Ebola epidemic in West Africa grows exponentially
The World Health Organization released a new publication about the Ebola outbreak situation in West Africa. Although the report contains some good news, the...
Sharp Rise in Ebola Cases; Worst Is Yet to Come
In Monrovia, the capital of the West African nation of Liberia, the country hit hardest by the current Ebola epidemic, hospitals aren’t admitting patients....
Coffee Naps: The New Way to Stay Alert
Mondays don’t have to be so horrible – scientists have come up with a better alternative to the coffee-doused mornings, coffee naps. What may...
Ebola Outbreak Hits 5th Country
The Ebola outbreak which has infected more than 3,000 people in West Africa, now hits a fifth country in the region. After a Guinean...
47% of Ebola Patients Survive
The current Ebola epidemic which has killed nearly 1,500 people out of over 2,600 known cases was called “the worst in history” and declared...
Infertility treatment tops list of medical tourism procedures
·Infertility procedure topping list of common procedures on medical tourism trips bucks global trend
·48% of medical tourists are from the GCC
·80% of physicians surveyed...
Fears of Deadly Outbreaks Increase in Saudi Arabia
Two patients with possible Ebola symptoms are said to have escaped from a health center in the Madinah province of Saudi Arabia, according to...
Woman Suspected of Ebola Dies in Abu Dhabi
A 35-year-old Nigerian woman, who traveled to India for cancer treatment, died during her transit in Abu Dhabi after showing Ebola-like symptoms. Her husband,...
GCC States Unite Over Ebola Prevention
Nations from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) gathered at an urgent meeting on Wednesday to discuss joint measures for prevention and control of the...
Untested Ebola Drugs Approved for Use in West Africa
Despite ethical questions, the World Health Organization approved untested Ebola drugs for use against the deadly virus in West Africa. The epidemic, which was...
Ebola Vaccine to Be Ready in 2015
Clinical trials of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus, which killed nearly 1,000 people in West Africa, will begin next month, the...
Ebola Outbreak: WHO Declares International Emergency
The World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency over the 2014 West Ebola outbreak, which killed nearly a thousand people in...
Ebola Outbreak Causes Global Concerns
The death toll of the West African Ebola outbreak reached 932 and with the death of a Saudi man suspected of carrying the disease,...
Ebola May Have Spread to Middle East
The Ebola epidemic has killed nearly 900 people in West Africa since it occurred in Guinea this March and now it may have spread...
MERS Slowing Down in Saudi Arabia
There have been no new cases of the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS Co-V) in Saudi Arabia during the past three weeks, or...
Countries on Alert over Ebola Outbreak
The current Ebola epidemic, which started in March in Guinea and is now sweeping across West Africa, is the largest and the deadliest in...
Adults Also Affected by Summer Brain Drain
Summer brain drain is usually associated with children and school holiday. However, not many people are aware of the fact that adults are also...
People with HIV Living Longer
Although two-thirds of the people infected by HIV aren’t receiving life-saving drugs, there is still a chance of ending the global AIDS epidemic, according...