In a dusty street of the Senegalese capital Dakar, a hand emerges from behind the door of a run-down house…
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Senegal tracks route of Guinea student in race to stop Ebola
AstraZeneca taps Roche, Qiagen for new blood-based cancer drug tests
AstraZeneca has signed up Roche and Qiagen to develop two separate diagnostic tests, both using simple blood samples, to identify…
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Antidepressants in pregnancy pose little heart risk for fetus, study shows
Records from nearly a million women and their newborn children offer new evidence that common antidepressants taken during pregnancy do…
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Computer games better than medication in treating elderly depression
Computer games could help in treating older people with depression who haven’t been helped by antidepressant drugs or other treatments…
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11-year-old girl battling cancer gets wish to meet the Pope
A New Jersey girl battling neuroblastoma saw her dream come true Wednesday when she got an audience with Pope Francis.…
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Gynecologists resist FDA over popular surgical tool
Doctors nationwide are still using a gynecological tool months after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that it can…
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Ebola deaths top 8,000 in worst-hit West Africa, says WHO
More than 8,000 people have died of Ebola in the three worst-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the…
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Dallas Ebola patient on ventilator, receiving kidney dialysis
The Ebola patient fighting for his life in a Dallas hospital is on a ventilator and a kidney dialysis machine…
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Medical mistakes: Should you be worried?
According to a recent study published in the journal BMJ Quality and Safety, medical mistakes affect about 12 million patients…
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US to begin human testing of Ebola vaccine next week
WASHINGTON – Federal researchers next week will start testing humans with an experimental vaccine to prevent the deadly Ebola virus.…
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