Travelling to Japan is still safe despite the influenza outbreak there but precautions must be taken, say health experts and ...

The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying (DAHD) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) have set a roadmap ...

As avian flu drives egg prices to record levels and increasingly poses a risk to humans, moves by the White House to cut ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is now recommending that alcoholic beverages carry a warning about the risk of cancer ...

More than half of those incarcerated suffer from mental health illness. That's the driving force for Metro Community College's criminal justice program adding a mental health course.

Critics of the Louisiana surgeon general's decision warned that when vaccination rates go down, "you get worse outbreaks." ...

A new study tied eating at least 2 servings of yogurt per week to a lower risk of an aggressive type of colorectal cancer.

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick ...

A case of bird flu in a wild goose was detected this week in Boulder County, officials said, adding the detection was a good ...

Multiple outbreaks of the measles have been reported so far this year, with one outbreak in Texas ballooning from six cases ...

Aside from The Gates Foundation, endowments that have grown above $50 billion include Harvard University, which had $53.2 ...

Swapping salt for salt substitutes enriched with potassium could help lower the risk of recurrent stroke and death, a new ...