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Santa Barbara Woman in LA-Area Hospital is Negative for Ebola

Written on March 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured.

Monday morning public health officials said that a Santa Barbara County resident who was being monitored since returning from a country experiencing the Ebola epidemic tested negative for the virus at a Los Angeles area hospital. Santa Barbara County Public Health officials said the woman was isolated after she developed a fever and signs of illness on Sunday evening. The patient was initially monitored at home and it was during that monitoring...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta Honored for Reporting on Medical Marijuana

Written on March 20, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta—a practicing neurosurgeon and Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN—recently received the prestigious Alfred I. duPont Award for his work on a pair of influential documentaries on medical marijuana, according to a cover feature in the April issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Wolters Kluwer. A special cover essay highlights Dr. Gupta’s achievement in...

Signs and Symptoms of Cervical Cancer

Written on March 20, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News.

Women with early cervical cancers and pre-cancers usually have no symptoms. Symptoms often do not begin until a pre-cancer becomes a true invasive cancer and grows into nearby tissue. When this happens, the most common symptoms are: Abnormal vaginal bleeding, such as bleeding after sex (vaginal intercourse), bleeding after menopause, bleeding and spotting between periods, and having longer or heavier (menstrual) periods than usual. Bleeding after...

Russian Scientists Started Testing 4 Ebola Vaccines on Primates

Written on March 19, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

Four Ebola virus vaccines developed by Russian scientists are ready and being tested on primates. “All the four vaccines are ready. Tests on primates have already begun,” said Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova on Tuesday. Anna Popova, head of Russia’s health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, said that the agency has began testing a vaccine for the Ebola virus. Popova was cited as saying that successful testing of the vaccine will enable...

WHO Taps UAB Graduate to Evaluate Global Ebola Response

Written on March 18, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham graduate who led successful Ebola containment efforts in Nigeria has now been tapped to serve as an international expert on the disease. Faisal Shuaib, M.D., Dr.P.H., head of the National Ebola Emergency Operations Center in Nigeria and a 2010 graduate of the UAB School of Public Health’s Dr.P.H. in International Health program, has been appointed to a six-person independent expert committee to evaluate the...

US Healthcare Worker With Ebola in Serious Condition at NIH

Written on March 14, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, USA News.

The NIH said the health-care worker was admitted at 4:44 a.m. Friday to its high-containment facility on its Bethesda, Md., campus, after being evacuated to the U.S. by chartered jet. Physicians have evaluated the patient with Ebola virus disease and have determined that the patient’s condition is serious. No additional details about the patient are being shared at this time. The patient has been admitted to the NIH Clinical Center’s Special Clinical...

11 Odd Facts about Marijuana that You Probably Didn’t Know

Written on March 14, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Opinion News.

Marijuana, the most commonly used illegal drug in America, is going mainstream. Now legal for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, pot seems poised for wider use, too: 21 states allow the possession and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. And legalization campaigns are underway in Oregon, California and even Alaska. But just how much do you know about the wacky weed and its odd effects?...

Measles Cases Predicted to Almost Double in Ebola Epidemic Countries

Written on March 13, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, World News.

An international study involving the University of Southampton suggests there could be a rise in measles cases of 100,000 across the three countries most affected by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa due to health system disruptions. The research in the journal Science, led by Princeton and Johns Hopkins University in the USA, predicts that the size of a measles outbreak will increase from 127,000 at the start of the Ebola epidemic in early 2014,...

Ebola-Infected Sewage May Require Longer Holding Period

Written on March 12, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Personal Safety.

Storing Ebola-infected sewage for a week at 86° Fahrenheit or higher should allow enough time for more than 99.99 percent of the virus to die, though lower ambient temperatures may require a longer holding period, according to a new study by researchers at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health. The study co-authored by Lisa M. Casanova, assistant professor of environmental health, and Scott R. Weaver, research assistant professor in...

British Military Healthcare Worker Has Tested Positive for Ebola

Written on March 11, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, World News.

A UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola, according to officials. The unidentified woman was working at the Ebola Treatment Center in Kerry Town, which was built with Government funding and is managed by Save the Children. She is currently being treated at the same location according to a Ministry of Defense spokesperson. Authorities are trying to establish how she was exposed to the virus and tracing individuals...