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Texas governor candidates Abbott, Davis talk education, immigration

Here’s where Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott and Democrat Wendy Davis stand on the issues of public education, immigration and higher education.

Dallas nurse Nina Pham Ebola-free, headed back to Texas

Dallas nurse and Ebola patient Nina Pham is free of the deadly virus and was discharged from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.

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Texas Presbyterian needs tough love, not hand-holding, crisis management pro says

Texas Health Presbyterian has more than an image crisis after mistakes in the care of the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States. Here's what one crisis management expert says the hospital should do.

How years in academia prepared Tiggly's Azi Jamalian for the startup world

​Azi Jamalian has what some would call a dual career in academia and the startup world. Here's why she's better off because of it.

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The insider’s view: Deloitte University’s leadership academy at Westlake

Three years into its existence, the 800-room Deloitte U is drawing about 50,000 of the professional services firm's employees for leadership development programs each year. Here's why.

Washington Bureau

6 things Labor Secretary Tom Perez said that will make you cringe or cheer

Labor Secretary Tom Perez outlined his vision for a more collaborative American workplace -- one where workers get higher wages and have more of a say in how their businesses operate -- at a speech Monday at the National Press Club.

Possible Ebola patient transferred from Baylor to Presbyterian hospital, then released

Baylor University Medical Center became the second Dallas Hospital to receive a potential Ebola patient.

Ebola's impact: Texas Health Presbyterian ambulance diversions filling other hospitals’ ERs

Other hospitals in Dallas are seeing a surge in emergency room traffic caused at least partially by Texas Health Presbyterian’s diversion of ambulances because of Ebola concerns. Here's how area hospitals are handling the Ebola threat.

Federal officials reviewing nurses’ Ebola complaints against Texas Health Presbyterian

Federal health officials are reviewing a nurses union’s allegations of improper procedures and “constantly changing” safety guidelines against the Dallas hospital where two nurses contracted Ebola while caring for a patient.

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2nd health care worker tests positive for Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian, will be transferred to Emory University (Video)

The worker has been identified as 26-year-old Amber Joy Vinson and was one of the staff that treated Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died Oct. 8 from the virus at the hospital.

CDC chief: We should have put larger Ebola team in Dallas

The CDC should have put more people on the ground in Dallas and better coordinated with the hospital caring for the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the country, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said.

CDC Director: 'Stopping Ebola is hard,' expect more cases in Dallas

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says U.S. officials need to "rethink the way we address Ebola infection control” after a Dallas nurse apparently contracted the disease from the first patient to die from it in America.

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Coming to America: Milestones leading to Ebola's first U.S. death

The story of Thomas Eric Duncan’s battle against Ebola is more than a medical story. It’s political. It’s international. It’s personal. It's about to turn legal. Here’s a timeline of how Ebola spread to the United States, and systemic breakdowns along the way.

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Up To Speed: Lawsuits charging NCAA with improperly capping scholarships to proceed

While the two suits have slightly different aims, they both charge the NCAA with keeping scholarships' value less than the cost of attending school.

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital defends its care of Ebola patient

The Dallas hospital facing criticism on the medical, legal and political fronts for its care of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan is attempting to defend itself as wide-ranging claims of mistakes mount.