EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new private sector initiative announced Wednesday will provide at least $450 million in commercial financing to...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Philanthropist Bill Gates says he wants to end malaria in his lifetime and will give more...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — After acknowledging that it bungled the response to the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, the World Health Organization...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare said Friday it will consider paying doctors to counsel patients about their options for end-of-life care, the same idea that spurred...
(New York Times) – Ana Navas-Acien can’t quite recall the moment when she began to worry about arsenic in drinking water and its potential role in...
WASHINGTON, DC (AICR) — Two large new studies provide compelling evidence that obesity increases the risk of the most common type of postmenopausal breast cancer...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ever thought that big, pink Gulf coast shrimp you ordered at the restaurant or bought from the store...
(New York Times) – The gray matter of the nucleus accumbens, the walnut-shaped pleasure center of the brain, was glowing like a flame, showing a...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court justices have their first chance this week to decide whether they have the appetite for another major...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health regulators have approved the first vaccine to prevent a potentially deadly form of bacterial meningitis often associated with college dormitories....
Pam Belluck, THE NEW YORK TIMES (The New York Times)—Science edged closer on Sunday to showing that an antioxidant in chocolate appears to improve some memory skills...
(Reuters) – Drugmakers are looking for some kind of indemnity from governments or multilateral agencies against possible losses or claims arising from the widespread emergency...
(Bloomberg) – The European Union increased its aid pledge to fight Ebola in West Africa to 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) as Mali became the sixth...
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — From violence to verbal taunts, abusive dating behavior is pervasive among America’s adolescents, according to a new,...
(Huffington Post) – Your dishes are sparkling after you dry them off — or is that just the E. coli? We’re always on the hunt...
DAKAR, Oct 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ebola survivors in Liberia are quickly becoming an important part of the fight against the deadly virus that...
(Time) – Nobody would mistake sugary soda for a health food, but a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health just found that a daily soda habit...
(AllAfrica.com) – A new study “On the Quarantine Period for Ebola Virus” published, last week, in the PLOS Currents: Outbreaks suggests that 21 days might...
(International Business Times) – The owners of nearly 5 million vehicles are being urged to take immediate action as a result of a massive recall to...
(BBC) – A paralyzed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his...
DALLAS (CBS News) — About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in...
William M. Welch, USA TODAY DALLAS (USA Today)—Dallas nurse Nina Pham, the first U.S. health care worker diagnosed with Ebola, is seen talking and sitting...
Tamara Lush, ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Step inside All Children’s Hospital and you’re greeted with three things: hand sanitizer, tissues and masks...
Anne Flaherty, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) â Last May, as Ebola crept across West Africa, America’s top infectious disease expert told a group of Harvard students in...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — For more than two months, health officials have been struggling to understand the size of a national...
