Richard Knox

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Officials Prepare For Another Flu Pandemic — Just In Case

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

There's been a buzz of activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta since scientists got their first samples of a new bird flu virus from China four weeks ago.

Already they've prepared "seed strains" of the virus, called H7N9, and distributed them to vaccine ...

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Recovery Begins For Mother, Daughter Injured In Boston

Thursday, May 02, 2013

The number of Boston bombing victims still in the hospital dropped to 19 as of Wednesday evening. The great majority have gone home or to a rehab facility.

That's what has happened with Celeste and Sydney Corcoran, a mother-daughter pair who ended up in the same hospital room after ...

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Mother And Daughter Injured In Boston Bombing Face New Future

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Forty-seven-year-old Celeste Corcoran is propped up in her hospital bed. In a nearby window is a forest of blooming white orchids from well-wishers. On the opposite wall, a big banner proclaims "Corcoran Strong."

She's recalling how thrilled she was to be near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, waiting ...

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Researchers Find Hormone That Grows Insulin-Producing Cells

Thursday, April 25, 2013

The work is only in mice so far, but it sure is intriguing.

A newly found hormone revs up production of cells that make insulin — the very kind that people with advanced diabetes lack.

Harvard scientists, reporting the discovery Thursday in Cell, call the hormone betatrophin because it ...

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With Bird Flu, 'Right Now, Anything Is Possible'

Friday, April 19, 2013

An international dream team of flu experts assembled in China today.

Underscoring the urgency that public health agencies feel about the emergence of a new kind of bird flu, the team is headed by Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization's top influenza scientist.

Before he left Geneva, Fukuda ...

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Boston Doctors Compare Marathon Bomb Injuries To War Wounds

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Boston hospitals always staff up their emergency rooms on Marathon Day to care for runners with cramps, dehydration and the occasional heart attack.

But Monday, those hospitals suddenly found themselves with more than 100 traumatized patients — many of them with the kinds of injuries seen more often on a ...

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Scientists Race To Stay Ahead Of New Bird Flu Virus

Sunday, April 14, 2013

A precious package arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last Thursday afternoon.

Inside, packed in dry ice to keep it frozen, was a vial containing millions of viruses derived from a 35-year-old Chinese housewife who died last Tuesday of respiratory and kidney failure.

The package was ...

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Feds Fault Preemie Researchers For Ethical Lapses

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Federal officials say a large study of premature infants was ethically flawed because doctors didn't inform the babies' parents about increased risks of blindness, brain damage and death.

The study involved more than 1,300 severely premature infants at nearly two dozen medical institutions between 2004 and 2009. The infants were ...

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Human Cases Of Bird Flu In China Draw Scrutiny

Friday, April 05, 2013

Sixteen cases of a new flu around Shanghai have touched off a major effort to determine what kind of threat this new bug might be.

The victims range in age from 4 to 87 years old. Six have died. It is a tragedy for them and their families, but is ...

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As Stroke Risk Rises Among Younger Adults, So Does Early Death

Monday, April 01, 2013

Most people (including a lot of doctors) think of a stroke as something that happens to old people. But the rate is increasing among those in their 50s, 40s and even younger.

In one recent 10-year period, the rate of strokes in Americans younger than 55 went up 84 ...

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Catalog Of Gene Markers For Some Cancers Doubles In Size

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The largest gene-probing study ever done has fished out dozens of new genetic markers that flag a person's susceptibility to breast, ovarian and prostate cancer.

The 74 newly discovered genetic variants double the previously known number for these malignancies, all of which are driven by sex hormones.

Underscoring the sheer ...

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Sorting Out The Mammogram Debate: Who Should Get Screened When?

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Mammography outcomes from nearly a million U.S. women suggest which ones under 50 would stand the greatest chance of benefiting from regular screening: those with very dense breasts.

That's been a bone of contention ever since a federal task force declared nearly four years ago that women younger than ...

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To Control Asthma, Start With The Home Instead Of The Child

Monday, March 18, 2013

Nothing sends more kids to the hospital than asthma.

So when doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston noticed they kept seeing an unusually high number of asthmatic kids from certain low-income neighborhoods, they wondered if they could do something about the environment these kids were living in.

It's ...

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More Patients Keep HIV At Bay Without Antiviral Drugs

Friday, March 15, 2013

Just last week AIDS researchers were excited about a Mississippi toddler whose blood has remained free of HIV many months after she stopped getting antiviral drugs – what doctors call a "functional cure."

Now French researchers confirm they've found 14 adults whose immune systems are apparently controlling ...

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Cardiac Arrest Survivors Have Better Outlook Than Doctors Think

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Every day something like 550 hospitalized Americans suffer cardiac arrest. That's bad news. Only about one in five will live to leave the hospital.

But for the lucky 44,000 a year who are resuscitated and survive, the outlook is much better than expected, authors of a new study ...

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Why Relatives Should Be Allowed To Watch CPR On Loved Ones

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Picture this: Your spouse or child has collapsed and isn't breathing. You call 911, and the paramedics rush in and take charge. But you are banished to another room while the medical people try to bring your loved one back to life.

It's about the most stressful scene imaginable. And ...

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Aspirin Vs. Melanoma: Study Suggests Headache Pill Prevents Deadly Skin Cancer

Monday, March 11, 2013

It's not the first study that finds the lowly aspirin may protect against the deadliest kind of skin cancer, but it is one of the largest.

And it adds to a mounting pile of studies suggesting that cheap, common aspirin lowers the risk of many cancers — of the ...

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A Man's Journey From Nepal To Texas Triggers Global TB Scramble

Friday, March 08, 2013

We don't know too much about a Nepalese man who's in medical isolation in Texas while being treated for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, the most difficult-to-treat kind. Health authorities are keen to protect his privacy.

But we do know that he traveled through 13 countries — from South ...

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