Tag Archives: ebola

By E.J. Mundell HealthDay Managing Editor (HealthDay News) — It started as a deadly but little-known outbreak in West Africa, but the lethal and unchecked spread ...

By Dr. Bill Miller I have been fortunate to practice medicine during an era of great scientific progress. The pace of this transformation remains exponentially greater ...

A $500 million class action lawsuit has been filed against Kimberly-Clark Corp. for falsely claiming that its surgical gowns protected against diseases including Ebola. According ...

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who returned from Sierra Leone with a low grade fever and was quarantined first by New Jersey and currently Maine, this ...

By Marilynn Marchione ASSOCIATED PRESS Who survives Ebola and why? Health workers treating patients in Sierra Leone, including some who died doing that work, have ...

By Jeff Donn and Garance Burke ASSOCIATED PRESS  The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly ...

By Brad Broker Should travelers returning from Ebola-stricken countries be subjected to a mandatory quarantine? New Jersey, New York and several other states say yes. ...

By Michelle Andrews KAISER HEALTH NEWS Take a break from worrying about Ebola and get a flu shot this fall. While the Ebola virus has ...

By Jonathan Lemire ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who became New York City’s first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately ...

By Brad Broker A physician who recently returned to New York City from a humanitarian trip in Guinea has tested positive for Ebola. The New ...