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Atlanta hospital deemed 1 of safest for Ebola care 08/03/2014 05:54pm • RAY HENRY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- The Ebola virus has killed more than 700 people in Africa and could have catastrophic consequences if allowed to spread, world health officials say. So why would anyone allow infected Americans to come to Atlanta?The answer, experts say, is because Emory Un Oregon Medicaid targets expensive hepatitis drug 08/03/2014 12:40pm • JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press WILSONVILLE, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon Medicaid committee on Thursday significantly scaled back access to an effective -- but expensive -- new drug used to treat hepatitis C.The decision allows only a narrow set of Medicaid patients to be treated with the $1,000-per- Pregnant mom dies after stings; community supports family 08/03/2014 11:37am • Editor's Note: This story has been amended to indicate that stings may have been from yellow jackets. WASHINGTON -- A community is coming together to help the family of a pregnant mother of four children who died after receiving multiple stings by yellow jackets. Initial reports said Sarah Har US warns against traveling to Ebola-hit countries 08/03/2014 11:20am • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. health officials on Thursday warned Americans not to travel to the three West African countries hit by an outbreak of Ebola.The travel advisory applies to nonessential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the deadly disease has killed See-through mice reveal details of inner anatomy 08/03/2014 10:50am • MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Researchers have found a way to make see-through mice, but you won't find these critters scampering in your kitchen.The transparent rodents aren't alive and they're for research only, to help scientists study fine details of anatomy.Before they are t Atlanta hospital deemed 1 of safest for Ebola care 08/03/2014 10:40am • RAY HENRY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- The Ebola virus has killed more than 700 people in Africa and could have catastrophic consequences if allowed to spread, world health officials say. So why would anyone allow infected Americans to come to Atlanta?The answer, experts say, is because Emory Un Disease control head: Ebola patient seems improved 08/03/2014 10:20am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the condition of the American doctor stricken with Ebola seems to have improved from earlier reports.Dr. Thomas Frieden tells NBC it was encouraging to see Dr. Kent Brantly walk out of the ambulance unassisted whe Doctors say George faces long rehab process 08/03/2014 12:42am • MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Doctors say Paul George's biggest battle is yet to come, and it may take a year or more before he returns to the Pacers lineup.One day after the two-time All-Star suffered a gruesome open tibia-fibula fracture on his right leg during a USA Basketba Woods goes to old driver without new results 08/02/2014 06:50pm • DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- Tiger Woods went back to the driver he was using last year, except that it didn't help. He hit only six fairways Saturday -- up from four fairways on Friday -- and made only one birdie in a round of 72 that left him no chance of defending his title.Wh Pacers' George has surgery on broken leg 08/02/2014 04:58pm • W.G. RAMIREZ Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Indiana Pacers All-Star Paul George has undergone successful surgery on his broken right leg and is expected to remain in the hospital for about three days.The 6-foot-9 George had an operation at Sunrise Hospital to repair the open tibia-fibula fractur Vlade Divac undergoes emergency surgery in Serbia 08/02/2014 02:30pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) -- Former NBA center Vlade Divac has undergone emergency stomach surgery in Serbia.Doctors said Saturday in a statement that Divac was admitted to a Belgrade hospital after feeling "strong pains in his stomach."The statement said his life was not threatened. It did not specify U.S. doctor with Ebola arrives in Atlanta 08/02/2014 10:56am • RAY HENRY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- An Air Force spokesman says a patient infected with Ebola in Africa has arrived at a military air base outside Atlanta and is being brought to a hospital in the city.Dobbins Air Reserve Base spokesman Lt. Col. James Wilson says the first of two Americans w Doctors: Stabbing suspect sees fictional beings 08/02/2014 09:58am • M.L. JOHNSON Associated Press WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) -- One of two preteens accused of stabbing a classmate 19 times to please a fictional horror character was ordered Friday to receive treatment rather than stand trial, based on doctors' testimony that she claims to see and have conversations with thi Ebola moving faster than control efforts 08/02/2014 08:28am • BOUBACAR DIALLO Associated Press CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea's capit Otter attacks swimmers in Washington river 08/02/2014 08:20am • DOUG ESSER The Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) -- State and federal wildlife agents are trying to trap the otter that attacked a boy and his grandmother as they were swimming in the Pilchuck River about 30 miles northeast of Seattle.Because it has pounced on people, the otter will likely be killed unl