HEALTH

Health agency urges checks at all international airports, seaports and major land crossings.

Scientists identify immune cells that destroys hair follicles in alopecia sufferers.

Southern Spanish city of Alicante on Ebola alert after Nigerian man is admitted to local hospital with fever and vomiting.

Nurses at Weston General Hospital isolated man who had travelled from Lebanon after believing he displayed Ebola symptoms.

New report from the Centre for Social Justice warns that deaths related to designer drugs could surpass heroin-linked fatalities within two years.

Dozens killed by flooding and landslides after days of torrential rain.

The billionaire took part in the nomination challenge to raise awareness of motor neurone disease.

Pregnant women living near the site of the World Trade Centre terror attack, experienced higher negative pregnancies.

Minnesota musician played a violin as surgeons implanted a tiny electrode in his brain.

Scientists create system allowing them to see how cystic fibrosis treatments are working live.

Women account for between 55% and 60% of deceased Ebola victims in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Parkinson's disease patients to use Intel Basis smart watches and an app to track their movements.

Liberian doctor battles social stigma after beating Ebola.

Scientists uncover how the Ebola virus is able to disarm its victims' immune defences.

Medical authorities around the world are gearing up for Ebola appearing in their country.

Scientists have found a way to get ions into cancerous cells, making them self-destruct.

One of the funniest comedians of our times had depression, showing it could affect anyone.

World Health Organisation rules it is ethical to provide experimental untested drugs to Ebola patients.

Father Miguel Pajares, 75, had been receiving treatment on an isolation ward in Madrid.

Researchers in the US have discovered how to alter deadly allergy-triggering proteins.

There were 52 deaths from the Ebola virus in three days in West Africa.

Scientists were able to prevent heart failure in mice using a RNA molecule.

George Combey did not know he was infected when Father Pajares was evacuated to Spain.

Human trial of stem cell therapy for stroke patients yields positive results.

Working in natural light improves quality of sleep, mood and metabolism.

A Haifa hosipital has reported a rise in women seeking sperm donations from combat soldiers.

HealthMap detected a "mystery hemorrhagic fever" in Guinea, nine days before the World Health Organisation announced the Ebola epidemic.

Liberia and Sierra Leone are currently facing the highest frequency of new cases of the disease which began in Guinea..

NASA-backed study finds sleep deprivation and sleeping pill habits are 'pervasive among astronauts'.