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U.S. working on new screenings for Ebola but no travel ban

YoopyaOctober 7, 2014July 25, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 7, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Monday that the government would develop expanded screening of airline passengers for Ebola, both in the West African...

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Spanish nurse becomes first to contract Ebola outside West Africa

YoopyaOctober 7, 2014July 25, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 7, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – A Spanish nurse has become the first person to contract Ebola outside of Africa, casting doubt over measures taken in Spain to control...

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Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS

YoopyaOctober 7, 2014September 7, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 7, 2014September 7, 20230

(Reuters) – Anglo-American John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for discovering the brain’s...

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High risk Ebola could reach France and UK by end-October, scientists calculate

YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 20230

Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by...

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Silicon Valley takes benefits ‘arms race’ to health care

YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – High salaries and free food aren’t enough any more in Silicon Valley, where maturing companies are competing for talent with creative health care...

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Dallas Ebola patient fighting for life, another headed to Nebraska

YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital and appeared to be...

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U.S. defends Ebola response, about 50 under observation

YoopyaOctober 4, 2014September 2, 2023

by YoopyaOctober 4, 2014September 2, 20230

By Jon Herskovitz DALLAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials on Friday broadly defended the response to the country’s first case of Ebola, although one acknowledged that...

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Rains complicate delivery of Ebola supplies in West Africa

YoopyaSeptember 30, 2014July 29, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 30, 2014July 29, 20230

By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The rainy season in West Africa is compounding difficulties in getting supplies delivered and new treatment centres...

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Roche breast cancer drug ‘unprecedented’ in extending lives

YoopyaSeptember 28, 2014July 29, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 28, 2014July 29, 20230

(Reuters) – A new breast cancer drug from Roche has shown unprecedented benefits in extending lives in a clinical trial and experts urged its widespread...

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Obama says “significant gap” in global effort to fight Ebola

YoopyaSeptember 26, 2014July 15, 2023

by YoopyaSeptember 26, 2014July 15, 20230

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that there was still a significant gap between where we are...