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Houston Hospital Helps Amputee Patients With New Prosthetics Procedure
New surgical procedure at a Houston hospital increases success of people getting prosthetics.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Cyberattack: Trump advisor dismisses idea that US is to blame
White House Homeland Security advisor Tom Bossert dismisses the idea that the US is to blame for the unprecedented cyberattack which affected 200,000 people in over 150 countries
Sky News
NICE New Antibiotics Guidelines Released Today
VOICED: GPs have fought back over criticism they're giving in to patient demands, and handing out too many unnecessary antibiotics. The health watchdog NICE wants to see so-called "soft touch" doctors disciplined for over prescribing the...
Bloomberg
Future Vaccines Have 'High Barrier' to Cross, Vir CEO Says
Dec.04 -- Vir Biotechnology Inc. Chief Executive Officer George Scangos says the manufacturing of vaccines is a highly regulated, complex process and the capacity to make drugs for Covid-19 is "somewhat limited." He speaks on "Bloomberg...
Press Association
West Midlands Police chief on Covid rules
West Midlands Police Chief Constable Dave Thompson says his force will step up enforcement of coronavirus lockdown rules if members of the public fail to observe them. His comments come as parts of Birmingham and the Black Country are...
Bloomberg
Hong Kong Facing a Lot of Vaccine Hesitancy: Professor
Mar.30 -- Benjamin Cowling, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the School of Public Health of Hong Kong University, discusses the Covid-19 vaccination rollout in the city and the hesitancy to take the shot. Hong Kong’s...
Sky News
NICE New Antibiotics Guidelines Released Today
VOICED: The heath watchdog says doctors who hand out too many antibiotics should be disciplined. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence or NICE has issue new guidelines today over the use of the drugs as it revealed as...
Bloomberg
Eli Lilly Covid Antibody Drug Gets Emergency FDA Clearance
Nov.09 -- Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE are reporting positive results from their covid-19 vaccine trials, signaling a major breakthrough in the fight to contain the worst outbreak in a century. Meanwhile, Eli Lilly & Co.'s covid-19...
Bloomberg
Deaths Top 1 Million as Countries Lose Control of Virus: UCL
Sep.29 -- University College London Principal Research Fellow Jennifer Rohn discusses rising covid-19 infection rates, expectations for the virus in the colder weather, and experiments with guidelines to control the coronavirus. She...
Bloomberg
How Malaria Detecting Dogs Could Help Battle Coronavirus
Apr.16 -- It's not just the elusive vaccine that will defeat Covid-19, scientists are looking at all sorts of methods to contain the pandemic. One of the more unusual could be in recruiting man's best friend. Scientists at the London...
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Therapeutic Drug Could Help Keep COVID-19 Patients Off Ventilators
AT-100 could help keep COVID-19 patients from going into respiratory distress and off of ventilators.
Bloomberg
Covid-19 Cases Soar in Young Adults Bored of Social Distancing
Jul.27 -- Covid-19 infections among millennials and Generation Z are driving new waves of cases which don’t seem to be abating despite re-imposed restrictions. The worrying trend reflects that social distancing curbs are proving...
Bloomberg
Covid-19: Johns Hopkins’ Pekosz Explains Phase Three Vaccine Trials
Jul.31 -- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor and Virologist Andrew Pekosz discusses coronavirus vaccine trials, an increase in Covid-19 mortality rates, and questions surrounding the return to children to school in...
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COVID-19 Prevention Efforts Are Hampering Dengue Fever Efforts
Southeast Asia, Brazil particularly hard hit as dengue fever prevention funding is redirected to fighting COVID-19.
Bloomberg
Wearable Tech to Track Covid Symptoms
Nov.25 -- Dr. James Mault, founder and chief executive officer at BioIntelliSense, discusses the company's technology that detects Covid-19 symptoms on "Bloomberg Technology."
Press Association
Interview with Professor Roberts encourages plasma donations
Interview with Professor David Roberts on new plasma trials for the NHS to help fight coronavirus, as they call for more volunteers to come forward to donate.
Bloomberg
Covid-19 Vaccine Designed to Prevent Disease, Says Moderna CEO
Jun.15 -- Stephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, Inc., talks about the clinical trials they are running to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. He appears on "Leadership Live With David Rubenstein."
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Soundbite from senate leader on Anthrax scare
1. Senate leader Tom Daschle and others approaching press
2. Cutaway, press
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tom Daschle, US Senate Majority Leader
"31 people now have had positive nasal swabs. Not all of those are members of my staff, there...
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Israel Study: 4th COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Doesn't Prevent Omicron
Research conducted by an Israeli hospital shows a fourth shot does increase a person's antibodies but not enough to prevent Omicron infection.
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STD, STI Cases Rise Each Year. Why Isn't The U.S. Making Any Progress?
The pandemic might have made rising STD/STI numbers even worse. Health officials have urged action, but prevention efforts have stalled for years.
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STIs In Newborns Have Significantly Risen Over The Pandemic
There has been a sharp rise in STIs in newborns. What can be done to combat the uptick?
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U.S. Baby Born to Mom With Zika Has Microcephaly
A Honduran woman infected with Zika gave birth in New Jersey to a baby girl with birth defects caused by the virus, her doctor said Wednesday.The Honduran woman's baby was delivered by cesarean section Tuesday at Hackensack University...
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RR7819B HEART TRANSPLANTS THE LONGEST SURVIVOR
Nine years ago Dorothy Fischer was the first non-white
to receive a new heart. Today she is the world's longest
survivor of a heart transplant operation. This report
looks at what the operation has meant to Dorothy, why heart...