A nurse in Spain has contracted Ebola, becoming the first person known to have caught the disease outside the outbreak zone in West Africa during the current epidemic.

As much of the US debates the use of lethal injections against a backdrop of drug scarcity and botched executions, Tennessee has found an alternative — the electric chair.

There has been a 30% increase in the number of children seeking treatment for mental health issues in the last two years, experts said.

A jury has convicted an imprisoned sex offender of murder in the 1975 strangulation death of a Girl Scout in Tennessee.

As many as one million Americans now have swine flu, US health officials said last night, adding that 6% or more of some urban areas are infected.

America’s first near-total face transplant has been carried out on a woman, a hospital announced today.

A DAILY dose of aspirin significantly improves the test results of men with prostate cancer, research has shown.

The sound sets teeth on edge, makes skin crawl and sends a shiver down the spine. Just thinking about it gives some people the heebie-jeebies according to a US magazine.

Court-appointed lawyers today submitted final summations for the last two defendants in Saddam Hussein’s trial in Baghdad.

A World Health Organisation (WHO) investigation showed that the H5N1 virus mutated slightly in an Indonesian family cluster on Sumatra island.

HAVING children makes you miserable and depressed, according to a new American study.

The bird flu virus that infected a Vietnamese girl was resistant to the main drug that’s being stockpiled in case of a pandemic, a sign that it’s important to keep a second drug on hand as well, a researcher said tonight.

MATTHEW Teffeteller might seem an ideal candidate.

US drugs giant Pfizer admitted it had found an increased risk of heart attacks with patients taking its top-selling painkiller Celebrex – but has no plans to remove it from the market.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, famous for using her beauty, charm and fluent English to lobby Washington to help China fight the Japanese and later the Chinese Communists, has died in New York at the age of 105, Taiwan’s foreign ministry said today.