
The Afghanistan-Pakistan region is considered to be the last frontier for efforts to eradicate naturally-occurring polio cases, and the Taliban, a terrorist group that operates in both countries, has joined the final fight against the crippling and potentially deadly infectious disease.
by Edwin Mora16 Dec 2015, 8:28 PM PST0

A patient with Ebola-like symptoms was seen at the Veterans Affairs emergency room in Dallas this past Thanksgiving weekend. Hospital officials have reportedly ruled out the deadly virus.
by Lana Shadwick30 Nov 2015, 12:10 PM PST0

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infects around 3.7 billion of the world’s population under 50-years-old.
by Mary Chastain29 Oct 2015, 12:29 PM PST0

Up till recently, Chipotle used to be by far my favourite fast food chain. But then it started venturing into areas which have nothing whatsoever to do with tasty, overstuffed burritos – making straight people feel bad about not finding crude,
by James Delingpole28 Oct 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently added Britain’s breakfast favourites such as bacon, sausages and other red meat to the list of the ‘encyclopaedia of carcinogens’. All processed red meat is to join the premier league of cancer causing agents such as smoking,
by David Atherton28 Oct 2015, 3:03 AM PST0

By spooky coincidence at the exact moment I read in the newspaper that the World Health Organisation has declared processed pork products to be in the same cancer risk category as asbestos, tobacco and plutonium, I was eating a big
by James Delingpole27 Oct 2015, 3:51 AM PST0

Moscow and St. Petersburg are toying with the idea of banning alcohol sales one day a week in an attempt to curb alcoholism.
by Mary Chastain15 Oct 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

As west Africa struggles to recover from an ongoing Ebola crisis and the continent’s poorest nations work to develop medical infrastructures, The New York Times warns that mental health treatment in much of nations like Togo and Ghana amounts to constraining patients with chains and taking them to spiritual consultants.
by Frances Martel13 Oct 2015, 3:26 PM PST0

The United Nations is hailing a change of language used by the United States to discuss human rights. From this point forward, the Obama administration has announced that it will switch to the UN-approved terminology of “sexual rights” to describe sexual reproduction and other issues.
by Warner Todd Huston18 Sep 2015, 7:43 PM PST0

The World Health Organization is warning that the time frame in which male Ebola survivors can spread the virus through their semen may be longer than previously anticipated, keeping an outbreak that began in February 2014 alive as those who are considered free of the disease engage in sexual activity.
by Frances Martel11 Sep 2015, 9:00 PM PST0

Sick Pakistanis, looking to buy medicine, have reported finding everything from rat poison to brick dust packaged in pills, claiming to be cures for illnesses.
by Mary Chastain1 Sep 2015, 8:16 PM PST0

Bellevue Hospital is currently observing an unidentified man for Ebola who recently returned from Africa and came down with a fever.
by Mary Chastain21 Jul 2015, 8:48 PM PST0

The United Nations special envoy for Ebola warned today that the outbreak that has taken more than 11,000 lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea is far from over, with 30 people a week being diagnosed with the disease on average. The UN warned that, while the figure appears low compared to the number this time last year, the fact that most cases are people not on watch lists indicates the threat is much larger than it appears.
by Frances Martel13 Jul 2015, 10:36 AM PST0

A new “cluster” of Ebola cases in a coastal region of Liberia has been identified, after a 17-year-old boy, initially misdiagnosed with malaria, was confirmed dead of the virus. Experts have failed to find the source of this new outbreak and are treating it as a separate set of incidents from the massive outbreak that has taken more than 10,000 lives in West Africa since February 2014.
by Frances Martel9 Jul 2015, 7:13 AM PST0

Despite Southeast Asian countries’s heightening fear over the recent MERS outbreak in South Korea, representatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Protection say that they believe the United States can effectively respond to MERS if it reaches American shores.
by Michael Lucchese23 Jun 2015, 8:21 PM PST0

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an official health advisory on Thursday in response to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea. They urge all hospitals to prepare and familiarize employees with the disease.
by Mary Chastain12 Jun 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

On Friday, officials from the World Health Organization announced that the United Nations agency would send a team of health experts to Seoul to assess South Korea’s public health response to the recent outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome plaguing the nation.
by Michael Lucchese8 Jun 2015, 8:41 AM PST0

South Korean officials announced on Wednesday that they can confirm the existence of five new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, commonly called MERS.
by Michael Lucchese3 Jun 2015, 8:04 PM PST0

A nurse employed by a health NGO who returned from work in Sierra Leone has become the first person to test positive for Ebola in Italy, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
by Frances Martel14 May 2015, 10:43 AM PST0

A new study on typhoid fever, an infection spread through unsanitary food and water, and prominent in parts of Asia and Africa, has found that an antibiotic-resistant clone has begun to spread in southern Africa, threatening to reach epidemic levels.
by Frances Martel12 May 2015, 11:20 AM PST0

A magazine that bills itself as a “progressive men’s magazine” is seeking to renew interest in the rise of HIV and AIDS in the world by printing a select number of magazine covers with ink infused with HIV infected blood.
by Warner Todd Huston1 May 2015, 5:27 PM PST0

Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal has come under fire after a tweet appeared on his official account in which he promised to gift a Bentley vehicle to every Saudi pilot conducting airstrikes against Shiite Houthi targets in Yemen. The tweet was swiftly deleted, and Saudi media claimed it was the product of a “hack.”
by Frances Martel24 Apr 2015, 7:30 PM PST0

Campaigners have responded furiously to new NHS rules which come into force next month saying that women who have vaginal piercings are to be classed as victims of female genital mutilation (FGM). Health chiefs have said that any woman whose
by A.B. Sanderson18 Mar 2015, 6:42 AM PST0

Samuel Sam-Sumana, the vice president of Sierra Leone, has imposed an Ebola quarantine on himself following the death of his bodyguard upon contracting the lethal virus.
by Frances Martel2 Mar 2015, 6:41 AM PST0

The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea rose last week for the first time in several weeks.
by Mary Chastain5 Feb 2015, 12:10 PM PST0