Archive: 26/09/2014
200mg Avigan administered to a French woman infected with Ebola virus
Fujifilm Corporation announced that the anti-influenza drug Avigan tablet 200mg (Favipiravir), developed by Toyama Chemical Co., Ltd, has been administered to a patient infected with the Ebola virus disease at a hospital ...
Sep 26, 2014
Human-animal bonds in disasters
The recognition of the bond between people and pets is stronger than ever before, but what happens to the human-animal relationship when disaster strikes?
Sep 26, 2014
Protein 'map' could lead to potent new cancer drugs
Imperial chemists have gained fresh insights into how a disease-causing enzyme makes changes to proteins and how it can be stopped.
Sep 26, 2014
Europe must tackle Ebola 'world' threat, experts
Health experts from 16 European countries beseeched their governments Friday to massively scale up manpower and resources to fight west Africa's Ebola epidemic, now threatening "the entire world".
Sep 26, 2014
Smokers' paradise Austria struggles to stub out habit
In the wood-panelled rooms of Vienna's traditional coffee houses, tobacco-lovers can still light up pretty much as they please. But one of the last smokers' havens in Europe may be on course to kick the habit.
Sep 26, 2014
3 from FDNY who worked at ground zero die in 1 day
(AP)—Three retired firefighters who worked at ground zero have died on the same day from cancer, an illness that many fear might be connected to toxic World Trade Center dust released on Sept. 11, fire officials said Thursday.
Sep 26, 2014