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** FILE ** Talia Eisenberg, co-founder of the Henley Vaporium, uses her vaping device in New York, Feb. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

World Health Organization wants regulators to ban the word ‘e-cigarette’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Health workers with buckets, as part of their Ebola virus prevention protective gear, at an Ebola treatment center in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Liberia's armed forces were given orders to shoot people trying to illegally cross the border from neighboring Sierra Leone, which is closed to stem the spread of Ebola, local newspaper Daily Observer reported Monday. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberia: 3 receiving untested Ebola drug improving

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh and John Heilprin - Associated Press

Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut Democrat, delivers an emotional speech Tuesday on Capitol Hill about passing the farm bill, which also funds food stamps. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Testing the limits of ‘sin’ and making it pay

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

An employee of the Monrovia City Corporation sprays disinfectant inside a government building in a bid to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. U.S. health officials warned Americans not to travel to the three West African countries hit by the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history. The travel advisory issued Thursday applies to nonessential travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the deadly disease has killed more than 700 people this year. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

WHO: Ebola moving faster than control efforts

By Boubacar Diallo and Krista Larson - Associated Press

This Thursday, May 10, 2012 photo shows Truvada pills and a bottle in San Francisco. Truvada, a drug hailed as a lifesaver for many people infected by HIV is at the heart of a rancorous debate among gay men, AIDS activists and health professionals over its potential for protecting uninfected men who engage in gay sex without using condoms. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

WHO urges healthy gay men to take HIV prevention drugs, cites ‘exploding epidemics’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on July 8, 2014, Ebola advocacy group Crusaders for Peace, spokesperson Juli Endee, right, educates people on the deadly virus in Paynesville, east of the city Monrovia, Liberia. Ebola, a hemorrhagic fever that can cause its victims to bleed from the ears and nose, had never before been seen in this part of West Africa where medical clinics are few and far between. The disease has turned up in at least two other countries _ Liberia and Sierra Leone _ and 539 deaths have been attributed to the outbreak that is now the largest on record. (AP Photo/Jonathan Paye-Layleh)

Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens; 500+ dead

By Krista Larson - Associated Press

Leaked WHO doc reveals global group to label e-cigs the same as regular

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LSU's Kurt McCune (39) reacts after getting the last out against Florida and defeating them 2-0 during the ninth inning at the Southeastern Conference NCAA college baseball tournament on Sunday, May 25, 2014, in Hoover, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

10 things to know about NCAA baseball tournament

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 8, 2014 file photo, a wood stove heats a home in Freeport, Maine. Wood-burning stoves have ignited a debate between the Obama administration and South Dakota lawmakers who oppose new regulations that would require more efficiency from an iconic feature of many rural homes. South Dakota Sen. John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem oppose the rules. The Republicans argue that any new requirements will have a disproportionate impact on South Dakotans, particularly rural residents. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

EPA to give grants to fight cooking stove pollution

By John Solomon - The Washington Times

A Muslim pilgrim wears a surgical mask to help prevent infection from a respiratory virus known as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday May, 13, 2014. Saudi health authorities reported another five deaths Tuesday from MERS that has sickened hundreds and killed over 150 people. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

World Health Organization: MERS isn’t an emergency

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Pakistan: Polio vaccine a must for exit travelers

Associated Press

Dramatic improvement in controlling Ebola outbreak

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

A Pakistani health worker gives a polio vaccine to a child in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Pakistan’s health minister says the country is taking extra ordinary measures to meet the new situation it is going to face after polio travel restrictions. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan bracing for polio travel restrictions

By ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press

Missouri’s tax cut: 4 things to know

By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this file photo dated Monday Nov. 25, 2013, a Pakistani child is vaccinated against polio by a health worker in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Nov. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, FILE)

U.N.: Spread of polio now a world health emergency

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

FILE-- In this file photo dated Wednesday April 24, 2013, a Somali child receives a polio vaccine, at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. In an announcement Monday May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) says the spread of polio is an international public health emergency that threatens to infect other countries with the crippling disease and could ultimately unravel the nearly three-decade effort to eradicate it, describing the ongoing polio outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an &quot;extraordinary event&quot; requiring a coordinated international response.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis, FILE)

UN: Spread of polio now a world health emergency

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Scientists urge delay in destroying last smallpox

By LAURAN NEERGAARD - Associated Press