Health & Safety

A health worker cleans his hands with chlorinated water before entering an Ebola screening tent at the Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. More than 300 Sierra Leoneans have died of the disease.

Even With $100 Million, WHO Says It Will Take Months To Control Ebola

9:50pm August 15, 2014

by Richard Harris

The WHO has called for donations to help contain the outbreak. But money is just the first step. The challenges run from finding the right staff to prepping neighboring countries just in case.

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Kenyan health officials take the temperatures of passengers arriving at the Nairobi airport on Thursday. Kenya has no reported cases of Ebola, but it's a transportation hub and so is on alert.

A Virtual Outbreak Offers Hints Of Ebola's Future

8:07pm August 14, 2014

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

As the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, it is also unfolding — in a virtual sense — inside the computers of scientists trying to predict how far the outbreak will spread and when it will end.

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Kenyan Health Workers Fear Ebola May Take Flight

6:35pm August 14, 2014

by Gregory Warner

Kenya's international airport is on high alert, since the Kenya Medical Association has called on the national airline to suspend flights due to concerns over the Ebola outbreak.

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Workplace drug testing for marijuana may need updating in light of changing laws, a case before the Colorado Supreme Court suggests.

Colorado Case Puts Workplace Drug Policies To The Test

5:23pm August 14, 2014

by Yuki Noguchi

The urine test employers typically use to detect marijuana picks up cannabis smoked or swallowed days or weeks earlier. Should firms be allowed to fire workers who legally use marijuana at home?

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A Scientist's Mission To Break The Itch-Scratch Cycle

2:49pm August 14, 2014

Dr. Gil Yosipovitch is a leading scientist in the field of itch. He says he hopes to gain more respect for the debilitating power of chronic itch — and to get more doctors on the search for a cure.

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Health & Safety

Pa. Hospital Sees Gun Fight Between Psychiatrist And Patient

4:10pm August 12, 2014

by Jeff Brady

On Thursday, a psychiatric patient opened fire at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital outside Philadelphia, killing a caseworker and injuring his psychiatrist.

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Use Of Experimental Ebola Serum Raises Ethical Questions

3:03pm August 11, 2014

David Greene talks to University of Wisconsin bioethicist and former FDA adviser Alta Charo about ethical issues related to experimental treatments for the Ebola virus.

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Truvada, an FDA-approved drug to help prevent HIV infection, is among the AIDS drugs that fill pharmacy shelves at the Whitman-Walker clinic, a Washington, D.C., community health center.

Preventing HIV With Medicine Can Carry A Stigma

2:57pm August 11, 2014

by Jim Burress

No doctor would refuse to prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins to patients because they're overweight. But despite guidelines, some doctors aren't offering preventive drugs to those at risk for HIV.

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Health & Safety

Missionaries Who Return To North Carolina Will Be Quarantined

8:36am August 11, 2014

Charlotte prepares to receive several missionaries back from Liberia who were there helping Ebola patients. Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Megan Davies, the state epidemiologist of North Carolina

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Paul Herringshaw says farmers like him have been taking steps to reduce crop runoff for years.

Lake Erie's Toxic Bloom Has Ohio Farmers On The Defensive

7:15pm August 08, 2014

by Sarah Jane Tribble

Ohio farmers say they are not the only ones to blame for Toledo's polluted drinking water. They say they are using only as much fertilizer as they need to grow their crops.

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