HEALTH & MEDICINE

Geroge Prior consumed 10 Cokes daily, which resulted in massive weight gain as well as increase in his body fat percentage.

The question "To cut or not to cut the penis's foreskin" would get another round of debate anew in the medical community as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued on Tuesday draft guidelines on circumcision.

Male Ebola survivors have been told to abstain from sex for three months and practice masturbation instead for the meantime.

These winds from "down under" either sound too loud or smell too much. Either way that these "careless whispers" escape through the anus, it's embarrassing to the source and cause of irritation to the recipient of the sound or smell.

A report by the McKinsey Global Institute shows that the international cost of obesity is almost as bad as smoking or armed violence.

Biotechnology may have laid down the foundation for a system in which ordinary people can use mind control to direct biological processes. Indeed, researchers have created a method that uses one's thoughts to control genes. Interestingly, the idea for this attempt was influenced by a mind game using a player's brainwaves.

Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Nebraska have found a virus that they feel can affect behaviour and thinking.

Fertility clinics in Australia are considering overseas sperm donors because of the shortage of local donors amid the high demand from single women and same-sex couples for male seed.

Japanese scientists have discovered a new method to make mice see-through, killing them and making them colourless.

Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea may soon be seeing robots working to combat the dreaded Ebola in their countries.

Naked beachgoers in three Canary Islands panicked with the arrival of a migrant boat from Africa at the Gran Canaria beach. It wasn't so much the island being a stepping stone from people escaping from the continent's poverty but the fact that some of the 19 migrants have complained of Ebola-like symptoms.

Latest hoax claims that Doritos bags are infected by Ebola virus. The prank emerged on 4chan and slowly spread on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook, but Frito Lay quickly debunked the rumour.

Newborn babies die due to multiple organ failure as their mother was in too much pain to open the tower and let in medical personnel.

A Michael Jackson clone will soon be a reality.

World's first invisible hearing aid comes in a very small size, lightweight design and powered by a nano-battery.

A new, cheap and quick diagnostic technique to detect two ebola strains has been invented by a Harvard team.

Nutek has recalled 10 brands of its baby wipes as complaints of bacterial infection were reported.

To make sure that Australia would continue to remain free from the Ebola virus, Canberra has ordered its embassies overseas to stop processing the visa applications in countries hit by the deadly virus.

The two Dallas nurses diagnosed with Ebola are both responding well to medications.

The WHO targets to release an Ebola blood serum within two weeks.

Canadian biopharmaceuticals firm Tekmira has started manufacturing in small numbers its TKM-Ebola drug.

Canada's conducting practice drills of its Ebola rapid response teams to see how well and organized the country's reaction would be in case it reports its first infection case.

An outbreak of the Ebola virus in the U.S. in deemed unlikely unless it mutates.

Joan Rivers was due to brain damage after her heart had been sedated with propofol.

The CDC may need to rework some of its guidelines after the dreaded west African Ebola virus has successfully infected its second American victim right inside the U.S. homeland.

Canada has started the human clinical trials of the vaccine it developed against Ebola.

Two technology giants have upped the game insofar as retaining their employees are concerned. Apple and Facebook are offering their female workers up to $20,000 to have their eggs frozen so they could keep their engagement with their companies while tapping science to ensure they could still bear children when they decide to later.

China has developed a vaccine that could potentially save and cure Ebola-stricken patients.

Chris Brown's twitter followers called him an idiot for remark over ebola crisis.