pretty aggressive flu season," according to Michael Smith, a doctor and chief medical editor for WebMD. Flu season occurs during the ...
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| UPDATE 2-NeuroDerm shares double as Parkinson's drug shows promise ... * Higher dose can be alternative to treatments needing surgery. * Stock touches record high of $14.12. * Market valuation more than doubles to $231 mln. * More than 20 mln shares traded by afternoon (Adds analyst comment; updates shares).
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Cancer-stricken hero Lauren Hill raises $1 million Lauren Hill scored again. The 19-year-old college student's very public battle with terminal cancer took another heroic turn Tuesday when she helped raise more than $1 million for pediatric cancer research thanks to a Cincinnati telethon. The Cure Starts Now ...
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Ebola: UK screening procedures to be reviewed Procedures for screening health workers returning to the UK after treating Ebola patients will be reviewed after an infected nurse flew from London to Glasgow despite raising concerns. Pauline Cafferkey told officials at Heathrow she felt unwell but was ...
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Player's charity reaches $1 million in donations A cancer charity backed by Ohio college basketball player Lauren Hill has used a final push to reach her goal of $1 million in donations by the end of the year. Hill got national attention when she played in a Division III basketball game with Mount St. Joseph ...
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Flu season hits Kansas City early and hard With flu now at epidemic levels nationwide, Kansas City is experiencing its most widespread flu season in years. It's filling hospital beds and packing emergency rooms throughout the metro area. "I've been here eight years and I've never it seen it at this level," ...
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Flu season is officially at epidemic levels, CDC says The nation's top public health agency declared a flu epidemic Tuesday, warning residents to exercise caution in public spaces and use good, basic sanitary habits. And even though it may miss the dominant flu strain this year, experts continued to urge people ...
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Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey asked to be tested SEVEN TIMES It has emerged the nurse could be offered plasma from patients who have survived the virus. It will come from a European network of recovered patients. Transfer: The nurse was diagnosed with Ebola yesterday and was seen today walking from an. SHARE ...
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FDA Okays Diclofenac Injection (Dyloject) for Pain The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved diclofenac sodium injection (Dyloject, Hospira Inc), a proprietary nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for the treatment of mild to moderate pain, and for the management of moderate to ...
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Out With New Year's Resolutions In With Happiness A new year is approaching, and it's time to make those resolutions! Of course, for most of us, those New Year's resolutions don't make it past the first new month. According to University of Scranton research, just 8 percent of us actually achieve those ...
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Ebola wrecks years of aid work in worst-hit countries Medicins Sans Frontieres health workers at an isolation camp in Liberia during the visit of the UN Ebola systems coordinator, Aug. 23, 2014. Ebola is wrecking years of health and education work in Sierra Leone and Liberia following their civil wars, forcing ...
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'Your year of birth tied to risk of obesity' WASHINGTON: Scientists have found that the impact of a gene associated with obesity largely depends on the birth year of an individual. A multi-institutional research team has found that the impact of a variant in the FTO gene that previous research has ...
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Hospira injectable painkiller OK'd by FDA Hospira Inc. said its new injectable painkiller has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Hospira's Dyloject is a non-opioid analgesic designed for use by adults to control moderate to sever pain. The drug can be used alone or in ...
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Health: Survey Shows There Is Confusion And Misinformation About Diet ... PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Losing weight is one of the most popular New Year's resolutions. Last year, Americans spent billions on weight loss supplements, but a new survey shows there's a lot of confusion and misinformation about diet supplements.
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Player's charity reaches $1 million in donations CINCINNATI (AP) — A cancer charity backed by Ohio college basketball player Lauren Hill has used a final push to reach her goal of $1 million in donations by the end of the year. Hill got national attention when she played in a Division III basketball game ...
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Parental Suicide Increases Same Risk In Children Children often mimic what their parents do. Unfortunately, for parents who attempt suicide, their children are also more likely to do so. Recent studies have found a potential link between family and suicidal behavior. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh ...
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Will Highlands County reach population milestone in 2015? SEBRING — Before the Great Recession hit us, about a 1,000 new people were moving into Florida every day. Like many areas, Highlands County also became a part of the growing numbers game. In 1990, our population was 68,432, according to U.S. ...
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U.S. population increasing by one person every 16 seconds The population of the United States grew by 0.73 percent this year and will hit 320,090,857 on New Year's Day, according to a projection by the Census Bureau. That is an increase of 2,334,187 since a year ago. In 2015, the bureau projects, the U.S. will ...
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Your Birth Year Could Influence Your Odds for Obesity, Study Suggests TUESDAY, Dec. 30, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The year in which you're born might affect the activity of a gene that could raise your odds for obesity, a new study finds. Members of families who share an obesity-prone mutation of the FTO gene are more likely ...
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New Years Resolutions: How to Make Them to Stick As we move into the end of 2014, and are getting ready to turn the calendar to 2015, many of us are thinking of our New Year's resolutions. In the back of many of our minds' is the awareness of all of the years that we set the resolutions but abandoned them as ...
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Gina Raimondo's Approach to Income Inequality PROVIDENCE, R.I. — With the New Year comes a new slate of officeholders whose careers warrant close attention and whose fates could have broader political implications. Put Gina Raimondo near the top of that list. She's the first woman to be elected ...
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A Surprising Number of People Think Weight-Loss Pills Work Many people think diet pills will work as advertised, despite any evidence to the contrary. They also also believe the FDA has confirmed their effectiveness, even though the agency never has. (Photo : Sean Gallup, Getty Images). Weight loss pills, generally ...
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Consumer Report Survey: Only 9% of Those Who Take Weight Lose ... A lot of people have losing weight as one of the New Year's resolution every year and many of them seek help by drinking diet supplements. However, can we rely on the claims printed on the bottles of these supplements? A survey was made and the results ...
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Flu season could be the worst in years Cell phones, shared keyboards, maybe even your watch and rings — all could help fuel what could be one of the worst flu seasons in recent years, doctors say. Already in Michigan, more than 300 patients have reported to emergency rooms and doctor's ...
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Hospira's Non-Opioid Painkiller Dyloject Now FDA-Approved Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, and a global leader in biosimilars, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Dyloject (diclofenac sodium) Injection, ...
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Migration boosts Idaho's population State now has estimated 1.63 million residents from 1990 through 2010, Idaho posted annual population growth rates of more than 1 percent. Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 5:25 pm. Migration boosts Idaho's population 0 comments · Express Staff.
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Red meat can cause cancer according to a new study 3 A new study reveals that consumption of red meat can lead to high risk of developing cancer. The study was led by Dr. Ajit Varki, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and member of the University of California San ...
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UC San Diego Research Team finds the reason behind high risk of cancer ... The sugar specific to red meat could be behind the higher cancer risk associated with red meat. A detailed research conducted by research team at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has found a link between tumor growth among human ...
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Report: Many Uninformed About Weight Loss Supplements Many people make a new year's resolution to drop some pounds – and a new consumer reports survey says about a quarter of them will use weight–loss supplements. "On the bottle they make a lot of claims.. people want something that's going to make ...
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Health officials say flu is 'widespread' in R.I. PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State Health Director Michael Fine on Tuesday issued a declaration of widespread flu, which triggers regulations requiring all health-care workers who have not been immunized to wear a surgical mask while with patients. "Flu is here in ...
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Newly Identified Molecular Network in Brain Implicated in Autism A defect in communication between the two halves of the brain may be responsible for some cases of autism, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. They came to their conclusions by analyzing what's called the ...
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UK Ebola case: 'No significant risk to public' A health worker who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone is being transferred to a specialist treatment centre in London. The woman, who travelled to Glasgow via Casablanca and London Heathrow, is being taken to the ...
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Roches Ebola Test Gets FDAs Emergency Use Authorization Roche (RHHBY - Analyst Report) announced that the FDA has granted Emergency Use Authorization for the LightMix Ebola Zaire rRT-PCR Test. The test is allowed for use in patients showing signs and symptoms of Ebola Zaire virus infection in combination ...
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Being obese may depend on what year you were born Researchers studying the connection between genetics and obesity may have to consider one more factor: when a person was born. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal has found that a genetic variant linked to ...
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Red Meat And Cancer: Sugar Molecule In Red Meat May Cause Cancer, New ... The many health issues with excessive intake of red meat have been discussed thoroughly over the past decades, as scientists dig deeper into the health risks associated with this; now, a new study shows that red meat and cancer may be closely related due ...
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Sex hormones put women at allergy risk London, Dec 30: Female sex hormones called oestrogens can worsen allergic reactions in women, says a study. 'Women are more likely to suffer lethal allergic reactions because the female sex hormone makes the condition worse,' says a Telegraph report, ...
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Pets may help autistic children to be more assertive, says study Dogs, cats and other animals may help autistic children to be more assertive, says a new research. Representational Image File Photo. A study by the University of Missouri researcher has found that children with autism have stronger social skills when any ...
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Pets could help improve social skills of autistic kids Keeping a dog or any other animal at home could help improve the social skills of children with autism and make them more assertive, new research has found. "Kids with autism do not always readily engage with others, but if there is a pet in the home that the ...
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Molecular Map of Autism Genes Identified New findings on autism point to communications problems within the brain as one cause of the disorder. Researchers study links between proteins and genes involved in autism. (Photo : William Thomas Cain, Getty Images). U.S. researchers say they've ...
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Year of birth linked to obesity risk A new study has found that the birth year of an individual is linked to the risk of obesity. The study done by a multi-institutional research team has found that the impact of a variant in the FTO gene largely depends on birth year. Previous research has linked the ...
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