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An experimental vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease was well-tolerated and produced immune system responses in all 20 healthy adults who received it in a Phase 1 clinical trial conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). According to NIH, the candidate vaccine, which was co-developed by the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy […]

Dallas nurse Nina Pham said she was “blessed and fortunate” as she addressed the media after being discharged Ebola-free from National Institutes of Health Friday afternoon. Pham was admitted to the Special Clinical Studies Unit of the NIH Clinical Center at the request of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Oct. 16. She was the first nurse who […]

Human testing of a second investigational Ebola vaccine candidate is underway at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, according to the NIH website. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are conducting the early phase trial to evaluate the vaccine, called VSV-ZEBOV, for safety and its ability to generate […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has upgraded Texas nurse Nina Pham’s clinical condition from fair to good. Pham, who was diagnosed with the Ebola virus, was admitted to NIH on Oct. 16. According to a statement on NIH’s website, Pham is expressing gratitude for everyone’s concern and well wishes. No other information has been […]

Here are five things to know today, Oct. 17, in Montgomery County: 1. The first nurse to contract the Ebola virus has arrived for care at NIH in Bethesda. 2. MCPS officials are asking students with fevers about their travel history as an Ebola precaution. 3. Police are investigating a dog attack in Silver Spring. […]

UPDATED The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center has admitted the first nurse who contracted the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital while providing patient care to the index patient who died of Ebola. Nurse Nina Pham has been admitted to the Special Clinical Studies Unit of the NIH Clinical Center at the […]

Officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced that the patient exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone, has been discharged from the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda where he was under observation to his home. The patient, who is described as a physician volunteering in Sierra Leone, was admitted on Sept. […]

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice met with the media on Sept. 29 and shared some updates on a variety of issues, including the county’s procurement process, campaign financing, a federal grant for Montgomery College and more. He also fielded questions about the new Holy Cross Hospital, drones, the missing Hoggle kids, an Ebola exposed […]

A doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been transferred from an overseas location and admitted to the NIH Clinical Center for observation and to enroll in a clinical protocol. The patient arrived at the NIH Clinical Center at 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 28, according to a statement posted […]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is preparing to admit a patient who has been exposed to the Ebola virus to its Clinical Center in the coming days. According to a news released posted on the NIH website, the patient is an American physician who was volunteering services in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra […]