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GOMA, Congo (Reuters) – The second case of Ebola recorded in east Congo’s main city of Goma had a large family including 10 children and managed to infect several people before dying of the hemorrhagic fever, the...

By Tamara Mathias (Reuters Health) – Universities across the United States have been slow to adopt anti-tobacco policies on campuses, researchers say, despite public health efforts to curb tobacco use, especially among...

By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – When it comes to common gastrointestinal operations, such as weight loss surgery, a U.S. hospital’s ranking may not equate with better outcomes, a new study suggests. For patients...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Men are almost four times as likely as women to have a poor grasp of how many calories they need to consume daily for their age and activity level, a U.S. study suggests. American...

By Karin Strohecker LONDON (Reuters) – World Bank funding instruments issued to help emerging countries swiftly tackle pandemics have come under the spotlight after the latest deadly Ebola outbreak has yet to trigger a...

By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Most hair stylists at salons and barber shops may be interested in getting trained to detect skin cancers on the scalp, face and neck, researchers say. Since hairdressers see a...

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Heart attack survivors who have an active sex life are less likely than celibate counterparts to die in the decades following a first heart attack, a study in Israel suggests....

LONDON (Reuters) – Another person has died in a listeria outbreak caused by eating contaminated food in hospital, bringing the total number of deaths to six, Public Health England said on Thursday. The individual who died...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Thursday confirmed a new outbreak of African swine fever in the central province of Hubei. The outbreak in the city of Honghu killed three pigs on a farm of 32 hogs, the Ministry of Agriculture...