Category : Health

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...

Kenya: Expectations that Uganda will spend more than planned ahead of an election due in early 2016, pose risks for investors who are demanding higher...

UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response announced that Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea will reopen their schools in the near future. WASHINGTON, January 7 (Sputnik) —...

Health authorities in Papua New Guinea establish a screening system for Ebola at the Port Moresby airport. The Ebola virus has killed nearly 8,000 people...

Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) outside a midwifery school where they are attending a training session on Ebola, in Makeni, Sierra Leone. Photo:...

Mount Sinai Hospital’s Director of Infection Control Dr. Allison McGeer joined the World Health Organization in October to help battle the virus, which has killed...

The World Health Organization on Monday released the latest figures on the Ebola epidemic, with the number of suspected, probable and confirmed cases reaching 20,081,...

It’s the smell that hits first. Overwhelming. A bitter mixture of sweat, other body fluids and the slightest waft of antiseptic cleaner you wish would...

Health workers in Sierra Leone have attempted to offer the feeling of Christmas to patients being treated for Ebola. Nurses and other staff have sung...

Citing the “memorable and moving” example of a Sierra Leonean nurse who had contracted Ebola but became a caregiver as soon as she had recovered,...

FILE – Health workers wearing protective gear remove the body of a man they suspect died from the Ebola virus at a treatment center on...