2014年12月24日 星期三

2014-12-25 U.S. Health


New York Times
   
Ebola Sample Is Mishandled at CDC Lab in Latest Error   
New York Times
A laboratory mistake at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta may have exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, federal officials said on Wednesday. The technician will be monitored for signs of infection for 21 days, the incubation ...

CDC worker monitored for possible Ebola exposure in lab error   Reuters
Error at CDC puts lab tech at risk for Ebola   The Seattle Times
CDC Monitoring Tech For Possible Ebola Exposure   Huffington Post

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Voice of America
   
Sierra Leone Trains New Ebola Burial Team   
Voice of America
A spokesman for Sierra Leone's government says a newly trained burial team will soon be deployed to those places most affected by the Ebola outbreak. Abdulai Bayraytay said, “They are ready to go into the field. In fact, …we have given the current burial ...

Sierra Leone district declares three-day Ebola lockdown   Reuters
Report: Ebola survival improving in Sierra Leone   Charlotte Observer

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San Francisco Chronicle
   
AbbVie secures exclusivity on hepatitis C drug with cheaper price [Chicago ...   
Businessweek
Dec. 22-- AbbVie has substantially cut the price of its newly approved hepatitis C drug to win an exclusive deal with Express Scripts, the nation's largest manager of prescription drug benefits, the companies said Monday. Starting Jan. 1, Express Scripts will ...

Get ready to negotiate, drugmakers: Payers are armed for drug-pricing battle   FiercePharma
Gilead, Abbvie, Express Scripts, And Biotech Industry Turmoil Seen By Market ...   Seeking Alpha
Exclusive: Express Scripts presses for expansion of drugs it won't cover   Reuters
Bidness ETC   
Wall Street Journal   
New York Times   
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Empire State Tribune
   
Advertising Standards Authority: No Double Standard In Cigarette Advertisements   
Empire State Tribune
The Advertising Standards Authority, or ASA, has clamped down on three ads promoting e-cigarettes on TV. This happened as more than 200 complaints were filed against the ads complaining that they were highly offensive. The rules concerning electronic ...

Three e-cigarette TV adverts banned   BBC News
Teen survey: Marijuana use is down, but e-cigs are popular   Daily Democrat
Trio of ecigarette adverts banned from UK TV for glamourising tobacco   CITY A.M.
Marketing   
Gloucester Citizen   
Breitbart News   
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Science World Report
   
The Light From An iPad May Be Interrupting Your Sleep   
Science World Report
Could the glow of your iPad be messing up your sleep pattern? Recent findings published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) show that these devices could be interfering with our ability to get an adequate night's rest.
Using Electronic Readers Late At Night Impacts Quality Sleep   Design & Trend
iPads, tablets, smartphones disrupt good sleep, study finds   Washington Post
Ebook readers 'can damage sleep and health'   Telegraph.co.uk
The Week Magazine   
RTT News   
Times of India   
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WOWT
   
Flu beginning to spread across Rhode Island   
The Providence Journal
Influenza is beginning to spread through Rhode Island this winter, according to state health officials, but it's still too early to say whether this flu season is shaping up to be a particularly difficult one. “It's hard to tell what a flu season is going to be until you get to ...

Flu season mild now but could grow worse, doctors say   Sacramento Bee
Flu season picking up in time for the holidays   Tribune-Review
KFYR Influenza Cases Rise in ND   KFYR-TV
1011now   
Loveland Reporter-Herald   
The Denver Post   
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Macro Insider
   
FDA Continues Blood Libel of Gay Men   
Huffington Post
The new FDA rules on blood donations by gay men continue to perpetuate falsehoods. Euronews may call it "a major victory for gay civil rights" but it is NO such thing. Previously, any gay man who ever had sex with another man, no matter how "safe" the sex, ...

FDA discusses easing blood donation ban on gay men   KITV Honolulu
Gay advocates in North Jersey react to revised blood-donation rule   NorthJersey.com
FDA Proposing To Lift Ban On Gay Men Donating Blood   KOLO
My Champlain Valley FOX44 & ABC22   
Morning Vertical   
wreg.com   
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CBC.ca
   
Smartphone-touchscreen use altering brain activity   
CBC.ca
Increasing use of smartphone touchscreens is altering brain activity in relation to fingertips, says a new study. Researchers from Switzerland were intrigued to learn how people's brains were responding to increased use of their thumbs and other fingertips due ...

Thumbing around on a smartphone makes your brain more sensitive to touch ...   Washington Post
Smartphone use changes our brains: study   CTV News
Smartphone use 'changing our brains'   BBC News

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KGO-TV
   
Family of woman killed by listeria infection from caramel apples speaks out   
KGO-TV
The family of the Santa Cruz woman who died of a listeria infection after eating caramel apples has filed a wrongful death suit against Pleasanton-based Safeway. Embed. <iframe width="476" height="270" ...

Happy Apples Recalls Caramel Apples After Listeria Outbreak   Food Poison Journal
Caramel apple company issues recall after listeria outbreak   The Seattle Times (blog)
Listeriosis Case Possibly Linked to Placer County   Rocklin and Roseville Today
Legal Examiner   
FOX40   
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Animal research at NIH lab challenged by members of Congress   
Reuters
(Reuters) - Animal research practices at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) facility in Poolesville, Maryland are being challenged by four members of Congress, who have asked the NIH director to commission a bioethical review of experiments being ...


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