2015年1月31日 星期六

2015-02-01 U.S. Health


Voice Chronicle
   
Californian Lawmakers Want To Increase Smoking Age To 21   
Voice Chronicle
Californian officials want to pass a legislation which will increase the legal minimum age for smoking from the current age of 18 to 21. State Senator Ed Hernandez is alarmed by how many teenagers have taken up smoking, which is why he has helped to ...

The smoking age in California could be raised to 21   Examiner.com
California May Raise The Smoking Age To 21, Making Cigarettes Totally ...   Bustle
California Set on Increasing Minimum Smoking Age from 18 to 21   America Herald
Los Angeles Times   
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The Guardian
   
Military healthcare worker returns to Britain for Ebola monitoring   
Xinhua
LONDON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- A British military healthcare worker arrived back into Britain from Sierra Leone for Ebola monitoring, Public Health England (PHE) confirmed on Saturday. PHE said the person, suffered a needle-stock injury when treating a ...

Bridge of Hope assists in donation of aid truck to Sierra Leone   Maple Valley Reporter
Ebola: third UK healthcare worker treated for virus   The Guardian
Ebola outbreak: BA and Whitehall pushed to restart direct flights to virus-hit ...   The Independent
Scotsman   
BBC News   
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SFGate
   
Marin County sees its first measles cases; San Mateo adds one   
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Measles outbreak raises fury over California's vaccine exemptions   San Jose Mercury News
Why you should care about the measles outbreak–even if you're vaccinated   Fortune
Disney measles outbreak shines light on vaccines in Yolo County   Daily Democrat
International Business Times   
I Know Today   
News For Shoppers   
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Daily Science Journal
   
Chikungunya And Rheumatoid Arthritis Share Similar Symptoms And Test Results   
Daily Science Journal
Researchers have stated that doctors should check on their patients' travel and medical histories to help them identify whether Chikungunya or Rheumatoid Arthritis is behind the symptoms. According to a new research, people who are infected with ...

Mosquito-borne Chikungunya Virus Presents Similar to Rheumatoid Arthritis   Diabetes Insider
Is it Chikungunya or rheumatoid arthritis? Symptoms can be similar   UPI.com
Chikungunya and RA: Overlapping symptoms and testing results can lead to ...   Outbreak News Today
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Pioneer News
   
Study Examines Alcohol-Related Complications in Middle Age   
Pioneer News
A new study has looked at the effect of drinking too much alcohol on middle age. Particularly, the researchers wanted to examine the risk for developing high blood pressure and stroke. “Our study showed that drinking more than two drinks per day can shorten ...

Middle Aged Heavy Drinking Linked To Strokes   Voice Chronicle
Heavy Drinkers May Have Higher Stroke Risk   Nature World News
Too Much Alcohol at Midlife Raises Stroke Risk, Study Finds   U.S. News & World Report
Telegraph.co.uk   
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AsiaOne
   
"Mutant mosquitoes" may stop spread of deadly diseases in Florida Keys   
CBS News
Look out, mutants are coming to the Florida Keys. Mutant mosquitoes, that is. Millions of them. At least that's the plan being considered by federal health officials to head off dengue fever and chikungunya -- two deadly, mosquito-borne diseases. A British ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes used to curb outbreaks   AsiaOne
Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Could Fight Disease in Florida | The ...   The Weather Channel
Genetically Modified Mosquitos Might be Released in Keys   The Utah People's Post

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NBCNews.com
   
Obama Seeks Millions for 'Precision Medicine'   
NBCNews.com
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for $215 million to pay for what he's calling a Precision Medicine Initiative — a plan to rev up more targeted treatments for people. The hope is to build on gains like those made recently in treating cancer. Scientists ...

Barack Obama's precision medicine plan a $215M publicity play – and that's A-OK.   MedCity News
Obama touts 'lifesaving' potential of personalized medicine   Washington Post
Barack Obama eyes gene therapy growth   Boston Herald
MicroCap Observer   
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Times LIVE
   
Chimerix Scraps Testing of Experimental Ebola Drug in Liberia   
Wall Street Journal
Chimerix Inc. scrapped testing of its experimental antiviral in Ebola patients in Liberia, saying the number of infections had dropped in recent weeks, and that only a handful of patients had been enrolled in the Liberian study. The abrupt reversal in Chimerix's ...

Chimerix Focusing Efforts on CMV and Adenovirus Pivotal Trials   MarketWatch
Chimerix to stop participation in clinical studies of Ebola drug   Reuters

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The News Herald
   
Vaccine Critics Turn Defensive Over Measles   
Huffington Post
Their children have been sent home from school. Their families are barred from birthday parties and neighborhood play dates. Online, people call them negligent and criminal. And as officials in 14 states grapple to contain a spreading measles outbreak that ...

Disneyland, Measles and Madness   New York Times

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SFGate
   
Stanford chemist who developed birth control pill dead at 91   
SFGate
Carl Djerassi, a Stanford chemist who was a key contributor to the invention of the birth control pill, which forever changed the lives of modern women, died Friday of complications of cancer at his home in San Francisco. He was 91. Mr. Djerassi, who was ...

Scientist considered father of birth control pill dies   STLtoday.com
Key researcher behind birth-control pill dies at 91   Columbus Dispatch
Carl Djerassi, father of the birth control pill, dies at 91   Mashable
Washington Post   
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