Obama Requests $6 Billion for Ebola
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
A White House official said most of the emergency funding would be for immediate response efforts.
A White House official said most of the emergency funding would be for immediate response efforts.
People who were pleased with their new health care coverage remained unhappy with the Democrats who passed it.
Victories for Republican governors in several states means those states are not likely to expand coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
A nurse who fought efforts by Maine to quarantine her at home after she returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa reached an agreement on Monday with the state that largely leaves her free to travel.
Evidence shows that “defensive medicine” practiced by doctors fearing lawsuits is only a tiny bit of overall care.
The health ministry said in a statement on its website that the patient had contracted the virus in Sierra Leone and was being treated in a military hospital near Paris.
The Obama administration has discovered a number of defects in the online marketplace that will offer health insurance to small-business employees, but said they would be fixed before Nov. 15.
In a year that was supposed to be dominated by attacks on the Affordable Care Act, few Republican candidates focused on repeal or offered alternatives.
The president promoted a progressive agenda and portrayed Republicans as hidebound, but he was careful to try to keep his own unpopularity from swaying elections.
Patients infected with H.I.V. are being ordered out of hospitals in Yemen, even when they are in dire need of care, a human rights group says.
A major study in India has stunned advocates of latrine building by showing that it may do little good.
Giving steroids to women who are about to give birth prematurely may be useless or even dangerous in poor countries where most women give birth at home.
Last week, Pakistan reported 202 cases of paralysis from polio, the first time in 14 years the figure topped 200.
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