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Texas Hospital Error Highlights Need for Broader Ebola Training
A man walks up the stairway leading to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. A patient in the hospital is showing signs of the Ebola virus and is being kept in...
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Family That Hosted Ebola Patient Confined to Home
This Oct. 2, 2014 photo shows a copy of a passenger health screening form filled out by Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, which was obtained by the Associated Press from the Liberia Airport Authority....
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Ebola Ruled Out for 2 Patients in Isolation at D.C.-Area Hospitals; 1 has...
Jennifer Donelan, WJLA/ABC NEWS WASHINGTON (ABC News) – Two people who were hospitalized in isolation units at D.C. area hospitals on Friday have been declared to not have Ebola, officials confirmed...
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Fighting Ebola: The American Argument Against an African Travel Ban
Nigeria health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) (Bloomberg...
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A ‘Fight for Survival’: Male Breast Cancer Awareness
Antwone Muhammad By Mary L. Datcher Special to the NNPA from The Windy City Word CHICAGO (NNPA) – When you hear the name Twone Gabz, many of us are not familiar with the name unless we are true fans...
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Wal-Mart Plans 1-Stop Health Coverage Shopping
In this May 9, 2013 file photo, a worker pushes shopping carts in front of a Wal-Mart store in La Habra, Calif. The world’s largest retailer plans to work with DirectHealth.com, an online health...
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DNA Linked to How Much Coffee You Drink
In this Friday, Feb. 6, 2009 photo, the owner of a coffee shop serves cappuccinos to judges during a barista competition in Cranberry, Pa. Scientists have long known that one’s genes influence how much...
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1st Ebola Patient Diagnosed in the US Has Died
This 2011 photo provided by Wilmot Chayee shows Thomas Eric Duncan at a wedding in Ghana. In September 2014, Duncan became the first patient in the U.S. diagnosed with Ebola. (AP Photo/Wilmot Chayee)...
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Americans Living Longer as Most Death Rates Fall
In this Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 file photo, mourners hold candles as they stand on a pedestrian bridge during a vigil for a junior high school student who died in an apparent suicide on a pedestrian...
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Obama Pulled Two Ways in Responding to Ebola
In this Aug. 4, 2014, file photo, a Nigerian health official wearing a protective suit waits to screen passengers for the Ebola virus at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in...
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New HealthCare.gov Improved, but With a Glitch
This image shows the website for updated HealthCare,gov, a federal government website managed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. The Obama administration has unveiled an updated...
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Ebola Patient’s Death Renews Questions About Care
A masked worker opens a door at a CareNow clinic in Frisco, Texas, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Suburban Dallas officials say a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who had gone into the apartment where the...
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US Adds Extra Level of Airport Screening for Ebola
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama calls it a “belt and suspenders” approach — an extra level of screening at five major U.S. airports to try to catch any...
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Ebola Screening Measures Rest on Federal Law
In this Aug. 6, 2014, file photo, a Nigerian port health official uses a thermometer on a passenger at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. The Obama...
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Ebola: How it Spreads
This undated photo made available by the Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, shows the Ebola virus viewed through an electron microscope. (AP Photo/Antwerp Institute of Tropical...
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‘Giant Leap’ to Type 1 Diabetes Cure
Insulin pump to regulate Type 1 diabetes. (Alden Chadwick/Flickr/CC license) James Gallagher, BBC NEWS CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BBC News)—The hunt for a cure for type 1 diabetes has recently taken a...
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Liquid Nicotine Exposures Up Sharply Among Kids
This Aug. 14, 2014, photo shows child-proof refill bottles of liquid nicotine at Salt Lake Vapors, in Salt Lake City. Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number...
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer Impacts Women of Color
By Dr. Elaine Batchlor CEO, The New Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Every October, people lace up their sneakers and walk to support efforts to find a cure for...
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Dallas Nurses Cite Sloppy Conditions in Ebola Care
Associate Chaplain Allison Lanza helps observers light their candles during a prayer vigil held for Nina Pham, who was recently diagnosed with Ebola, in the Robert Carr Chapel at Texas Christian...
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New Test to Bump Up Diagnoses of Illness in Kids
In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta. The agency released its first progress report Thursday, and...
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