Year: 2014

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali has released from quarantine the last 13 people being monitored for Ebola, and the country could be declared free of the virus next month if no further cases are recorded, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Mali has recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according to the latest WHO data published on Monday, has killed some 6,841 people in neighbouring Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in the worst epidemic of the viral haemorrhagic fever. …

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(Reuters) – Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc said an independent committee had determined that its lead drug was unlikely to show a statistically significant improvement in the survival rates in some leukemia patients. The company’s stock plunged nearly 69 percent to 89 cents in premarket trading on Tuesday. Cyclacel’s oral drug, sapacitabine, is being tested in a late-stage study in patients with acute myeloid leukemia, who are unfit for or have refused intensive chemotherapy. …
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to head off a new round of consumer headaches with President Barack Obama’s health care law, the insurance industry said Tuesday it will give customers more time to pay their premiums for January.
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PARIS (Reuters) – Italy has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a turkey farm in the northeastern part of the country near Venice, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. The strain, which has never been detected in humans, is the same as in other cases found in Germany, the Netherlands and Britain since early November and which devastated bird flocks in Asia – mainly South Korea – earlier this year. …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German authorities have confirmed a case of the H5N8 strain of bird flu at a Turkey farm in the north western state of Lower Saxony, a spokesman for the state’s agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. The strain is highly contagious among birds but has never been detected in humans. The first H5N8 case in Germany was confirmed on Nov. 4 on a poultry farm in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. A second was found in a wild bird on Nov. 22. (Reporting by Alexandra Hudson; editing by Erik Kirschbaum)
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Eating eggs can be a great way to give yourself a healthy boost. … To boost weight loss: Contrary to popular belief, eating eggs can help boost weight …
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