MEDICINE

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid wants everyone to know he didn't get his black eye in a boxing match.

Pauline Cafferkey's condition worsened to critical Saturday, just days after she had been sitting up and talking.

After mishandling Ebola, avian flu and anthrax during the past year, the CDC is now recruiting for its new safety-chief position.

The bats were found in a tree where children played near the house of an Ebola index case.

“Scotland has been preparing for this possibility from the beginning of the outbreak in West Africa," First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.

Japanese stocks turned negative on Monday after the health ministry announced a suspected case of the deadly Ebola virus, spooking investors.

Health authorities said that the woman who was brought in a critical condition died of multiple organ failure.

The technician's risk of exposure to Ebola, even if the virus were active, was believed to be low.

Since the outbreak began a year ago, over 7,000 people have died from the virus.

Doctors at the Lakka center said that patients were administered large doses of the heart drug that caused several medical complications.

Doctors warn that low temperatures during winter could cause the virus to stay active for a longer period of time.

The Ebola death toll continues to climb, especially in West Africa, but North Korea may soon lift its travel restrictions.

The virus has already killed more than 350 healthcare workers and has infected 18,600 people in West Africa.

Public gatherings have been outlawed in the country, which has overtaken Liberia as the nation hardest hit by Ebola.

The human safety trial ended early after some patients receiving the experimental VSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine complained of joint pain.

The latest autopsy performed at the request of the Justice Department shows evidence of close-range discharge of a firearm.

Two doctors died of Ebola in Sierra Leone on Friday, a government and a hospital source said, bringing to 10 the number of doctors killed in the country by the virus.

The cost of caring for Pham's dog during her quarantine was offset in large part by $19,000 in private donations and grants.

China, which has one of the world's lowest organ donation rates, struggles with long-held beliefs that discourage organ donation.

The number of Sierra Leone’s citizens under quarantine is now over 3 million, or more than half of its total population of 6 million.

U.S. health officials have designated 35 hospitals nationwide as Ebola treatment centers and expects to name more in coming weeks deemed capable of treating patients while minimizing risk to staff, the CDC said.