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US urges Europe to step up travel measures to prevent spread of Ebola from Africa12:29 The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people from Ebola-hit countries in Africa Vitamin A, While Helpful for Measles, Is Not a Replacement for Vaccination12:29 This is a MedPage Today story. Both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend vitamin A for all patients with measles -- not just severe cases -- but experts warn that this shouldn't be seen as a replacement for vaccination. In a recent opinion piece for Fox News, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote that studies support the administration of vitamin A "under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate, and severe infection"… Historic Strike Involving Thousands of Oregon Healthcare Workers Comes to an End12:29 This is a MedPage Today story. A strike involving nearly 5,000 healthcare workers at Providence Health in Oregon, which began Jan. 10, has come to an end. Late Monday, eight RN bargaining units voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contracts and end the strike, which was believed to be the largest involving healthcare workers, and the first involving physicians, in the state's history, according to the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), which represented the workers. Among the key provisions in th… Doctor Stabbed in Chest; 'Hypnotic' Doc Faces Second Hearing; Nurse Assaulted12:29 This is a MedPage Today story. A patient at Provident Hospital in Chicago allegedly stabbed an emergency physician in the chest. (FOX 32) A physician in the U.K. is facing a second hearing over sexual misconduct allegations that he talked to female patients in a "hypnotic way." (BBC News) A Florida nurse may lose her eyesight after a patient allegedly attacked her and broke nearly every bone in her face. A 33-year-old man has been arrested in the attack. (WFLA, NBC Miami) Nebraska family physic… The pressure to have baby boys can harm African mothers' health8:02 In Congo and other parts of Africa, some women are having baby after baby under cultural pressure to produce a male heir, even risking their health How many Americans can afford high-quality healthcare? A new poll finds the number has fallen8:02 New data from the West Health-Gallup Affordability Index shows that only about half of U.S. adults could afford their healthcare and had access to quality care last year Ancient teeth rewrite the plague's timeline, dating back to over 5,500 years ago17:23 Scientists have found evidence of the oldest known plague, dating back about 5,500 years ago — some 200 years earlier than previously thought RFK Jr. overrules experts to keep hantavirus cruise ship passenger in quarantine17.června U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus from the Nebraska quarantine facility where she is being held The world wants more high-protein products, but there's not enough whey to go around14.června Global consumers want more protein in every bite, but the dairy industry is struggling to give it to them US pays $750K to evacuate American aboard hantavirus cruise ship from remote island11.června The Trump administration has put up $750,000 to charter a private yacht to evacuate a single American citizen from a remote South Pacific island after she had been aboard a cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak |