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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that it is possible for health care workers to safely treat Ebola patients, but it is hard. In a new move, expert teams will be available to respond within hours to any new Ebola cases around the country. (Associated Press)

Ebola expert teams ready to respond to new patients in U.S.

A Dallas nurse who contracted Ebola while caring for an infected patient said Tuesday she is "doing well," even as officials announced measures to keep health care workers safe and avoid missteps that may have let the deadly virus spread to a second person in the U.S.

October 14, 2014
This 2010 photo provided by tcu360.com, the yearbook of Texas Christian University, shows Nina Pham, 26, who became the first person to contract the disease within the United States. Records show that Pham and other health care workers wore protective gear, including gowns, gloves, masks and face shields and sometimes full-body suits when caring for Thomas Eric Duncan. (AP Photo/Courtesy of tcu360.com)

Dallas nurse with Ebola says she’s ‘doing well’

The 26-year-old nurse who contracted Ebola while taking care of an infected patient in Dallas is "doing well" and has received a blood transfusion from American doctor Kent Brantly, who overcame the virus after he was flown home from West Africa.

October 14, 2014
U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, File)

Labor union set to give Sen. Mark Begich a helping hand

Democratic Sen. Mark Begich will get a helping hand from teachers' union leader Randi Weingarten on Saturday, a few days after a poll put the senator 6 points behind Republican challenger Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race.

October 10, 2014
This image shows the updated website for HealthCare.gov, a federal government website managed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. The Obama administration has unveiled an updated version of HealthCare.gov. It's got some improvements and some challenges. There's also at least one early mistake. (Associated Press)

HHS Secretary Burwell: HealthCare.gov will be more reliable this year

As Obamacare enters its second act, the Obama administration's top health official said the federal HealthCare.gov website will work much better than last year and that her team is doing "everything we can" to stabilize state-run health exchanges where qualified Americans can shop for plans.

October 9, 2014
Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, checks in to board a plane dressed in full protection gear Thursday morning, Oct. 2, 2014, at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was protesting what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink)

Ebola screening abroad paramount: HHS secretary Burwell

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Thursday she is deeply involved — even if it's not always on camera — in the nation's response to the Ebola virus, exuding confidence that American know-how, travel screening and improvements in West Africa will beat back the deadly outbreak even if it gets worse before it gets better.

October 9, 2014
In this photo taken Oct. 3, 2104, Health and Human Services Department forms listing the kinds of documentation people need are seen in Washington. It’s the most unpopular provision in President Barack Obama’s health care law: millions of Americans who didn’t get health insurance this year now risk fines from the Internal Revenue Service. But it turns out that half or more of them may be eligible for waivers. At least on paper. Community groups and tax preparation companies say the process for claiming exemptions looks really convoluted. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Despite boon to the uninsured, Obamacare still decried

Americans are more likely to say Obamacare is hurting them than helping them, even as the law appears to have cut the uninsured rate by nearly 4 percentage points, according to Gallup data released Wednesday.

October 8, 2014