By James Gallagher MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in an historic move. The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. In a free vote in the Commons, 382
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Ebola vaccine Mark Doyle reports on the first people to receive the vaccine The first large-scale trials of two experimental vaccines against Ebola have begun in Liberia. The potentially preventative medicines were taken under strict security to a secret location in the West African country. Scientists aim to immunise 30,000 volunteers, including front-line health workers.
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Following years of struggling to conceive, Ethiopian woman gives birth at 56. Former Ethiopian immigrant has baby at 56 at Kaplan Medical Center. (photo credit:Courtesy) A 56-year-old Kiryat Malachi woman gave birth at the age of 56 to her first child — a healthy 3.01-kilo baby boy. The new mother came on aliya from Ethiopia
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia is launching a national initiative in schools this year to treat children at risk of infection from parasitic worms, mirroring a program in Kenya which has improved child health and school attendance, a charity involved said. Ethiopia aims to treat at least 80 percent of children at risk from parasitic
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By Dylan Matthews , VOX You’re probably aware that heart disease and cancer are far and away the leading causes of death in America. But globally the picture is more complicated: (Vox / Anand Katakam and Joss Fong) The above map shows the leading cause of lost years of life by country (click to see a larger version).
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OFFICE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report Ethiopia is a source and, to a lesser extent, destination and transit country for men, women, and children who are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Girls from Ethiopia’s rural areas are exploited in domestic servitude and, less frequently, prostitution within
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By Michelle Roberts Other researchers have been testing bats in West Africa for Ebola virus The Ebola victim who is believed to have triggered the current outbreak – a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea – may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, say scientists. They
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By ALLYN GAESTEL, NPR Konjit, 26, prays at the entrance to Kidist Selassie (Holy Trinity) Cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Konjit had an abortion several days earlier and says that because of her “sin” she will not allow herself inside the church. Allison Shelley for NPR Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Her head draped with thin
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A 30-year-old Ethiopian man drowned on Sunday after a torrent of water swept away his car, police spokesperson Sabata Mokgwabone said. “It is alleged that the victim was driving along Middle Street in Rustenburg North and crossing a low-lying bridge after a heavy storm when his vehicle was swept away into a stream.” The Rustenburg
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