Ebola death toll hits 208 in Guinea

4 June 2014 Last updated at 17:46 GMT

Some 208 people have now died from the Ebola virus in Guinea after a deadly spike in recent days, world health officials say.

At least 21 people died and 37 new cases of suspected Ebola were found…

Five people killed EVERY DAY by assisted suicide in Belgium as euthanasia cases soar by 25 per cent in last year alone

• Rise in deaths will fuel fears about country's controversial policies
• Under-60s accounted for just 15 per cent of the total number of cases…

The killer pimple: Doctors warn of aggressive form of skin cancer which is six times more likely to kill if it is not removed within two months

• Nodular melanomas look like a red lump rather than an ugly dark mole
• The aggressive form of skin cancer makes up just 15 per cent of melanoma cases but causes 43 per cent of melanoma…

NHS to give sex change drugs to nine-year-olds: Clinic accused of 'playing God' with treatment that stops puberty

• Treatment with controversial drugs is for youngsters trapped in wrong body
• Monthly drug injections into the stomach stop puberty and may do harm
• Trial in North London was completed - and is set to be rolled out…

DNA is 'edited' to cure liver disease for first time - and the technique could be used to treat Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders within years

• Named Crispr, technique can correct a single ‘letter’ of the genetic alphabet
• It does this by using enzymes to target specific parts of the DNA…

Coming to a street near you - the lights that keep you awake and could make people ill...

• Councils claim LED lights use less energy than conventional sodium bulbs
• Hounslow council agree to dim lights after complaints from residents
• But the local authority won't replace the 16,000 lights across the borough
• Bury…

• Heidi Wright was forced to take eight-hour bus ride after being denied access to LAX flight
  
  
• Airport staff say disabled woman only had photocopy of expired ID 
  
  

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What the Tamiflu saga tells us about drug trials and big pharma

We now know the government's Tamiflu stockpile wouldn't have done us much good in the event of a flu epidemic. But the secrecy surrounding clinical trials means there's a lot we don't know about other medicines we take…

The river you can’t see for RUBBISH: Former Indonesian paradise is now clogged with household waste and toxic chemicals dumped by textile factories

• The Citarum in Java is now said to be the dirtiest river in the world
• More than 35million people still rely on it for drinking and washing
• Greenpeace report last year claimed one of the largest textile…

Magic Mushrooms and LSD Help Cancer Patients Overcome Fear of Death, Say Scientists

• By Tom Porter 
  
  April 5, 2014 14:15 GMT

Drugs including magic mushrooms and MDMA are being used to treat cancer patients and people suffering from social anxiety by…

Has the highly-contagious Ebola virus hit Canada?

MARCH 25, 2014 2:40PM

I am out to make a difference. I am out to make it so that every Person affiliated with the oil industry can live more richly than if They worked to retirement and were living off whatever They managed to save, affording up to what it would allow.  If They wanted to.

Think about that for a moment.  Every Person working in the gas stations, in trucking, taxiing, and other transportation…and the…

Navy to test hundreds of homes in California for radiation

Act of compassion violates school dress code policy

Maya Rodriguez, KUSA12:31 a.m. EDT March 25, 2014

What started out as a kind gesture is turning into a battle over whether hair, or the lack of it, should matter in school.

KUSA - It was meant as a gesture of solidarity: a girl in Grand Junction shaved her head to support her friend, who…

Britain's cruelest 'carers': Two hospital workers filmed slapped brain-damaged patient and called him a 'dirty scummy boy' while he groaned in pain at £3,000-a-week private Priory

• Worried family hid secret surveillance cameras around the man's room
  
  
• Rita Page and Lynette Crook were filmed in Bury, Greater…

Liberty and freedom are often used to mean the same thing.  The ability to choose for One’s Self how One spends One’s time/energy.  Both presume the three Laws are binding principles, and Individuals presume other “laws” as well (really all beyond the three are statutes, acts, bills, codes, rules, regulations, edicts, mandates, ordinances, and so on).

The difference is that “liberty” is what a ship’s captain gives to His/Her crew, while “freedom” means there is no Other that One must…

Ebola outbreak confirmed in Guinea, death toll reaches 59

Father-of-one loses three limbs and half his face to flesh eating bacteria which started as a common cold just FOUR months ago

• Alex Lewis, 34, was forced to have both legs and his left arm amputated
• The father-of-one spent a week in a coma after his major organs shut down
  
  
• Doctors told his…

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