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Ebola training focuses on astronaut-like gear 10/09/2014 06:16pm • LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- The serious-faced physicians practice pulling on bulky white suits and helmets that make them look more like astronauts than doctors preparing to fight a deadly enemy. These training sessions at U.S. hospitals on Ebola alert and for health workers hea Nadal to stay on antibiotics for 4-5 days 10/09/2014 04:04pm • MADRID (AP) -- Rafael Nadal will stay on antibiotics for appendicitis for at least five more days after seeing a Spanish tennis federation doctor on Thursday in Barcelona on his way home to Mallorca.Nadal stopped by the clinic a day after losing in the first round of the Shanghai Masters.A statement US military sends aircraft, Marines to Ebola-torn Liberia; another doctor dies 10/09/2014 02:10pm • MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Liberia's health minister says another doctor has died at an Ebola treatment center on the outskirts of the capital.That brings to four the number of doctors who have died in Liberia since the outbreak. More than 90 health workers, including nurses and physician assistants, Woman with cancer plans to take her life in Oregon 10/09/2014 01:47pm • STEVEN DUBOIS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Brittany Maynard will not live to see if her advocacy makes a difference.The 29-year-old woman expects to die next month. If the brain cancer from which she suffers does not kill her in October, she plans to take advantage of Oregon's Death with World's finance officials pledge more Ebola help 10/09/2014 12:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nations gathered at a World Bank meeting in Washington are promising to send more aid quickly to African countries battling Ebola.They're also promising medical evacuations for health care responders who catch the virus.The pledges follow impassioned pleas for help from the presid Abortion doctor has final medical license revoked 10/09/2014 12:50pm • TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's Board of Medical Examiners has stripped an abortion doctor accused of violating state laws of his final medical license.The board voted unanimously to revoke Steven Brigham's license at its meeting Wednesday.The revocation means that he will lose his eight abortion Resource site tells you who authored famous quotes 10/09/2014 08:35am • Data Doctors '7th Heaven' actress Sarah Goldberg dies at 40 10/09/2014 07:48am • CHICAGO (AP) -- Sarah Goldberg, who starred in the television series "7th Heaven" and the film "Jurassic Park III," has died. She was 40.Goldberg died in her sleep of natural causes on Sept. 27 at her family's cabin in Wisconsin, her mother Judy Goldberg told the Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/1vM Report: Cost of Ebola could top $32 billion 10/09/2014 05:22am • DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ebola's economic toll could reach $32.6 billion by year's end if the disease ravaging Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone spreads across West Africa, the World Bank said Wednesday.The outbreak has the potential "to inflict massive economic costs" on tho Expert rejects evidence of life in brain-dead girl 10/09/2014 05:10am • LISA LEFF Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A court-appointed expert has told a California judge he sees no evidence that a 13-year-old girl is alive 10 months after a coroner signed her death certificate.The opinion was provided Monday in the case of Jahi McMath by Stanford University pediat WHO: Spain's Ebola case won't be last in Europe 10/09/2014 04:46am • JORGE SAINZ Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- A Spanish nursing assistant may be the first person in the ongoing epidemic to catch Ebola outside of Africa, but she probably won't be the last, experts warn.Still, even as more people with Ebola arrive on European shores, the continent's sophisticated he Safety advocates seek stronger warnings on Chantix 10/09/2014 04:20am • MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Public safety advocates are asking the federal government to strengthen warnings on Pfizer's anti-smoking drug Chantix, even as the drugmaker prepares to argue that a bold-letter warning about psychiatric problems should be removed from the medicin US Ebola patient dies; airport screening expanded 10/09/2014 03:00am • MIKE STOBBE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died Wednesday despite intense but delayed treatment, and the government announced it was expanding airport examinations to guard against the spread of the deadly disease.The checks will include taking 4 times you should question your doctor 10/09/2014 12:00am • Doctors are some of the most educated and celebrated people in modern society, and for good reason. They go to school for decades to learn the complexities of the human body and heal the sick. But even though they are experts on medicine, you, the patient, are the expert on you. You know your bo 12 Questions to Ask When You're Diagnosed With Ovarian Cancer 10/09/2014 12:00am • In August 2013, Jewel Figueras, 51, returned to South Florida from vacation with severe pain in her stomach. That's when she found out she had ovarian cancer. "I was diagnosed by accident, as most women are," she says. She was told in the hospital she had diverticulitis, and then: "But did you know