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US works to step up Ebola aid, but is it enough? 09/17/2014 08:58am • LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American strategy on Ebola is two-pronged: Step up desperately needed aid to West Africa and, in an unusual step, train U.S. doctors and nurses for volunteer duty in the outbreak zone. At home, the goal is to speed up medical research and put Georgetown student posted foreboding tweets before apparent meningitis death 09/17/2014 08:11am • WASHINGTON-- Test results should reveal whether a Georgetown University sophomore died of meningitis. In a campus-wide email, university officials say Andrea Jaime, 19, died at the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Tuesday of "apparent meningitis," but confirmation of that diagnosis is sti UN: Nearly $1 billion needed now to stop Ebola 09/17/2014 07:16am • JOHN HEILPRIN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) -- The number of Ebola cases could start doubling every three weeks in West Africa, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, warning that the outbreak will cost nearly $1 billion to contain so it does not turn into a "human catastrophe."Even as President National HIV awareness campaign to launch in DC 09/17/2014 05:20am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a new HIV awareness campaign at a public hospital in southeast Washington.The campaign urges people who have HIV to seek medical care, start taking medications and adhere to treatment. It's called "HIV Treatment Works" Obama's Ebola response: Is it enough and in time? 09/17/2014 03:16am • LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world, and he ordered 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the region in emergency aid muscle for a crisis spiraling out of control.The q Ban: UN 'taking lead' on global fight on Ebola 09/16/2014 10:30pm • TRENTON DANIEL Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The head of the United Nations said Tuesday that the world body is "taking the lead now" on international efforts to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that has killed some 2,400 people and could spread further.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Georgetown student dies after battling meningitis 09/16/2014 05:22pm • WASHINGTON - Georgetown University students and staff will gather for a prayer service Tuesday evening to remember a fellow student who died after battling a diagnosed case of meningitis. In a campus-wide email, university officials say that Andrea Jaime died at the MedStar Georgetown University Ho US to assign 3,000 from US military to fight Ebola 09/16/2014 04:17pm • JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- Under pressure to boost the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, President Barack Obama is ordering 3,000 military personnel to West Africa amid worries that the financial and human cost of the outbreak is rapidly growing.The military response is part of a Gilead to license generic version of Sovaldi 09/16/2014 03:58pm • TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer Gilead Sciences has reached a deal with several generic drugmakers to produce a cheaper version of its popular, $1,000-per-pill hepatitis C drug Sovaldi for use in developing countries.Gilead said Monday that the India-based companies will make a generic version of Sova CAF denies it has lifted ban on games in Guinea 09/16/2014 06:20am • CAIRO (AP) -- The Confederation of African Football has denied claims by the Guinea Football Federation that the temporary ban on games in the Ebola-hit country has been lifted.CAF says no decision will be taken until its executive committee meets on Friday and Saturday in Ethiopia.CAF last month ba 8 Ways to Protect Your Identity While Online Shopping 09/16/2014 12:00am • The recent hacking of celebrity nude photos demonstrated that we are often more vulnerable to privacy breaches than we think. And as we move into the most frenzied shopping season of the year, scam artists will be on the prowl for vulnerable shoppers. To avoid becoming a victim, consider taking ste UN Security Council to meet on Ebola 09/15/2014 04:30pm • EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United States called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council Thursday on the Ebola crisis in West Africa, saying the situation on the ground is "dire" and getting worse every day.U.S. U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power said the Unite Rampant Ebola fear takes toll on Africa tourism 09/15/2014 09:32am • RODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Ebola is thousands of miles away from Kenya's pristine Indian Ocean beaches, but the deadly disease appears to be discouraging tourism there and elsewhere in this vast continent.Harald Kampa, a hotelier near Mombasa, says the Ebola outbreak in 4th doctor dies of Ebola in Sierra Leone 09/15/2014 03:20am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Sierra Leone has lost a fourth doctor to Ebola after a failed effort to transfer her abroad for medical treatment, a government official said Sunday, a huge setback to the impoverished country that is battling the virulent disease Obama to visit Atlanta health center to talk Ebola 09/15/2014 03:00am • JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will travel next week to Atlanta to address the Ebola crisis during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House said Friday.During his visit on Tuesday, Obama will be briefed about the outbreak an