Even when their blood pressure is kept strictly under control with the best available medicine, African-American patients with chronic kidney disease

Residents of predominately black ZIP codes in the Chicago area are five times more likely than those in predominately white areas to have a leg or foot

Chinese press is reporting that local health authorities in eastern China were involved in covering up the incidence of a virus that has so far killed 20 children and sickened 1,500 others.

Australia’s indigenous affairs minister has said that a report showing high incidence of diseases like rheumatic fever among Aborigines was a “shameful indictment” of the system.

IHave you ever heard of Bfish engaged in family planning/B? In the nineties, a group of UK researchers chanced upon a phenomenon in fish that lived downstream from waste- water treatment plants.

South Korea has now turned its attention to the lucrative medical tourism sector by recognizing the skills of cosmetic surgeons in the country.

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Ayurvedic doctors performing post-mortems and allopathic doctors reusing disposble syringes are a common scene in the primary health centres (PHCs) in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.

Voters in the midwestern US state of South Dakota will vote in a November referendum on abortion, reviving the country’s already polarized debate on the issue, state officials said Monday.

New York restaurant owners Monday vowed to fight a new rule requiring that they post the calorie contents of their meals, the latest government effort

Patients often do not take the medicines their doctors prescribe, and a new review of existing research suggests that there is no proven way to get them to follow directions for long periods.