Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital is in the midst of a construction project to build an isolation unit designed to treat patients with Ebola and other highly infectious diseases, according to a ...

A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Port Angeles flies of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, off the coast of Washington, Jan. 26, 2018. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty ...

The Pentagon will put portable patient isolation units that can transport Ebola patients safely in military aircraft by early next year, according to the Defense Department. The isolation units will ...

Gary Harkins also spent decades inside an isolation unit -- as a correctional officer at the Oregon State Penitentiary. He says solitary... Working the Isolation Unit: A Prison Officer's Tale For 25 ...

SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Modula S, Inc., will be unveiling its newly developed rapidly deployable, modular, net-zero energy epidemic treatment unit at the Asia Pacific Resilience Innovation ...

The isolation units at California's Pelican Bay prison hold more than 1,200 inmates. They live in small, windowless cells, often for years, with... At Pelican Bay Prison, a Life in Solitary At Pelican ...

In the mid-1960s, Dr. James Holland built germ-free units, the so-called “Life Islands,” at the Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. Chemotherapy patients would reside for several weeks, ...

On the frontline of the fight against coronavirus are medics and clinical staff who receive recognition for good work. However, little is said about other frontline hospital staff who ensure that the ...

When it comes to deadly, contagious disease outbreaks like Ebola, the terms "quarantine" and "isolation" take on fresh relevance and urgency. Each has a distinct meaning in the public health context, ...