TORONTO (AP) — Canada has joined Australia in suspending entry visas for people from Ebola-stricken countries in West Africa in an attempt to keep the deadly disease away.
Canada's Conservative government said Friday it is suspending visa applicat ...
Posted Sunday, November 2nd 2014 at 9:19AM
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In the world’s largest refugee complex — the sprawling Dadaab settlement in Kenya’s North Eastern Province — women listen attentively during a business management workshop held at a hospital in one of its newest camps, Ifo 2.
Leila Abdu ...
Posted Sunday, November 2nd 2014 at 8:44AM
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Mogadishu, Somalia- “In Somalia, traumatic experiences have happened to people from all walks of life, no matter if you are rich or poor, even parliamentarians themselves have had these experiences and can benefit from the training. It doesn’t on ...
Posted Sunday, November 2nd 2014 at 8:31AM
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Jessica Wheeler works the night shift as an oncology nurse at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital in northeastern Pennsylvania—but her patients are usually wide awake. "When they have a new cancer diagnosis or they're going to have a biopsy in the mornin ...
Posted Thursday, October 30th 2014 at 8:59PM
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(CNN) -- An Indiana man told police he "messed up" by killing a woman in Hammond, then came clean, leading them to several more bodies in nearby Gary, Hammond Police Chief John Doughty said Monday.
Doughty stopped short of calling Darren Deon Vann ...
Posted Monday, October 20th 2014 at 8:34PM
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BBC News - Nigeria has been declared officially free of Ebola after six weeks with no new cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Nigeria won praise for its swift response after a Liberian diplomat brought the disease there in July.
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Posted Monday, October 20th 2014 at 7:46PM
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17 October 2014 Nigeria's military says it has agreed a ceasefire with Islamist militants Boko Haram - and that the schoolgirls the group has abducted will be released.
Nigeria's chief of defence staff, Alex Badeh, announced the truce. Boko Haram ...
Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 11:20PM
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It seems the mistake Halle Berry made when she got with Gabriel Aubry is gonna haunt her for years to come. At this point it seems all she wants is for it to cost her less.
Apparently dude is ridin’ the gravy train because he says he doesn’t wor ...
Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 4:01AM
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Four in ten seek help from family doctor for symptoms including depression,...
A fifth of women have been forced to take time off work, while one in 50 are on long-term sick leave due to symptoms related to the...
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Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 3:47AM
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She's got a beautiful body and she knows how to show it off. Halle looked her usual glamorous self in a skin-tight monochrome dress at the God's Love We Deliver Golden Heart Awards at Spring Studios in the Tribeca district of New York on Thursday. ...
Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 3:21AM
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They've been together for 25 years. But Snoop Dogg and his wife Shante Broadus are still going strong, as evident by the 42-year-old's latest Instagram post.
The rapper shared a split of image on Thursday, including a throwback picture from their y ...
Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 3:11AM
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'PUBLISHED: 20:31 GMT, 15 October 2014 | We made mistakes and are deeply sorry'
The Texas hospital where two nurses were infected treating Ebola-patient Thomas Eric Duncan has apologized for the first time in their mismanaged handling of the outbr ...
Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 2:54AM
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National Nurses United, 10/15/14- This is an inside story from some registered nurses at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who have familiarity with what occurred at the hospital following the positive Ebola infection of first the late Tho ...
Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 2:13AM
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My eggs are drying up.
Or at least that’s what I think every time I scroll through my twenty and thirtysomething friend’s Facebook feeds full of their bouncing babies, baby bumps and even positive pregnancy tests (ya’ll tried it).
At 30- ...
Posted Friday, October 17th 2014 at 12:25AM
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As the body count rises in West Africa and the first patient dies on US soil, Americans can be forgiven for panicking about Ebola. But before we go into lockdown, let's assess the real threat and remember why we have an epidemic in the first place.
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Posted Thursday, October 16th 2014 at 1:07AM
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ASSOCIATED PRESS-A Dallas nurse who took a commercial flight from Cleveland hours before reporting symptoms of Ebola says that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention told her it was okay to fly.
Amber Vinson helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, ...
Posted Thursday, October 16th 2014 at 12:27AM
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What Is Pelvic Pain? Pelvic pain refers to pain in the abdomen below the belly button. This pain can accompany a wide range of conditions. It may be a harmless sign of fertility, a digestive disorder like IBS, or a red flag for a life-threatening e ...
Posted Thursday, October 16th 2014 at 12:00AM
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Oct 14, 2014- The rest of the world may have forgotten about the girls kidnapped from a school in Nigeria, but Alicia Keys has not and she’s doing something about it.
As of Tuesday, it’s been six months since Boko Haram abducted more than 230 ...
Posted Wednesday, October 15th 2014 at 9:16PM
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The city of Houston has subpoenaed sermons given by local pastors.
Yes, you read that correctly.
It’s a chilling turn of events for those of us who practice our faith and value the self-evident right to religious freedom recognized by the Fir ...
Posted Wednesday, October 15th 2014 at 8:11PM
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October 14, 2014 -Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called for every hospital to think about Ebola preparedness. As a nurse working in acute and critical care, you have no doubt been affected by reports of Ebola Virus Di ...
Posted Wednesday, October 15th 2014 at 8:02PM
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CNN) -- Before flying from Cleveland to Dallas, nurse Amber Vinson called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to report a temperature of 99.5 Fahrenheit and informed the agency that she was getting on a plane, a federal official said. Vins ...
Posted Wednesday, October 15th 2014 at 7:54PM
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10 October 2014- Brittany Maynard learned on New Year's Day that she had brain cancer. She had been married for just over a year. In April, she was given six months to live.
Facing weeks or months of suffering for herself and her family, she dec ...
Posted Tuesday, October 14th 2014 at 3:34PM
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A 30-year-old woman was arrested after her 4-year-old daughter brought 249 bags of heroin to a day care center and started handing it out to other kids like candy. Yes, you read that right. Ashley Tull of Selbyville, Delaware was arrested on Monday ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2014 at 10:30PM
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To donate vital organs, a donor must be dead. Though this is known as the “dead donor rule,” I have been warning that utilitarian bioethicists and transplant medical professionals want to shatter the DDR to permit killing living living profoundly ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2014 at 7:52PM
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The first man to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the United States, Thomas Eric Duncan, has died today according to Texas health officials.
MUST READ: Ebola Is Now An ‘International Health Emergency,’ Here’s What You Should Know About T ...
Posted Wednesday, October 8th 2014 at 7:35PM
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