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Asian Herb Holds Promise as Treatment for Ebola Virus Disease

Written on February 26, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

New research that focuses on the mechanism by which Ebola virus infects a cell and the discovery of a promising drug therapy candidate is being published February 27, 2015, in the journal Science. Dr. Robert Davey, scientist and Ewing Halsell Scholar in the Department of Immunology and Virology at Texas Biomedical Research Institute announced today that a small molecule called Tetrandrine derived from an Asian herb has shown to be a potent small...

Ebola Vaccine: Human Antibodies Target Marburg & Ebola Viruses

Written on February 26, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Science News, World News.

One step closer to Ebola vaccine: Researchers at Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and The Scripps Research Institute for the first time have shown how human antibodies can neutralize the Marburg virus, a close cousin to Ebola. Their findings, published this week in two papers in the journal Cell, should speed development of the first effective treatment and vaccine against these often lethal viruses, said...

What You Need to Know About the Flu Vaccine

Written on February 25, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Personal Safety.

This year’s annual flu shot will offer protection against H1N1 flu (swine flu) virus, in addition to two other influenza viruses that are expected to be in circulation this flu season. A vaccine that protects against four strains of the virus will also be available, as will a high-dose flu vaccine for adults age 65 and older. As you can see there are many different flu vaccines and the general population believes that there is just one. This...

Ebola Orphanage Worker Dies in Sierra Leone

Written on February 25, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, World News.

A Sierra Leonean who worked with children orphaned by Ebola has died of the disease himself. Augustine Baker had been admitted to an Ebola treatment centre after becoming ill last week. The orphanage where he worked is run by a UK charity in Sierra Leone and was quarantined after Baker was diagnosed with the deadly ebola virus. He was said to be in stable condition when admitted to a local treatment centre after becoming ill last week. A report...

Funding For Development of Microneedle Patch Polio Vaccine

Written on February 25, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News.

The Georgia Institute of Technology and Micron Biomedical have been awarded $2.5 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the development of dissolvable microneedle patches for polio immunization. The patches will be studied to evaluate their potential role as part of the worldwide efforts to eradicate polio. The funds will support research and development of vaccine-filled microneedles that are designed to dissolve...

8 of 10 Americans Polled Support Mandatory Measles Vaccines

Written on February 24, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, USA News.

A new CNN/ORC poll shows nearly 8 of 10 Americans believe parents should be required to vaccinate their healthy children against preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella and polio. If the children are not vaccinated, most agree the child should not be allowed to attend public school or day care. These results come as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting a total of 154 cases of measles in the country, from...

North Korea Bans Foreign Runners From Marathon

Written on February 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Travel, World News.

North Korea has banned foreign runners from participating in an international marathon scheduled to be held in the capital in April, citing fears about the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, agencies specializing in North Korea tours said on Monday. North Korea is thousands of miles from the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and has reported no cases of the virus, which has killed more than 9,000 people. North Korea has banned all non-Korean...

Natural Remedy Ideas For The Ebola Cure

Written on February 23, 2015. Posted in Featured, Opinion News, Personal Safety.

Despite what you have been told about Ebola, it can be destroyed naturally. Up to today there is not a single virus that has been tested that is not killed by a large dose of vitamin C. There is a possibility for a natural Ebola cure. Another natural remedy is cannabis which several doctors have stated that it could be a cure because the Ebola virus affects the body the same way that the HIV virus does and Cannabis has been proven to help HIV patients...

Dealing With Our Fears of Ebola and ISIS

Written on February 23, 2015. Posted in Featured, Opinion News, Personal Safety, Travel.

They are dark, unseen enemies, come from far away – and they are scaring us witless. ISIS is not a disease, and Ebola is not a terror organization. But fear is their common currency: intentional for one, inevitable for the other. Today they can seem to be working in tandem, a pincer movement paralyzing the world’s governments as it terrifies the world’s people. Each time one advances, the space for the other expands. From the vantage point of the...

Forgotten Bacterium Is the Cause of Many Severe Sore Throats

Written on February 23, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News.

New research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham suggests that Fusobacterium necrophorum more often causes severe sore throats in young adults than streptococcus — the cause of the much better known strep throat. The findings, published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, suggest physicians should consider F. necrophorum when treating severe sore throat, known as pharyngitis, in young adults and adolescents that worsens. In an analysis...