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Emails reveal WHO delayed declaring Ebola emergency due to political ... FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 file photo, Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 miles north of Monrovia, in Liberia.
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CDC's 'inconsistent' lab practices threaten its credibility, report says Atlanta (CNN) A report on lab safety at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put together by a committee of external experts calls the agency's commitment to safety "inconsistent and insufficient.
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WHO urges mass vaccination against measles, other diseases in Ebola areas LONDON (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned on Friday of a risk of outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other diseases in West African countries hit by Ebola and said this must be countered with rapid intensification of routine ...
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Biogen Reports Its Alzheimer's Drug Sharply Slowed Cognitive Decline An experimental drug for Alzheimer's disease sharply slowed the decline in mental function in a small clinical trial, researchers reported Friday, reviving hopes for an approach to therapy that until now has experienced repeated failures.
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Biogen's Alzheimer's drug slows mental decline in early study (Reuters) - An experimental drug from Biogen Idec Inc became the first Alzheimer's treatment to significantly slow cognitive decline and reduce what is believed to be brain-destroying plaque in patients with early and mild forms of the disease, according to a ...
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US judge rejects Amgen bid to block biosimilar Neupogen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday denied Amgen Inc's bid to block the sale of Novartis AG's recently approved "biosimilar" form of Neupogen, Amgen's blockbuster drug used to prevent infections in cancer patients.
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Something to sneeze at: Drought ushers in early allergy season The California drought probably isn't making the Bay Area's allergy season any worse than usual, but it's certainly hitting some sufferers earlier than they expected and may be prolonging their symptoms, allergists say.
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UPDATE 2-FDA panel backs Glaxo asthma drug for adults, not adolescents (Adds details, background, analyst comment, paragraphs 4-13). By Toni Clarke. March 19 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc's drug to treat chronic breathing problems is safe and effective enough for adults with asthma to use but not adolescents, an advisory ...
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5 Things You Didn't Know About Tobacco Despite killing 6 million people each year, tobacco use is still rampant worldwide, according to the new edition of the Tobacco Atlas, a report from the American Cancer Society and the World Lung Foundation.
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Is Sharenting Harming Our Kids? As a parent whose children came of age prior to the social media boom, I often congratulate my husband and myself on our impeccable timing.
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Ebola outbreak: UN health agency waited several weeks before declaring ... By early June of last year, the Ebola epidemic centred on Guinea was the deadliest ever recorded. Foreign workers were being evacuated.
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Sweden says detects bird flu virus in dead swans STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish authorities said on Friday they had discovered H5N8 bird flu in two dead swans, the same strain of the virus that has been found in several countries across Europe in recent months.
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Emails: UN health agency resisted declaring Ebola emergency FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 file photo, Pierre Formenty, a World Health Organization (WHO) technical officer who specializes in Ebola, speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, ...
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Safety experts slam lax safety practices at CDC labs The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recently had lab mishaps involving some of the world's most dangerous pathogens, does "inadequate" training, lacks leadership commitment toward safety and has a significant percentage of staff who ...
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Ebola Cases Surge in Guinea, as Liberia and Sierra Leone Show Progress Even though the latest Ebola epidemic first surfaced in Guinea more than a year ago, the tiny West African nation has been largely spared the catastrophic escalations in case counts experienced by neighbors Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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UPDATE 1-FDA panel backs Glaxo asthma drug for adults, not adolescents (Adds clinical trial recommendation, background). March 19 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc's drug to treat chronic breathing problems is safe and effective enough to be approved in adults with asthma, but not adolescents, an advisory panel to the U.S.
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Boosting Vaccination Coverage 'Very Pressing' To Recovery Process In Ebola ... A baby naps on his mother's shoulder as they enter the vaccination room during a routine visit at the Kuntorloh Community Health Centre in the outskirts of Freetown on November 14, 2014.
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Sierra Leone to lock down Ebola hotspots next week: officials FREETOWN (Reuters) - Residents in Sierra Leone's remaining Ebola hotspots will be confined to their houses for three days next week, officials said, as the government tries to snuff out an outbreak that has killed over 10,200 people across West Africa.
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Biogen Soars as Alzheimer's Drug Slows Disease Progress in Trial This color enhanced coronal MRI image of the brain shows the regions of the brain most severely affected in Alzheimer's disease.
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A delayed emergency and challenges for reform: 5 key findings from AP story on ... FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 file photo, people watch as a health worker, right, sprays a man suspected of dying from Ebola with disinfectant chemicals in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Study: Women Who Sleep More Also Have More Sex Women who get more shut-eye generally have more sex, according to researchers from the University of Michigan, who spent over two weeks tracking the sleep and sexual patterns of 171 young women.
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Evacuated health worker tests negative for Ebola A health worker evacuated from Sierra Leone has tested negative for Ebola and has been released from a Nebraska hospital. The health worker was one of 10 flown out of Sierra Leone last weekend after having contact with an American who contracted ...
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Weather a tough tree pollen season, fellow allergy sufferers This allergy season, I have a new perspective on hay fever - that of a sufferer. After 10 years of living in the Tampa Bay area, with only mild allergy symptoms in years past, I have suffered severe symptoms this spring.
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Two more US aid workers flown back for Ebola monitoring Health workers put on protective gear before entering a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone December 19, 2014.
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Biogen Drug Could Inspire New Hope For Alzheimer's Treatments An experimental Alzheimer's treatment being developed by biotechnology firm Biogen Idec seemed to slow patients' inexorable cognitive decline in a small, preliminary study.
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Labels to say how many calories in that Johnnie Walker shot NEW YORK - Want to know how many calories are in your shot of Johnnie Walker or your pint of Guinness? You're about to find out.
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GSK and Theravance Announce Outcome of US FDA Advisory Committee on ... GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE: GSK) and Theravance, Inc. (NASDAQ: THRX) today announced the outcome of the joint meeting of the Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee and Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee of the United States ...
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Study Links Brain Swelling to Deaths from Malaria Of all malarial complications, cerebral malaria is the deadliest. Mainly affecting children, who can die after going into coma, its lethality has largely been a mystery - until now.
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Smartwatches might cause cancer, says article based on 'expert' who pushes ... Fitbits probably won't give people tumors, but articles like the one The New York Times ran this week might give me an ulcer. In the recent piece by Style writer Nick Bilton, The New York Times pushes a heavy-handed anti-science message: Scientists aren't ...
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UPDATE 1-Sweden says detects bird flu virus in dead swans (Recasts with confirmation of bird flu, other details). STOCKHOLM, March 20 (Reuters) - Swedish authorities said on Friday they had discovered H5N8 bird flu in two dead swans, the same strain of the virus that has been found in several countries across ...
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This 104-Year-Old Woman Says Dr Pepper Is What's Keeping Her Alive The world's oldest people have all kinds of advice for living longer. Their secrets range from staying away from men and believing in the Lord to smoking cigars and eating a ton of pork.
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Fast-food restrictions in LA didn't improve diets or curb obesity: study LOS ANGELES -- A much-hailed law that restricted the opening of new stand-alone fast-food restaurants in one of the poorest sections of Los Angeles did not curb obesity or improve diets, a new study found.
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Hunting for the next Ebola outbreak in the deep African jungle Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Congo Republic: More than 4800 kilometres from the fading Ebola crisis in West Africa, a team of US-funded researchers is hunting deep in a remote rain forest for the next outbreak.
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Emails: UN health agency resisted declaring Ebola emergency GENEVA. By early June of last year, the Ebola epidemic centered on Guinea was the deadliest ever recorded. Foreign workers were being evacuated.
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Families of Liberian health workers killed by Ebola get $5G Sept. 10, 2014: Health workers load the body of a woman they suspect died from the Ebola virus onto a truck in Monrovia, Liberia. (AP).
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FOLD Expands, CERU Hits A High, FDA Panel Verdict Out On Breo Ellipta Amicus Therapeutics (FOLD: Quote) rose 33% on Thursday following positive regulatory updates related to approval pathways in the U.S.
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Here's what happened when Los Angeles banned new fast-food restaurants Back in 2008, new LA zoning regulations restricted fast-food restaurants from opening in certain neighborhoods, and prohibited existing ones from expanding.
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Water pipes can be more harmful than cigarettes: experts World health experts warned Thursday that smoking water pipes, long popular in the Middle East and North Africa and with a growing fan base elsewhere, can be more harmful than cigarettes.
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Liberia: Families of Health Workers Killed by Ebola Get $5k Liberia's government has begun making payments to the families of health workers who died of Ebola in the world's worst ever outbreak, an official said Thursday.
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ACC: Folate Supplements Cut Strokes in Hypertension savesaved. ▷. video-image. Discussant: Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD. by Parker Brown Staff Writer, MedPage Today. This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today® and: Medpage Today.
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Bill Gates warns world must be prepared for epidemic worse than Ebola WASHINGTON, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said Thursday the world must learn from the tragic Ebola outbreak and be prepared for an epidemic of a far more infectious disease that could affect about 10 million people.
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Woman With Prosthetic Leg Finds 'Really Rude' Letter on Windshield After ... An Ohio woman with a prosthetic leg who asked a neighbor not to park in her handicapped parking spot was left astonished by a nasty note she found on her car earlier this week.
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Malaria researchers pinpoint cause of child deaths Cerebral malaria may be responsible for more than three-quarters of the childhood deaths caused by the parasitic disease, which kills an estimated 600,000 people each year.
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Amputee Receives Rude Note About Parking Space MIAMISBURG, Ohio-- A simple request that someone stop parking in a spot reserved for an Ohio woman with a prosthetic leg drew a reply that's raising eyebrows.
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FDA Panel Recommends Approval Of GSK Asthma Drug For Adults But Not ... An asthma treatment co-developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance has been found safe and effective by a FDA review panel in treating adults but not adolescents.
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Zion concessions employee diagnosed with tuberculosis ZION NATIONAL PARK, Utah (AP) - Zion National Park officials are telling the public not to worry after an employee there was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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Photo shows doctor grieving after losing young patient The tender moment a doctor is seen grieving the loss of a young patient outside of a Southern California hospital is going viral. Imgur user NickMoore911, who is an EMT, posted the picture online with the caption "An ER doctor steps outside after losing a ...
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Ga. House bill passes major Senate committee after debate ATLANTA (AP) - The powerful Georgia Senate Health and Human Services committee has passed its own version of a House bill seeking to allow marijuana extracts to be used for eight medical conditions.
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Ohio amputee bullied in fight over handicapped spot A callous Ohio woman bullied her neighbor, calling her a "cry baby one leg" when the amputee asked her to stop parking in her handicapped space.
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'Cigarettes Kill' Message to Thwart Tobacco Industry Efforts The tobacco industry is focusing its intense marketing efforts on the poor, naïve, and most vulnerable to keep its coffers brimming with cash.
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