US President Barack Obama has called for faster research on the quick-moving Zika virus, which is spread by mosquitoes and has been linked to a rise in birth defects in Brazil.
In a first for the region, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), along with the Supreme Council of Health will host an awareness campaign on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) technique on Friday and Saturday.
The Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) is planning to set up a national database to invite nationals and residents and schedule them for breast and bowel screening based on age criteria.
Cardiac arrest patients in Qatar and other GCC countries are relatively younger compared to many other countries, a senior official of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has said.
Britain's finance minister and tech billionaire Bill Gates unveiled Monday a plan to spend billions to eradicate ‘the world's deadliest killer’ malaria.
Childhood obesity has reached alarming rates globally and has become an ‘exploding nightmare’ in the developing world, including in Africa, where the number of obese children has nearly doubled ...
The new Miss Universe, back in the Philippines after an epic televised blunder surrounding her crowning, said Sunday she would use the attention the incident attracted to campaign for HIV awareness ...
A man who was left brain-dead after suffering serious side-effects during a drugs trial in France died on Sunday, according to the hospital which had been treating him.
More than 100 people have been quarantined in Sierra Leone after coming in contact with a woman who died of Ebola last week, highlighting the potential for the disease to spread ...
At least 44 people have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria with the death toll expected to rise, underscoring the difficulty in combating deadly viruses in a region still reeling from Ebola.
A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, according to an aid agency report on Friday, raising the risk of more cases ...
China will give household registration permits to its unregistered citizens, the government said ...
