HEALTH

MRI reveals 2,500-year-old Siberian princess died from breast cancer

Powerful photos show the pain felt by families as their loved ones are taken away for cremation.

World Health Organisation plays down risks of major contagion in Europe and America.

Drexel University's Dr Charles Haas suggests 21-day quarantine period for Ebola is not enough.

BBC service will provide text messages, audio and images in English and French to inform regional users.

Vinson flew from Cleveland to Dallas the day before official diagnosis despite calling the CDC to report a fever.

Obama said disease must be attacked at source and more aid must be provided to West Africa.

International tobacco tax provision will force countries to price taxes to at least 70 per cent of tobacco products' retail price.

Paris plans to adopt cigarette plain packaging, criticised by the US biggest tobacco producing state.

Lead singer of U2 did not contract the deadly virus while caring for an infected Liberian man.

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United Nations mission chief Anthony Banbury told UN Security Council Ebola is "winning the race"

Second health worker in Texas diagnosed with tropical virus.

Silicon valley giants will enable women employees who postpone pregnancy to further career

Alleged Ebola-infected man wearing surgical mask threatens Metro bus driver in Los Angeles.

Reports emerge of Ebola containment suit costumes and toddler Isis costumes with fake machine guns.

The billionaire CEO's donation will be used to provide supplies for CDC operations in west Africa

A Washington Post poll says two-thirds of Americans want a travel ban from Ebola-affected countries.

Cornell University scientists sequenced genome of common houseflies to help humans tackle disease

Screening for Ebola at London's Heathrow airport will begin among passengers from at-risk areas.

Yellow Fever tops WHO's list of vaccinations before volunteers can travel to Ebola-hit West Africa.

Harvard Medical School study shows environmental factors pose risk of sudden cardiac arrest in women.

UN employee who caught Ebola while working in Liberia has died in a hospital in Leipzig, Germany.

A technique has been developed to induce pluripotent stem cells to develop into blood vessels in damaged tissues.

In the Enduroman Arch to Arc triathlon, competitors must run, swim and cycle from London to Paris.

American researchers have reproduced human brain cells with structures of Alzheimer's Disease.

First National Health Service strike in 32 years is taking place in England on Monday from 7am.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will reveal in Parliament how the NHS plans to deal with Ebola

The Unicef ambassador highlights ways to prevent the spread of the disease in the video.