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Unprecedented Ebola Drug Trials Set for West Africa

Unprecedented Ebola Drug Trials Set for West Africa

| November 13, 2014 Comment

Unprecedented Ebola Drug Trials Set for West Africa – Doctors Without Borders announced Thursday instead of waiting for a confirmed Ebola cure, the organization plans to conduct three drug trials. Doctors Without Borders isn’t sitting around waiting for a confirmed Ebola cure. While pharmaceutical companies continue to look for the drug that’ll stop the epidemic, […]

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New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital

New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital

| November 12, 2014 Comment

New York Doctor Now Free of Ebola to Be Discharged from Hospital – A doctor’s expected hospital discharge on Tuesday after weeks of isolation treatment for Ebola was cheered by New Yorkers – from City Hall to the Harlem apartment building where he lives. According to media reports, the release of 33-yer-old Doctor Craig Spencer, […]

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Drug Companies to Blame for Ebola Outbreak? WHO Says So

Drug Companies to Blame for Ebola Outbreak? WHO Says So

| November 4, 2014 Comment

Drug Companies to Blame for Ebola Outbreak? WHO Says So – WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says “a profit-driven industry” contributed to the Ebola outbreak in poor African nations. Who exactly is responsible for the Ebola outbreak? Well, the World Health Organization is laying at least part of the blame in the hands of big pharmaceutical […]

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Scientists Try to Predict Number of US Ebola Cases

Scientists Try to Predict Number of US Ebola Cases

| November 1, 2014 Comment

Scientists try to predict number of US Ebola cases – Top medical experts studying the spread of Ebola say the public should expect more cases to emerge in the United States by year’s end as infected people arrive here from West Africa, including American doctors and nurses returning from the hot zone and people fleeing […]

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Ebola: WHO Announces Slowing Rate of New Cases

Ebola: WHO Announces Slowing Rate of New Cases

| October 30, 2014 Comment

Ebola: WHO announces slowing rate of new cases – Liberia may be experiencing a slowdown in the rate of new cases of the deadly Ebola virus according to the World Health Organization. “We are seeing a slowing rate of new cases, very definitely,” WHO Assistant Director General Bruce Aylward announced. The African country has reportedly […]

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Smoking Company Bans Smoking inside the Company

Smoking Company Bans Smoking inside the Company

| October 26, 2014 Comment

Smoking Company Bans Smoking inside the Company – In a rather ironic turn of events, the nation’s second-largest cigarette producer will no longer allow smoking in its office. Starting next year, employees of Reynolds American Inc. will no longer be able to smoke cigarettes at their desks, in elevators, in conference rooms or in the […]

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More People Diagnosed with TB in 2013, but There’s Good News

More People Diagnosed with TB in 2013, but There’s Good News

| October 23, 2014 Comment

More People Diagnosed with TB in 2013, but There’s Good News – The World Health Organization released a new report Wednesday showing nearly 9 million people developed tuberculosis in 2013 — a nearly 500,000-person increase compared to 2012. More than 1.5 million people died from the disease in 2013 — that number is also up […]

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WHO: Nigeria’s Ebola Outbreak Is Officially Over

WHO: Nigeria’s Ebola Outbreak Is Officially Over

| October 20, 2014 Comment

WHO: Nigeria’s Ebola Outbreak Is Officially Over – Nigeria is free of Ebola, the World Health Organization declared Monday a rare victory in the months-long battle against the fatal disease. WHO’s director for Nigeria, Rui Gama Vaz, told a news conference in the capital, Abuja, that Nigeria’s containment of Ebola is a “spectacular success story.” […]

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UN: We Botched Response to the Ebola Outbreak

UN: We Botched Response to the Ebola Outbreak

| October 17, 2014 Comment

UN: We Botched Response to the Ebola Outbreak – In a draft document, the World Health Organization (WHO) has acknowledged that it botched attempts to stop the now-spiraling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information. WHO is the U.N.’s specialized health agency, responsible for setting global health […]

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Are Blood Transfusions the Key to Beating the Ebola Outbreak?

Are Blood Transfusions the Key to Beating the Ebola Outbreak?

| October 16, 2014 Comment

Are Blood Transfusions the Key to Beating the Ebola Outbreak? The World Health Organization has prioritized the use of blood transfusions for treating Ebola, and three patients have received blood donated by an American doctor who survived the disease. But a lack of scientific study means that a lot is still unclear about the method […]

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Sierra Leone to Shut Down for 3 Days to Slow Ebola

Sierra Leone to Shut Down for 3 Days to Slow Ebola

| September 18, 2014 Comment

Sierra Leone to Shut Down for 3 Days to Slow Ebola – Shoppers crowded streets and markets in Sierra Leone’s capital on Thursday stocking up for a three-day shutdown that authorities will hope will slow the spread of the Ebola outbreak that is accelerating across West Africa. According to figures released by the World Health […]

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Cuba Answers WHO’s Call for More Ebola Help

| September 13, 2014 Comment

Cuba answers WHO’s call for more Ebola help – The communist island nation of Cuba is sending 165 healthcare workers to West Africa to help fight Ebola, said to be the biggest commitment of personnel from any one country against the current outbreak. Mana Rabiee reports.

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