A clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing an experimental treatment designed to help people suffering the effects of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease.

"This highlights an important area where we have an opportunity to intervene and improve the health of humans and their lived ...

Volunteers in Omdurman, west of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, announced on Friday the deaths of 71 people from malnutrition, with reported cases rising to 1,127 in three sectors of the Ombada ...

The Davao City Health Office is monitoring five suspected cases of chikungunya, with an increase in cases reported in Barangay 9-A. The city is implementing measures to prevent the spread of the virus ...

As a photographer, Gill was drawn to this “handmade and homegrown architecture of resistance”, as she calls it, which was built on the farmers’ ability to evoke beauty using the barest of objects and ...

Marketing authorization for the first EU vaccine to protect adolescents against chikungunya has been expedited for its public ...

The most common symptom is tingling or weakness in arms and legs. It affects muscle control and sensory signals and can begin ...

Barb Owen Boerger's kimonos and sarongs are pretty, but they're pretty poison to the flies, mosquitoes and pesky bugs that ...

Tropical diseases primarily affect people living in or visiting tropical and subtropical regions. Such disorders are major public health issues because they are usually caused by bacteria, viruses, or ...