UK holds Emergency Meeting Over Ebola Outbreak In Africa
Britain on Wednesday held a top-level government meeting to discuss the spread of...
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Nigeria Tracking 30,000 People At Risk Of Contracting Ebola
Nigerian health authorities are in the process of tracing more than 30,000 people who...
Marking World Hepatitis Day, UN Appeals For Boost In Global Momentum To Tackle Disease
With 1.4 million deaths every year attributed to acute and chronic liver disease, the United Nations health agency is marking World Hepatitis Day by calling on...
Dr. Sheik Umar Khan The Head Doctor Contracts Ebola
The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the government said. The 39-year-old Sheik Umar Khan,...
AIDS conference Vows To Honour Colleagues Killed In Plane Downing
Delegates at a global AIDS conference vowed on Saturday to renew efforts to end the deadly disease in honour of the commitment of colleagues...
UN Agency Warns Of Fruit Bat Risk In West African Ebola Epidemic
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is urging increased efforts to improve awareness among rural communities in West Africa about the risks of...
WHO: 38 Million Die Annually From Chronic Diseases
The World Health Organization warned Thursday that 38 million people die each year from chronic diseases, which...
Ebola Outbreak: 25 More Deaths Confirmed In West Africa
A WHO statement said that Sierra Leone accounted for 14 deaths and 34 of the 50 new case Health officials in West Africa say 25...
UN health agency presents new plan to eliminate tuberculosis in low-burden countries
The United Nations health agency today presented a new plan aimed at eliminating tuberculosis (TB) in over 30 countries with low levels of the...
West Africa needs to wake up to threat from drugs trade
West Africa has become a major drugs route but a new approach can stop it being scarred by the carnage elsewhere Officials of Uganda’s anti-narcotic...
Apple, Google, Samsung vie to bring health apps to wearables Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/lifestyle/article/2000125787/apple-google-samsung-vie-to-bring-health-apps-to-wearables?
A model presents a Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch after its launch at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin For decades, medical technology firms have...
Midwives can prevent two-thirds of deaths among women and newborns
3 June 2014 – Midwives are the unsung heroes of maternal and newborn health, according to a new United Nations report released today that urges...
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future by Ben Carson M.D. (Author), Candy Carson (Author)
Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the...
One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future by Ben Carson M.D. (Author), Candy Carson (Author)
Dear Reader, In February 2013 I gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Standing a few feet from President Obama, I warned my fellow citizens of the...
‘We Can Save Newborns’ – Melinda Gates
Intensified focus on saving newborns. Amid a renewed push by a coalition of organizations to reduce high...
'We Can Save Newborns' – Melinda Gates
Intensified focus on saving newborns. Amid a renewed push by a coalition of organizations to reduce high...
How Muslims and Christians are working together to prevent malaria in Sierra Leone
By Charlotte Keenan In just three years, more than 2 million people have been reached with potentially life-saving information about preventing malaria Daily life in...
Ovarian cancer vitamins supplements herbs and natural treatment, role of diet and food, what causes it, risk factors by Ray Sahelian, M.D.
Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumor that begins in a woman’s ovaries, two almond-sized organs located on each side of the pelvis that produce eggs...