Ebola-Stricken Nurse Appears Well In Video
Nina Pham, 26, was filmed before being flown by executive jet from Dallas to Frederick, Md., and then transferred to the National Institutes of Health hospital in Bethesda on Thursday.
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A Balanced Diet For World Food Day: Bugs, Groundnuts And Grains
Termites and mung beans are among the ingredients that can bring better nutrition to the 800 million undernourished people in the lower-income world.
Reality Check: To Burn Off A Soda, You'll Have To Run 50 Minutes
What might make us pay attention to calorie information on menus? Researchers think that including how many miles of walking or minutes of running it takes to burn off the calories ordered would help.
Fears Of A U.S. Ebola Outbreak Prompt Travel Ban Proposals
Congressional Republicans continue to call for a ban on travel from the West African nations caught up in the Ebola outbreak. The Obama administration, however, remains firm in opposing a travel ban.
Nurse Nina Pham To Be Transferred To NIH For Ebola Treatment
The first of two nurses who became infected after treating an Ebola patient at a Dallas hospital will be moved to a "high-level containment" facility at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland.
Ebola Volunteers Are Needed — But Signing On Isn't Easy
Doctors and nurses are desperately needed to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. They're finally starting to volunteer in larger numbers, but getting them deployed is a slow, complicated process.
Back On Its Feet, A Liberian Hospital Aims To Keep Ebola Out
JFK hospital shut down when several doctors died of Ebola. Now it's open again. And the staff is taking rigorous measures to make sure the virus doesn't make its way past the front gate.
A Benefit For Rural Vets: Getting Health Care Close To Home
Veterans in some rural areas have to travel hundreds of miles on empty interstates to get health care, losing a day of work or sometimes two. A new program lets them see nearby doctors instead.
Women Can Freeze Their Eggs For The Future, But At A Cost
Until recently, freezing human eggs was reserved for young women at risk of infertility due to cancer treatments. But some companies now pay for it for healthy women who want to delay motherhood.
U.S. Could Learn Lessons From Africa's Ebola Response
Melissa Block talks with Dr. Lewis Rubinson, who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in west Africa. He shares the lessons he learned in treating patients.