Ebola is the most severe health emergency of modern times: WHO chief Dr Margaret Chan. Photo: AFPGeneva: The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is "unquestionably the most severe acute public health emergency in modern times", Dr Margaret Chan, the director general of the World Health Organisation, says. Dr Chan, who dealt with the 2009 avian flu pandemic and the SARS outbreaks of 2002-03, said the Ebola outbreak had progressed from a public health crisis to "a crisis for...
(Reuters) - A Los Angeles bus driver was quarantined for several hours on Monday after a passenger wearing a surgical mask claimed he had Ebola, a county transportation official...
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas nurse who caught Ebola while treating a Liberian patient who died of the disease has received a plasma transfusion donated by a doctor who beat the virus. Ebola has killed more than 4,000 people in an outbreak the World Health Organization has called "the most severe,...
By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's highest court gave the United Nations permission on Tuesday to give evidence in a groundbreaking legal challenge to the country's power to intercept asylum seekers' boats outside its territorial waters. The intervention of the UN High...
Binge drinking can alter your genes, researchers have warned.They say that excessive alcohol use can cause changes in the liver.However, they also say the discovery could lead to new treatments for alcohol related kidney disease.......
Suppose, for a moment, that both your mother and grandfather had died of an inevitably fatal neurological disease, and someone offered you a test to see if you were likely to get it, too. If the test showed up positive, you&aposd live......
Women are losing the ability to outlive men because of the pressure of juggling full-time work and family, official figures suggest.An analysis of mortality rates over the past 50 years, published by Britain&aposs Office for National......
‘Clearly I’ve hit a nerve,” Ellen Burkhardt told CBS Local. “And maybe more people feel the way I do than we realize and they’ve just been too intimidated to share that perspective,’ In the essay, Burkhardt talks about how difficult it is to explain to men she is...
