Health care
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PublishedOctober 6, 2014
Spanish nurse is first person to contract Ebola outside Africa
The nurse was part of a team that treated two missionaries who returned to Spain after being infected in West Africa.
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PublishedOctober 6, 2014
Ebola fear gripping Liberians in Dallas
People close to the stricken man, who is 'fighting for his life,' say they're being shunned by their terrified community.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2014
Riverview psychiatric patients, looking for refuge, find isolation instead
The Augusta-based facility has relied on the use of seclusion and restraints at comparatively high rates, even as national experts have discredited the methods as harmful to mental health.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2014
U.S. Ebola risk will remain until 42 exposure-free days pass
DALLAS — Public health officials said Saturday that it would take more than a month before they can declare the risk of Ebola exposure eliminated here after a patient from Liberia was diagnosed last week with the first U.S. case of the deadly virus. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and […]
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PublishedOctober 3, 2014
Maine won’t reveal school district of child with enterovirus
Anyone who would have been infected by the child would already have been sick, says the head of Maine's CDC.
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PublishedOctober 3, 2014
Maine’s major hospitals have emergency plans to address Ebola
With a case in Texas already confirmed, officials here have received federal guidance and made plans for anyone with the virus.
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PublishedOctober 1, 2014
Drugmakers’ impact arouses concern
Some see conflicts as the pharmaceutical industry pays billions to doctors and hospitals.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2014
Vitamin D may help prevent dumbing down with aging
The supplement apparently boosts the machinery that helps recycle and repackage signaling chemicals.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2014
Researchers seeking data on A-bomb test and cancer
The National Cancer Institute is counting cases that may be linked to the world's first atomic bomb test almost 70 years ago at Trinity Site in New Mexico.
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PublishedSeptember 30, 2014
New respiratory virus could cause paralysis
Kids in Missouri and Colorado are experiencing symptoms as the disease continues to spread.
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