(AllAfrica.com) – A new study “On the Quarantine Period for Ebola Virus” published, last week, in the PLOS Currents: Outbreaks suggests that 21 days might...
DALLAS (CBS News) — About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in...
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) â Last May, as Ebola crept across West Africa, America’s top infectious disease expert told a group of Harvard students in...
(CNN) — Concerns about even remote chances of Ebola exposure rippled from a U.S. airline to a ship off Belize on Friday, with Frontier Airlines trying to...
(FinalCall.com) – Many were alarmed but not surprised when the first documented case of the Ebola virus showed up in the United States and an...
The Associated Press Here are some facts about how Ebola spreads: WHEN IS EBOLA CONTAGIOUS? Only when someone is showing symptoms, which can start with vague...
(NBC News) – American hospitals may need to step up their training for potential Ebola patients, some advocates say, after a Texas incident raised fears about...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Deaths from heroin overdose doubled in just two years in much of the nation, a new government...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have warned for months that someone infected with Ebola could unknowingly carry the virus to this country. Now it has...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s traveled to the sites of worrisome outbreaks of SARS, bird flu, MERS. But the Ebola outbreak that’s...
(The Washington Post) – Dent Thompson had never heard of Samaritan’s Purse when the Christian relief group called last month and asked for his help....
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Terrence Morgan has heard the stories over and over. Black men are absent from...
Alison Young, USA Today ATLANTA (USA TODAY)–More than 1,100 laboratory incidents involving bacteria, viruses and toxins that pose significant or bioterror risks to people and...
(USA Today) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its highest-level alert for a response to the Ebola crisis in West...
(Dumb-Out.net) – The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to reopen labs that are involved directly in fighting epidemics according to CDC spokesman Thomas...
(USA Today) – Antibiotic resistance that turns ordinary disease-causing bacteria into illnesses that can’t be controlled could bring about the “next pandemic,” Centers for Disease Control...
WASHINGTON — The head of the federal government’s public health laboratories in Atlanta told Congress yesterday that researchers mishandled live anthrax and other deadly pathogens in...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Many millions of U.S. drivers are expected to hit the highways over the holiday weekend —...
(HealthDay News) — The number of Americans with diabetes rose from 26 million in 2010 to 29 million — 9 percent of the population —...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials are worried about recent U.S. measles outbreaks that so far have caused more illnesses than...
[MedPage Today] On any given day, one American inpatient in 25 has a healthcare-associated infection, but the rates of many such infections have been falling, according...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Exciting research suggests that a shot every one to three months may someday give an alternative to the daily pills...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Even though Blacks get tested for HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), the virus that causes AIDS more than...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer ATLANTA (AP) — About three years ago, the nation’s top public health agency picked its battles. Now, it’s issuing its own...
[UPI] HYATTSVILLE, Md., Oct. 30 (UPI) — In 2011-12, an estimated 13 percent of U.S. adults ages 20 and older had high total cholesterol, unchanged from 2009-10,...
