National Institute of Allergy

Ebola patient and nurse Nina Pham is in fair but stable condition and is resting comfortably in “good spirits” at a Maryland hospital.

According to research released from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, feeding infants peanut butter when they are as young as four to six months of age might prevent them from developing peanut allergies.

According to research released from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, feeding infants peanut butter when they are as young as four to six months of age might prevent them from developing peanut allergies.

A Texas lab is under federal investigation after inspectors found it didn’t do enough to prevent the suffering of primates who were infected with a deadly virus as part of a study.

Exposing infants like these to peanuts before age 1 helped prevent a peanut allergy, lowering that risk by as much as 81 percent: study.

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the United States can’t be seen as shying away from battle against Ebola.

Dallas nurse Nina Pham, who contracted Ebola while caring for a patient in Texas, was discharged from the hospital Friday, now free of the virus, and will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House later in the day.

Officials with the National Institutes of Health say Dallas nurse and Ebola patient Nina Pham is still in fair condition.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, gives an update on Ebola patient Nina Pham, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014.