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LONDON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- A British military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola, Public Health England (PHE) announced here on Wednesday. "We can confirm that a UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone has tested positive for Ebola," said a PHE spokesman. He adde ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Two flu strains that recently began causing sporadic infections among people in Chinese mainland and Taiwan, known as H10N8 and H6N1, are still not able to infect humans easily, U.S. researchers said Wednesday. Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) a ...

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Children who are overvalued by their parents are more likely to grow up to be selfish little narcissists, scientists said Monday. In a study published in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found children who were described by ...

VIENNA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Austrian researchers working with an international team were able to successfully eliminate the symptoms of the skin disease psoriasis from a group of study subjects, and the results of their study have been reported in the journal Nature. Psoriasis, a non-contagious infl ...

BERLIN, March 4 (Xinhua) -- A wave of influenza continued to spread in Germany. Economists said on Wednesday the epidemic could cost German economy billions of euros as it forced more and more people to rest in bed. Until the end of February, 38,455 cases of influenza had been reported across German ...

CANBERRA, March 5 (Xinhua) -- A new study has found women who smoke when pregnant are putting their daughters at a greater risk of developing ovarian and breast cancer later in life, the Australian National University (ANU) said on Thursday. The study, published in Human Reproduction, found mothers ...

VIENNA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The suppression of the known cancer gene "STAT3" may actually be counter productive in the fight against some cancers, an international research team including two Austrian researchers found, local media reported Tuesday. Beatrice Grabner and Emilio Casanova from the Ludw ...

MILAN, Italy, March 3 (Xinhua) -- A team of scientists in Italy have discovered the "hiding place" of HIV cells that holds promise for important developments towards new therapies to cure the disease. The team at the International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in the north ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Eating peanuts may lower your risk of dying from a heart attack, U.S. and Chinese researchers said Monday. Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the Shanghai Cancer Institute examined the association of nut consumption with mortality among low-income and racially d ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Two of the four known groups of human AIDS viruses originated in western lowland gorillas in Cameroon, scientists said Monday. The virus that causes almost all the cases of AIDS worldwide, called HIV-1, has jumped species to infect humans on at least four separate occ ...

CAPE TOWN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of primary school learners in South Africa have been hospitalized after being poisoned, the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) claimed on Sunday. The DA said it has received confirmation about the hospitalization of hundreds of learners at the Mankgane Primar ...

TIRANA, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors has approved 32.1 million euros (about 36 million U.S. dollars) in IBRD financing for the Health System Improvement Project in Albania, according to Albanian daily news report on Sunday. The total project cost is 36.1 mi ...

TIRANA, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The export of medicinal plants has increased tremendously in latest years, especially during the year we left and the main market remains is the United States and some countries of the European Union, according to figures published by the Albanian Ministry of Agriculture ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Tetrandrine, a compound common in Chinese traditional medicine, has been found effective in treating the deadly Ebola virus disease in mice, U.S. and German researchers said Thursday. This may be due to the drug's ability to block two channels needed by the virus to m ...

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Sweden saw an unusually high number of registered cases of flu in the last two weeks of February, new figures from the country's Public Health Agency show. "We have not seen this many cases of seasonal flu since we started keeping records in 1993," Anna Sara Carnahan, ...

BERLIN, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- A strong wave of influenza spread across Germany in recent weeks, filling hospitals with increasing number of patients and even interrupting public transportation in some areas. German media on Wednesday reported that many hospitals in southern parts of the country, where ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) has welcomed back the first group of health workers deployed under its mission to fight against Ebola in the most affected countries. AU has deployed health workers to Ebola hardest-hit countries in West Africa under its mission known as the AU ...

CANBERRA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Australians are becoming less fit and more fat. That's the worrying conclusion of several Australian health experts, backed up by the Bureau of Statistics, who are increasingly concerned that the lifestyle once synonymous with Australia, fit, healthy and outdoors, is fa ...

BERLIN, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- German researchers gained fundamental new insight into the development of the eye defect coloboma, said a study on Wednesday. Coloboma is a hole in one of the structures of the eye which occurs when the prenatal eye is developing and the choroid fissure fails to close. Re ...

BEIJING, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and China can make use of the huge potential in infrastructure and energy along the belt and road, said ADB Vice President Zhang Wencai. "Belt and road" refers to the Silk Road economic belt and the 21st century maritime Silk Road propose ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers on Wednesday announced "a remarkable new advance" in the development of a potent drug to protect against infection of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the deadly disease currently without cure. They reported in the British journal Nature that an exper ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Much of the damage that ultraviolet radiation (UV) does to skin occurs hours after sun exposure, and this delayed reaction appears to be due to the skin pigment melanin, a U.S. study said Thursday. Melanin, which gives skin its color, is usually thought of as a protec ...

GUANGZHOU, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The number of H7N9 human cases in south China's Guangdong Province has climbed to 53, with one new case reported, local health authorities said on Friday. A 78-year-old man from Meixian District in Meizhou City was diagnosed with the disease on Thursday. Despite medica ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers on Wednesday announced "a remarkable new advance" in the development of a potent drug to protect against infection of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the deadly disease currently without cure. They reported in the British journal Nature that an exper ...

CANBERRA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- A new health survey released on Thursday revealed that one quarter of Australia's adolescents are either overweight or obese. The report, tabled by Australia's Cancer Council and National Heart Foundation, found that more than a quarter of Australia's teenage boys and a ...