CDC issues travel alert on Zika virus, which is linked to birth defects and other top stories.

• CDC issues travel alert on Zika virus, which is linked to birth defects

  

  A researcher looks at Aedes aegypti mosquitoes kept in a container at a lab of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Sao Paulo University, on January 8, 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar, Senegal are in Brazil to train local researchers to combat the Zika virus epidemic.(Photo: AFP/Getty Images)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued atravel alertFriday evening, warning people about the risk of traveling to countries in the Americas aff..

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• Devon Still Talks About Daughter Leah Beating Cancer: 'It Was Definitely a ...

  

  ByChar Adams@CiCiAdams_01/15/2016 AT 03:25 PM ESTHouston Texans playerDevon Stillsays his 5-year-old daughterLeah is cancer free– and he couldn't be more thankful. The daddy-daughter duo appeared onGood Morning Americaon Friday, just days after the NFL playertweetedthat Leah had "really beat cancer." "It was definitely a long road traveled," Still, 26, said. "You know, with battling cancer, specifically my daughter's type of cancer, a lot of families aren't fortunate enough to make it th..

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• Bial's French Clinicial Trial Ends In Disaster. What Went Wrong?

  

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• Higher potato consumption comes with increased risk of gestational diabetes

  

  A new study has a suggestion for women thinking to conceive that they should limit their potato intake. Women who ate the most potatoes were at an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes, considered to be a serious complication of pregnancy.There is no need to completely ban potatoes from your diet because if women had more legumes or whole grains in combination with the potatoes then the risk was found to be balanced. Gestational diabetes, as the word suggests, is a type of diabetes ..

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• Company to recall, redesign medical scope linked to 'superbug' outbreaks

  

  The tip of an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) duodenoscope. (AP/FDA)Olympus Corp., whose specialized medical scopes are among those linked to a series of deadly "superbug" outbreaks around the country, said Friday that it will voluntarily recall and redesign the devices in an effort to prevent future infections.The company produces the vast majority of duodenoscopes used in the United States, followed by two other firms, Pentax and Fujifilm. The devices are used in hundreds..

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• New Ebola case emerges in setback for Sierra Leone

  

  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A woman who died this week in Sierra Leone tested positive for Ebola, officials said Friday, a setback for the region that comes only a day after the World Health Organization had declared the epidemic over.WHO had warned Thursday that new Ebola cases were possible even after the virus’ spread was halted in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea — the three West African nations hardest hit by the ..

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• Fox supports proposed opioid guidelines

  

  Attorney General Tim Fox(Photo: Courtesy state of Montana)HELENA – Attorney General Tim Fox said he supports proposed national guidelines that aim to help medical providers in their treatment of patients presenting with chronic pain, while reducing prescription drug addiction.However, the head of a statewide medical association said her group made comments that generally were in support, but balked at some of the guidelines proposed.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2016 Draft Gui..

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• Cancer Screening; Tweaking Vaccines; Vital Stethoscopes: What We Heard This Week

  

  "I thought we had resolved this issue a long time ago." --Robert Smith, PhD, of the American Cancer Society, on theuse of overall mortality as the primary endpointfor cancer screening studies. “The meaningful use program as it has existed will now effectively be over and be replaced with something better,” said CMS acting administratorAndy Slavitt, MBA,on themuch maligned program for promoting EHR usage. "The persistence of the biennial recommen..

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• What present (and past) customers in Phoenix are saying about Chipotle's Feb ...

  

  Bailey Netsch, The Republic | azcentral.com5:44 p.m. MST January 15, 2016Due to the E. coli outbreak that has been plaguing the company since October, Chipotle will shutter all its stores for a few hours on Feb. 8.Chipotle's sales plunged 30 percent in December. Its troubles began after an E. coli outbreak came to light at the end of October. Several weeks later, norovirus sickened dozens at a Chipotle in Boston.(Photo: AP)Chipotle announced Friday that the company would close its nearly 19,000 ..

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