The father of a young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria says his daughter is now breathing on her own.
2012/5/22 |
Researchers said Monday they were a step closer to developing a vaccine against the type of meningitis that mostly affects Europe and North America and kills hundreds every year.
2012/5/8 |
More Americans died in 2007 of hepatitis C infection, which causes incurable liver disease, than from the virus that causes AIDS, U.S. health authorities said this week.
2012/2/25 |
 | British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.
2012/1/7 |
Only 28 percent of the 1.2 million Americans living with HIV have the virus under control, increasing the risk that they will spread the disease to others, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
2011/12/1 |
 | World leaders Saturday added their weight to a push to eradicate polio, pledging millions of dollars in new funds to bring an end to the crippling and potentially fatal disease.
2011/10/30 |
Life expectancy for people in Britain who have HIV rose by 15 years between 1996 and 2008, thanks largely earlier diagnosis and treatment with better, less toxic drugs, scientists said on Wednesday.
2011/10/13 |
Multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) are spreading at an alarming rate in Europe and will kill thousands unless health authorities halt the pandemic, the World Health Organization(WHO) said on Wednesday.
2011/9/15 |
A U.S.-based health group in Haiti says it saw a huge drop in the number of patients seeking treatment for cholera in the Caribbean country.
2011/9/14 |
Three young Americans have died this year from a rare water-borne amoeba that swims up through the nose and infects the brain, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Friday.
2011/8/21 |
