A recent study by Boston University researchers has found that signs of the Ebola virus can be detected days before symptoms appear, potentially allowing the disease to be diagnosed even earlier than before.
Boston University researchers are poised to move into the forefront of the battle against Ebola, Zika and other emerging life-threatening diseases, as the university’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases...
Deliberation over the planned Biosafety Level 4 research at Boston University Medical Campus’ National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories continued at the Boston Biosafety Committee’s public...
Since the beginning of AIDS/HIV epidemic, nearly 35 million people have died from HIV-related causes. The disease became extremely prevalent in the United States during the 1980s. AIDS, though more researched...
By Till Kaeslin and Alana Levene
Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson called for a ban on all Biosafety Level 4 research in Boston during a press conference Wednesday morning. Jackson then brought...
Back in the late summer of 2014, I remember thinking that it was illogical for people to get all caught up in the Ebola craze. I realized that cable news networks had the hard job of filling up 24 hours...
Partners in Health founding director Paul Farmer highlighted the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, his medical efforts in Haiti and several global health issues in developing and underdeveloped countries...
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have found that the physicians least likely to encounter the infectious Ebola virus tend to be overly cautious even with low-risk patients.
The report...
The Ebola outbreak that grew rapidly last year has claimed 9,729 lives as of Saturday, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 99.8 percent of those deaths are...
Less than 24 hours after a patient was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital for a suspected case of Ebola, the patient tested negative for Ebola, but positive for malaria, the hospital announced...
A patient suspected of contracting the Ebola virus was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital Tuesday at 2 p.m., according to a statement on the hospital’s website Tuesday night.
The release...
