HEALTH

Woman was quarantined at the hospital in Truro after reporting suspected symptoms.

Compulsory cremations very unpopular in Liberia, where funeral traditions are carefully followed.

Japan reports fifth outbreak of bird flu this year.

What would happen if Captain Kirk had a heart attack and needed futuristic emergency medicine?

Health officials issue alert after porn actor gets HIV on set in California.

Study suggests origin of West Africa Ebola outbreak is not due to hunting and eating bat meat.

The FDA has allowed for limited use of the fast acting test.

Unsafe burial practices are being blamed for the 49 cases recorded in December.

Archaeologists discover intestinal parasite eggs in samples from Basel-Gasfabrik site.

Is dry January good or bad for you? IBTimes UK looks at health effects of booze free month.

Open letter signed by doctors, clerics and politicians urges change to euthanasia law.

Man being treated in hospital after developing fever on returning from Sierra Leone.

Colistin which is toxic, is used in cases showing resistance to carbapenem, the strongest class of antibiotics.

Jayden Wilson became an internet star after his father dressed up as Spiderman to cheer him up.

More people are expected to turn to A and E departments due to the lack of GP appointments after the Christmas break.

Health experts have warned that more children have been brought into hospital after getting the small plastic bands lodged in their noses.

At a hospital in Makeni nurses are protesting against the non-payment of hazard pay.

CDC says incident occurred due to a mix-up of two sets of vials.

A cell recycling mechanism that goes awry is behind the spread.

Pathogen causing neurodegenerative disease in sheep and goat seen to cross species barrier in lab experiments.

Germ cells are produced in the earliest stages of mammalian development.

Imagining exercise activates the part of the brain involved in the physical activity.

Helen Fitzsimmons tells how she believes breast milk helped treat her father's cancer.

A Harvard study shows that weight lifting is better for keeping abdominal obesity in check

Tapping touchscreens with thumbs increases electrical activity in brains and remaps sensory cortex daily, according to a new study.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals drug finds 100% survival in some monkey testing.

Coventry University study says religious feasts could be to blame.

Vaccines show equal immune response in African populations as in US adults.

Humans had bones as strong as orangutans before the invention of farming