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.
The World Health Assembly and the Polio Eradication Initiative, has reset the worldwide goal for the eradication of polio for 2018 when the 2013 deadline was not met.
The mother of a teenager who died due to an apparent suicide has come forward protesting the way that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rejected her son’s eye donations after his death in 2013
Google is now embarking on one of its most difficult and ambitious science projects ever—an exploration inside the human body called the Baseline study.
The doctor who treated the first Ebola patient in Nigeria and was subsequently infected with the virus, has now been released from quarantine and is the first recorded survivor of the killer virus.
Synthetic marijuana products are easily accessible in New Hampshire. The product that is intended to be sold as potpourri is being smoked like marijuana and posing a threat to public health.
