making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be acknowledged by WHO for interrupting transmission of the parasite Onchocerca volvulus. Eliminating a disease is a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised the efforts of Niger, a country in West Africa, in eliminating onchocerciasis-- also known as 'river blindness' -- a parasitic disease caused by a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be ...

When there’s that extra length and slack, the sigmoid colon can twist on itself, a condition known as a sigmoid volvulus, Cunningham says. “It can just happen spontaneously,” she tells TODAY ...

Whether it joins the conversation started by Kim’s former employer Jungsik and Atomix in New York City, Baroo here in LA, Jeong in Chicago, and Ssal in San Francisco, remains to be seen ...

I wondered, before realising how very ironic my reaction was. The LA fires, which are still burning, have now scorched and flattened a populated area more than 12 times the size of that destroyed ...

Letters of all kinds have poured into The Times since the Eaton and Palisades fires — and most recently, the Hughes fire — erupted during a freak Santa Ana windstorm that started Jan. 7.

Every quarter, Eater LA publishes a map of 38 standout restaurants that best represent Los Angeles’s expansive dining scene. In this endless metropolis, there are both new and decades-old street ...

Kiki Iriafen finishes with 19 points and JuJu Watkins scores 17 points as No. 6 USC overcomes a 12-point deficit to defeat Washington 69-64.

Amid a Red Flag Warning, firefighters worked to knock down a fire that broke out at a commercial building in downtown LA on Tuesday morning. Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Lakers ...