The duchess of Cambridge yesterday spoke of her hopes and fears for her children during an impassioned plea for an end to the stigma of mental illness in early life.
The presence of the Zika virus in Brazil won't compromise the Olympics in August, President Dilma Rousseff vowed Saturday as soldiers went door-to-door across the country to share key tips on how to stem the outbreak.
Sultan Qaboos of Oman is to fly to Germany on Sunday for a medical checkup on his progress after eight months of treatment there in 2014-15, his government announced.
At least 12 indigenous children in Peru have died from rabies after being bitten by blood-sucking bats, which locals at first blamed on witchcraft, health officials said.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino yesterday accepted the resignation of foreign minister Albert del Rosario, who helped spearhead the country’s vigorous challenge to China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
A growing Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria has killed 101 people, as West Africa battles to contain a flare up of the virus, according to data from the nation's health authorities released Saturday.
The mosquito-borne Zika virus sweeping through Latin America has claimed three lives in Colombia, as the United Nations urged increased access to abortion because of fears of severe birth defects.
Scientists in Britain have been give the go-ahead to edit the genes of human embryos for research, using a technique that some say could eventually be used to create ‘designer babies’.
A Bangladeshi father dubbed ‘Tree Man’ for massive bark-like warts on his hands and feet will finally have surgery to remove the growths that first began appearing 10 years ago, a hospital said Sunday.
Hundreds of people underwent Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training across Qatar when Hamad Medical Corporation launched a two-day CPR awareness campaign.
The Zika virus is ‘spreading explosively’ in the Americas and the region may see up to four million cases of the disease strongly suspected of causing birth defects, the World Health Organization ...
The MERS coronavirus has killed a man in the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi health authority said on Tuesday.
