Health
Type 1 diabetes breakthrough: Beta cells produced in lab
A giant step forward has been taken in the hunt for a cure for type 1 diabetes, researchers have announced. Type 1 diabetes is caused...
Ebola outbreak death toll tops 4,000
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the number of people killed in the Ebola outbreak has risen above 4,000. The latest figures show...
WHO official: Ebola outbreak bigger than expected
WHO Director of Strategy, Dr. Christopher Dye, has said in a recent interview that leading global health experts did not anticipate the scale of...
Thomas Frieden: Ebola outbreak biggest challenge since AIDS
CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden has said that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is unlike anything since the emergence of HIV/AIDS. A fast global...
Winter Health Problems to Watch Out for in the Elderly
It’s no secret that those in their elderly years are more prone to illness than younger people, and it’s also no secret that winter...
Bionic hand: Sense of touch restored for two patients
US scientists have restored a sense of touch to two bionic hand patients. The men can now delicately pluck the stalks out of cherries. Sensors on...
Teresa Romero: Spanish nurse may have touched her face after treating Ebola patient
Teresa Romero, the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola, remembers touching her face with her gloves after treating a dying priest, a doctor in Madrid...
Thomas Eric Duncan: Texas Ebola patient dies in Dallas hospital
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola on the US soil, has died in Dallas, Texas hospital officials have said. Thomas...
WHO: More Ebola cases can be expected among medical staff
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that more Ebola cases can be expected among medical staff - even in developed countries with modern...
Ebola in Spain: Four people quarantined in Madrid hospital
Spanish authorities are investigating a hospital in Madrid after a nurse became the first person known to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus outside...
Ebola outbreak: Spanish nurse tests positive for virus in Madrid
A Spanish nurse, who treated a victim of Ebola in Madrid, has tested positive for the disease, the health minister has confirmed. The nurse is...
Extra Ebola screening at US airports
Health officials have announced that passengers arriving in the US from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa could be subject to extra screening at airports. Extra...
Thomas Eric Duncan in critical condition at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital
Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola within the US, has deteriorated from a serious to a critical condition, doctors...
Ashoka Mukpo: NBC cameraman to be transferred to Nebraska Medical Center
Freelance photojournalist Ashoka Mukpo was diagnosed with Ebola on Thursday, October 2, and was being cared for at a treatment centre in the Liberian...
First picture of womb-transplant baby released
The first picture of first baby to be born from a transplanted womb has been made public by his parents. The baby boy’s birth took...
Pakistan polio cases hit record high in 14 years
Polio cases in Pakistan have hit the highest number in 14 years, with health officials blaming the rise on attacks on immunization teams. The number...
Ebola in US: Thomas Eric Duncan’s family moved out of Dallas flat
The occupants of the Dallas flat where Thomas Eric Duncan lay sick for days with Ebola have been moved from their home. Thomas Eric Duncan,...
World’s first womb-transplant baby born in Sweden
A Swedish woman with a transplanted womb has given birth to a baby boy, in a medical first, doctors reported. The 36 year-old mother, who...
Origins of AIDS pandemic traced to 1920’s in Kinshasa
According to an international team of scientists said, the origin of the AIDS pandemic has been traced to the 1920s in the city of...
Early HIV treatment is not a cure
Doctors treating a HIV-infected baby in Milan, Italy, say that giving drugs within hours of infection is not a cure. The newborn infant cleared the...
Ebola outbreak: NBC cameraman tests positive for virus in Liberia
An American cameraman working in Liberia has tested positive for Ebola. The 33-year-old freelancer is to be flown home to the US for treatment. The unnamed...
Thomas Eric Duncan: Dallas Ebola patient to be prosecuted in Liberia
Liberia will prosecute Thomas Eric Duncan, the first man diagnosed with Ebola in the US, accusing him of lying over his contact with an...
Five reasons you’re tired all the time
If you find yourself counting down the minutes to bedtime as soon as you wake, yawning your way through the working day and struggling...
Sierra Leone: Five new Ebola cases per hour
Leading charity Save the Children has warned that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone means healthcare demands are...
Texas school children monitored for Ebola
Texas school children have come into contact with the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola on US soil, Governor Rick Perry has said. At...
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