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Nurse criticizes Ebola quarantine, raising concern 10/27/2014 02:04am • VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- The nurse who was quarantined at a New Jersey hospital because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa criticized the way her case has been handled, raising concerns from humanitarian and human rights groups over unclear policies for the new Do You Have Parkinson's Disease or a Parkinsonism? 10/27/2014 12:00am • Imagine the healthy American population as a bell curve. People with Parkinson's disease would be toward the flat part of the curve, says Peter Schmidt, chief information officer at the National Parkinson Foundation. And if Parkinson's disease patients constitute another bell curve, people with a v What 'Gone Girl' Does (and Doesn't) Tell Us About Mental Illness 10/27/2014 12:00am • "Gone Girl's" Amy Elliot Dunne is a lot of things. She's beautiful, she's manipulative, she's self-centered -- and she's very decidedly not normal. Dunne also could be a lot of things. She could be a psychopath, she could have narcissistic personality disorder -- or she could just be a girl gone w Is Surgery Safer at a Teaching Hospital? 10/27/2014 12:00am • Like anything, it takes time and practice to become a qualified surgeon. But what is the appropriate balance of allowing residents to gain experience and giving patients the best care possible? U.S. News explored the risks and benefits to surgery at teaching hospitals: Do the benefits of surgery at NYC mayor visits doctor with Ebola 10/26/2014 10:10pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's mayor has visited the Manhattan hospital isolation unit where a doctor who contracted Ebola is being treated.After Sunday's visit, Mayor Bill de Blasio said New Yorkers shouldn't be alarmed about contracting the disease that has killed nearly 5,000 people, mostly in NY, NJ order Ebola quarantine for doctors, others 10/26/2014 04:40pm • MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Alarmed by the case of an Ebola-infected New York doctor, the governors of New Jersey and New York on Friday ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of t Fauci: Quarantine aren't necessary; Christie disagrees 10/26/2014 03:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top federal health official says it's not necessary to quarantine all health care workers who treated Ebola patients in West Africa.Dr. Anthony Fauci (FOW'-chee), director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says active monitoring can accomplish the sam A guide to getting your first mortgage 10/26/2014 12:00pm • To buy your first home, you likely will need a mortgage. In fact, before you even start looking at houses, you should look into your mortgage prospects. If you have good credit, a healthy income and money in the bank, you'll be able to secure mortgage preapproval quickly and proceed straight to WHO: Number of Ebola-linked cases passes 10,000 10/26/2014 11:14am • SARAH DiLORENZO Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- More than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola and nearly half of them have died, according to figures released Saturday by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread.The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the large WHO: Millions of Ebola vaccine doses ready in 2015 10/26/2014 10:48am • MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says millions of doses of two experimental Ebola vaccines could be ready for use in 2015 and five more experimental vaccines will start being tested in March.Still, the agency warned it's not clear whether any of these will w US journalist says body was 'at war' with Ebola 10/26/2014 07:32am • JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Ashoka Mukpo knew he really was in trouble when he saw the people treating him in full protective suits and hoods.The American video journalist is home now after recovering from Ebola he contracted while working in the virus-ravaged West A Ebola: A crash course in fear and how it hurts us 10/26/2014 07:32am • SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ebola is giving Americans a crash course in fear.Yet, they're incredibly less likely to get the disease than to get sick worrying about it.First, the reality check: More Americans have married Kim Kardashian -- three -- than contracted Ebola in th Tokyo university loses record 86th straight game 10/26/2014 03:50am • TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese university baseball team extended its own record of futility on Sunday, losing its 86th straight game while finishing a fourth consecutive year winless.The University of Tokyo was beaten 5-0 by Hosei University at Tokyo's Jingu Stadium to prolong a losing streak that dates b Ebola-stricken doc described as driven do-gooder 10/26/2014 12:46am • JAKE PEARSON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Dr. Craig Spencer, the physician now being treated for Ebola in New York City, is the kind of globe-trotting do-gooder who could walk into a small village in Africa and, even though he didn't know the language, win people over through hugs alone, accord Cholera sickens nearly 1,000 people in Niger 10/26/2014 12:40am • DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Doctors Without Borders says a cholera outbreak in the West African country of Niger killed 20 people and has sickened nearly 1,000 people.The medical aid group said Friday that several districts in the country's south have been affected. Cholera is caused by the ingestion of