Liberia's top doctor under Ebola quarantine, deputy dead

Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2014


Liberia's top doctor under Ebola quarantine, deputy dead

A nurse walks with a little girl suffering from Ebola, at a clinic in Monrovia on September 27, 2014Monrovia (AFP) - Liberia's chief medical authority has placed herself in quarantine following the Ebola death of her deputy, health officials and humanitarian sources said on Sunday.



Scientists grapple with ethics in rush to release Ebola vaccines

Professor Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute, and Chief Investigator of the trials, holds a phial containing the Ebola vaccine at the Oxford Vaccine Group Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine (CCVTM) in OxfordLONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Normally it takes years to prove a new vaccine is both safe and effective before it can be used in the field. But with hundreds of people dying a day in the worst ever outbreak of Ebola, there is no time to wait. In an effort to save lives, health authorities are determined to roll out potential vaccines within months, dispensing with some of the usual testing, and raising unprecedented ethical and practical questions. "Nobody knows yet how we will do it. ...



Swiss voters reject shift to state-run health insurance

Campaign posters promoting a single public health insurance system are seen on September 21, 2014 in GenevaGeneva (AFP) - Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan to ditch the country's all-private health insurance system and create a state-run scheme, exit polls showed.







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