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North Korea steps up Ebola measures 10/23/2014 08:20am • ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea has stepped up measures to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus into the reclusive country, state media reported Thursday, while a travel agent that specializes in North Korean tours said it has been informed that Pyongyang m Small business view: Ebola, energy and elections 10/23/2014 03:38am • JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Small business owners have their fair share of issues they need to stay on top of. These days they can add three more to the list.Gas prices are plunging. Fears about the Ebola virus are increasing. And the upcoming elections are raising questio Dozens released Ebola-free from Sierra Leone site 10/23/2014 03:12am • KABBA KARGBO Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Dozens of Ebola survivors have been discharged from a treatment center near Sierra Leone's capital and told they were virus-free, as police and residents clashed in other areas of the West African country.Assistant inspector police general Celtics win preseason finale; 100-86 over Nets 10/22/2014 11:00pm • KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) -- Boston coach Brad Stevens wasn't about to completely praise rookie Marcus Smart's performance.Stevens didn't miss something he did wrong directly in front of him.Smart, the team's first-round selection and No. 6 overall, scored 16 points and Jared Sullinger US to track everyone coming from Ebola nations 10/22/2014 10:56pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer ATLANTA (AP) -- All travelers who come into the U.S. from three Ebola-stricken West African nations will now be monitored for three weeks, the latest step by federal officials to keep the disease from spreading into the country.Starting Monday, anyone traveling from Gui Family: Doctors don't detect Ebola in nurse's body 10/22/2014 10:00pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Doctors no longer detect Ebola in a Texas nurse who flew to Ohio and back before she was diagnosed with the virus, her family said Wednesday.Officials at Emory University Hospital and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention couldn't detect Ebola in Amber Vinson as of Tu US journalist leaves hospital after Ebola recovery 10/22/2014 09:26pm • MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola at an Omaha hospital left the facility Wednesday afternoon and is heading home to Rhode Island, a hospital spokesman said.Ashoka Mukpo, who contracted the virus while working in Liberia as a fr WHO: Ebola vaccine trials in W. Africa in January 10/22/2014 08:18pm • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization is pressing the search for an Ebola vaccine and hopes to begin testing two experimental versions as early as January on more than 20,000 front-line health care workers and others in West Africa's hot zone -- a bigger rollout Spanish woman free of Ebola, final tests show 10/22/2014 05:50pm • CIARAN GILES Associated Press MADRID (AP) -- Conclusive tests show a Spanish nursing assistant infected with Ebola is cured of the virus, doctors said Tuesday, signaling a huge step forward in her 15-day battle for survival.Four blood tests over the past four days indicated Teresa Romero's system ha Dallas nurse's dog tests negative for Ebola 10/22/2014 05:02pm • DALLAS (AP) -- The first Ebola test for the quarantined King Charles Spaniel belonging to a Dallas nurse hospitalized with the virus has come back negative.The city of Dallas said Wednesday that one-year-old Bentley will be tested again before his 21-day quarantine period ends Nov. 1.Bentley was qua NIH Begins Human Testing Of Possible Ebola Vaccine 10/22/2014 03:25pm • While a nurse being treated for Ebola at NIH has gotten most of the media attention, the Bethesda-based federal agency has also been busy working on potential vaccines for the virus. On Wednesday, NIH announced human testing on a second investigational Ebola vaccine candidate is underway at its New Ebola gear guidelines: head-to-toe coverage 10/22/2014 02:38pm • The Associated Press Health care workers should be completely covered -- no skin exposed -- while caring for Ebola patients, according to revised guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The government agency tightened its guidance after two Dallas nurses became infected US journalist to head home after Ebola recovery 10/22/2014 02:10pm • OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An American video journalist who has recovered from Ebola will soon head home to Rhode Island with his family, hospital officials said Wednesday.Nebraska Medical Center officials said Ashoka Mukpo, who had contracted the virus while working in Liberia as a freelance cameraman for Urgent-care clinics ill-equipped to treat Ebola 10/22/2014 11:02am • JULIE WATSON Associated Press A new concern over the spread of Ebola surfaced recently when a Dallas County sheriff's deputy who searched the apartment of the first patient to die from the virus in the U.S. started feeling ill and went to an urgent-care center.The clinics popping up rapidly across t Johnson & Johnson plans Ebola vaccine testing 10/22/2014 09:14am • NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Johnson & Johnson will begin safety testing in early January on a vaccine combination that could protect people from a strain of the deadly Ebola virus.The health care products maker said Wednesday that the vaccine being developed by its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies p