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Hantavirus update: CDC confirms 2 brought to Omaha facility ordered to quarantine

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The CDC issued quarantine orders Monday for two of the M/V Hondius cruise ship passengers brought to Omaha for observation at the...

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Health news • May 19

Low-Dose Buprenorphine Enhanced Ketamine's Antisuicidal Effects in Major Depression

Low-dose buprenorphine significantly enhanced the antisuicidal effects of a single infusion of ketamine in patients with suicidal ideation and major...

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Health news • May 19

“I could be in this room for 42 days and literally not get to breathe fresh air.” What it’s like quarantining for hantavirus

Scientific American spoke to one of the people who are currently being monitored for possible hantavirus infection at the National Quarantine Unit in...

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Health news • May 19

GLP-1s vs Bariatric Surgery; Obesity Trends Reversing; Creatine for Menopause?

GLP-1 medication use increased by 140.4%opens in a new tab or window from 2022 to 2024 while metabolic bariatric surgery utilization declined by 34.1%,...

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Health news • May 19

Advances in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy

Fernando Espi Forcen, MD, discussed his ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and emerging research on psilocybin's systemic effects.

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Health news • May 19

Surprising drug combo could reshape treatment for suicide risk

Modern psychiatry has long struggled with one brutal fact: the people most at risk of suicide often cannot wait weeks for therapy or antidepressants to work...

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Health news • May 19

This Ebola Outbreak Will Be Hard to Contain

The world is already playing catch-up to a deadly disease.

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Health news • May 19

Will the Hantavirus Outbreak Cause a Lockdown? What Experts Want You to Know

As cases of Andes hantavirus linked to a cruise ship outbreak go up, do you need to worry about a possible lockdown? Here's what experts think.

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Health news • May 19

VOTE: Do you have confidence in the CDC to contain another pandemic in the US?

If there is another pandemic in the U.S., will you have confidence in the CDC to contain it? Vote in the poll above or click here.

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Health news • May 19

Texas Impact: Ebola outbreak sparks travel rules ahead of World Cup matches

An American doctor's positive Ebola test has prompted CDC travel limits, complicating World Cup plans for the Congo national soccer team in Texas.

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Health news • May 19

Trump 'Concerned' About Ebola Outbreak After American Tests Positive for Virus and Deaths Rise

President Donald Trump said he is “concerned” about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after an American tested positive for the...

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Health news • May 19

Hantavirus-Hit Cruise Ship Will Sail Again In June (Latest Updates)

The cruise ship upon which a deadly strain of hantavirus infected nearly one dozen people and killed three others is set to depart for its next trip,...

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Health news • May 19

A critical window to stop hantavirus is opening. Not all countries are managing exposed travelers the same way

The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at its last stop Monday. Now the waiting begins. The diagnosis of a strain of the Andes strain of...

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Health news • May 19

What does Ebola mean for Houston and the World Cup? Dr. Peter Hotez explains.

Late last week, an Ebola outbreak was identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The World Health Organization declared a global health...

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Health news • May 19

Potential spread of Ebola warrants ‘serious concern,’ WHO chief says

The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday the scale and speed of the deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda...

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Health news • May 19

How responsibly gathered and used data helps healthy ageing

What if the device on your wrist could reveal more to you than how many steps you took today or how well you slept last night? What if it could also tell...

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Health news • May 19

Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa Could Last Months, W.H.O. Says

The number of people infected by Ebola in central Africa could be much higher than reported and the outbreak could last for months, global health officials...

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Health news • May 19

The surprising habits linked to dementia

In the UK, around a million people currently have dementia. And that's a conservative estimate: researchers believe that more than a third of people with...

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Health news • May 19

Combination therapy shows promise in maintaining lower suicidal thoughts over time

New research published online today in the American Journal of Psychiatry finds that low-dose buprenorphine, given after a single ketamine infusion,...

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