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• Ebola outbreak an avoidable tragedy, say UK ministers

  12 Sep 2014: Commons committee report says hesitancy and lack of coordination over crisis suggests that emergency plans failed

• Scientist who identified Ebola virus calls for 'quasi-military intervention'

  11 Sep 2014: London-based microbiologist Prof Peter Piot urges creation of UN peacekeeping force to fight 'catastrophe' in west Africa

• Scientists pioneer two techniques to combat obesity

  7 Sep 2014: Prof Steve Bloom and team working on 'intelligent microchip' and treatment combining two hormones to reduce appetite

• Ebola experts look to antibodies in survivors' blood as potential cure

  4 Sep 2014: With no proven treatment for the deadly outbreak in west Africa, WHO believes blood from survivors may be the best option

• CDC staffer who worked with Ebola victim monitored for symptoms

  28 Aug 2014: The staffer had ‘low-risk’ contact with someone who later tested positive for the virus in Sierra Leone, officials said

• Ebola: research team says migrating fruit bats responsible for outbreak

  23 Aug 2014:

  A toddler's chance encounter with one infected bat in Guinea led to west Africa's present epidemic

• True facts about anglerfish

  16 Aug 2014:

  GrrlScientist: To the female anglerfish, the human male is a very loud, annoying and unnecessarily complicated pair of gonads.

• Giving antibiotics to babies may lead to obesity, researchers claim

  14 Aug 2014: Mice given antibiotics for the first month of life were 25% heavier and more susceptible to the effects of a high-fat diet

• Picturing science: Royal Society launches scientific illustrations ‘print on demand’

  12 Aug 2014: GrrlScientist: The Royal Society has just launched a ‘print-on-demand’ service so the public can easily purchase high quality prints of nature and scientific illustrations from its library and archives.

• Drug-resistant malaria is a disaster. We have one chance to halt it

  31 Jul 2014: Nicholas White: Only an all-out assault on falciparum malaria in south-east Asia – mass dosing of the well and the sick – can save millions of children

• Malaria experts bid to stamp out disease before parasite becomes drug resistant

  30 Jul 2014:

  Leading scientists say spread of artemisinin-resistant parasites to Africa could prove disastrous

• Should we be worried about an Ebola outbreak in the UK?

  30 Jul 2014: Hugh Pennington: The mortality rate is staggeringly high and there is no specific treatment. The good news, though, is that the virus is quite hard to catch

• Ebola outbreak in Africa: the key questions answered

  29 Jul 2014:

  There is no cure and little treatment for the deadly virus, which has killed at least 660 people in several African countries

• Risk of infecting surgery patients with CJD not taken seriously, say MPs

  24 Jul 2014:

  Ministers accused of complacency over hospital safeguards to prevent contamination of instruments with human form of BSE

• UN chief steps up fight against Haiti cholera epidemic

  16 Jul 2014: Ban Ki-moon calls for $2.2bn to help eradicate epidemic as row over UN's role in introducing cholera to Haiti rumbles on

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