Health

Ebola outbreak: World Bank appeals for 5,000 health workers to volunteer in West Africa

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has made an emotional appeal for thousands of medical workers to volunteer and help…

10 years ago

Ebola in US: CDC issues new guidelines for quarantines

Medical staff returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa will be actively monitored but not placed in quarantine under…

10 years ago

Kaci Hickox: Ebola nurse to be discharged from quarantine after threatening legal action

Nurse Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, will be discharged after…

10 years ago

Is Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody having healing powers?

A poll suggests that Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is a good song for people to listen to if they feel unwell…

10 years ago

Nurse Kaci Hickox criticizes Ebola quarantine rules in New Jersey

Nurse Kaci Hickox, who was quarantined on her return to the US from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, has…

10 years ago

First successful dead heart transplant performed in Australia

Australian surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney have performed the first heart transplant using a "dead heart". Donor hearts…

10 years ago

Engineered stem cells could treat brain cancer without killing normal cells

Stem cells could be turned into killing machines to fight brain cancer, scientists from Harvard Medical School have discovered. In…

10 years ago

Ebola outbreak cases exceed 10,000, with 4,922 deaths

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) latest report, the number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has exceeded 10,000,…

10 years ago

Ebola nurses: Nina Pham and Amber Vinson declared free of virus

Nina Pham and Amber Joy Vinson, the two nurses infected with Ebola while caring for Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas,…

10 years ago

Ebola vaccine: One million doses to be produced by the end of 2015

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that one million doses of an Ebola vaccine will be produced by the…

10 years ago