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Hopkins engineer students create devices to help keep babies alive
Johns Hopkins University Engineering students unveiled devices Monday that they hope will lower the number of still births and deaths from fever-related illnesses in developing countries. FeverPoint is a screening test that uses a cotton thread and a...Tags: Chemical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Pneumonia
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MPT program gives wrong impression of Lyme disease
Dan Rodricks' article, "MPT's flawed decision on flawed film" (June 19) is on the button. Mr. Rodricks' article may have been about MPT, but it highlights what is wrong with our heath care system. The MPT film, "Under our Skin: A health Care nightmare"...Tags: Human Body, Epidemics and Plagues, Symptoms, Movies, Diseases and Illnesses
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Officials widen hunt for anthrax
Sun StaffInvestigators offered new details about the anthrax used in the deadly mail attacks yesterday, as the bacteria sickened a State Department mail worker and federal officials widened the hunt for contamination to hundreds of mailrooms and post offices along...Tags: Employees, Manhattan (New York City), Anthrax, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Armed Forces
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An anthrax glossary
Exposure: Anthrax spores have been found in the nose or on the skin. It does not mean that the spores have entered the lungs or bloodstream or produced an illness. Infection: The spores, which are similar to seeds, have sprouted bacteria that have...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Anthrax, Hemorrhaging, Symptoms, Illnesses
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No sign of more resistant anthrax
Sun StaffU.S. health officials say it was probably Kathy Nguyen's delay in seeking treatment - and not any new, more antibiotic-resistant strain of anthrax - that prevented doctors from saving the New York hospital worker's life. Nguyen, 61, was already gravely...Tags: Lithuania, Mail Order Industry, Employees, Transportation, Manhattan (New York City)
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Anthrax reward: $1 million
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service offered rewards yesterday of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever sent anthrax-tainted letters to NBC in New York and to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Television, Death, Diseases and Illnesses, Television Industry
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'No guarantees' that mail is safe, postmaster says
Sun StaffTrying to reassure postal workers and an anxious public, the postmaster general moved to shore up the U.S. postal system against biological attack -- even suggesting that people should wash their hands after touching their mail. "We're telling people...Tags: Mail Order Industry, Television, Glen Burnie, CNN (tv network), Symptoms
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Woman in N.Y. 4th anthrax case
Sun StaffAn NBC News employee in New York became yesterday the fourth American to be discovered with a rare anthrax bacterium, raising fears that media companies may have been targeted for a biological attack through the mail. The possibility that the anthrax...Tags: Television, Death, Biopsy, Diseases and Illnesses, Animals
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Inmates sue, claim cleaners poisoned them
Philadelphia Daily NewsAS AN INMATE laborer at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, Chal D. Kennedy Sr. worked in the kitchen, heating and serving meals for nearly 400 inmates and then cleaning up after them. That meant scrubbing down two giant ovens once or twice a...Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Laws, Asthma
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Gatorade to drop BVO after consumer complaints
Responding to consumer concerns, PepsiCo announced Friday that it will remove brominated vegetable oil, an emulsifier, from citrus-flavored Gatorade sold in the U.S. Mississippi teenager Sarah Kavanagh launched an online petition in November that drew...Tags: Health Organizations, New Products, European Union, Japan, Coca-Cola Co.
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Pennsylvania company is in the early stages of a cervical cancer vaccine
CNNThe most common sexually transmitted disease is often silent and invisible: human papillomavirus (also called HPV). But in some people HPV leads to genital warts and cancers -- notably, cervical cancer. The vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix were designed as...Tags: Chemical Industry, HIV, Disease Prevention, HPV Vaccine, University of Missouri
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Two More Young Tourists Suffer Gruesome Deaths in Asia (Graphic Video)
KTLA NewsNHA TRANG, Vietnam -- The mysterious deaths of 2 more young tourists in Asia has prompted increase concerns over the possiblilty of poisonings. The latest victims, Kari Bowerman, 27, and Cathy Huynh, 26, were backpacking in Vietnam while on break from...Tags: New Zealand, Thailand, Hospitals and Clinics, Symptoms, High Blood Pressure
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