Poor housing conditions in remote Aboriginal communities are contributing to an epidemic of Staphyloccus aureus, a bacterial infection.
... at the University of Manchester are developing a new drug against tuberculosis (TB), one of the oldest human infectious diseases, which is now threatening to reach epidemic proportions once more.
One of the towns worst hit in last month's devastating China earthquake has been sealed off to prevent epidemics from spreading, after having been opened just briefly, state media said Saturday.
... 's health grows along with their waistlines, medical experts fear that the childhood obesity epidemic could lead to large numbers of younger adults developing type 2 diabetes, causing serious and ...
... 's health grows along with their waistlines, medical experts fear that the childhood obesity epidemic could lead to large numbers of younger adults developing type 2 diabetes, causing serious and ...
LONDON (AP) -- Fewer people are dying of AIDS, more patients are on HIV medication and the global AIDS epidemic is stable after peaking in the late 1990s....
An epidemic of kidney disease among farming communities in Sri Lanka is puzzling doctors and researchers.
... , Latinos and gay and bisexual men.
The HIV epidemic in the United States is a crisis, federal health ...
Despite little publicity surrounding the ailment, seniors may be facing an emerging epidemic in the form of bisphosphonate osteonecrosis ("bone death"), a debilitating ailment of the jawbone that ...
Panama spent US$17 million to fight the 2005 dengue epidemic, an amount five times the budget of the country's main health centre.
Despite little publicity surrounding the ailment, seniors may be facing an emerging epidemic in the form of bisphosphonate osteonecrosis ('bone death'), a debilitating ailment of the jawbone that ...
A cholera epidemic is spreading quickly in Guinea-Bissau, UN agencies said Friday. Some 12,225 people in the West African state have caught cholera so far this year and 201 have died from the water- ...
... which is to design a portable device that will revolutionise the manner of controlling flu epidemics internationally, thanks to a significant reduction in the time needed for their detection from the ...
Research by the Russian semiologist Yuri M. Lotman analyzes how epidemics of fear work, through the study of witch-hunting processes which claimed thousands of victims among Catholics and Protestants. ...
Britain is at risk of a serious measles epidemic breaking out in
the near future, the Health Protection Agency warned yesterday,
after a sharp increase in the number of children infected.The
agency ...
