This Aug. 12, 2014 file photo shows a healthcare worker walking near an Ebola isolation unit, part of the Ebola outbreak response, wearing protective gear against the virus at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Federal researchers next week will…
3rd Doctor Dies from Ebola
During a training session participants listen as they stand over a mannequin on a stretcher during a training course to instruct non-governmental organization (NGO) workers and doctors on how to deal with the Ebola virus in Brussels on Tuesday, Aug. 26,…
Liberia Gets ZMapp
Liberia women sing after praying for help with the Ebola virus, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia. Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Liberia faced an excruciating choice Thursday: deciding which handful of Ebola patients will receive an experimental drug that could prove…
Genetics to Test Ebola Vaccine
An Iowa drug developer is preparing to test a possible Ebola vaccine in humans, as scientists race to develop ways to prevent or fight a virus that has killed more than 1,000 people in a West African outbreak. NewLink Genetics is…
Debate Continues Over Experimental Ebola Drugs
In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, Guinea soldiers stand around a rope across the road that separates Guinea and Sierra Leone, and works as a makeshift border control checkpoint at Gbalamuya-Pamelap, Guinea. As Guinea closed its border with…
Answers about an Unproven Drug for Ebola
Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General of the World Health Organization,WHO, informs the media following a panel of medical analysts to explore the ethics of experimental treatment in the Ebola outbreak, at the headquarters of the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Aug….
Activista contra el SIDA lucha por la FDA
En esta foto del 22 de julio de 2014, el activista contra el SIDA Gregg Gonsalves camina por el exterior de la estación Grand Central Terminal durante una sesión fotográfica en Nueva York. A principios de la década de 1990, Gonsalves viajó a Washington para confrontar, provocar y desafiar a los funcionarios de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos...
Ebola Outbreak an International Public Health Emergency Declared by WHO
Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, China’s Margaret Chan and Assistant Director General for Health Security Keiji Fukuda of the US, right, share a word during a press conference after an emergency meeting at the headquarters of the WHO…
Ebola Vaccine Antibodies Are Made in Tobacco Plants
Charlie Arntzen has worked tirelessly on new platforms to deliver drugs. He has focused on plant-based drug delivery systems, testing a wide range of plants as possible “manufacturing platforms” for therapeutics for the developing world. Now Arntzen, an Arizona State University…