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The worker and her partner are in voluntary isolation on the cruise, and are being monitored by the ship's doctor.

Does Ebola warrant a travel ban from West Africa? Depends who you ask.

Ebola was stopped in its tracks by workers in two relatively weak health care systems. The U.S. can do it too.

The chances of catching Ebola in the United States are exceedingly slim. But if think you have the virus, here's what you should do.

Passengers from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone will undergo intensified screening procedures.

A 29-year-old nurse named Amber Joy Vinson was isolated "within 90 minutes" of having her temperature taken in Dallas.

The World Health Organization is forecasting a bleak future as it aims to identify all Ebola cases in West Africa.

CDC Director Thomas Frieden says the Ebola virus will be easy to contain in the U.S.

International aid organizations fighting Ebola are having trouble getting hazmat suits to health-care workers in Africa.

A patient suffering from Ebola-like symptoms has been admitted to Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

The over-prescribing of painkillers is fuelling nearly 17,000 annual deaths from overdoses in the United States, says the CDC.

Efforts by Nigeria and Senegal apparently have contained the Ebola outbreaks in those countries.

The two infected Americans are returning to the U.S. for treatment at Emory University Hospital’s isolation unit.

A new study shows almost one-third of children have misconceptions about their weight.

A recent CDC report found that limited access and poor policy keep people from exercising.

RFK Jr., the lawyer and environmental activist, has joined the anti-vaccination movement with a "dangerous" crusade linking vaccines and autism.

CDC, on Friday, shut down two labs that mishandled anthrax and bird flu viruses and barred shipment of samples from high security labs.

Vials of smallpox from the 1950's were found in a Food and Drug Administration Laboratory in Maryland and the Center for Disease and Control is still investigating how this could happen.

The government agency released a comprehensive survey on Thursday, outlining health risks to teens.

Passengers on US Airways Flight 2846 were shocked to hear they may have been exposed to tuberculosis after another traveler with a suspected infection was found to be aboard.

The Centers for Disease Control is moving to track and combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the United States.

Little Rock’s Willow Springs Water Park has closed after a second child in three years contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba.

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The increasing proportion of parents that do not intend to vaccinate their daughters against HPV is "troubling," one researcher said.

In the second volume of her annual report, Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, said antibiotic resistance is labeled a "catastrophic threat" that needs immediate attention.

A recall has been issued for ground beef after a salmonella outbreak in the meat caused illness in five states.

A new strain of the norovirus, better known as a stomach bug, originating in Sydney, is expected to wreak havoc on America as it has in other parts of the world.

One of the president's gun control proposals would lift a de facto ban on federally funded research examining gun violence.

A new study conducted by the Center for Disease Conrol has determined that one in eight U.S. women binge drink.