Ebola Requires the World’s United Action
Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prepares to don goggles...
UN chief to leaders: ‘The world can and must stop Ebola – now’
WHO: Ebola Most Challenging Epidemic ‘in Decades’
Ebola virus, rapid rise in epidemic, Sept. 25, 2014...
World Bank Group to Nearly Double Funding in Ebola Crisis to $400 Million
Following alarming evidence of the spread of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the World Bank Group announced that it will nearly double its financing to $400 million to help the worst-affected countries address the emergency and build stronger...
NIH and VA address pain and related conditions in U.S. military personnel, veterans, and their families
Thirteen research projects totaling approximately $21.7 million over 5 years will explore nondrug approaches to managing pain and related health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), drug abuse, and sleep issues. The effort seeks...
NIH and FDA win top award for intellectual property licensing of meningitis vaccine
NIH and the FDA teamed with PATH External Web Site Policy, a Seattle-based non-profit leader in global health innovation, and the Serum Institute of India (SII) to develop MenAfriVac. The vaccine has a low production cost and does not require constant...
NIH exceptional responders to cancer therapy study launched
The Exceptional Responders Initiative, a study to investigate the molecular factors of tumors associated with exceptional treatment responses of cancer patients to drug therapies, was launched by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the...
Study warns swift action needed to curb exponential climb in Ebola outbreak
Unless Ebola control measures in west Africa are enhanced quickly, experts from the WHO and Imperial College, London, predict numbers will continue to climb exponentially, and more than 20 000 people will have been infected by early November,...
Advance team of UN mission for Ebola response arrives in West Africa
These children in Kailahun district, Sierra Leone, survived Ebola but lost parents to the...
WHO welcomes decision to establish United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response
Nearly six months after the first case of Ebola in west Africa was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and the Security Council have approved resolutions creating the United Nations Mission for...
