Nigeria is monitoring 58 people who had contact with an Italian man infected with the new coronavirus, the health minister said Monday, as officials scrambled to stop the disease spreading.
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Global virus death toll tops 3,000 as EU raises alert
The death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic surpassed 3,000 on Monday as more people died in China, Iran and the US and Europe raised its state of alert.
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Gilead Sciences buying Forty Seven for $4.9 billion
Gilead Sciences is buying the cancer treatment company Forty Seven in a deal valued at approximately $4.9 billion.
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Quarantine on cruise ship resulted in more coronavirus patients: study
The cruise ship Diamond Princess was quarantined for over two weeks, resulting in more coronavirus-infected passengers than if they would have disembarked immediately, the opposite of what was intended. This is the conclusion of a study conducted at Umeå University in Sweden.
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Research could provide more effective way to treat brain swelling after stroke
Cases of potentially deadly brain damage as a result of stroke could be reduced after new research identified a pathway in the brain that causes swelling, and which responds to an innovative treatment.
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In an exchange about coronavirus, homeland security chief gets flu mortality rate wrong
During a Senate appropriations Feb. 25 subcommittee hearing, Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, said the U.S. flu mortality rate was about the same as the current estimated global mortality rate of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Artificial intelligence could improve efficiencies and precision in sleep medicine
Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve efficiencies and precision in sleep medicine, resulting in more patient-centered care and better outcomes, according to a new position statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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Virus fuels dread and angst even as China sees signs of hope
The number of new virus cases in China dropped to its lowest level in six weeks Monday and hundreds of patients at the outbreak’s epicenter were being released, while a grimmer reality set in elsewhere, with swelling infection numbers and growing dread that no area could fend off the illness.
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Italy’s health system at limit in virus-struck Lombardy
The coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy has so overwhelmed the public health system there that officials are taking extraordinary measures to care for the sick, seeking to bring doctors out of retirement and accelerate graduation dates for nursing students.
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HHS removed images of condoms from HIV/AIDS awareness fliers
The Department of Health and Human Services stripped from a government website HIV/AIDS educational material that featured condoms, calling the images “unapproved,” according to official correspondence obtained by Kaiser Health News.
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