2014年8月11日 星期一

2014-08-12 U.S. Health

  CBS News   
Ebola deaths pass 1000, United Nations says  CBS News
DAKAR, Senegal - The World Health Organization says the death toll in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has passed 1,000. The U.N. health agency said in a news release Monday that 1,013 people have died in the outbreak, which has hit Guinea, Liberia, ...

Last Doses of Ebola Drug Headed for Liberia as Death Toll Tops 1000   NBCNews.com
Ebola panic grips West Africa amid ethical concerns on experimental drugs   Firstpost
Ebola: Questions, answers about an unproven drug   SFGate
Brisbane Times   
New Zealand Herald   
Zee News   
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  Science 2.0   
Digoxin Deaths Are Why We Shouldn't Trust Medicine Just Because It's Been ...  Science 2.0
One of the greatest and most dangerous naturalistic fallacies is that if our ancestors used something, it must be as good or even better than modern science. In An Account of the Foxglove and Some of its Medical Uses, published in 1785, Sir William Withering ...

Digoxin to cause higher death risk   iStreet Research
Heart Medication Digoxin Linked to Higher Risk of Death for Some   Philly.com
Digoxin linked to higher risk of death for those with atrial fibrillation   eMaxHealth
MedPage Today   
New York Times (blog)   
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  Telegraph.co.uk   
GSK's Ebola vaccine trial soon  Financial Express
scientists. The world's worst outbreak of Ebola has killed nearly 1,000 people in West Africa, increasing pressure on researchers to accelerate their work on new medical interventions. A company spokeswoman said on Sunday that the trial should get ...

Ebola Vaccine Trials Set to Begin in September   U.S. News & World Report

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  Business Insider Australia   
Intercept Releases Positive Data on Liver Drug  Wall Street Journal
Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. ICPT +1.10% Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq $237.18 +2.58 +1.10% Aug. 11, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 295,496 AFTER HOURS $374.00 +136.82 +57.69% Aug. 11, 2014 7:59 pm Volume (Delayed ...

Intercept Pharma Soars 58% On Positive OCA FLINT Trial Data; Q2 Loss Widens   NASDAQ
Intercept Pharmaceuticals Soars On Positive Fatty Liver Drug Data   Investor's Business Daily
Intercept's liver drug found effective; shares soar   Yahoo News
TheStreet.com   
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  NBCNews.com   
The Ice Bucket Challenge story... and 6 creative ways to do it  Today.com
When 29-year-old Pete Frates learned he had ALS two years ago, he decided to approach it the same way he tackled everything. “When he was first diagnosed [he said] 'Look we are going to go after this thing,'” says John Frates, Pete's dad. “Pete has always ...

'Ice Bucket Challenge' is hot, hot, hot   The Union Leader
Ethel Kennedy challenges Obama to take 'Ice Bucket Challenge'; Obama responds   Boston Globe
'Ice Bucket Challenge' Sweeping Social Media & Helping Charities   CBS Local
Diabetes Insider   
Arizona Sports   
MyFox Chicago   
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  WallStreet OTC   
Lung cancer rate is declining?  iStreet Research
9 Good news, according to the National Cancer Institute, there is a decreasing rate of lung cancer cases in the past years. The bad news, there is a new type of cancer on the rise. Advertisements. For some reasons like increased price of tobacco and increase ...

The mystery behind the declining rates of lung cancer   Daily Digest
Overall lung cancer rates are dropping, but some subtypes are going the other way   Tech Times
Lung Cancer Rates Declining... Sort Of?   Upstart Magazine
HCPLive   
Blouin News Blogs   
Mississippi News Now   
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  Upstart Magazine   
FDA OKs first DNA-based test for colon cancer  Salt Lake Tribune
Washington • The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths. The Cologuard test from Exact Sciences detects irregular mutations in ...

Colon Cancer At-Home Test Predicts Disease With 92 Percent Accuracy   Viral Global News
FDA Approves Highly Accurate At-Home Colon Cancer Test   Philly.com
FDA approves alternative to colonoscopy   KARE
Upstart Magazine   
Madison.com   
Wall Street Journal   
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  Science World Report   
Many women not getting correct care for rare breast cancer  Houston Chronicle
Likely because of their doctors' ignorance, many women with a particularly aggressive and lethal kind of breast cancer don't receive the full treatment most likely to beat the disease, according to a Houston study. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center researchers are ...

Exercise cuts breast cancer risk in older women   WBTV

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  Bellingham Herald   
AIDS activist takes up a new fight: defending FDA  STLtoday.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — As an AIDS activist in the early 1990s, Gregg Gonsalves traveled to Washington to challenge the Food and Drug Administration. Gonsalves was part of the confrontational group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, which staged protests ...

Business Highlights   SFGate

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  NBCNews.com   
U.S. scientists create functional 3D brain-like tissue  GlobalPost
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers said Monday they have created a three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue in the rat brain and that can survive in the lab for more than two months.
Bioengineers create functional 3-D brain-like tissue   Eureka! Science News
NBD, Just Lab-Grown 3D Material That Functions Like a Rat's Brain   The Mary Sue
3D tissue lets US scientists study brain injury   Yahoo News UK

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