Science & Health

Australia preparing to rescue citizens from virus-hit cruise liner in Japan

WHO chief says 80% of those infected have 'mild disease'

Bezos, the world’s richest man, says he will start issuing grants this summer

Scientists predict hot spells made increasingly likely by climate change could lead to roving blackouts as an ever-greater share of humanity opt to live in cities

Despite its legality in Italy, women often have a hard time getting an abortion because 70% of gynecologists whom the law allows to be ‘conscientious objectors’ refuse to perform the procedure

The ministry has been carrying out tests on passengers and crew on the ship, docked in Yokohama, a port city near Tokyo

More patients are surviving cancer only to face financial ruin because of the high cost of cancer drugs. VOA's Carol Pearson reports on a hospital system that is helping people survived both the disease and the costs involved

Scientists at an Argentine research base measured a temperature of 18.3° C (nearly 65° F) Feb. 6 on a peninsula that juts out from Antarctica toward the southern tip of South America

The flu’s first wave killed 14,000 Americans; health officials are to begin testing some patients with flu symptoms for coronavirus

Power cuts have left many Zimbabwean hospitals without working lights

Power cuts have left many Zimbabwean hospitals without working lights

Global temps were 1.13 degrees Celsius above 20th century average

Traditional stretching of the female genitals by Bantu-speaking tribes is believed to have benefits, including greater sexual pleasure, but doctors dismiss the claims, and some say the practice should not be forced on young girls

Country, where the practice was officially outlawed in 2008, has the largest percentage of circumcised women in the world

WHO’s Tedros warns as long as there is a single case of Ebola in an area as insecure and unstable as eastern DRC, the potential remains for a much larger epidemic