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
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…
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
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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
Imagine not being able to swim or even take a shower without unbearable, itchy hives popping up on your skin. That’s the reality of Alexandra Allen, a 17-year-old from Mapleton, Utah.
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Stepped-up business hiring pushed the rental price of U.S. office space up 3.1 percent in the first quarter, the highest quarterly gain in a decade, as demand for commercial real estate accelerated, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc . Though occupancy growth in office space slowed to just over 6 million square feet from about double that pace throughout 2014, development activity and rental growth in particular sped up, JLL