U.S. Backs New Ebola Treatment; Candy-Like Tobacco Targeted; 1 in 10 Surgeons Quit

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U.S. officials are working with Mapp Biopharmaceutical, a small biotech company based in San Diego, to provide an experimental monoclonal antibody treatment for Ebola as the epidemic worsens. (Bloomberg via MSN)

The White House allegedly resisted the stateside return of Peter Stafford, MD, the American doctor exposed to Ebola who was ultimately flown to Germany. (Washington Post)

In Germany, Stafford received monoclonal antibodies and is starting to feel better and is able to eat, a colleague told ABC News.

Another American doctor exposed to Ebola was reportedly headed for a Prague hospital Wednesday. (Politico)

Questions about whether the U.S. is barring citizens exposed to Ebola from entering the country went unanswered at a CDC press briefing. (Reuters via AOL)

Meanwhile, international critics of how Ebola is being handled by African health officials are reminded of structural injustices on the continent. (New York Times)

A Surgeon General’s Advisory on harmful screen use was signed off by HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in lieu of a confirmed Surgeon General.

More people, children and adults alike, are taking multiple dietary supplements in recent years, according to a CDC report.

California public health officials warned people not to eat a variety of Brad’s plant-based snacks due to elevated levels of thallium.

The FDA issued warnings to sellers of unauthorized tobacco products imitating candy, breath strips, and cough drops.

The agency also approved the largest liquid biopsy panel yet, Guardant360 Liquid CDx from Guardant Health.

A longitudinal study found that nearly one in 10 surgeons leave clinical practice within 8 years. (Journal of the American College of Surgeons)

The police shackling of mentally ill arrestees is being challenged in New York. (New York Times)

Eli Lilly accused several bishops at a Pentecostal church of a fraud scheme involving $200 million in illegitimate rebates submitted for dulaglutide (Trulicity). (CNBC)

Former Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank (D), who had recently entered hospice care for congestive heart failure, died at age 86.

A burst pipe caused a power outage Tuesday night at Jefferson Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia, with evacuations extending through Wednesday morning. (CBS News)

Nurses in the U.K. decry racist abuse by patients. (BBC News)

A Virginia woman said her insurance initially denied a PET scan for a lung lesion that later turned out to be stage 4 cancer. (Money Wise)