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The U.N. says it cannot meet its Dec. 1 target date for containing ebola
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com By Elizabeth Barber, TIME The U.N. mission responsible for responding to the Ebola outbreak will miss its...
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NBC News’ Snyderman returning to TV
NBC News Chief Medical Editor Nancy Snyderman will be back on TV this Wednesday. Off the air and publicly invisible since early October, when she returned from Liberia and then broke a voluntary...
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So long, Ebola Czar. Ron Klain is heading back to the private sector.
With the Ebola crisis seemingly in hand, Ron Klain, the veteran political operative the White House plucked from a venture capital gig to coordinate the government's response, is planning a late-winter...
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Ebola fighters named ‘Person of the Year’
This year, Time Magazine has no single Person of the Year -- instead choosing to give that honor to all the people fighting ebola throughout the world. This isn’t entirely unprecedented -- in the past,...
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Roche wins FDA emergency approval for Ebola test
Roche Holding AG has received permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for emergency use of a test to detect the type of Ebola that has spread through West Africa. Roche’s LightMix Ebola...
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Ebola fight has reached a ‘turning point’ in West Africa, WHO says
This article is published in partnership with Time.com. The original version can be found here. The fight against Ebola has reached a "turning point," according to the World Health Organization (WHO),...
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Box starts trading and Uber’s back in Delhi–5 things to know today
Hello friends and Fortune readers. Wall Street futures are having a good morning. European markets are also higher, and Asian stocks rallied to close out the week. Saudi Arabia is mourning its longtime...
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Obama’s budget and Super Bowl ad winners — 5 things to know today
Hello friends and Fortune readers. Monday morning is off to a snowy and somewhat slushy start across the Midwest and Northeast. Wall Street doesn’t seem fazed by it, though: U.S. stock futures are...
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Tesla’s update and the Greek drama continues — 5 things to know today
Hello friends and Fortune readers. Wall Street is quiet this morning as U.S. stock futures remain little changed. European shares are down as investors watch the brewing Greek drama carefully. Asian...
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Ex-Ebola Czar Ron Klain: 5 management lessons from the Ebola outbreak
In mid-October 2014, when I was asked to serve as the first U.S. Ebola Response Coordinator, America was gripped by Ebola fear. We had quickly gone from zero cases of the disease ever diagnosed on U.S....
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This is what keeps Bill Gates up at night
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. He essentially invented personal computing and co-founded a major multinational corporation. But what really keeps him up at night has nothing to do with...
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2-pound DNA-reader could help fight Ebola, TB, HIV
At just 2.2 pounds, a compact, battery-powered, DNA-reading medical device will soon be aiding the fight against Ebola, TB, HIV, and other infectious diseases in emerging countries, possibly by the...
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Ebola’s “magic pill” might actually be a machine
Earlier this year, infectious disease specialist and Ebola survivor Ian Crozier made headlines when physicians found traces of the virus lurking in his eye, months after he had been declared free of...
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Dr. Nancy Snyderman on Ebola scandal: ‘People wanted me dead’
When NBC's former chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman returned from Liberia after covering the Ebola outbreak late last year, she was stunned to see what was going on in the U.S. "America was nuts"...
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How the “polio surge” in Nigeria helped stop Ebola
One of the scariest moments of last year's Ebola outbreak for Susan Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was when Ebola arrived, by way of a business traveler, in Lagos. That...
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UN Uses Virtual Reality to Raise Awareness and Money
The United Nations has embraced virtual reality as a new way to raise awareness about the plights of human beings around the world. The UN has created a trio of short VR films with Vrse.works: Clouds...
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A New Approach to Fighting Viruses Shows Promising Early Results
A team including researchers from Singapore, Japan, and IBM have reported promising early tests of a new strategy for combating a broad spectrum of viruses, which they say may help overcome some...
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The World Just Got Its First-Ever Global Insurance Market for Pandemics
The global health community was roundly chastised for its tardy response to the Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015. Now, the World Bank is creating a new financial tool to ensure such delays don’t happen...
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Ebola Nurse Nina Pham Settles Lawsuit with Dallas Hospital
Nurse Nina Pham, who many have come to know as the Ebola nurse, has finally settled a lawsuit with her employer’s parent company. Pham’s lawyers and Texas Health Resources, which owns the Dallas...
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Here’s What We Could Be Doing to Stop Pandemics Like Zika and Ebola
A boiling pot of global conditions, like ubiquitous travel and the growing populations of developing cities, have led to an outbreak of pandemics like Ebola, Zika, SARs, and even the flu over the past...
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