Indiana health officials have asked the assistance of federal experts from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to try to contain a Southern Indiana HIV (Human Immundeficiency Virus) outbreak that has incurred a total of 55 confirmed HIV cases and …
A child has five times the risk of dying from Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but doctors may not be using the best antibiotic against it when they treat children, according to the CDC.
Mosquitoes, as well as ticks are vectors that can carry diseases, are expected to become widespread in Britain in the next few decades because of warmer temperatures and increasing rainfall there caused by climate change.
Liberia was just about to declare itself Ebola-free, but another case has been diagnosed. It is not certain how the woman may have contracted Ebola, but may have done so by having sex with a survivor of the viral infection
British singer Sam Smith lost 14 pounds in just two weeks and he credited his weight loss success to a 14-day Paleo inspired detox diet, reports Celebrity Health Fitness.
It may taste good, but health experts have warned that water pipes, shisha or hookahs, which have been popular in the Middle East and North Africa for decades, may be more harmful than cigarettes.
Researchers have come up with a scoring system that may give physicians a way to determine which older people are at high risk for problems with memory and thinking
It’s always relaxing to end the day with a nice glass of wine with some good music and perhaps a few intimate friends. But watch out: according to a lawsuit in California, some of these wine bottles may be deadly, containing very high levels of arsenic.
Children who are conceived through assisted reproductive technology, including in vitro fertilization, are twice as likely to be autistic as those who are conceived naturally, but this other factors may be at work.
About half of teens who are more than 100 pounds overweight had high blood pressure and that 14% were diabetics. Seventy-five percent had high levels of a protein that is linked to heart disease.
