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The ongoing record outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa is killing six out of every ten people infected. And that, grimly enough, is the good news.
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As the first two cases of Ebola ever treated in the U.S. were recently admitted to a special containment unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, clinicians and public health officials continued to reassure a jittery public that infection control measures would prevent transmission and contain the virus.
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The most shocking of the recent laboratory mishaps and biosafety breaches was the discovery of a long-forgotten cache of live smallpox in a lab storage area at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
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Federal public health officials recently contacted clinicians at the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit in Omaha to determine if the facility could house Ebola patients if needed as the record outbreak in Western Africa continues.
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A second inhalation rapid human insulin has been approved by the FDA. The first inhaled insulin (Exubera) was approved in 2006 and was withdrawn from the market by Pfizer due to low acceptance and poor sales after about 13 months on the market
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In a meta-analysis of multiple prospective cohort studies, the lowest vitamin D metabolite (25-hydroxyvitamin D) quintile was associated with increased all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and cancer mortality.
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Contrary to prevailing opinion, eating lean beef may not be bad and perhaps might even favorably affect systolic blood pressure and vascular constriction.
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Gluten is a protein complex that may be inflammatory to humans and is increasingly recognized as a possible cause of numerous health problems such as irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, skin conditions, allergies, autoimmune arthritis, and neurodegenerative conditions.
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Dosing of beta-lactam antibiotics in critically ill patients is often inadequate and results in poor clinical outcomes.