The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has organized the supply of two million doses of yellow fever vaccine to Paraguay as health authorities in the South American country battle a deadly outbreak of the viral disease.

The vaccine doses were obtained from the WHO's International Coordinating Group on Provision of Vaccines, the agency said in an update released today. Brazil has sent 850,000 doses and Peru has dispatched 144,000, adding to the 300,000 that Paraguay already has on reserve

he government of the United Kingdom says it will recruit 4,000 additional midwives over the next three years to relieve pressure on its overstretched maternity services. The announcement comes after a wide-ranging Healthcare Commission review found many maternity units in England were failing to provide top quality care.

One in four women reported being left alone during labor or shortly after giving birth, while 43 percent of women said they were not given a choice of having their baby at home, as national guidelines suggest

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that there were high levels of formaldehyde in travel trailers and mobile homes that were used by victims of hurricane Katrina and Rita as emergency housing.

FEMA officials said that the residents of these trailers will be transferred as quickly as possible into hotels and apartments because exposing them to formaldehyde makes them sick. They said that transferring them will be beneficial for those who already have symptoms of respiratory illnesses such as the children, elderly persons or occupants

Heftier paychecks and all-expense-paid travels aren't the only advantages your boss has over you. A recent study published in the Australian Medical Journal revealed that managers are less likely to contract cancer than their rank and file counterparts are.

Deborah Schofield of Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health was the lead researcher of the study. She noted that managers and administrators were significantly less likely to suffer neoplasms, or cancerous tumors, than all other level of workers

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed that the 38,000 trailers given by the government to the hurricane victims did indeed expose people to dangerous levels of chemicals. They recommended that those living in the trailers must vacate and be relocated immediately, especially the elderly, children, or those who are already suffering from other illnesses.

The trailers have been under scrutiny for years, after residents began to complain of several health complications, all of which eventually led officials to suspect the hurricane victims were exposed to high levels of the gas formaldehyde. Test results that followed showed that the levels of formaldehyde were 75 times the amount recommended by the U.S. government