October 26, 2015 Ebola is surging in places it had been beaten back Doctors Without Borders shuttered one of its Ebola treatment centers in Guinea in May. They thought the deadly virus was being contained there.
October 26, 2015 Texas health officials administer TB tests for babies who may have been exposed at hospital Health officials in West Texas have begun testing some babies for tuberculosis after the revelation that more than 700 infants at an El Paso hospital were exposed to a worker found to have the disease.
October 26, 2015 First person in UK trial to get experimental Ebola shot next week The first human volunteer in a fast-tracked British safety trial of an experimental vaccine to fight Ebola is to be injected with the shot next week, organizers of the trial said on Friday.
October 26, 2015 Texas nurse stricken with Ebola comes from 'devoted family' The woman who is the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the United States graduated from college about four years ago knowing she wanted to be a nurse.
October 26, 2015 Study supports watch-and-wait approach for many prostate cancers In a long-term study of older men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer and followed with so-called active surveillance, less than a third of cases eventually needed treatment, according to a new study.
October 26, 2015 Food prices rising in Ebola-hit countries, warns UN The U.N. is warning that food prices are rising in countries hit by Ebola and that it'll get worse because many farmers won't be able to access fields during the upcoming harvests of rice and corn.
October 26, 2015 California high school sends two dozen unvaccinated students home amid measles outbreak A California high school sent home two dozen unvaccinated students for three weeks as the Orange County area grapples with an outbreak of the measles.
October 26, 2015 Kids with asthma fare worse when they live with smokers Kids with asthma are more likely to have breathing problems and be hospitalized when they live with a smoker, a research review suggests.
October 26, 2015 Smart thermometers could help contain epidemics, experts say Smart thermometers that upload people's temperature readings to the cloud could help researchers spot disease outbreaks early, some experts say.
October 26, 2015 Senegal blocks Ebola aid flight, imposes travel curbs Regional humanitarian hub Senegal said on Friday it had blocked a regional U.N. aid plane from landing and was banning all further flights to and from countries affected by Ebola, potentially hampering the emergency response to the epidemic.