UN backs vaccination campaign after yellow fever outbreaks hit Cameroon and Ghana
The United Nations is backing a mass vaccination campaign under way in northern Cameroon, where a new...
For World Cancer Day, UN stresses early diagnosis to reduce mounting deaths
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano speaks at World Cancer Day 2012 event.
Experts pledge to eradicate "neglected" diseases
A patient gets his eyes checked for trachoma, one of the 'neglected' diseases, at a clinic in Ethiopia.
Malaria mortality "underestimated"
The reverses of the 1980s and 1990s signal the fragility of the gains in the war against malaria
Taiwanese man dies after 23 hours of gaming
A man from Taiwan was found dead after playing a computer game for 23 hours at an internet cafe.
NIH study uncovers probable mechanism underlying resveratrol activity
National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, a naturally occurring chemical found in red wine and other plant products, may confer its health benefits. The authors present evidence that resveratrol...
SOMALIA: Mortality rates among world's highest in Somaliland
Edna Adan University Hospital, the main health facility in Hargeisa, Somaliland: Somaliland has one of...
COTE D'IVOIRE: Meningitis spreads as people scramble for vaccine
A West Africa meningitis outbreak in 2009-2010 killed over 900 people
HIV/AIDS: Global Fund shake-up signals new direction
Michel Kazatchkine has been with the Global Fund for ten years
New Silica Rules Languish In Regulatory Black Hole
Any job that involves breaking up rock or concrete or brick can potentially expose workers to dangerous silica dust, and last year it looked like the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration was about to put stricter...
