KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but still are a luxury for a third of...
NEW DELHI (CBS News) – The World Health Organization has adopted a plan to combat an alarming resistance against antibiotic drugs. It’s an issue health experts warn will...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The number of Ebola cases reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone last week dropped to its lowest total...
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Ebola has taken its greatest toll on babies. About 90 percent of children under age 1 who caught the virus...
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization warned on Friday of a risk of outbreaks of measles, whooping cough and other diseases in West African countries...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization will start large-scale testing of an experimental Ebola vaccine in Guinea on Saturday to...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — New guidelines from the World Health Organization are enough to kill anyone’s sugar high. The U.N. health agency...
By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer The World Health Organization says the two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West...
(Reuters) – One million people have been wounded during Syria‘s civil war and diseases are spreading as regular supplies of medicine fail to reach patients, the...
(Fox News) – Some half a million cases of cancer a year are due to people being overweight or obese, and the problem is particularly acute...
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...
MONROVIA, Liberia (New York Times) — The president waited until her family members were seated around the dining table before announcing, with no fanfare,...
(Reuters) – Drugmakers are looking for some kind of indemnity from governments or multilateral agencies against possible losses or claims arising from the widespread emergency...
(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...
(The Washington Post) – The World Health Organization has declared Nigeria Ebola-free — after more than six weeks without a new case of the disease...
Bashir Adigun and Maria Cheng, ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The World Health Organization declared on Monday that Nigeria is free of Ebola, a rare...
Alexandra Zavis, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES GENEVA, Switzerland (The L.A. Times)—The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak over in Senegal, saying the country’s...
The Associated Press The first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States traveled from Liberia to Dallas, where he is being treated at...
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — First the ring tone echoed outside the barbed-wire-topped walls of the Ebola clinic. Then came the wails of...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Six months into the biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, scientists say they know more about how the deadly virus behaves....
Lauran Neergaard and Jim Kuhnhenn, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the...
(BBC) – Cuba is sending 165 health workers to help tackle the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials say. Doctors, nurses and infection control specialists...
(Medical News Today) – The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that an estimated 15 million babies are born preterm (before 37 weeks of gestation). Around 1...
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — There is evidence the numbers of dead and sickened by Ebola in West Africa may “vastly underestimate the magnitude of the...
(The Washington Post) – As the death toll from the Ebola virus in four West African nations topped 1,000, an official from the World Health...
