health

Reading Time: < 1 minute The World Health Organization (WHO) convened an urgent meeting Tuesday amid an outbreak of one of the deadliest diseases known to man in…

Reading Time: < 1 minute People in Nigeria have taken to sleeping outside banks. They want to be among the first in line to get notes from…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first outbreak of Marburg disease, a virus which is closely related to Ebola and can kill up…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Job vacancies in the UK have reached a near-record level, due largely to the shortage of nurses, carers and other healthcare staff. …

Reading Time: < 1 minute Rising numbers of patients in England are failing to collect their medicines or asking pharmacists which ones they can “do without” because they…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The family of a man killed in a hit-and-run crash say they have received thank you letters from those whose lives were…

Reading Time: < 1 minute As many as one in 10 teenage girls in the US have said that they have been raped, according to a report from…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Women: your pelvic parts have been branded by men. There, you’ll find the names of long-dead male anatomists – like Gabriel Falloppio…

Reading Time: < 1 minute An online GoFundMe fundraiser for the child attacked outside her school has been set by a charity chief executive to enable the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A wealthy Nigerian politician has denied offering to reward his sick daughter’s prospective kidney donor, saying selfless acts were less of a…