2014年9月15日 星期一

2014-09-16 U.S. Health

  Fox News   
Health trials using Apple's HealthKit about to start at two US hospitals  tuaw.com
Apple's HealthKit is one of the most exciting aspects of iOS 8, but when it launches, the app's focus will be mainly on fitness rather than longterm health. HealthKit still has a long way to go before its full potential is realized, but work is already underway.
Two US hospitals to launch medical trials using Apple's HealthKit   AppPicker.com
Apple's HealthKit to be used in medical trials   WallStreet OTC
Two Apple medical trials shed light on how HealthKit will work   Reuters
The Mac Observer   
TechNewsWorld   
Latino Post   
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End 'panic' measures undermining fight against Ebola: Ghana  WHBL Sheboygan
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on Monday called for the easing of restrictions on West African nations fighting Ebola, saying "panic" measures had led to isolation and undermined the battle against the disease.

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  Tech Times   
Unraveling schizophrenia: It's a bundle of disorders, not just one disease  Tech Times
A new study has identified not one, but eight different genetic clusters that are linked to schizophrenia. Each set of genes is marked by a different set of symptoms, suggesting that schizophrenia is not one syndrome as previously thought, but eight similar ...

Schizophrenia Deemed Group of Eight Separate Disorders   Doctors Lounge
Schizophrenia is actually eight disorders, not one disease   UPI.com
8 Genetically Distinct Disorders Linked to Schizophrenia   Science World Report
HCPLive   
Capital OTC   
Medical News Today   
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  Wall Street Journal   
Gilead to Allow Cheaper Hepatitis C Drug in Developing Countries  Wall Street Journal
Gilead said it would charge $300 for a bottle of the pills in India, while some of the generic companies indicated they would charge less for their own versions. That would mean hepatitis C patients in developing countries would pay $10 a day or less for ...

Drug companies to make a cheaper hepatitis C drug   Washington Post
Maker of Costly Hepatitis C Drug Sovaldi Strikes Deal on Generics for Poor ...   New York Times
Generic Hepatitis C Drug Could Help 100 Million People Living with Disease   TIME
Calcutta Telegraph   
seattlepi.com (blog)   
Chicago Tribune   
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1 in 3 Retired NFL Players Will Have These Problems  WebMD
Sept. 15, 2014 -- One in three retired National Football League players will develop neurological problems, and those problems will develop at "notably younger ages" than is normal, numbers released Friday show. The statistics formed the basis of a ...


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  Wall Street Journal   
Certain Bald Men Have a Higher Risk of Developing Aggressive Prostate Cancer  Wall Street Journal
Men with a certain pattern of baldness at age 45 had a 39% increased risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer versus men with no baldness, a new U.S. study found. Men with frontal baldness and moderate baldness on the crown of the head had a ...

New Study Suggests Link Between Male Pattern Baldness and Prostate Cancer   Dumb-Out
Baldness Pattern Could Reveal Prostate Cancer Risk In Men   Headlines & Global News
Study Shows Male Pattern Baldness Might Be Linked To Prostate Cancer   Diabetes Insider
KDramaStars   
Counsel & Heal   
Local 8 Now   
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Actavis Sued by New York A.G. Over Alzheimer's Drug Swap  Bloomberg
Actavis Plc (ACT) was sued by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is trying to stop the drugmaker from swapping one version of its Namenda Alzheimer's drug for another. The Dublin-based company's plans to discontinue the ...

NY attorney general sues Actavis and Forest Labs over Alzheimer's drug   Reuters
New York Files an Antitrust Suit Against the Maker of an Alzheimer's Drug   New York Times
"Forced switch" maneuver spurs lawsuit against drugmaker   CBS News
SFGate   
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  Forbes   
HEALTHBEAT: Obama to visit CDC to discuss Ebola amid questions of whether ...  Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON — The American strategy on Ebola is two-pronged: Step up desperately needed aid to West Africa and, in an unusual step, train U.S. doctors and nurses for volunteer duty in the outbreak zone. At home, the goal is to speed up medical research ...

Lamar Alexander says Ebola as serious a threat as ISIL   WBIR-TV
Massachusetts Doctors Heading to West Africa to Help Stop Ebola Epidemic   NECN
Obama to vastly ramp up Ebola effort   Houston Chronicle
Peach Pundit   
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  ABC News   
Texas doctor poisoned lover's coffee over obsession: prosecutor  Reuters
HOUSTON (Reuters) - A breast cancer physician charged with spiking her lover's coffee with a compound used in antifreeze was obsessed with the man and even had a private investigator follow him, prosecutors said in opening statements at her trial on ...

Trial begins in poisoning of Texas medical center doctor   Press Herald
Ana Maria Gonzalez-Angulo trial begins   Daily Mail
Trial of Texas Doctor Accused in Poisoning Begins   ABC News

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  BBC News   
Ebola outbreak: UN security council to hold emergency session  BBC News
The UN Security Council has announced it will hold an emergency session on Thursday to discuss international efforts to contain the ebola epidemic. Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea are the worst-hit countries in an outbreak that has killed more than 2,400 ...

UN Security Council to meet this week on Ebola virus outbreak   MSNBC
UN security council to hold emergency Ebola talks   CIDRAP
UN Security Council To Hold Emergency Meeting On Ebola Crisis   RTT News
RIA Novosti   
ABC News   
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