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  • Why the Zika virus is causing alarm

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    Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has spread to many countries in the Americas. Zika is transmitted to people through the bite of infected female mosquitoes, primarily the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the same type that spreads dengue, chikungunya and…

  • Soccer-Menez undergoes surgery following freak ear injury

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    Girondins de Bordeaux forward Jeremy Menez has undergone surgery after losing part of his right ear in a pre-season friendly against FC Lorient on Wednesday, three days after joining the French side from Italian club AC Milan. The 29-year-old suffered the injury when he was accidentally caught on the right side of his head by…

  • As Zika fears escalate, lawmakers point fingers from afar

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Zika virus escalates into a public health crisis, members of Congress remain entrenched politically, with Republicans and Democrats pointing fingers over the failure to act as the number of mosquito-transmitted cases in the U.S. grows.

  • Zika threat lingers in Latin America

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    As the Olympics open this week in Rio de Janeiro, Latin America is still reeling from Zika, the mosquito-borne virus blamed for causing brain damage in babies. The arrival of winter has reduced the threat in Brazil, the country hit hardest by Zika. Tens of thousands of babies may be born with microcephaly — abnormally…

  • Critics say Navy fuel tanks threaten crucial Hawaii aquifer

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    AIEA, Hawaii (AP) — Anthony DeLuze keeps his ancestors' traditions alive in 21st century Hawaii by growing the staple crop taro on a suburban plot sandwiched between wings of a sprawling shopping mall.

  • U.S. officials provide stopgap Zika funds, Congress urged to act

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    Federal health officials, scrambling to fund efforts to combat the spread of the Zika virus in the United States, said on Tuesday they have provided more stopgap money to various locales while calls grew for Congress to cut short its recess and act. Concern is mounting about the threat posed by the mosquito-borne virus after…

  • Zika suspected in 6 deaths in Honduras

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    Six people have died and 10 babies have been born with defects in Honduras in cases feared to have been caused by Zika, the health minister said Tuesday. The fatalities were due to Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disorder brought on by the immune system attacking the nerves, which can cause paralysis, according to the minister, Edna…

  • Remote heart monitoring can help detect emergencies

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    By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Instead of having heart monitors with noisy alarms near patients’ beds in the hospital, it might be better to have off-site technicians do the heart monitoring remotely, a recent study suggests. Traditional on-site heart monitoring can involve a lot of false alarms that don’t always help detect cardiac arrests…

  • GSK and Google parent forge $715 million bioelectronic medicines firm

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    GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet's life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a novel field of medicine called bioelectronics. Verily Life Sciences – known as Google's life sciences unit until last year – and Britain's biggest drugmaker will together contribute 540 million…

  • GSK, Google parent company to make bioelectronic medicine

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    LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is forming a joint venture with a unit of Google’s parent that will invest 540 million pounds ($714 million) in the relatively new field of bioelectronic medicine.