MEDICINE

Nurses make up one of the largest sectors of the nation's workforce, and are at the front lines of the Ebola outbreak, which has claimed 4,447 lives in just two months.

President Obama had planned to speak at a fundraiser for Senate Democrats in New Jersey, and then headline a rally in Connecticut.

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

With the Ebola death toll topping 4,400 in West Africa, all eyes are on TKM-Ebola and ZMapp — two front-runner drugs developed in Canada.

Nina Pham's dog, Bentley, was taken into quarantine and will not be euthanized.

The woman is the second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who has tested positive for the disease.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas lacked the protocol to deal with the Ebola virus, a nurses' union claims.

"I'm doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers,” Dallas nurse Nina Pham told the Dallas Morning News.

In what has been called the latest development in the "perks armsrace," the companies are covering egg-freezing for its female employees

Federal officials are considering requiring that Ebola patients be transferred to hospitals with special containment units.

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

China joins an international effort to stop the Ebola outbreak.

Two of the five passengers were running fevers; the other three exhibited other flu-like symptoms.

Pham, 26, was identified as the Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola from Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the U.S. to die from the virus.

Ebola has become a part of life around the globe as health officials grapple with how to end an outbreak that has killed more than 4,000 people.

CDC's chief had said a “breach in protocol” had caused a Dallas nurse treating an Ebola patient to become infected with the virus.

For the first time, researchers have been able to produce Alzheimer's disease structures in culture.

The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse was involved in the treatment of Thomas Eric Duncan.

The unidentified worker was an employee of the hospital that treated Thomas Eric Duncan, who succumbed to Ebola virus disease Wednesday.

Teresa Romero's condition appears to have improved since she was treated with ZMapp, which has been effective in other cases.

The first of two tests indicates the man who arrived in Brazil from Guinea Sept. 19 does not have Ebola virus disease.