Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Patient Zero in Ebola outbreak was Guinean toddler

In the Guinean village where the current West African Ebola outbreak began, 14 graves mark the spot where the lethal virus began to spiral out of control.

Health

New toilets for India's poor, crime-hit village

More than 100 new toilets were unveiled Sunday in a poverty-stricken and scandal-hit village in northern India, where fearful and vulnerable women have long been forced to defecate in the open.

Cardiology

Salt-reduction program helps rural China decrease sodium intake

People in rural northern China reduced their salt intake after participating in a community-based sodium reduction program and having access to salt substitutes, researchers reported in a late-breaking clinical trial at the ...

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