November 2014

“Do not forget your pills” is the new handy calendar and reminder system for pills and medicines of the entire family. Imagine it's winter time: you are on antibiotics and your kid needs vitamins. Or maybe it's summer and you have to do a…

New rapid response tactics are needed to defeat the Ebola virus in Liberia, according to the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). More than 6,600 people have been infected in the country, but figures suggest the number of new infections…

Test results due on Belfast hospital patient. The patient has been isolated at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. BBC.COM - The Public Health Agency (PHA) has said it is waiting for results of an Ebola test for a patient in a Belfast…

Kenema, Sierra Leone October 2014. The International Federation opened its first Ebola treatment centre in Kenema, in September. It has a capacity of 60 beds and currently has approximately 120 national and 20 international staff. More…

An appeal to help people affected by the Ebola crisis in West Africa has raised more than £10m in its first five days, organisers have said. The Disasters Emergency Committee said the "milestone" was reached after the UK government matched…

We may be entering a new phase of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. There is growing - but certainly guarded - talk within the World Health Organization that the overall number of new cases is levelling off. Officials have told me they…