Representatives of governments, donor organizations and international agencies meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva February 28 agreed to improve and sustain protections against polio in certain high-risk areas.
Scientists at University College London (UCL) have conducted the first clinical trial to demonstrate that an intensive treatment for periodontitis (gum disease) directly improves the health of blood vessels.
A total of 373 new cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) were reported to the Hong Kong Department of Health (DH) last year (2006), the highest annual number ever recorded.
The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health received notification from the Ministry of Health concerning a confirmed human case of avian influenza H5N1 in Fujian.
A Yorkshire aristocrat who died nearly 90 years ago could help the global fight against bird flu, reported BBC.
The United Nations Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), a regional arm of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), is assisting Paraguay in its efforts to control an outbreak of dengue fever that has affected thousands.
Sweat may be another way to pass on hepatitis B infection during contact sports, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Even as the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles County has shifted largely to Hispanics, primary-care practitioners serving this segment of the population often fail to offer either HIV testing or safer sex advice to their patients, according to a new UCLA AIDS Institute study
Researchers have found a way to activate Epstein-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors.
Researchers at Yale have identified multiple pathogenic “alien islands” in the genome of the A. baumannii, bacteria that has been responsible for new and highly drug-resistant infections in combat troops in the Middle East, according to a report in the March 1 issue of Genes and Development.