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‘We are late, but not too late to fight and win this battle,’ against Ebola – UN

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Construction workers race against time to finish another Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia, adding another 200 beds to treat patients.

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Australian Nurse Tested for Ebola

An Australian nurse is undergoing medical tests after showing possible signs of Ebola, as the international community continues efforts to limit the outbreak of the virus.

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NIH funds research consortia to study more than 200 rare diseases

$29 million awarded to expand NCATS’ collaborative Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network

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Adam L. Boxer, M.D., Ph.D., who leads the RDCRN-supported Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) Clinical Research Consortium, is exploring a group of progressive brain diseases that damage brain networks controlling behavior, cognition and movement. This image illustrates severe brain tissue loss over one year for patients with two types of FTLD: behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (red-yellow) and progressive supranuclear palsy (yellow, orange and blue). (S. Dutt, H. Rosen, A. Boxer Photo)

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Increased health risks linked to first-episode psychosis

Researchers call for coordinated care to address risks – NIH-funded Study

Many patients with psychosis develop health risks associated with premature death early in the course of their mental illness, researchers have found.

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Health officials report no other infections in the city.

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Ovarian Cancer DNA Detected in Vaginal Fluid, Researchers Report

Preliminary finding may bring doctors one step closer to test that could catch the disease in early stages.

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Candidate H7N9 avian flu vaccine works better with adjuvant

Results of large NIH-sponsored trial published

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Influenza A H7N9 as viewed through an electron microscope. Both filaments and spheres are observed in this photo.

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Despite Proper Cleaning, Endoscopes May Pass on E. coli

Study found different sterilization technique could prevent this complication.

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Patient Exposed To Ebola Discharged from NIH Clinical Center

Earlier Tuesday the patient who was flown back to the United States from Sierra Leone and admitted to the NIH Clinical Center on September 28 for observation, following a high-risk exposure to Ebola virus infection, was discharged to his home. The patient has given NIH permission to release the following information: The high-risk exposure was a needle stick injury.

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Ebola Strains Sierra Leone Healthcare

The Head of World Hope International says Sierra Leone has a shortage of ambulances and isolation centers, making it much more difficult to contain the Ebola outbreak. The virus has killed more than 600 people in the country.