Ebola victim’s family and Dallas hospital reach settlement
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com. By Sam Frizell, TIME The family of the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the United States announced...
View ArticleWhat took Silicon Valley so long to join the Ebola fight?
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com. By Jack Linshi, TIME Until last week, there was one group largely missing from the list of Ebola donors:...
View ArticleThe Great Escape Business
It's a big and unpredictable world out there--and more and more often multinationals are doing business in the most remote and risky parts of it. This year, the advance of ISIS, Ebola, an on-and-off...
View ArticleEbola death toll surpasses 5,000 worldwide
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com. By Elizabeth Barber, TIME More than 5,000 people have died from the Ebola virus, marking a macabre waypost...
View ArticleDoctor infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone to receive treatment in U.S.
This post is in partnership with Time. The article below was originally published at Time.com. By Eliana Dockterman, TIME A surgeon who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone is being flown to the United...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s earlier effort to stop pandemics like Ebola
Back during the great Ebola Panic of October 2014, Silicon Valley academic Vivek Wadhwa tweeted the following: Imagine if SV focused on detecting Ebola and developing cures for infectious diseases. Big...
View ArticleCost of Ebola for West Africa far lower than once feared
An aggressive response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has reduced a massive $32.6 billion economic tab initially forecast by the World Bank, a top official at the organization said Wednesday....
View ArticleHow HIV drugs may be able to treat blindness
"Screw the FDA. I'm gonna be... D.O.A." So says Ron Woodroof (played by Matthew McConaughey) to Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner) in the 2013 film Dallas Buyers Club, when she tells him the drugs he wants...
View ArticleMerck buys the rights to an experimental Ebola vaccine
By Ransdell Pierson Merck MRK on Monday said it would buy worldwide commercial rights to NewLink Genetics Corp’s experimental vaccine meant to prevent infection with the Ebola virus. Large late-stage...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNBC 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...
View ArticleSo 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...
View ArticleEbola 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,...
View ArticleRoche 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...
View ArticleEbola 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),...
View ArticleBox 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...
View ArticleObama’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...
View ArticleTesla’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...
View ArticleEx-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....
View ArticleThis 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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