MEDICINE & HEALTHCritically ill Sierra Leone doctor with Ebola now in U.S. A surgeon from Sierra Leone, critically ill with Ebola, was flown to a Nebraska hospital for treatment on Saturday, and is sicker than previous patients treated in the United States, medical officials said.
Company denies rat poison in pills linked to India sterilization deaths The company at the center of a probe into why more than a dozen women died after being sterilized in India has denied that the antibiotic tablets it manufactured were contaminated with a chemical compound commonly found in rat poison.
Obamacare enters new phase over the weekend with little fanfare President Barack Obama's plan to extend private health coverage to the uninsured entered a new uncertain phase on Saturday as U.
After testing potential Ebola drugs, WHO found no effective treatment so far. The whole world was shaken by the Ebola epidemic, after the disease had killed one after the other with no known treatment or cure.
Premature Babies exposed to high levels of toxic chemical, study reveals There's a common trust in the safety of a hospital. It's where lives are saved and where life enters the world.
Researchers found a certain virus that causes increased stupidity. Fever, fatigue and a weakened immune system that could lead to more diseases, and worse, death are common features of viral infections.
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Center for Disease Control Director Dr. Thomas Frieden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the U.S. government response to the Ebola outbreak in Washington November 12, 2014.
A woman, who underwent sterilization surgery at a government mass sterilisation 'camp', walks to sit in a hospital bed at a district hospital in Bilaspur, in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh, November 13, 2014.
Ebola death toll tops 5,000; Mali quarantines 90 (Reuters) - The death of a nurse in Mali from Ebola prompted on Wednesday the quarantine of more than 90 people in the West African country's capital, as the World Health Organization said the disease had now claimed at least 5,160 lives.
Mobile phones linked to a deadly brain cancer, but there's no need to worry, researchers Say. A recent study has linked frequent mobile or wireless phone use to glioma, a certain kind of deadly cancer, and suggests that those who have been using their mobile phones for 25 years have thrice the risk of developing the disease compared to those with one year of wireless phone use.
WHO reports more than 5,000 deaths from Ebola as of Nov. 9 Number of Ebola deaths in the West African trio-- Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone-- has reached 5,147, as of November 9, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Long-term shift work linked to poor brain function, study says A shifting work schedule leads to a number of health issues such as heart diseases, metabolic syndrome, peptic ulcer, and cancer, among others.
California nurses strike ahead of larger protest over Ebola measures n">(Reuters) - Nearly 20,000 nurses went on strike in California on Tuesday over patient care issues that include what their union views as insufficient protection for nurses who may care for patients stricken with the deadly Ebola virus, in a prelude to broader national protests expected on Wednesday.
