Stories by Erika Check Hayden

Advances in neuroscience are driving the development of therapies that could save thousands of the most vulnerable patients

Researchers worry about misinforming people about the risk of disease

Country's progress on public health and science prompts funding shift to more-troubled nations

In one case, a nine-month-old child died from Ebola virus infection after her seemingly healthy mother passed the virus to her in breast milk

The feat, which radically altered Escherichia coli’s DNA, may be a big step forward for synthetic biology

Economists, investors and medical insurers can’t figure out how to pay for cutting-edge drugs

Patients say the diagnostics company violated their rights to their own genetic data

Specialized proteins can protect monkeys against the virus for months

Protection against virus raises hopes of vaccine development for dengue and even Zika

An antibody from a man who survived infection from the 1995 outbreak shows potent effect against deadly virus

Drugmaker commits to stockpiling 300,000 doses and beginning approval process

Report concludes that not enough has changed nearly two years after the start of the catastrophic west Africa epidemic

Tech firm’s ambitious goals and abundant resources attract life scientists, most recently Harvard Medical School cardiologist Jessica Mega

Organizations seek to help patients reintegrate into society after recovering

Nature reports from the front line of the outbreak

A new experiment will study life span extension via an antiaging drug administered to domestic dogs

The virus that causes Ebola is well understood but puzzling issues remain on topics such as the disease's lethality and whether the virus can be stopped

The response to Ebola could be undermined as Louisiana officials ask that doctors and researchers recently returned from three west African nations not attend the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting November 2 to 6

Public health experts fear that one epidemic may fuel another in West Africa

A new drug is one of thousands of drug-like molecules that may be produced by our microbiome

ZMapp is the first treatment to completely protect animals after they show symptoms of disease

The animals were spared from Marburg virus even when treated three days after infection

The World Health Organization's announcement could shift the focus to basic public health

A newly discovered protein is found to play a crucial role in conception