This will make your day, and restore your hope in humanity. The Cincinnati Bengals had to cut 25-year-old Devon Still from their team last week, but they decided to re-sign him after they found out that his 4-year-old daughter has cancer. The player revealed to the press that he believed he wasn’t on top of […]
An American missionary infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia will be the third patient to travel to the U.S. for treatment. Rick Sacra is expected to arrive in Omaha, Nebraska on Friday morning to begin treatment at the Nebraska Medical Center’s Biocontainment Patient Care Unit. Read about it here… [NBC] A 14-year-old girl in […]
Actress and Comedienne Joan Rivers is on life support after she stopped breathing during a recent throat surgery. The family will have to make a decision within the next couple of days whether or not to keep the 81-year-old on life support. Sources say that the family has faith that Joan will fight through it and […]
With the World Health Organization projecting numbers for those contracting Ebola to rise to the tens of thousands, U.S. colleges are considering screening students from West Africa for the virus. The outbreak, which has resulted in more than 1,500 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leon, is said to be largest in history. There is no cure […]
The largest Ebola outbreak in history has the potential to spread, according to the World Health Organization, who said Thursday the cases could eventually reach 20,000. The number of cases in many hard hit areas may also be two to four times higher than previously reported, a new plan by the U.N. health agency suggests. […]
The VMAs were filled with show-stopping performances, but Common got serious for a second to lead a heartfelt moment of silence for Michael Brown and the town of Ferguson. The rapper, who was on stage to present the Best Hip-Hop Video, cited the genre as an outlet of social change in wake of the protests in […]
Kent Brantly, the American doctor who contracted Ebola while helping battle the virus in West Africa, will be released from the Atlanta hospital where he was being treated. Brantly, 33, is expected to be released on Thursday, according to Emory University Hospital officials. Nancy Writebol, the aid worker who also contracted Ebola and was flown […]
An attack on a health care facility in Monrovia, Liberia on Saturday sent Ebola patients fleeing, although some chose to stay at the center, according to CNN. The assailants stole mattresses and equipment while wielding weapons. Guns were not used in the attack and no one was injured. “It was an attack from people afraid […]
As the Ebola death toll continues to rise, the World Health Organization met this week to determine whether it is ethical to administer experimental medications and vaccines. The WHO concluded unanimously that the use of the new serum is ethical, even if the effectiveness or adverse effects are unknown. The first two doses of the vaccine were given […]
On Friday, the World Health Organization announced that the largest outbreak of Ebola in history now constitutes as an international public health emergency that needs an extraordinary response to curb. The virus, which has killed nearly 1,000 people in Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leon, is continuing to spread in nations that do not have the resources to […]
As news swirls that the two Americans who were flown to Georgia to be treated in an Atlanta hospital for Ebola are increasingly improving, a top Ebola expert is asking the question on many minds — what about the people in Africa? In fact, three of the world’s leading Ebola specialists have come forward to […]
On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised its response to the largest Ebola outbreak in history to a “level 1 activation,” an alert reserved for the most serious health emergencies. With the CDC on high alert, there comes a truth straight from the agency — the latest outbreak of Ebola will be […]
