By Phil Galewitz A new survey finds the public has a lot to learn about how the Ebola virus is transmitted, which could help explain the growing ...
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By Karen Rizzo, MD Many of us suspected that there would be a day when Ebola would arrive in the United States and indeed it ...
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By Emily Schmall and Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas nurse who caught Ebola while treating a Liberian patient who died of ...
Read More »Can all US hospitals safely treat Ebola?
By Marilynn Marchione AP Chief Medical Writer A breach of infection control resulting in a Dallas health worker getting Ebola raises fresh questions about whether ...
Read More »Doctors Prepare U.S. Hospitals to Treat Ebola
By Jeff Cohen, WNPR Dr. Jack Ross is used to seeing potentially lethal viruses, and he is used to putting patients into isolation. Still, Ebola is different. ...
Read More »1st Ebola Patient Diagnosed In The US Has Died
By Nomaan Merchant ASSOCIATED PRESS DALLAS (AP) — The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States died Wednesday morning in a Dallas hospital, according ...
Read More »Too Many People Die In Hospital Instead Of Home. Here’s Why.
By FRED MOGUL, WNYC It was September 2012 and it was life-long smoker Paula Faber’s third cancer in a decade, but she did not hesitate. ...
Read More »This is Why Doctors and Patients Must Discuss End-of-Life Care
By MATT SEDENSKY WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Americans suffer needless discomfort and undergo unwanted and costly care as they die, in part because ...
Read More »What Patients Should Know About Paying For ‘Observation Care’
By Susan Jaffe An increasing number of seniors who spend time in the hospital are surprised to learn that they were not “admitted” patients — even ...
Read More »Doctor’s View: Keep Your Guns Out Of My Practice
“Physicians who genuinely wish to offer safety information can simply hand out firearms safety and safe storage brochures to all patients.” That was the advice of ...
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