Archive: 12/11/2014
Mali battles new Ebola outbreak as cleric, nurse die (Update)
Mali scrambled Wednesday to prevent a major Ebola outbreak after the deaths of an Islamic cleric who brought the killer virus in from neighbouring Guinea and the nurse who treated him.
Nov 12, 2014
Experts urge US to change organ donation policies
A group of more than 300 prominent doctors, religious leaders and ethicists on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to change the current system for organ donation, saying too few people get life-saving transplants.
Nov 12, 2014
Public to comment on 1st-in-nation tobacco ban
Health officials in Westminster are holding a public hearing on a draft regulation that would make the central Massachusetts town the first in the nation to ban sales of all tobacco products.
Nov 12, 2014
New Ebola death hits Mali as Liberia hails drop in cases
A second person from Mali has died from Ebola, just as hardest-hit Liberia hailed a dramatic drop in infections and the last-known sufferer in the United States was declared cured on Tuesday.
Nov 12, 2014
GigaScience publishes a virtual box of delights to aid the fight against heart disease
Published today in the Open Access and Open Data Journal GigaScience, researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain and the National Institutes of Health in the USA provide a fantastic example of open data ...
Nov 12, 2014
Psychotropic drug prescriptions: Therapeutic advances or fads?
Why are psychotropic drugs such as antidepressants, psychostimulants, anxiolytics, and antipsychotics are increasingly prescribed in North America? Drawing a parallel between the dilemmas facing medicine in the nineteenth ...
Nov 12, 2014