Archive for the Category ‘Medical News’
New Drug-Resistant Gonorrhea Shows Up in Hawaii – NBCNews.com Gonococcus Bacterium BSIP / UIG via Getty Images But there’s good news – an experimental new antibiotic seems to work as well as current drugs at curing everyday gonorrhea, offering a potential new drug to use against the infection. The new, experimental drug is called ETX0914 […]
September 22, 2016 | Posted in
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Not All Who Wear Fitness Trackers Are Lost – The Atlantic New results published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association say that wearable monitor devices do not help people lose weight. Rather the opposite: People who wore trackers for 18 months of attempted weight loss actually lost less weight than people […]
September 21, 2016 | Posted in
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Eggo Waffle Recall: How To Find Listeria – Live Science Kellogg announced on Monday that it is recalling approximately 10,000 cases of Eggo Nutri-Grain Whole Wheat Waffles due to possible contamination with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. However, no one has been sickened by the waffles at this point, according to the company. Kellogg said in […]
September 21, 2016 | Posted in
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Fierce Debate at FDA on Whether Drug Decision Sets New Standard – Bloomberg On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration went somewhere it has rarely gone before. The FDA, which oversees the approval of new drugs, cleared a treatment by Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. despite what the agency’s director called a “significantly flawed” development program. […]
September 20, 2016 | Posted in
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Global fund raises .9 billion to fight AIDS, TB and malaria – Fox News A global fund has raised over $ 12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030, conference organizers said on Saturday. The Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector partners […]
September 19, 2016 | Posted in
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Childhood Cancer Deaths: Brain Cancer Overtakes Leukemia as Top Cause – Live Science Leukemia is no longer the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in children, but brain cancer has taken it’s place, according to a new report. All pediatric cancer death rates have been dropping since the mid-1970s, according to the report released today […]
September 19, 2016 | Posted in
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Childhood Cancer Deaths: Brain Cancer Overtakes Leukemia as Top Cause – Live Science Leukemia is no longer the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in children, but brain cancer has taken it’s place, according to a new report. All pediatric cancer death rates have been dropping since the mid-1970s, according to the report released today […]
September 18, 2016 | Posted in
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Childhood Cancer Deaths: Brain Cancer Overtakes Leukemia as Top Cause – Live Science Leukemia is no longer the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in children, but brain cancer has taken it’s place, according to a new report. All pediatric cancer death rates have been dropping since the mid-1970s, according to the report released today […]
September 18, 2016 | Posted in
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Global partnership to combat AIDS reaches billion goal – Reuters MONTREAL A global public-private partnership has reached its goal of raising $ 13 billion from international donors to combat AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday. During an international conference in Montreal, the Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector […]
September 17, 2016 | Posted in
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Zika zone triples in Miami Beach after more cases found – Miami Herald The zone of active transmission of Zika virus in Miami Beach has tripled to now encompass two-thirds of the seaside city. Gov. Rick Scott announced the expansion late Friday evening in a news release. The zone now stretches from 8th Street to […]
September 17, 2016 | Posted in
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