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Because Phase I trials are used to determine a drug’s toxic effects, they “are inherently risky, as unexpected events can – and do – occur”, Carl Heneghan, a professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, said in a statement.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,300 people over the past two years, officially ended Thursday, according to the World Health Organization.

The doctor from the department of Obstetrics and Gynecologist was reported to have become ill after the CS.

On Saturday U.S. health officials confirmed that a baby born with brain damage at a hospital in Oahu, Hawaii, was infected by the virus in what is the first case of the disease in a birth on U.S. soil.

Jones apparently approached the police-only entrance of the Foxboro police station shirtless, and fell to the ground outside of the station in a manner that appeared to be part of a praying ritual.

He said the rapid end of the flare-up is a concrete demonstration of Liberia’s strengthened capacity to manage Ebola outbreaks. A Sierra Leone patient has tested positive for the virus after he died. Gasasira further thanked the Liberian Government for developing a national...

The chief neuroscientist at a hospital in Rennes, where a botched drug trial has left six people hospitalized, says there’s no known antidote to the experimental drug they were testing.

“These findings could have important implications for POAG if the association of higher dietary nitrate and green leafy vegetable intake with a lower POAG risk is confirmed in observational or intervention studies”, researchers wrote. Jae H. Kang, Sc.D., of Brigham...

The French health minister says a failed clinical trial on a cannabis-based drug has left a medical volunteer brain-dead and five others hospitalized, all of them in a serious condition.

One clinical-trial volunteer is brain dead and five others have been hospitalized, French officials said Friday.

It was not clear how many people the patient had been in contact with before the virus was detected.

Drugs trial tragedies like that reported in France on Friday which left one person brain dead and three others facing irreversible brain damage are a rarity, experts say.

“Rory wrote that in the time since Joey was diagnosed (October 2015), Julie has spent a significant amount of time with the family, traveling back and forth between in and her home in Washington, “… not waiting for someone we love to die.

The three Democratic presidential candidates are set to clash once more on Sunday.

A Coast Guard helicopter crew spotted debris in the water off the town of Haleiwa on the north shore of Oahu but they did not find passengers.