The other two patients had died from the brain-eating amoeba. But Dr. Conrad had just heard of a new drug called miltefosine, which had been approved as an experimental treatment for N.

There, the first son kept his drug paraphernalia “locked up” in ... her younger single girlfriends — a group she dubbed the “Amoeba” — to Hunter. She was on call to drive him around ...

In The Washington Post series The Free-living Bureaucrat, author Michael Lewis details how Cumberland resident Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration worked to save a little girl's life ...

Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration. Heather Stone, a science policy analyst for the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research ...

A Georgia student died before her senior year of high school due to a rare brain-eating amoeba. Megan Ebenroth, 17, died on July 22 after contacting the amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri while ...