Health/Science

UN investigators have taken samples of foul-smelling waste trickling behind a Nepalese peacekeeping base in Haiti towards an infected river system. This follows accusations that excrement from the unit caused a cholera epidemic that has […] […]

GENEVA — A senior United Nations health official has warned that the cholera outbreak in Haiti is not yet contained and has stressed the need to continue enhancing treatment, prevention and response preparedness measures. Claire-Lise […] […]

HAITI reported 25 more cholera deaths overnight as aid groups fought to keep the disease out of the capital’s putrid refugee camps. With 284 known deaths and 3,612 infections, the first cholera outbreak in quake-hit […] […]

A cholera outbreak showed signs of easing after killing more than 250 people in a sweep through rural Haiti, but experts warned that the earthquake-devastated country’s first bout with the disease in decades is far […] […]

A CONTRACEPTIVE gel that is rubbed directly into the skin could offer women an alternative to taking the Pill, while limiting some of the side-effects, researchers say. The clear gel would be applied once a […] […]

MARIO Spencer is battling bone cancer with the medical assistance of the University Hospital of the West Indies. Mario is now 17-years-old, attends St George’s College. He enjoys singing in church, and playing football and […] […]

THE question of whether Christopher Columbus and his crew were responsible for bringing syphilis to Europe from the Americas appears to have been answered by the discovery of a collection of knobbly skeletons in a […] […]

ST. MARC, HAITI—An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps that house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the capital. […] […]

JAMAICA’S health ministry yesterday placed the nation on a cholera alert in light of a major outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Haiti, which has already left more than 140 dead and about 1,500 hospitalised. […] […]

VIENNA—An Austrian man who was the first in Europe to wear an innovative high-tech artificial arm has died after the car he was driving veered off the road and crashed into a tree. Christian Kandlbauer […] […]