Health
Polio eradication: Type 3 virus not detected for more than two years after vaccination campaigns
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has announced that a "major milestone" in the battle to eliminate polio globally has been reached. CDC experts think...
Ebola treatment: Clinical trials to start in West Africa in December
Clinical trials for an effective Ebola treatment are to start in West Africa in December. The medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which has been...
Ebola outbreak death toll rises to 5,160
The Ebola outbreak death toll has risen to 5,160, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced in a new report. The frequency of new cases...
Sierra Leone Ebola health workers on strike
Health workers treating Ebola patients at a clinic in Sierra Leone have gone on strike, protesting about the government's failure to pay an agreed...
Double Donut burger: Hungry Horse criticized for creating calorific burger
UK’s pub chain Hungry Horse has been criticized for creating the Double Donut burger containing nearly 100% of a woman's recommended daily calorie intake...
Lara Logan: CBS News correspondent quarantined in South Africa after Ebola report
CBS News’s correspondent Lara Logan is being quarantined in a South Africa hotel for 21 days as a precaution after visiting an American-run hospital...
Laundry detergent pods frequently harming kids
A new study has found that US poison control centers received more than 17,000 calls - or about one per hour - about children...
Spearmint tea controls excessive hair growth in women
According to Turkish researchers, spearmint tea may help to control excessive hair growth in women. Drinking spearmint tea twice a day reduced levels of androgen...
Ebola crisis fund set up by African business leaders
An emergency fund has been set up by top African business leaders to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak. After a meeting in Addis...
ObamaCare: Supreme Court to review second legal challenge
A second legal challenge to President Barack Obama's signature 2010 healthcare law (ObamaCare) will be reviewed by the Supreme Court, the court has said. The...
Parkinson’s disease breakthrough: Stem cells used to heal brain damage
According to Swedish scientists, stem cells can be used to heal the damage in the brain caused by Parkinson's disease. They said their study on...
Teresa Romero: Spanish Ebola nurse released from hospital
Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse who became the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside West Africa in the latest outbreak, has given...
Brittany Maynard died: Terminally ill cancer patient ends life in Oregon
Terminally ill cancer patient Brittany Maynard, whose viral YouTube video reignited the debate on assisted-suicide, ended her life on November 1. Brittany Maynard, 29, and...
Canada suspends visas for Ebola countries
Canada has decided to suspend visa applications from residents and passport-holders from West African countries in the grip of the Ebola outbreak. The decision follows...
Doctors Without Borders warns US on Ebola quarantine
Doctors Without Borders has warned some mandatory Ebola quarantine measures in the US are having a "chilling effect" on its work. The charity group has...
Ebola nurse Kaci Hickox defies quarantine order by leaving her house in Maine
Nurse Kaci Hickox has defied the Ebola quarantine order, leaving her house in Maine for a brief bike ride. She returned from treating Ebola patients...
Trumenba: Meningitis vaccine approved in US
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a vaccine for the first time for the deadly type of meningitis that affected the students at...
Ebola outbreak: Liberia sees decline in spread of infections
Liberia, the country hardest hit in the Ebola outbreak, is seeing a decline in the spread of infections, the World Health Organization (WHO) has...
Google X working on nanoparticles project to detect cancer and other diseases
Google is working on a technology to detect cancer and heart attack. The technology combines disease-detecting nanoparticles, which would enter a patient's bloodstream via a...
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 contain the growing Ebola...
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 new US health rules. The...
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 threatening legal action over...
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 or down. A ComRes survey...
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 criticized the way she...
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 from adults usually come from...
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