A cholera outbreak in Cameroon has killed 65 people and infected hundreds since it started last month, state media said.

“Up to October 27, 2009,

Diarrhoea kills at least three times more people than previously thought, the World Health Organisation said Friday, citing latest data showing that 1.

The Croat parliament on Friday passed an amended law on in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) making it easier for couples to receive treatment to help them to conceive.

President Barack Obama said Friday the United States would end in early 2010 a 22-year-old travel ban on foreign HIV patients, hailing the move as a step toward ending the stigma of the disease.

Americans suffer from a chronic lack of sleep, according to a study released, which says the problem is a bigger public health problem than is generally recognized.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Friday ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine’s schools and cinemas in the toughest measures adopted yet to combat the swine flu virus in Europe.

A new UK study says granddaughters who live with their paternal grandmothers are likely to live longer.

However, in case of grandsons, the presence of a gran is not a good idea.

Amputees may benefit a lot from new-age bionic phantom arms that not only make them sense the presence of a new limb, but can also provide them with amazing

Medical science has been gifted a new adhesive usable for repairing bones shattered in battlefield injuries, car crashes and other accidents by the tiny sea creature called the sandcastle worm.

Doctors have revealed how a woman shunned food and ate up the entire cutlery in Holland. Margaret Daalman underwent emergency surgery after she swallowed 78 pieces of silverware at one go.