The fight to contain the 2013-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa was hampered by the lack of an effective treatment or vaccine. Researchers funded in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...

A pilot study of a class of drugs used to treat hepatitis and some forms of multiple sclerosis has been shown for the first time to ease symptoms of Ebola patients, while also increasing their survival. The...

Viruses and their hosts are in a eternal game of one-upmanship. If a host cell evolves a way to stop a virus from spreading, the virus will look for a new path. And so on and so forth. A team of scientists...

The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 11,300 lives and starkly revealed the lack of effective options for treating or preventing the disease. Progress has been made on developing...

The second person with Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is scheduled to be admitted for treatment of the lethal virus tomorrow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. The unidentified American...

One year after the first Ebola cases started to surface in Guinea, the latest findings from a Cochrane review show new ways of hydrating patients in critical care environments across the world. The study,...

An old disease is getting new recognition as a potential protective agent against infection and subsequent death from the Ebola virus. Nieman-Pick Type C (NPC) is one of three lysosomal storage diseases...

The second Ebola patient to be treated at The Nebraska Medical Center, Ashoka Mukpo, is scheduled to receive the same convalescent serum the first patient here did a few weeks ago. And the serum is coming...

The first case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to be confirmed in the United States, Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan remains in critical condition. His condition is stable, according to Texas Health...

In a follow-up to a report last week, Thailand researchers say the World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed in the Ebola therapy developed at Mahidol University in Bangkok. According to Clinical...