Year: 2015

LONDON (Reuters) – A British nurse diagnosed with Ebola last month is recovering and is no longer in a critical condition, the London hospital treating her said in a statement on Monday. "Pauline Cafferkey is showing signs of improvement and is no longer critically ill," the statement said. "She remains in isolation as she receives specialist care for the Ebola virus." (Reporting by William James; editing by Stephen Addison)

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PARIS (Reuters) – Taiwan has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu virus on a goose farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday. The outbreak started on Jan. 8 at a farm in Da-Lin Township, Chiayi County and killed 3,683 out of 5,200 birds, the Taiwanese authorities said in a report to the Paris-based OIE. The strain is the same as in other cases found in Europe, North America and elsewhere in Asia in the past year. (Reporting by Gus Trompiz, editing by Michel Rose)

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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved AbbVie Inc's treatment for Parkinson's disease, three months ahead of the scheduled review date. The treatment, Duopa — a combination of carbidopa and levodopa — is the first to be effective for 16 hours, compared with existing oral formulations that last for up to four hours following a single dose. Duopa, already available in Canada, is administered using a small portable infusion pump that delivers the drug directly to the small intestine. AbbVie shares were up 1 percent in premarket trading. …

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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The Massachusetts doctor who beat the Ebola virus he contracted while working in Liberia is returning to West Africa.
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Bone broth's newfound status as a diet and health elixir has legs, though, as 3 … Despite it being around 40+ years, the diet recently was re-introduced to … to get healthier—not necessarily good news for the $60 billion weight loss …
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of Kaiser Permanente’s mental health professionals plan to start a weeklong strike throughout California on Monday to protest what they say is a lack of staffing that affects care.
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You should be able to lift the weight 5-10 times in a row without having pain. … Was Weight loss or eating healthy your resolution? How is it going, now …
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Area experts from the fields of health and wellness, nutrition and exercise … It never leads to weight loss and in fact probably leads to weight gain," … Changing the foods you eat impacts more than just your weight, Jayatilake noted.
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“Other diets can help you lose weight, but only the Zero Belly diet attacks fat on a genetic level, placing a bull's-eye on the fat cells that matter most: …
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