Mission Unaccomplished: Containing Ebola in Africa
October 18, 2014 Looking back, the mistakes are easy to see: Waiting too long, spending too little, relying on the wrong people, thinking small when they needed to think big. Many people, governments...
View ArticleFauci tries to calm US after missteps on Ebola, amid concerns Americans have...
October 19, 2014 America’s top infectious disease expert on Sunday again acknowledged that the safety protocols used for the nation’s first Ebola patient were inadequate, and that the Obama...
View ArticleFamily and contacts cleared of Ebola
October 20, 2014 Ebola fears began to ease for some Monday as a monitoring period passed for those who had close contact with a victim of the disease and after a patient being treated for the virus at...
View ArticleCDC issues new rules for protecting workers from Ebola
October 21, 2014 Hospital workers treating Ebola patients should wear double sets of gloves, disposable hoods with full face shields and special masks, according to strengthened guidelines issued...
View ArticleWhy Ebola kills some while others survive
October 21, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — People who shared an apartment with the country’s first Ebola patient are emerging from quarantine healthy. And while Thomas Eric Duncan died and two U.S. nurses were...
View ArticleEbola travel restrictions imposed
October 21, 2014 The Obama administration will require all travelers from countries affected by the Ebola epidemic to arrive at one of five major U.S. airports in order to undergo a health screening,...
View ArticleNew York doctor diagnosed with Ebola; health officials seek out those in contact
October 24, 2014 Health and New York City officials were trying Friday morning to follow the trail of a young emergency room doctor who traveled about the city for three days before being hospitalized...
View ArticleCDC lost its Ebola gamble
The CDC faced a nearly impossible balancing act with Ebola. Predictably, it failed. October 25, 2014 The Ebola situation is testing the world’s best infectious disease team, the Centers for Disease...
View ArticleWhite House tries to get states to reverse mandatory Ebola quarantines
October 26, 2014 The decision by several U.S. states to impose mandatory quarantines for health-care workers returning from West Africa and other Ebola-ravaged regions sparked disagreement this weekend...
View ArticleEbola nurse Amber Vinson ‘so grateful to be well’
October 28, 2014 Texas nurse Amber Vinson, who was declared free of Ebola virus and discharged from Emory University Hospital, said Tuesday she is “so grateful to be well.” Vinson, 29, and Nina Pham,...
View ArticleHealth plans lead to more hospital pre-pays
November 17, 2014 LOUISVILLE — Before Mark Edwards ever reclined on a hospital operating table in September, he’d received two bills for his outpatient procedure and was asked to remit $500. After he...
View ArticleEbola-infected physician dies in Nebraska
November 17, 2014 A surgeon who contracted the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone died Monday at a Nebraska hospital where he was transported for treatment, the facility said in a statement. A...
View ArticleLoved ones, nation mourn latest Ebola victim in U.S.
November 17, 2014 Friends, family, fellow physicians and President Obama expressed sorrow Monday for a surgeon who died of the Ebola virus at a specialized biomedical unit in Nebraska after...
View ArticleHealthCare.gov premiums going up in 2015
December 04, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Many HealthCare.gov customers will face higher costs next year, the Obama administration acknowledged Thursday in a report that shows average premiums rising...
View ArticleFlu vaccine may be less effective this winter
December 05, 2014 NEW YORK (AP) — The flu vaccine may not be very effective this winter, according to U.S. health officials who worry this may lead to more serious illnesses and deaths. Flu season has...
View ArticleDo Americans think their health care costs are affordable?
December 18, 2014 The Cost of Health Care Fifty-two percent of Americans say they find basic medical care affordable, but that’s down from 61 percent last December. Today, for 46 percent of Americans,...
View ArticleMan walks from hospital without human heart
January 14, 2015 DETROIT — A 24-year-old Ypsilanti man has become the first person in Michigan to walk out of a hospital with a totally artificial heart. The SynCardia Total Artificial Heart is...
View ArticleCalif. has novel view of health care for illegal immigrants
January 17, 2015 PASADENA, Calif. — Angel Torres hasn’t been to the doctor since coming to the United States illegally more than two decades ago. But now, his vision is getting blurry and he frequently...
View ArticleDisney parks-linked measles outbreak grows to 70 cases
January 22, 2015 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Seventy people have been infected in a measles outbreak that led California public health officials to urge those who haven’t been vaccinated against the disease,...
View ArticleACLU sues feds in bid to make Catholic groups provide abortion to illegal...
April 23, 2015 Providing food and shelter to illegal immigrants isn’t enough for federally-funded Catholic organizations, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, which is suing the federal...
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