The first known incidents of the Ebola virus were in 1976. There were two simultaneous outbreaks in Nzara in Sudan and Yambuku in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). The name of the Ebola river near Yambuku was given to the new epidemic.

Outbreaks have mainly occured in remote villages ...

Brazil says thousands of babies have been born with abnormally small heads --- since October. The health system is struggling to cope with the outbreak linked to the Zika virus - which is spread by mosquitoes. The rare brain defect affects the babies' physical and mental development. The disease has...

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Broadway Cares awards annual grants to more than 450 AIDS and family service organizations nationwide and is the major supporter of the social service programs at The Actors Fund, including the HIV/AIDS Initiative, the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic

On Memorial Day 2015, three children were hurt when a waterspout came ashore and lifted bounce house 50 feet high at Fort Lauderdale Beach. The bounce house was lifted off the beach and into the air, injuring three terrified children who fell out and onto the sand. There was no indication a waterspo...

Katharine Hayhoe, a co-author of the current Assessment (November, 2018) and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, said in a Friday tweet that the White House’s claim is “demonstrably false.” The 1,600-page report, which was issued by 13 federal agencies and authored by

"Science Never Goes Out of Style." This Taylor Swift Anthem from the ASAP Science GuysGreg and Mitch, the guys behind our favorite dry erase board science animations, have heard that you've been out and about making fun of nerds. So, taking a clue from Pentatonix this week, they've put on their la...

Now that the Apple Watch has been released, wearables are indisputably mainstream. But one of the designers at the heart of the wearable tech revolution thinks it is time to refocus on something more fundamental — the human wearing them. NewDealDesign's Gadi Amit, the designer behind Fitbit, the Goo

If two hands can make a piano sing, imagine the creative symphony of a dozen charismatic pianists. The international conference "TEDMED 2013: The Future of Health and Medicine is Here" took place on April 2013 at the John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The broad mix of di...

Margaret Heckler was President Reagan's secretary of health and human services from March 1983 to December 1985. Here she says AIDS was her number one priority, but that she had to balance her department's response against the Reagan administration's fiscal priorities. Heckler maintains that preexis...