From MedPage Today:

1. OmniCarb Study: Cutting Carbs No Silver Bullet. Overweight and obese people who followed a low glycemic index diet in the context of an overall DASH-type diet had no greater improvements in insulin sensitivity, lipid levels or systolic blood pressure compared to study subjects who ate high glycemic index foods.
2. Men Still Drive STD Increases. The CDC’s annual snapshot of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) has both good news and bad news for 2013.
3. WHO: True Ebola Toll Hidden. The toll in the West African Ebola epidemic is now more than 18,000 reported cases and 6,800 known deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.
4. NIH Cancels Children’s Study After 10 Years of Work. The National Children’s Study (NCS) has been cancelled despite almost 10 years of work and $1.3 billion of funding after a National Institutes of Health (NIH) working group concluded that the project had gotten too expensive to continue.