HEALTH

Researchers have found that butterflies that fed on contaminated food from the area are dying.

MPs across Uganda will be pushing for bigger sized condoms in Uganda's fight to curb HIV/Aids.

Health ministry officials confirm that the unidentified man was bitten by a child infected with Ebola.

University of Texas at Austin researchers find one-off intervention in teenagers prevents depression.

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center raise doubts on benefits of e-cigarettes.

Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel holds the utopian belief that technology has the power to change the world.

The country's six million residents have been ordered to stay indoors in an effort to halt the spread of the deadlyi virus.

Max Planck Institute researchers find one dose of SSRIs can make a difference to brain function

Scientists study bubonic plague bacteria to develop therapies that block deadly pathogens.

Device expected to treat nerve-related disorders without medicine.

The 13th person to receive a trial Ebola vaccine speaks about his experience on Reddit.

World Bank says fear factor over Ebola virus could worsen impact on West African economies.

A variant of vancomycin seems to be effective in lab experiments to many drug-resistant bacteria.

Surgeons can now practice complex transvaginal procedures on a 3D-printed model with virtual reality.

The first trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine is taking place at the University of Oxford

BMJ study shows urine testing as efficient as smear tests to detect human papillomavirus.

Astonishingly successful evidence of trepanation, a highly risky head trauma treatment has come to light.

Risk of deadly Ebola virus becoming airborne very remote.

Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly has called the outbreak 'a fire straight from the pit of hell,' at a US Senate Panel, and has urged the Obama administration to step up the 'sluggish' response to the crisis.

Researchers from Western Ontario University use Hitchcock film to revive long-time unresponsive brain.

United Nations Child Mortality Report 2014 says six million children died in 2013 of preventable causes.

Washington University School of Medicine researchers find schizophrenia is hybrid of eight disorders

MRI scans show same brain response to film between healthy participants and vegetative patient.

US to supply medical and logistical support to help isolation of victims and prevent spread of virus.

Scientists have invented a magnetic device that can treat sepsis by removing pathogens to clean blood.

Study shows brain able to compensate for presence of proteins associated with Alzheimer's

Sudarshan Kriya, a controlled breathing technique, and mindfulness found effective in tackling stress.

Research suggests Botox injections prevents young people from learning how to express emotions.

Two babies died after intravenous feeding tubes in neo-natal intensive care units were found to be contaminated.