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U.N. warns of 'slaughter of innocents' in Syrian refugee camp

By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – United Nations officials warned on Wednesday of a potential “slaughter of innocents” unless aid and assistance reached a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where thousands of civilians are trapped up in a vicious battle. Some 18,000 civilians, including 3,500 children, are caught in the camp outside Damascus just a few miles from President Bashar al-Assad’s palace. The Yarmouk camp, which was home

Liberia names new health minister as it seeks to beat Ebola

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has named new ministers for health and education as her government seeks to bring an end to the Ebola outbreak in the West African country and focus on reconstruction. Sirleaf promoted Bernice Dahn to be the new minister of health after she won plaudits for her role in tackling the Ebola outbreak in Liberia as chief medical officer. More than 10,450 people have succumbed to

Rural Women Access Early Cancer Screening in Turkey

Cross-posted from UN Women“I would not have found the opportunity to even go ,” says 65-year-old Ümmügül, from a farming family in the village of Hamamkarahisar, located an hour away from Eskişehir – a central Anatolian city in Turkey. She is one of the 659 rural women living on…

UK biotech Silence Therapeutics raises $58 million for its RNA drive

British biotech group Silence Therapeutics has raised 38.9 million pounds ($58.2 million) by selling two tranches of new shares at 240 pence each to develop its genetic medicine platform. The company, whose technology works by interfering with RNA molecules, said its brokers had sold an additional block of shares to institutions, meeting demand after an initial sale announced on April 2 raised 27.3 million pounds. Chief executive Ali Mortazavi said

4 Skin Conditions That Can Signal Other Health Problems

In many cases, skin conditions are linked to processes occurring throughout the body, and this means they can become risk factors that set you up for other types of illness or injury, says Jonathan Silverberg, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at Northwestern University. Dr. Silverberg was co-author of a JAMADermatology study published earlier this year that found that people with eczema who’d experienced a flare-up in the last year were