Category : Health

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...

  “World Health Organization had criticized Canada’s initial decision to close borders to those from Ebola-affected countries” The Canadian government says it will again issue...

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh, Associated Press By Krista Larson, Associated Press On the day Mercy Kennedy lost her mother to Ebola, it was hard to imagine...

This once-stricken nation plans to declare it is officially free of Ebola on Saturday, barring the unexpected discovery of a new case before then. The...

Former President Bill Clinton says he is pleased to see Liberia’s progress in the fight against the deadly Ebola disease, and is urging residents of...

She is just 14, but Janida avoids eye contact with others, preferring to look down at the ground and nodding her head if someone tries...

FILE – A health care worker assists a colleague inside a USAID-funded Ebola clinic in Monrovia, Liberia, Jan. 30, 2015. U.S. health officials are closing...

  Fresh apples and bananas lay in a basket on the dining table, granola bars stacked neatly in the glass kitchen shelf, a bag of...

. About 864 children are suspected of being infected measles in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, a health ministry official told reporters on Friday, APA reports quoting...

A “mysterious” disease that kills patients within 24 hours has claimed at least 18 lives in a southeastern Nigerian town, the government said Saturday Twenty-three...

Tuesday 14 April 2015 was a happy day in Sierra Leone as children returned to school after many months away, due to the Ebola outbreak....

 ‘HIV-positive migrants do not come to UK for free treatment but a better life’ Nigel Farage’s decision to use the TV debate to attack the...

In a bid to curb the spread of Ebola, Guinea’s President Alpha Conde has declared a 45-day “health emergency” in five regions of the epidemic-hit...

China will help Africa with its public health system post-Ebola, saida Chinese official on Friday at a China-Africa health roundtable. Lin Songtian, director of the...