Health
U.S. will host Global Fund replenishment
The Global Fund’s Fourth Replenishment Conference will be hosted by the United States in Washington D.C. in early December 2013, Secretary of ...Obama says he quit cigarettes for fear of wife
U.S. President Barack Obama says he hasn\'t had a smoke in years — thanks in no small part to first lady Michelle ...UK commits $1.6 billion to the Global Fund
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today congratulated the United Kingdom for demonstrating strong leadership in global health with ...UN holds first high-level meeting on the disabled
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a historic U.N. meeting of world leaders Monday "to break barriers and open doors" for the more than ...MERS virus transmitted from animals to humans more than once
Saudi Arabia has experienced most of the cases and deaths since the new MERS virus was identified in September 2012.Woman survives 15 days trapped in well in China
A Chinese woman has been found alive after becoming trapped at the bottom of an abandoned well for 15 days, living off ...US Navy gunman had serious mental health issues
Washington authorities questioned on Tuesday how a U.S. military veteran with a history of violence and mental problems could have gotten clearance ...Dozens feared dead in psychiatric hospital fire in Russia
Up to 37 psychiatric patients and nursing staff are feared dead following a blaze at a mental hospital in north-west Russia this ...Canadian woman arrested in Colombia for smuggling drugs in fake pregnant belly
A Canadian woman who used a fake pregnant stomach to smuggle two kilograms of cocaine has been arrested Wednesday at Bogota airport ...AIDS vaccine candidate appears to completely clear virus from the body in monkeys
Researchers in the US have reported significant progress in their development of a vaccine against HIV.




