There are no approved vaccines or treatments for Sudan virus disease, which has a 40–70% fatality rate. To curb the ongoing outbreak, Uganda has deployed—under a clinical trial setting—a vaccine ...

Although a waiver was placed on HIV/AIDS programmes in last month's U.S. foreign aid funding freeze, many concerns remained about the future of treatment programmes, the deputy executive director of ...

A laboratory holding Ebola and other dangerous pathogens in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma—which has been seized by the ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday warned doctors and other healthcare workers about an outbreak ...

Ebola is rare, deadly and has multiple variations. There is a vaccine for the Zaire type, now trials for another are underway ...

The outbreak marks Uganda's eighth from an Ebola virus. The first confirmed case in the outbreak was a nurse at a hospital in the nation's capital, Kampala, who contracted Ebola on Jan. 20 or Jan. 21 ...

Mulago's Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) is managing four active cases--two male children and two female adults--while nine suspected cases remain under observation.Mbale Regional Referral Hospital has ...

Without treatment, bipolar disorder may cause mood episodes. People may alternate between high periods, known as manic episodes, and low periods, or depressive episodes. During a manic episode ...

Hydrogen peroxide might sound like an alternative to traditional cancer treatments, but it hasn’t been shown to treat or cure cancer in humans and can be dangerous when taken internally.

Antibiotic drugs, which treat bacterial infections, are the primary form of treatment for bacterial pneumonia. Treatment is started as soon as possible, typically with oral antibiotics taken by mouth.

Marburg belongs to the same family of illnesses as Ebola and can cause death in up ... but rehydration treatment to alleviate symptoms can improve the chances of survival. Researchers are racing ...