In the first chapter of their book, Operation Ebola, Stanford surgeon Sherry Wren, MD, and her Johns Hopkins colleague Adam Kushner, MD, MPH, write something …
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From bedside to patient: an Ebola survivor’s remarkable journey
When Ian Crozier, MD, volunteered to treat Ebola patients in West Africa last year, he couldn’t possibly have imagined that he would become a case …
Ebola: It’s not over
Ebola may have receded from the headlines, but the challenges and threat of the disease persist. The epidemic, which has killed more than 10,700 people …
Live tweeting from Association of Health Care Journalists conference
Starting tomorrow morning, we'll be live tweeting from the Association of Health Care Journalists 2015 conference, which is being held in Santa Clara, Calif. and …
The Ebola crisis: an ethical balancing act
Should Ebola patients in West Africa be given unproven treatments? How should clinicians decide which patients to treat, given the limited availability of some drugs? …
Can a single drug outsmart many kinds of viral invaders?
We've got plenty of effective antibiotics - maybe even too many- to knock off bacteria we don't like. But when it comes to viruses, it's …
All hands on deck: Doctor answers call to work on largest Ebola epidemic in history
In the nearly 70-year history of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only three disasters called for an “all hands on deck,” Level …
Physician at forefront of Ebola fight: “Ultimate award” is what you get back from survivors
When Lassa fever, a cousin of Ebola, was afflicting hundreds of thousands of people in West Africa in the late 90s, Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH …
Back home from Liberia, Stanford physician continues to help in fight against Ebola
Earlier this fall, we shared the story of Stanford physician Colin Bucks, MD, who, as a volunteer with the International Medical Corp, treated some 130 patients with …
Ebola: This outbreak is different
Misinformation about Ebola blankets the web. To clarify priorities, and spur action, Stanford global health specialist Michele Barry, MD, penned a strongly worded essay published …
Stanford physician shares his story of treating Ebola patients in Liberia
For a month, emergency physician Colin Bucks, MD, found himself in the remote, dense jungle of northeast Liberia in the heat of the battle against …
The slippery slope toward "a dangerous dependence on facts"
The ever-funny Andy Borowitz has written in The New Yorker about a previously unreported challenge in the fight against Ebola: It might make Americans believe …
How to keep safe while operating on Ebola patients
Amid the Ebola crisis, two U.S. surgeons with a combined 30 years of working in developing countries have stepped forward to help disseminate well-defined protocols …
Experience from the trenches in the first Ebola outbreak
Noted infectious disease expert Donald Francis, MD, PhD, was "a quiet doctoral student" at Harvard when he was called in to fly into the remote …
Ebola: A look at what happened and what can be done
As of September 28, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, so far, more than 7,100 people have been infected with and more than 3,300 …
Dr. Paul Farmer: We should be saving Ebola patients
The photo says it all: A very slender, ailing man sits on the floor with his head bent, completely alone in the dark in what …