Ebola survivor urges ZMapp manufacturer to speed up drug production

A Liberian health worker who recovered from Ebola after receiving an experimental drug urged the manufacturer to speed up its production and send it to Africa, Physician's assistant Kyndy Kobbah was expected to be released from hospital Saturday after...

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Ebola outbreak: Canadian scientists back home after being pulled from Sierra Leone

Three Canadian scientists evacuated from Sierra Leone over Ebola concerns are back in Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada said Friday night. The three left earlier Friday on a chartered plane to make the trip home. A quarantine officer assessed...

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Health Canada pulling last of citronella-based bug sprays

Health Canada is pulling the last of citronella-based bug sprays off the shelves by the end of December because of "the absence of adequate safety data." The essential oil has been used as an insect repellent in Canada for decades. The move has...

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Senegal Ebola case 'a top priority emergency,' WHO says

The World Health Organization says it is treating Senegal's first confirmed Ebola case "as a top priority emergency." "The case is a 21-year-old male native of Guinea who arrived in Dakar, by road, on Aug. 20 and stayed with relatives at a home...

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Ebola cases could hit 20,000, WHO says

The Ebola virus could eventually infect 20,000 people and the actual number of current cases may already be two to four times higher than reported, the World Health Organization says. The United Nations health agency released a road map on Thursday...

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How to reset kids' sleep schedules for back-to-school

Over the summer months, with sunlight lasting longer into the evening, a lot of people stay up later than usual. When summer starts to wind down, readjusting to healthier sleep patterns is important — particularly for young...

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Canada sends plane to rescue Ebola scientists in Sierra Leone

The Canadian scientists returning home from an Ebola virus lab in Sierra Leone over concerns for their health and safety aren't showing any signs of illness and will return to Canada on a private charter plane. The Public Health Agency of Canada said...

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Ebola outbreak worsens, as Senegal records 1st case

The past week has seen the highest increase of Ebola cases since the outbreak in West Africa began, the World Health Organization said Friday, offering more evidence that the crisis is worsening. Senegal recorded its first case of Ebola in the outbreak...

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How to help kids cope with back-to-school stress

Tis the season to be stressed, for kids heading back to school. The change from the routines of summer to a new schedule, new teachers and perhaps a new school and soon, homework, are often identified as causes of back-to-school stress for students....

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Ebola-infected doctor in Sierra Leone dies

The Ebola virus outbreak in Sierra Leone has claimed the life of another doctor there as an epidemiologist arrived in Germany for treatment and Canada made plans to pull out three lab workers helping to test for infections. Dr. Sahr Rogers had...

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Ebola cases could hit 20,000, WHO says

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are now known, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new plan by the UN health agency to stop Ebola also assumes that the actual number...

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Jaw implants recalled

Johnson & Johnson is recalling some lots of its implant used to correct defects of the jaw, following more than a dozen cases of injury. The device, used to correct birth or post-traumatic jaw defects by gradually lengthening the bone, is being...

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Slackers rejoice! Practice may not make perfect

When Malcolm Gladwell published Outliers, his bestselling book proposing that practising a certain task for around 10,000 hours is necessary before one can ever achieve great success, he gave hope to millions of wannabe Bill Gateses, Carl Sagans,...

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Ebola outbreak: Canadians pulled from Sierra Leone as precaution

The Public Health Agency of Canada said in a statement late Tuesday it is finalizing plans to bring the three-person mobile team from Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory home from Sierra Leone. The team is being recalled after three people...

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Blood pressure self-medication better than doctors in study

"Do-it-yourself" blood pressure measurements and medicine changes work better than usual doctor-office care in some patients, a study of older adults in England found. Those who did their own readings at home and adjusted their medicine as needed had...

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WHO scientist infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone moved to Germany as Canadian colleagues pulled

A scientist who was infected with Ebola while working for the World Health Organization in Sierra Leone has arrived in Germany for treatment in a Hamburg hospital, officials said Wednesday. Hamburg Health Department spokesman Roland Ahrendt said the...

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Arthroscopic knee surgery: Why it may not help you

Are you older and have mild osteoarthritis? You might want to skip your knee scope, because there's little proof it's doing more help than harm, according to a McMaster University study. A review of middle-aged and mildly osteoarthritic patients...

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Let doctors report suspected drunk drivers, physician says

A Toronto emergency room doctor believes there is a loophole that needs to be closed, which involves drunk drivers and the medical system. Dr. Brett Belchetz is calling for changes to the law so that doctors can report suspected impaired drivers...

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Ebola outbreak in West Africa has 'upper hand,' say U.S. health official warns

The Ebola virus has the "upper hand" in an outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, a top American health official said, adding that experts have the tools to stop it. Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease...

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E-cigarettes should have stiff regulatory curbs, WHO urges

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday called for regulation of electronic cigarettes as well as bans on indoor use, advertising and sales to minors. In a long-awaited report that will be debated by member states at a meeting in October in Moscow,...

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The folly of mass quarantine, especially for diseases like Ebola

Medical experts say that mass quarantine is rarely if ever effective in stemming the spread of a contagion like Ebola, and the move by Liberia to cordon off a sprawling slum is likely to do more harm than good. "It's a measure that basically goes back...

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Ebola outbreak: Infected British health-care worker returns to U.K.

A British health-care worker who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone — the first Briton to catch the deadly virus — was flown home for treatment on Sunday, as the World Health Organization confirmed another foreign medic had caught the disease....

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E-cigarettes with nicotine need tough restrictions, heart group concludes

E-cigarettes that contain nicotine should be regulated as tobacco products, including under state smoke-free laws, the American Heart Association says. The group issued new policy recommendations on Monday that recommend a U.S. ban on e-cigarettes for...

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Ebola outbreak: Japan offers anti-influenza drug for treatment

Japan said Monday it is ready to provide a Japanese-developed anti-influenza drug as a possible treatment for the rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that Japan can offer favipiravir, developed by...

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Painkillers prescribed chronically to many Americans on disability

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said it was proceeding with tough new controls on painkillers containing hydrocodone, meaning prescription narcotic drugs such as Vicodin, Lortab and their generic equivalents would be in the same regulatory class...

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