In Liberia, a Good or Very Bad Sign: Empty Hospital Beds
By SHERI FINK
Liberia has far fewer people being treated for Ebola than anticipated, but health officials are hesitant to declare victory.
More than 50 children have had mysterious episodes of paralysis in 23 states and some doctors suspect a link to the enterovirus 68.
The World Health Organization’s assistant director general said there had been a decline in burials in the West African nation and no increases in confirmed cases.
Liberia has far fewer people being treated for Ebola than anticipated, but health officials are hesitant to declare victory.
Ms. Hickox threatened to go to court if Maine does not let her move freely by Thursday, setting up what could be a test case of whether state quarantines are legal.
Some employees at the New York medical center say they are feeling snubbed, a result of working at the place handling the city’s first Ebola case.
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey’s recommendation comes a day after the C.D.C. issued new guidelines on how civilian health workers should be treated on their return to the United States.
Questions and answers on the scale of the outbreak and the science of the Ebola virus.
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Enroll America began with a huge phone survey of 12,000 adults and added neighborhood data.
The database assigns a score to 80,000 products based on factors like how nutritious and processed they are.
Several streams of research in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy are converging on an uncomfortable truth: We’re more susceptible to magical thinking than we’d like to admit.
A year after it was fully in place, the Affordable Care Act has largely succeeded in delivering on President Obama’s main promises, even as it fell short in some ways and gave birth to a new and powerful conservative movement.
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The federal employees’ insurance program works much like an Affordable Care Act exchange. It’s complicated.
A delicious blend of salty anchovies, pungent garlic and nutty walnuts makes the perfect sauce for seared or grilled radicchio.
The New York Times is offering a free mobile app for the popular Scientific 7-Minute Workout and the new Advanced 7-minute Workout.
New studies show that the effects of marijuana on young people may be greater than we thought. One has found brain differences even in casual smokers.
Martha Weinman Lear returns to the territory she covered in “Heartsounds,” but this is not a sequel so much as a rueful epilogue, a brief account of her own recent skirmish with heart disease.
A major study in India has stunned advocates of latrine building by showing that it may do little good.
Proposed changes will do some good things, like mention added sugars separately. But they won’t make it quick and easy for consumers to choose healthier foods.
Vitiligo is mainly a skin disorder, but can it also harm my eyesight?
Upcoming events include a thriller about a British mathematician, an exhibition on the science of natural disasters and a musical about the many worlds of the physicist Hugh Everett III.
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The increase in acid reflux may partly be due to dinners after 8 p.m.
Down the back roads of strip-mall Florida, I hunted for the legendary reservoir that would keep me forever young.
“Brain training” games have become big business, but the research is still unclear about whether they improve your brain over all.
Ellen Langer’s experiments have shown that mental attitudes might reverse some ravages of old age. Now she wants to test that same radical principle on cancer.
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