Health Archives | Page 23 of 72 | All about Health stories

U.S. working on new screenings for Ebola but no travel ban

YoopyaOct 7, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Monday that the government would develop expanded screening of airline passengers for Ebola, both in the West African

Spanish nurse becomes first to contract Ebola outside West Africa

YoopyaOct 7, 2014July 25, 20230

(Reuters) – A Spanish nurse has become the first person to contract Ebola outside of Africa, casting doubt over measures taken in Spain to control

Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS

YoopyaOct 7, 2014September 7, 20230

(Reuters) – Anglo-American John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for discovering the brain’s

High risk Ebola could reach France and UK by end-October, scientists calculate

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by

Silicon Valley takes benefits ‘arms race’ to health care

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – High salaries and free food aren’t enough any more in Silicon Valley, where maturing companies are competing for talent with creative health care

Dallas Ebola patient fighting for life, another headed to Nebraska

YoopyaOct 6, 2014July 15, 20230

(Reuters) – The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital and appeared to be

U.S. defends Ebola response, about 50 under observation

YoopyaOct 4, 2014September 2, 20230

By Jon Herskovitz DALLAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. officials on Friday broadly defended the response to the country’s first case of Ebola, although one acknowledged that

Rains complicate delivery of Ebola supplies in West Africa

YoopyaSep 30, 2014July 29, 20230

By Stella Dawson WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The rainy season in West Africa is compounding difficulties in getting supplies delivered and new treatment centres

Roche breast cancer drug ‘unprecedented’ in extending lives

YoopyaSep 28, 2014July 29, 20230

(Reuters) – A new breast cancer drug from Roche has shown unprecedented benefits in extending lives in a clinical trial and experts urged its widespread

Obama says “significant gap” in global effort to fight Ebola

YoopyaSep 26, 2014July 15, 20230

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that there was still a significant gap between where we are