Health

Restraining Order Often Costly for Women

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NIH works to improve kidney health for all

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The National Kidney Disease Education Program is working to help community health workers fill the kidney disease education...

NIH to admit American healthcare worker with Ebola virus disease

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The NIH Clinical Center

Study reveals how genetic changes lead to familial Alzheimer’s disease

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A new mouse model of neurodegeneration. This image compares sections of cortex from a control mouse (left) to a mouse...

WHO and World Food Programme join forces to reach zero Ebola cases

WHO and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are combining their forces in a new partnership in the Ebola-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The arrangement combines the logistics strength of WFP with WHO’s public health...

Two UN agencies combine expertise in new partnership to reach zero Ebola cases

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This plane at the UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Italy is bound for Sierra Leone...

NIH-funded scientists identify brain site for stress role in binge alcohol drinking

New research supported by the National Institutes of Health shows how elements of the brain’s stress and reward pathways can interact to suppress binge alcohol drinking. The finding, suggests potential strategies for treating and preventing alcohol...

Study Links Family History of Prostate Cancer to Breast Cancer Risk

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Physically Tough Jobs May Harm a Man's Fertility: Study

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MEPs to grill Commission over delays in tackling hormone-disrupting chemicals

Growing worries that endocrine disruptors can damage your health will be raised in MEPs’ questions to health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis on Monday at 19.00. Scientists link these chemicals, present in many everyday products, to a rise in foetal...