About one-in-six people in Botswana (or 17 percent) is HIV-positive.
A new vaccine cuts children's chances of contracting malaria in half, according to a major clinical trial sub-Saharan Africa. It is the first successful malaria vaccine and could be an indispensable tool in the fight to eradicate the disease.
Could malaria be the new smallpox? The World Health Organization said on Monday that nearly a third of the countries where malaria is endemic could eradicate the disease within 10 years.
A 65-year-old quadruple amputee has received two new hands after a rare double transplant operation at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Shredded lettuce has joined the cantaloupe melon in a list of recalled foods amid a deadly listeria outbreak that has spread to 25 states in the United States.
A month after deadly infected Cantaloupe melons from Colorado were recalled, the listeria outbreak continues to claim lives-now reaching 23-a record for U.S. food-borne listeriosis outbreaks.
CDC announces death toll of 23 due to listeria infection.
Tuberculosis cases are decreasing for the first time in more than 20 years, the World Health Organization announced on Tuesday. But that progress may be threatened if Congress cuts foreign aid for prevention and treatment programs.
The number of people getting sick with tuberculosis has dropped for the first time, while the death toll from the disease reached its lowest level in a decade, helped by progress in countries like China, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
UNICEF has announced that more than 2,000 people have died in Africa due to cholera.
China made particularly extraordinary success against TB.
Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor is said to be in a very critical state as she was hospitalized at the UCLA Medical Center on Sunday.
The HIV infection rate is expected to rise by a whopping 52 percent this year, half due to intravenous drug use.
The antibiotic that has usually been used to treat the sexually transmitted disease, cefixime, is no longer effective.
A total of 21 people nationwide have now died in the listeriosis outbreak linked to cantaloupes from a Colorado farm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
Zsa Zsa Gabor remained hospitalized in Los Angeles on Sunday and was doing a little better, but stomach surgery to reattach a feeding tube was delayed as she continues to run a high fever, her husband said.
Zsa Zsa Gabor had surgery on Sunday to reattach a feeding tube to her stomach after being hospitalized in Los Angeles a day earlier, and the 94-year-old actress was doing well, a spokesman said.
Actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor remained hospitalized in Los Angeles on Sunday and was doing a little better, but stomach surgery to reattach a feeding tube was delayed as she continues to run a high fever, her husband said Sunday.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, a Hungarian-born American actress and one of Hollywood's most glamorous stars of all time, was hospitalized on Saturday at the UCLA Medical Center, at 10.30 a.m., after her husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt found her unconscious at her Los Angeles-area mansion.
The FDA has approved a combination drug for diabetes and high cholesterol.
A recall due to the listeria infection has just reached Buffalo, NY, according to NPR.
A pregnant woman in Iowa has suffered a miscarriage after contracting a listeria infection from infected cantaloupe melon, according to state health officials.
