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US missionary with Ebola leaving Liberia Tuesday 08/04/2014 04:12am • BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- A second American missionary stricken with Ebola is expected to fly Tuesday to the U.S. for treatment, following a colleague who was admitted over the weekend to Emory University Hospital's infectious disease unit.A Liberian official confirmed to The Asso American nurse with Ebola to leave Liberia Tuesday 08/03/2014 08:08pm • BILL BARROW Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) -- A second American medical missionary stricken with the often deadly Ebola virus is expected to be flown Tuesday to the U.S. for treatment, following a colleague who was admitted over the weekend to Emory University Hospital's infectious disease unit.Top A 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 Experts seek to reassure Americans about Ebola risk 08/03/2014 12:40pm • ATLANTA (AP) -- The Ebola virus has killed more than 700 people in Africa and health officials say it could have catastrophic consequences if allowed to spread. So why would anyone allow infected Americans to come to Atlanta?The answer, experts say, is because Emory University Hospital, with its sup 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- 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 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 Families await Peace Corps evacuees' homecoming 08/03/2014 10:40am • CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Families in the United States expect to be reunited as early as this weekend with some of the more than 300 Peace Corps volunteers being evacuated from three West African nations affected by the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history."We did reall TS Bertha aims for Bahamas, Turks and Caicos 08/03/2014 02:18am • DANICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Tropical Storm Bertha aimed for the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands early Sunday as its heavy rains and wind led to the cancellation of flights and caused power outages in parts of the Caribbean.The storm had maximum sustained winds 1 bad pitch costs Orioles in 6-3 loss to Mariners 08/03/2014 12:12am • DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer BALTIMORE (AP) -- The odds favored Miguel Gonzalez in the fifth inning of a tie game against the Seattle Mariners.Although Gonzalez was pitching against perennial All-Star Robinson Cano with runners on second and third, Baltimore's right-hander had an uncanny recor In brief lull, Gaza's displaced survey devastation 08/02/2014 08:08pm • KARIN LAUB Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Bassem Abul Qumbus looked in despair at the wreck of his home. Shells had punched holes in an upper-floor bedroom. A wall had collapsed into the kitchen. The dozens of baby chicks he'd been raising on the roof were dead, except for three tiny 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 Sierra Leone athlete not missing, officials say 08/02/2014 07:40am • GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) -- Commonwealth Games officials say a Sierra Leone cyclist who failed to show up for his event is not missing and that team officials know of his whereabouts.Local media reported Friday that Sierra Leone's chef de mission was concerned over the whereabouts of Mohamed Tholley, Americans with Ebola returning to US for treatment 08/02/2014 03:36am • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Two American aid workers seriously ill with Ebola will be brought from West Africa to Atlanta for treatment in one of the most tightly sealed isolation units in the country, officials said Friday.One is expected to arrive Saturday, and the other a few d 2 Ebola victims to be treated at Atlanta hospital 08/01/2014 09:00pm • ATLANTA (AP) -- Two American aid workers infected with the Ebola virus in Africa will be treated at a specialized unit of an Atlanta hospital.Dr. Bruce Ribner said Friday the patients will receive care at Emory University Hospital. Ribner oversees the isolation unit. He said he had no personal safet