Russian authorities are enforcing stricter health checks on the McDonald's chain of restaurants in the country following customer complaints. Four establishments have already been shut down.
A nurse that was part of the medical team who attended to Nigeria’s first confirmed Ebola case has broken quarantine and left Lagos city where she was being held in isolation. She has tested positive for the Ebola virus and is now back in medical care.
After being checked with Integrated Disease Surveillance Programs set up in the airport, over 300 passengers are now being tracked in India for the possibility of Ebola infection.
Two Nigerian travellers who had flu-like symptoms upon arrival at the Ho Chi Minh airport in Vietnam were taken directly to a hospital for isolation and observation.
The now popular ice bucket challenge has been an effective medium for raising ALS awareness and has helped the ALS Association raise more than $15 million so far for drug research and development.
A woman who recently traveled from a West African Country fell ill and collapsed in her office building. City officials immediately suspected Ebola infection and deployed security measures to potentially contain an infection.
After releasing one patient who is now, reportedly, cured from the Ebola virus, the Ebola Emergency Treatment Center in Lagos has and discharged for more patients that were previously in isolation and receiving treatment. These four patients are said to be fre…
The Canadian Medical Association says that it is"bad medicine" to be asked to authorize and prescribe medical marijuana when it has not gone through the proper testing procedures.
Canada's main medical groups have declared that they will not be participating in upcoming anti-drug campaigns that are targeting young people in the community.
A team of researchers has successfully shrunk cancerous tumors in animal subjects using a modified bacterial injection of Clostridium novyi. Now, their studies show that they have successfully done the same with one human subject.
