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People over 54 who suffer from steadily-worsening depression may run a higher risk of developing dementia, according to new research…

Scientists in Brazil have uncovered a new brain disorder associated with Zika infections in adults: an autoimmune syndrome called acute…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola emergency over, but action is still needed to fully develop effective…

The Zika virus currently sweeping through the Americas looks to have hitched a ride on a plane into Brazil in…

Children who breastfeed, especially those living far from the equator, may get too little vitamin D, according to a new…

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Wednesday for US$56 million to combat the Zika virus, a disease that has…

Last January, long lines formed outside health clinics in Recife, a city in Brazil's northeast hit hard in recent years…

The mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is suspected of causing brain damage to babies in Brazil, is likely to spread to…

A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, the second since west Africa last week declared an…

An official says the World Health Organization hopes to eradicate polio in 2016, after containing outbreaks in conflict-ridden Syria, Iraq…