Marilynn Marchione

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In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005 file photo, Eric Krex, 6, reacts as he is held by his mother, Margaret, while a nurse gives him a FluMist influenza vaccination in St. Leonard, Md. According to a study released Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, members of the military who squirted vaccine up their noses were as well-protected as others who got it from health care workers. There's no reason civilians couldn't do the same, especially for children who might be less scared if vaccine was given by mom or dad, the study leader said. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner)

Do-it-yourself flu vaccine? Study shows it works

Marilynn Marchione · October 8, 2014 2:32 pm

Study: Novel heart failure drug shows big promise

Marilynn Marchione · August 30, 2014 11:10 am

FILE - In this undated file photo provided by Kentucky BioProcessing, tobacco plants are grown in a controlled environment at the Kentucky BioProcessing facility in Owensboro, Ky. The company is using tobacco plants grown at this facility to help manufacture an experimental drug to treat patients infected with Ebola. An experimental Ebola drug healed all 18 monkeys infected with the deadly virus in a study released Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Kentucky BioProcessing, File)

Experimental Ebola drug heals all monkeys in study

Marilynn Marchione · August 29, 2014 9:03 pm

FILE - This May 14, 2013 file photo shows salt shakers at a restaurant in Alexandria, Va. A large international study challenges the advice for most people to cut back on salt. Unless they have high blood pressure, the amount most folks consume is OK for heart health, and too little may be as bad as too much, the study suggests. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Study questions need for most people to cut salt

Marilynn Marchione · August 13, 2014 9:20 pm

Dr. Kent Brantly and his wife, Amber, are seen in an undated photo provided by Samaritan's Purse. Brantly became the first person infected with Ebola to be brought to the United States from Africa, arriving at at Emory University Hospital, in Atlanta on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014. Fellow aid worker Nancy Writebol was expected to arrive in several days. Experts say Emory University Hospital is one of the safest places in the world to treat someone with Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 700 people in Africa. (AP Photo/Samaritan's Purse)

US gov’t had role in Ebola drug given aid workers

Marilynn Marchione · August 5, 2014 5:09 am

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013, file photo, a pharmacist works at his desk located next to the prescription pick up counter in New York. New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Studies see new risks for cholesterol drug niacin

Marilynn Marchione · July 16, 2014 11:53 pm

A cross section of a normal brain, right, and one of a brain damaged by advanced Alzheimer's disease.

Genentech Alzheimer’s drug misses goals in studies

Marilynn Marchione · July 16, 2014 10:57 pm

EMBARGOED FOR USE AFTER 9 PM EDT, SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2014- This undated product image provided Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering shows the bionic pancreas developed by a Boston University/Massachusetts General Hospital research team. The bionic pancreas consists of a smartphone, top, hardwired to a continuous glucose monitor and two pumps, bottom, that pumps deliver doses of insulin or glucagon every five minutes. (AP Photo/ Boston University Department of Biomedical Engineering)

Progress made on a ‘bionic pancreas’ for diabetics

Marilynn Marchione · June 16, 2014 1:22 am

In this August 2011 photo provided by Arrica Wallace, Wallace poses with her husband, Matthew, and sons Marccus and Mason in Mexico during a vacation, two weeks after her first round of chemotherapy. Arrica Wallace was 35 when her cervical cancer was discovered in 2011. It spread widely, with one tumor so large that it blocked half of her windpipe. The strongest chemotherapy and radiation failed to help, and doctors gave her less than a year to live. But her doctor heard about an immune therapy trial at the Cancer Institute and got her enrolled. "It's been 22 months since treatment and 17 months of completely clean scans" that show no sign of cancer, Arrica Wallace said. (AP Photo/Courtesy Arrica Wallace)

Doctors use immune therapy against cervical cancer

Marilynn Marchione · June 2, 2014 6:06 pm

In this Wednesday, March 26, 2014 photo, Heather Britton poses for a photo at her home in Bay Village, Ohio. New research is boosting hopes that weight-loss surgery can put some patients' diabetes into remission for years and perhaps in some cases, for good. Some patients, like Britton, have passed the five-year mark when some experts consider cure or prolonged remission a possibility. Before the study, she was taking drugs for diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol; she takes none now. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Surgery gives long-term help for obese diabetics

Marilynn Marchione · March 31, 2014 2:14 pm

Test accurately rules out heart attacks in the ER

Marilynn Marchione · March 31, 2014 3:03 am

People attend the American College of Cardiology's conference in Washington, Saturday, March 29, 2014. A new class of experimental medicines can dramatically lower cholesterol, raising hopes of a fresh option for people who can't tolerate or don't get enough help from Lipitor and other statin drugs that have been used for this for decades. The first large studies of these drugs were presented Saturday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Washington, and more will follow on Sunday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Studies find new drugs greatly lower cholesterol

Marilynn Marchione · March 29, 2014 10:48 pm