Health
HIV drug stocks not reaching African patients: report
Efforts to get lifesaving antiretrovial drugs to HIV-positive patients in many sub-Saharan African countries are routinely failing at "the last mile", an ...Human error blamed for deadly US strike on Afghan hospital
A deadly air strike on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital was "caused primarily by human error", the US commander in Afghanistan ...Over 230,000 vaccinated in Iraq anti-cholera campaign
More than 230,000 people received a first dose of cholera vaccine in a massive campaign to combat an outbreak of the disease ...Celebrations as WHO declares Sierra Leone Ebola-free
The UN health agency on Saturday declared that Sierra Leone\'s deadly Ebola outbreak is over, prompting jubilant celebrations as thousands massed in ...France to lift ban on gay men giving blood
France said Wednesday it will lift a ban on gay men giving blood, but only if they abstain from sex in the ...Uruguayan president assists French girl on flight to Paris
Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez has put his old profession as physician to use — helping revive a young French woman on a ...China decides to drop 1-child policy, allow 2 children
China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ...Bacon, other processed meats cause cancer, report says
Eating processed meats like hot dogs, sausages or bacon can lead to bowel cancer in humans and red meat is a likely ...Police raid Save the Children offices in Nauru
The offices of Save the Children workers helping asylum-seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru have been raided by police, the aid ...1 in 3 young men in China to die from smoking, study says
One in three of all the young men in China will eventually be killed by tobacco unless a substantial proportion of them ...