Treatments – Ebola

CBD May Reduce Seizures & Treatment-Resistant Epilepsy

Written on February 11, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News, Treatments.

A team of Stony Brook University researchers have identified fatty acid binding proteins (FABPs) as intracellular transporters for two ingredients in marijuana, THC and CBD (cannabidiol). The finding, published early online in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, is significant because it helps explain how CBD works within the cells. Recent clinical findings have shown that CBD may help reduce seizures and could be a potential new medicine to treat...

Ebola Care Centers in Liberia nearly empty as Outbreak fades

Written on January 23, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, Treatments, World News.

Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country’s success in halting new infections. “We have five confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia as of today,” said Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah, who heads Liberia’s Ebola taskforce. “It means that we are going down to zero,...

Ebola Drugs Could be Obsolete Before They’re Available

Written on January 20, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Business News, Featured, Health News, Treatments.

New treatments for Ebola could be obsolete before they are available for use by patients, because of genetic mutations in the disease, scientists have warned. They said they’d found 10 new mutations that might interfere with how three of the most advanced drugs work against Ebola. The drugs, including the experimental ZMapp given to several Ebola survivors, should be tested against the current strain, the researchers said. Experimental drugs...

26 year old Dies of Sepsis after getting Flu

Written on January 16, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Opinion News, Science News, Treatments, USA News.

A Wisconsin newlywed started to feel sick with the flu on a Monday. By Friday, she was dead. Katie McQuestion, a 26-year-old radiology technician got a flu shot to comply with hospital policy and had no underlying medical conditions, but she caught the flu and developed a serious complication from it. The Kenosha, Wisconsin, resident was shopping with her mom when she said she wasn’t feeling well. She felt aches, chills, and headaches, and...

MSF Opens Ebola Clinic Specifically For Pregnant Women In Sierra Leone

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

A new clinic is giving some of the most vulnerable Ebola patients a better chance at surviving the virus. The facility is the first care center created specifically for pregnant women since the current outbreak began, Reuters reported. There is currently one patient in the clinic, which is perched on a hill in the compound of a disused Methodist boys high school in the Sierra Leone capital. More than 20,700 people have been infected with the virus...

Sierra Leone declares first Ebola Free district

Written on January 12, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Government News, Health News, Treatments, World News.

A district in Sierra Leone has been declared Ebola-free, the first to be given the all-clear after 42 days with zero recorded cases of the virus. Pujehun, in the south-east of the country, was hit by Ebola in August and suffered 24 deaths from 31 cases – but it has not had a recorded case since 26 November. This means it has achieved the World Health Organization’s benchmark for Ebola-free status. As the fight against the deadly Ebola Virus disease...

UK Ebola Nurse Condition Improving

Written on January 12, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Treatments, World News.

British Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey, who contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, is showing signs of improvement and is no longer critically ill, the Royal Free hospital inLondon has said. The Scottish public health worker remains in isolation at the hospital where she is receiving specialist care. She was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow and was admitted to the city’s Gartnavel hospital on 29 December before being transferred...

Anesthesiologists Face the Ebola Epidemic—Time to ‘Educate, Train and Prepare’

Written on January 6, 2015. Posted in Featured, Health News, Science News, Treatments, World News.

Because of their responsibility for performing airway intubation and other invasive procedures, anesthesiologists will play an essential role in managing patients with Ebola virus infection. Scientific evidence guiding the anesthetic management of Ebola virus disease (EVD) is presented and analyzed in a special article published byAnesthesia & Analgesia. “Given the current spread of the disease, anesthesia personnel worldwide may be called...

Italian Ebola patient released from hospital in Rome

Written on January 2, 2015. Posted in Breaking News, Featured, Health News, Treatments, World News.

(Reuters) – Italy’s only Ebola patient is fully recovered and was released from hospital on Friday more than a month after being flown to Rome from Sierra Leone where he worked as a doctor treating others stricken by the disease. The 50-year-old Sicilian man has been identified only by his first name, Fabrizio. He contracted the hemorrhagic virus while working for humanitarian group Emergency during the worst Ebola outbreak on record. “For...

Experimental drug for Scottish Nurse battling Ebola

Written on December 31, 2014. Posted in Breaking News, Health News, Science News, Treatments, World News.

(BBC NEWS) Specialists at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, where the nurse is being treated, did not name the drug. Dr Michael Jacobs said Ms Cafferkey was in isolation and was sitting up in bed, talking and reading. As the disease has no known cure and is unpredictable, Dr Jacobs said they would know more in a week’s time. He said Ms Cafferkey had agreed to all the treatments and her family had been to see her. “She’s a...