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May 18, 2018
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to a major city Mbandaka, with a population of about 1 million people officials said.
May 18, 2018
Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have discovered that a signaling protein elevated in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) plays a much wider role in the disease than previously thought.
May 17, 2018
Today, many people are unable to get tested for diseases because they cannot access diagnostic services.
May 17, 2018
One new case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been confirmed in Wangata, one of the three health zones of Mbandaka, a city of nearly 1.2 million people in Equateur Province in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
May 16, 2018
Increasing numbers people in Denmark are catching sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhoea.
May 16, 2018
The World Health Organization (WTO) has called for elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acid from the global food supply by 2023.
May 15, 2018
An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Kiel has successfully reconstructed genomes from Stone Age and Medieval European strains of the hepatitis B virus.
May 15, 2018
A new article published in the Cell Reports describes how a new drug is able to reduce the symptoms and activate the dormant neurons characteristic of Rett Syndrome in preclinical models.
May 14, 2018
Researchers from Columbia University have developed a new technique for the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR to restore retinal function in mice afflicted by a degenerative retinal disease, retinitis pigmentosa.
May 14, 2018
Neuroscientists at Indiana University have reported the first evidence that non-human animals can mentally replay past events from memory.
May 11, 2018
Tanzania issued an alert following an outbreak of the Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
May 11, 2018
A team of cancer researchers managed to exploit a vulnerability in melanoma that has developed resistance to a targeted therapy, providing a potential new therapeutic strategy to selectively kill the drug-resistant cancer cells.