|  The U.S. government is closing a gap in Ebola screening at airports while states from New York to Texas to California work to get hospitals and nurses ready in case another patient turns up somewhere in the U.S. with the deadly disease. Under the rule going into effect Wednesday, air travellers from the West African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea must enter the United States through one of five airports doing special screenings and fever checks for Ebola. - Read More Ashoka Mukpo, who was working as a freelance cameraman for NBC News in Monrovia, Liberia, when he fell ill, will go home on Wednesday. Eight people including Mr Mukpo have or are being treated for ebola in the US; one of whom, a man from Liberia, has died. - Read More Texas Presbyterian Hospital "fell short" several times in treating Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, starting by not asking the right questions in the emergency room, the hospital's chief clinical officer, Dr. Daniel Varga, said in an interview with CNN. On September 25, Duncan came into the ER with a fever and was interviewed by a nurse who wrote down that he "came from Africa 9-20-14," Varga said. - Read More Every few years Dr. Leonardo Fernandez flies to a nation shaken by natural disaster, political turmoil or disease, leaving his hospital in eastern Cuba for countries that have included Pakistan, Nicaragua and East Timor. On Tuesday, the intensive care specialist was headed to the epicenter of the Ebola epidemic along with 90 other Cuban medical workers as part of a half-century-old strategy that puts doctors on the front lines of the country's foreign policy. - Read More Doctors say a second and conclusive test shows a Spanish nursing assistant infected with Ebola is completely clear of the virus. - Read More The Department of Veterans Affairs says it is reducing the number of inpatient beds at its Albuquerque hospital by 20 percent due to a nationwide nursing shortage. The department says the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center is limiting its inpatient beds to 120, down from 150. - Read More More Nursing News Popular News from the Topix Network How cute is this illusion? Why are they in a van? I'm not sure. But it sounds great. These people made some strange choices. This is NUTS. It's not what it sounds like. It's what it does with its head. | 
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