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US urges Europe to step up travel measures to prevent spread of Ebola from Africa20:55 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 Vaccination20:55 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 End20:55 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… 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 quarantine1:39 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 FDA's e-cigarette authorization: Fruity vapes not significantly better than tobacco ones11.června A new memo from U.S. health regulators is raising questions about a recent decision to authorize the first fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adult smokers Judge considers arguments in challenge to New Mexico's universal childcare program11.června It is up to a New Mexico judge to settle a challenge over the legality of New Mexico’s fledgling universal childcare program, an ambitious and closely watched effort to eliminate daycare costs for all working families Playing hip-hop or Doris Day, older exercise instructors can speak their peers' language9.června The students in Bengie Santos' exercise class at the Greater Seattle Y say there's something special about their 72-year-old instructor |