MEDICINE

The World Health Organization has declared the virus an emergency of international concern, even though its suspected link to birth defects remains unproved.

The so-called “duct tape challenge” involves having your body wrapped in duct tape and seeing how long it takes to escape.

The health ministry identified the patient as a 71-year-old Omani man and said it was trying to contact 218 passengers and crew who traveled with him to Thailand.

The deal was announced a week after a new case was discovered in Sierra, just after the Ebola epidemic in West Africa was declared over.

The victim, a 22-year-old student, did not present any symptoms when she visited a hospital last week.

The Ebola epidemic is not quite over, with a new case emerging Friday and the World Health Organization warning more cases could occur.

The news comes just a day after the World Health Organization declared the deadly outbreak over in West Africa.

The World Heath Organization announced Thursday that Liberia was free of the deadly virus but warned that "more flare-ups are expected."

Guinea, one of the African nations where the most recent outbreak of Ebola took place, has asked Russia for help in dispensing the vaccine.

A suspected suicide bomb blast near a polio eradication center in western Pakistan killed at least 14 people. Yiming Woo reports.

Liberia is the only country still battling Ebola after Sierra Leone officially ended its epidemic in November.

Incidences of asthma among children in the U.S. fell significantly in 2013, but race and income were still major influencers.

The demise of a kidney donor has prompted the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to suspend the program until a cause of death is determined.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that outbreaks have been reported in multiple counties involving mainly unvaccinated children in school settings.

The vaccine was developed by the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi over a period of 20 years.

First responders will now be able to administer a sponge-injecting device that works to stop bleeding from life-threatening bullet wounds.

Minnesota's medical marijuana program is currently one of the most restrictive in the country, and this change could add thousands of patients.

While returning from his Africa trip, Pope Francis said the continent faced more urgent concerns than condom use, such as malnutrition and environmental damage.

The technology could benefit fields where three-dimensional communication is necessary, such as architecture and medicine, researchers say.

Friday's shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado is one of many in the history of arson attacks and violence against the organization.

Health experts have criticized the World Health Organization for its handling of the Ebola epidemic in Africa.