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Finally, a Health Insurance Campaign That Speaks Directly to Millennials

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Follow us on Twitter:  @GoAfricaNetwork For many Americans, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the first time in which inexpensive, comprehensive health care coverage has become available. In particular, younger Americans searching for their first health insurance plan will benefit from ACA coverage. But the ACA marketing has fallen flat as the Obama administration and the […]

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Doctors, haircuts, even kittens — now on demand, via your smartphone

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Follow Us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork An explosion of on-demand apps gives a modern twist to some old traditions and even delivers us some new ones we didn’t know we needed. October 29 was a typical workday for thousands of people in the US, except for one thing: a fuzzy kitten showed up on their desks.

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Health Care Law Recasts Insurers as Obama Allies

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Follow us on Twitter: @GoafricaNetwork WASHINGTON — As Americans shop in the health insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick. Those same insurers have long viewed government as an unreliable

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A Colon Cancer Screening Test that’s Simple, Noninvasive, and Effective

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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork WHAT IS COLOGUARD? Cologuard is an easy to use, noninvasive colon cancer screening test based on the latest advances in stool DNA science. It can be used by men and women 50 years of age and older who are at average risk for colon cancer. Cologuard finds both cancer and

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The spread of Ebola

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Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A panicky response in the West may worsen conditions in west Africa Oct 11th 2014 | From the print edition THE death toll from Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three most affected countries in west Africa, now stands at around 3,900. Among cases diagnosed outside Africa, the

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Stuck in the waiting room

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Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A long-touted health-care revolution may at last be about to arrive Oct 11th 2014 | ROME | From the print edition THE idea of telemedicine—health care provided using telecommunications equipment—has a lengthy history. Radio News, an American magazine, devoted its cover to a patient at home consulting a doctor in

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The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

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Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been struggling since March to stop what has become the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. The disease is causing widespread fear and disruption in West Africa, and shows no signs of being brought under control.

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Better Staffing and Monitoring of Fluids and Vital signs of patients Seen as Crucial to Ebola Treatment in Africa and the U.S.

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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Dr. Rick Sacra, a missionary who contracted Ebola in Liberia this August, was first treated there. Each nurse on the ward cared for 15 or 20 patients, and none could work for more than an hour at a time because the protective gear was so suffocatingly hot. They never drew

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Ebola Facts: Where Are the Most New Cases Being Reported?

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Follow Us On Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Montserrado County in Liberia, which includes the capital, Monrovia, recorded over 300 new cases in the week ended Oct 21. One of the country’s challenges has been the lack of laboratories to test for Ebola. The United States Navy opened a new mobile laboratory in Monrovia earlier this month. Note:

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Ebola Vaccine Trials Planned for December

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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Public health authorities said Friday they hoped to begin trials of Ebola vaccines in disease-ravaged West Africa as early as December and could know around April whether they were effective, clearing the way for possible mass inoculations to stem the epidemic. “Vaccine is not the magic bullet,” Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny

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