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US nurse exposed to Ebola monitored in DC area

2014-12-11 17:36:16| Biotech - Topix.net

An American nurse who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone is being admitted to the National Institutes of Health near Washington, D.C. The NIH says in a statement that the nurse was expected to be admitted to the Bethesda, Maryland, facility on Thursday. The NIH says the nurse has not tested positive for the deadly virus.

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CDC head 'encouraged' by Ebola spending plan

2014-12-11 06:02:32| Biotech - Topix.net

A top health official says he's "encouraged" by a $5.4 billion spending plan proposed by Congress to fight Ebola. The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tom Frieden, said Wednesday the United States must protect itself from the deadly virus by stopping an ongoing outbreak in West Africa.

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$5.4 billion for Ebola in House bill

2014-12-11 05:47:56| Footwear - Topix.net

The $1.1 trillion spending bill the House of Representatives is taking up Wednesday includes some $5.4 billion in new funding for the domestic Ebola response. That includes money to train workers and repay New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.'s Bellevue Hospital for treatment of Ebola patient Dr. Craig Spencer.

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Italians help develop rapid Ebola test

2014-12-10 18:08:47| Semiconductors - Topix.net

Rome, December 10 - Global companies STMicroelectronics and Clonit, and Italy's National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani have developed an rapid, portable Ebola virus tester, a media statement released on Wednesday announced. According to the statement, the portable analyzer kit detects the presence of the Ebola virus "with extreme accuracy in just a few microliters of human-blood samples" within 75 minutes.

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Waste tech firms headed to UN for Ebola response session

2014-12-09 19:22:50| Solid Waste & Recycling magazine Headlines

One company headed to the UN is Florida-based MagneGas Corporation, a technology company that patented a process that converts liquid waste into a hydrogen-based fuel

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