WASHINGTON -- Few epidemiologists are as publicly lauded as Don Francis. The longtime public health worker has toiled on multiple continents in efforts to eradicate some of the world's deadliest diseases, from smallpox in South Asia to cholera in Nigeria to hepatitis B in the United States and China.

WASHINGTON -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Wednesday that it will implement a tougher, new 21-day monitoring period for travelers coming to America from the three West African states plagued by the Ebola epidemic.

The new system will be implemented starting Oct. 27, and will...

Late Sunday night, word came from the Obama administration that U.S. officials had dropped arms, weapons and medical supplies to Kurdish forces in northern Syria who were battling members of the Islamic State.

The news marked a new frontier in a monthslong campaign in that country. American...

WASHINGTON -- One person in the United States has died from Ebola. And that person, so far, has infected just two people -- both health care workers tending to him in a Dallas hospital. And yet, a large chunk of the country is fearful over the possibility of this disease...

WASHINGTON -- Just two weeks before the midterm elections, there are no signs of a de-escalation in the ongoing political tangle over the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and its emergence in the United States.

On Monday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released a statement attacking Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.)...

WASHINGTON -- Around 2008, an Ebola outbreak in Africa sparked a renewed push within the U.S. biomedical research community to find a vaccine. A company called Integrated BioTherapeutics Inc. was given a $5.8 million contract from the National Institutes of Health for vaccine research.

WASHINGTON -- The second debate in the unexpectedly tight Kansas race for U.S. Senate was marked by sharp jabs, bitter disagreements, backhanded compliments and fear, mainly about Ebola.

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), the endangered incumbent, was often the aggressor against Greg Orman, the independent businessman challenging him in next...

WASHINGTON -- It's been a little more than a month since President Barack Obama announced an expanded fight against the Islamic State in both Iraq and Syria. Few foreign policy officials would argue that this is anything less than the most complex military engagement undertaken during Obama's time in office....

WASHINGTON -- Recent attacks by a Democratic outside group blame congressional Republicans for exacerbating the Ebola epidemic by continuously seeking to cut funds for government health agencies.

But the charge leaves out a critical point. President Barack Obama hasn't been consistent on funding the Centers for Disease Control and...

WASHINGTON -- Last week, the Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in 11 states by declining to hear challenges to lower court rulings permitting such unions. For same-sex couples across the country, the announcement wasn't just an abstract legal breakthrough, it was personal. After years of doubt over...

WASHINGTON -- Amid panic over the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and a second diagnosis in the United States, lawmakers are renewing efforts to bolster biomedical research funding and disaster preparedness.

On Monday, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) joined the chorus, urging for more money to be spent on a federal...

Ebola breitet sich in Westafrika immer weiter aus. Selbst in den USA und Spanien, wo nur einzelne Patienten behandelt wurden und die Sicherheitsstandards angeblich hoch sind, haben sich Krankenschwestern infiziert.

Einen zugelassenen Impfstoff gibt es nicht. Und auch kein Medikament gegen das tödliche Virus. Weil die Staaten...

BETHESDA, Md. -- As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, one of the country's top health officials says a vaccine likely would have already been discovered were it...

As the U.S.-led coalition continues to engage the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, much of the world's attention has been focused on Kobani, a city on the northern border of Syria, a stone's throw from Turkey, that the militant group is seemingly determined to capture. The implications...

WASHINGTON -- Can you win a seat in the United States Senate by driving around in a minivan, strumming a guitar and singing about the evils of money in politics?

The question will soon be answered in South Dakota, where Rick Weiland, a former Clinton official and top...

In some matter of time -- maybe soon, maybe not -- America will be led by women.

It's not just because they make up more than half of the population, or because their numbers in Congress keep growing, or because Hillary Clinton is the most likely next president, or...

WASHINGTON -- In late July, Dan Pfeiffer, one of President Barack Obama's longest-serving advisers, was asked to reflect on how the White House communications team had changed over the years.

"There are things that would have caused us to set our hair on fire in the first term that...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday set the United States on a historic civil rights path, paving the way for the majority of Americans to reside in states where same-sex marriage is legal.

The court declined to hear appeals from five states that were challenging lower-court rulings legalizing...

WASHINGTON -- As he strode into the hearing room in the Capitol Hill visitor's center on Sept. 16, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chair of the special congressional committee investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, made a quick beeline to a member of the crowd.

It wasn't a fellow lawmaker....

WASHINGTON -- The lead agency tasked with responding to the threat of Ebola both within the United States and abroad has seen its budget drop dramatically in the past four years.

In breaking the news on Tuesday that the first Ebola patient had been diagnosed in the...