MANILA, Philippines—In a bid to warn the public of the ill-effects of cigarette smoking, the Department of Health (DOH) has released 12 templates to be used...
SEATTLE — Marijuana activists who have longed for decades to end America’s drug war pocketed more major victories Tuesday, with Oregon and the nation’s capital approving...
A terminally-ill American woman in her late twenties has killed herself, making good on promises she made to do so on the premise of the right-to-die....
CHICAGO — Fever? Headache? Muscle aches? Forget about Ebola – chances are astronomically higher that you have the flu or some other common bug. That message...
WASHINGTON — The Spanish flu pandemic a century ago prompted the last large-scale quarantines in this country. Now the Ebola outbreak is raising new questions about...
Scientists announced on Sunday that flavanols – bioactive ingredients found in cocoa – had a significant impact on age-related memory decline. Experiments performed on a group...
NEW YORK—A nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is the first test case of quarantine policies now in effect in three states over heightened...
OTTAWA—Health Canada says more than 200 Canadians have been infected by a virus that has sickened hundreds of thousands of people in the Caribbean and spurred...
CHICAGO—Rigorous monitoring of travellers arriving from Ebola-stricken West African countries is being implemented to keep the virus from spreading in the United States. Key features announced...
OTTAWA — The federal government says Canada will start shipping its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization on Monday. The government says in a...