Category : Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) today appealed to donors to provide $1 billion for life-saving health needs ranging from childhood vaccinations to surgical care for...

An experimental antiviral drug shows some early, encouraging signs of effectiveness in its first human test against Ebola in West Africa, but only if patients...

The 16-year-old Kenyan girl found out she was HIV-positive and pregnant at a clinic in the Korogocho slums two years ago. She still isn’t sure...

EmbryoCellect™ is a pre-implantation genetic screening kit designed to increase the chance of a successful IVF cycle. Reproductive Health Science (ASX:RHS) has now entered into...

As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa abates, President Barack Obama is withdrawing nearly all the U.S. troops sent to Liberia in September when the...

Grief among the more than 16,000 children orphaned by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa runs deep, but most of them have been taken in...

Dr Chris Mair in Sierra Leone By Sue Restan A heroic Highland doctor – who has vowed to return to West Africa to continue the...

By Jo Dunlop, contributed ‘Jide Adesina   Siblings Jusif and Bilikisu Koroma have survived Ebola. Now back in the community, they have joined other survivors in the...

A QRC volunteer delivering an Ebola awareness lecture to people in Mauritania. Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has launched an Ebola awareness campaign in Mauritania, targeting...

In our eat-and-run, massive-portion-sized culture, maintaining a healthy weight can be tough—and losing weight, even tougher. If you’ve tried and failed to lose weight before,...

By Michelle Kapusta, Children in one of the countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic are finally able to return to school for the first...

FILE – Members of the Special Warfare Command demonstrate the traditional Korean martial art of taekwondo during celebrations to mark the 65th anniversary of Korea...

A large randomized controlled study is among the first to rigorously demonstrate that health information technology can improve compliance with patient care guidelines by clinicians...

Tolbert Nyenswah, deputy health minister says Liberia could be free of the Ebola virus by the end of next month A health worker disinfects a...

By Scott Dance Thousands of people are to be injected with two experimental Ebola vaccines in trials in West Africa within a couple of weeks,...

Daily life in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one of three West African countries severely hit by the Ebola epidemic. Photo: World Bank/Dominic Chavez The United Nations...

In line with statistics, the maximum number of Ebola-related deaths has been registered in Liberia © AP Photo/ Youssouf Bah  The number of people killed by...

The international community has an opportunity to reverse the global epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and prevent the grim annual toll of 16 million people...

By Gardy Chacha The more Rehema Kahurananga ate the more she got thinner. “Weird, isn’t it?” she rightly thought. All things topsy-turvy, she recalls feeling...