Category : Health

The World Health Organization on Wednesday hailed the fewest weekly infections for over a year in the west African Ebola epidemic, but warned they were...

As health needs rise in Somalia, funding hits new low, cutting off 1.5 million from care – UN World Health Organization (WHO) official, Dr. Ahmed...

  The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a cholera outbreak in South Sudan with more than 1,000 cases recorded so far, said a UN...

You will learn about the different ways doctors use to treat people with this type of cancer. To see other pages, use the menu on...

The United Nations and its partners today launched a new initiative to help end maternal and child mortality by 2030, as they gathered in Addis...

Liberia tries to resolve mystery of Ebola’s reappearance * Dog carcass was eaten by villagers who caught Ebola * Health sources say test results not...

Liberian authorities on Tuesday quarantined two households after the corpse of a 17-year-old boy was found with Ebola, sparking fears the West African country could...

Tim Flach/Getty Images A new study has found that, in addition to causing thousands of deaths and continuing nearly unabated in parts of West Africa,...

by Kurt Pfitzer The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease, the worst since the disease first appeared in 1976, has claimed more than 11,000 lives...

Khapra beetles are a serious threat to food safety around the globe. They can destroy a significant portion of stored grains due to their “dirty...

More than half of children suffering from sickle cell anaemia (SCA) in Western Kenya and parts of the coastal region die before their fifth birthday....

 The only possible place to encounter Ebola in Conakry is the main treatment unit, yet elsewhere in Guinea the virus is thriving in a febrile...

Ban to convene international Ebola recovery conference in New York In Sierra Leone, local health workers plan for the day ahead, as they continue their...

Analysis: A combination therapy – helping the body’s own defences fight cancer cells – has shown impressive results for terminally ill melanoma patients A human...

A mob attacked health-care workers looking for someone suspected of having Ebola in the city of Kamsar as the death toll from the disease in...

Two years ago, Moses Owidi, a resident of Kisumu in Western Kenya would make three trips to Nairobi for a chemotherapy session at Kenyatta National...

Amid a new spike in Ebola cases in Guinea, Ebola Response partners organized an urgent mission to Boké, the latest epicentre, which is close to...

Only days after declaring the lowest number of new Ebola cases in Guinea and Sierra Leone this year, officials at the World Health Organization said...

Shane McKeon, Inspired by traditional healing techniques used in Nigeria, Northwestern researchers synthesized new chemical compounds that might someday be used to treat people with...

Italy’s health ministry says a nurse who came to Italy from Sierra Leone last week has tested positive for the Ebola virus. The ministry said...