2nd Texas Health Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
President Barack Obama, second from left, speaks to the media about Ebola during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, with members of his team...
View ArticleQuiet ‘Whiz Kid’ Became Public Face of Ebola Fight
In this Oct. 16, 2014, photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED...
View ArticleHospitals Grapple with Possibility of Ebola
The entrance to All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. is senn Thursday Oct. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush) Tamara Lush, ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Step inside All...
View ArticleEbola Nurse Nina Pham Releases Video from Hospital Bed
(Texas Health Resources via Youtube) William M. Welch, USA TODAY DALLAS (USA Today)—Dallas nurse Nina Pham, the first U.S. health care worker diagnosed with Ebola, is seen talking and sitting up in...
View ArticleParalyzed Man Walks Again After Cell Transplant
(BBC) – A paralyzed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed from the...
View ArticleCDC Releases Revised Ebola Gear Guidelines
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, left, speaks as Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, center, and Director of Dallas County Health and Human Services Zachary Thompson look on during a news conference Monday,...
View Article120 People Now Being Monitored for Ebola in Texas
Hazardous material cleaners disinfect their personal protective equipment after working in the apartment where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas, stayed last...
View ArticleLiberians Exiled by Ebola Pray for End of Outbreak
In this photo taken on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, Amanda Johnson, right, stands next to an unidentified family member in a Liberian refugee camp on the outskirts of the capital city of Accra, Ghana where...
View ArticleAirBag Recall: 4.7 Million Vehicles Require Immediate Service
(International Business Times) – The owners of nearly 5 million vehicles are being urged to take immediate action as a result of a massive recall to replace potentially defective airbags that have...
View ArticleCuba Sends 91 More Doctors to Fight Ebola
Cuban Doctor Ronald Hernandez is served coffee before the start of a press event in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. Some of the 91 health workers who will travel to Liberia and Guinea to help...
View ArticleEbola Survivors in Liberia Are Symbols of Hope and Help
This Oct. 7, 2013 photo provided by Jeremy Writebol show his mother, Nancy Writebol, with children in Liberia. Writebol is one of two Americans working for a missionary group in Liberia that have been...
View ArticleAfrica: Scientists Question 21-Day Quarantine Period for Ebola
Health workers load the body of an amputee suspected of dying from the Ebola virus during the rain on the back of a truck, in a busy street in Monrovia, Liberia, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Abbas...
View ArticleYou Need To Wash Your Towels More Often Than You Think. Here’s Why
(AP Photo) (Huffington Post) – Your dishes are sparkling after you dry them off — or is that just the E. coli? We’re always on the hunt for ways we can keep our homes germ-free, and we landed on one...
View ArticleSoda May Age You as Much as Smoking, Study Says
The ingredients on a bottle of Mountain Dew are photographed in San Francisco, Monday, May 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) (Time) – Nobody would mistake sugary soda for a health food, but a new study...
View ArticleNew Survey Details Vast Scope of Teen Dating Abuse
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — From violence to verbal taunts, abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America’s adolescents, according to a new, federally funded survey. It says a...
View ArticleEU to Increase Ebola Aid to West Africa to $1.3 Billion
A healthcare worker walks near a Ebola isolation unit wearing protective gear against the virus at Kenema Government Hospital, in Kenema that is in the Eastern Province around 300km, (186 miles), from...
View ArticleDrugmakers May Need Indemnity for Fast-Tracked Ebola Vaccines
This undated handout photo provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and GlaxoSmithKline (NIAID/GSK) shows a vaccine candidate, in a vial, that will be used in the upcoming...
View ArticleTo Improve Memory, Consider Chocolate
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Pam Belluck, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Science edged closer on Sunday to showing that an antioxidant in chocolate appears to improve some memory skills that...
View ArticleWHO: Ebola Decline in Liberia Could be Real Trend
A Ebola health worker removes rubbish including plastic bottles from the Island Clinic Treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. The rate of new Ebola infections in Liberia...
View ArticleAP IMPACT: US Health Care Unprepared for Ebola
In this undated photo provided by the UCLA Health System, doctors and staff participate in a preparedness exercise on diagnosing and treating patients with Ebola virus symptoms, at the Ronald Reagan...
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