Medications

Feds charge seller of mislabeled Chinese 'Viagra substitute'

Federal prosecutors say an Alabama man who imported a Chinese drug sold as a Viagra substitute has been charged with intentionally defrauding and misleading consumers. They say the drug sold as Zhen Gong Fu fails to list ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Yellow fever-hit Darfur gets help from US Navy

US Navy medical experts have arrived in Sudan to help analyse samples of suspected yellow fever, which has killed 127 people in the Darfur region since early September, health officials said on Friday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Ebola claims up to 33 lives in DR Congo: health ministry

An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 33 people, while the number of suspected cases has risen, the health ministry said on Thursday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Ebola claims up to 32 lives in DR Congo: WHO (Update)

An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have claimed up to 32 lives since May, including that of a woman who had just given birth, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday.

Other

Australia: No higher risk from French implants

(AP) -- Australian health officials said they have found no evidence that potentially faulty French-made breast implants are at an increased risk of rupture in Australian women.

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