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Kathryn R. Bown

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Kathryn - Our health specialist likes to share with the readers the latest news from the field. Nobody understands better than her the relation between healthy mind and healthy body.
The Spanish nurse was one of about 30 staff at the Carlos III hospital in Madrid who had been treating priests Manuel Garcia Viejo and Miguel Pajares
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Ebola in Spain: Four people quarantined in Madrid hospital

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The Spanish nurse is said to be the first person in the current outbreak known to have contracted Ebola outside Africa
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Ebola outbreak: Spanish nurse tests positive for virus in Madrid

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Passengers arriving in the US from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa could be subject to extra screening at airports
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Extra Ebola screening at US airports

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Thomas Eric Duncan is the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola within the US
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Thomas Eric Duncan in critical condition at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital

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Ashoka Mukpo was diagnosed with Ebola in Liberia
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Ashoka Mukpo: NBC cameraman to be transferred to Nebraska Medical Center

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The baby boy’s birth took place in Sweden after surgeons at the University of Gothenburg performed the pioneering transplant procedure
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First picture of womb-transplant baby released

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Polio cases in Pakistan have hit the highest number in 14 years, with health officials blaming the rise on attacks on immunization teams
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Pakistan polio cases hit record high in 14 years

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The flat in Dallas where Thomas Eric Duncan lived before being isolated is being cleaned by hazardous materials specialists
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Ebola in US: Thomas Eric Duncan’s family moved out of Dallas flat

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A Swedish woman with a transplanted womb has given birth to a baby boy, in a medical first
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World’s first womb-transplant baby born in Sweden

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The origin of the AIDS pandemic has been traced to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa
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Origins of AIDS pandemic traced to 1920’s in Kinshasa

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Drug treatments have come a long way since HIV came to global attention in the 1980s and infection is no longer a death sentence
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Early HIV treatment is not a cure

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There have been 7,178 confirmed Ebola cases in total, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea suffering the most
Africa news

Ebola outbreak: NBC cameraman tests positive for virus in Liberia

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Thomas Eric Duncan is the first man diagnosed with Ebola in the US
Africa news

Thomas Eric Duncan: Dallas Ebola patient to be prosecuted in Liberia

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Five reasons you’re tired all the time
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Five reasons you’re tired all the time

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Ebola is spreading across Sierra Leone at a terrifying rate, with the number of new cases being recorded doubling every few weeks
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Sierra Leone: Five new Ebola cases per hour

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Texas school children have come into contact with the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola on US soil
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Texas school children monitored for Ebola

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The first Ebola case diagnosed on US soil has been confirmed at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
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First Ebola case on US soil confirmed in Dallas

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Young children who are given repeated courses of antibiotics are at greater risk than those who use fewer drugs of becoming obese
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Frequent antibiotic use associated with childhood obesity

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Liberian chief medical officer Bernice Dahn has put herself under Ebola quarantine for 21 days
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Ebola outbreak: Liberia’s Deputy Health Minister Bernice Dahn under quarantine

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The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has passed 3,000
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Ebola outbreak death toll passes 3,000 in West Africa

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Turmerone, a spice commonly found in curries, may boost the brain's ability to heal itself
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Turmerone: Curry spice may help brain self-repair

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Lt. Howard Bischoff, 58, and firefighters Daniel Heglund, 58, and Robert Leaver, 56, died within hours of one another on September 22
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9/11 Ground Zero illness: Three FDNY firefighters die from cancer on the same day

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Brazilian researchers in Rio de Janeiro have released thousands of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria that suppress dengue fever
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Dengue fever: Brazil releases mosquitoes contaminated with Wolbachia bacteria

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Chokeberries may have a role in boosting cancer therapy
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Chokeberries boost pancreatic cancer therapy

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The WHO has warned that Ebola infections will treble to 20,000 by November 2014 if efforts to tackle the outbreak are not stepped up
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WHO projections: Nearly 20,000 Ebola cases by November 2014

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