Afghan elders have given safe passage to thousands of volunteer vaccinators immunizing children against polio in Afghanistan`s violent south, a region health workers haven`t worked in for months, UNICEF said Saturday.
Lung cells grown from mouse embryo stem cells have been successfully implanted into the lungs of mice, a breakthrough that could one day help humans with sick lungs, researchers said on Tuesday.
MP3 players/recorders detect some respiratory sounds better than traditional stethoscopes and could prove handy replacements in the future, two researchers told an international conference on respiratory diseases.
Diabetes care is undergoing a transformation: Thousands of patients are switching from a few finger-pricks a day to track their disease to new sensors that keep guard around the clock.
European nations could face further outbreaks of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus following recent cases detected in Italy, health experts gathered here said Friday.
Deaths of children under age five around the world dropped below 10 million for the first time last year, according to United Nations Children`s Fund figures released Thursday.
Four of the world`s 10 most polluted places are in Russia and two former Soviet republics, an independent environmental group said in a report released on Wednesday.
More than one million people have been evacuated or stranded as rivers in northeastern India and Bangladesh rose to alarming levels and submerged vast swathes of countryside, officials said Monday.
Vitamin C can impede the growth of some types of tumors although not in the way some scientists had suspected, researchers reported on Monday.
Young girls who believe they are lactose-intolerant take in less calcium and have thinner bones than their peers who don`t think they had any trouble consuming dairy products, a new study shows.
Pacific Rim leaders agreed Saturday that the world needs to "slow, stop and then reverse" greenhouse gas emissions, and adopted goals on reducing energy intensity and reforestation as part of the effort.
Two-thirds of the world`s polar bears will be killed off by 2050 - and the entire population gone from Alaska - because of thinning sea ice from global warming in the Arctic, government scientists forecast Friday.
Global warming may be melting glaciers and forcing polar bears onto land, but doctors warn it could also affect your heart.
A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
About 500 chickens in the south Russia`s Krasnodar Territory have died of bird flu, a local official said Tuesday.
The same invasive treatments for acute heart problems that can save lives in men may actually harm women, although reasons for this are unclear, researchers told the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting on Monday.
Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 hurricane and churned through the Caribbean Sea on a path toward Central America, where forecasters said it could make landfall as "potentially catastrophic" storm.
Women who get plenty of whole grains in their diet may lower their risk of developing high blood pressure, a large study suggests.
Kenya has cut malaria deaths among children under five by 44 percent on 2002 levels thanks largely to the increased use of insecticide treated nets (INTs), the government said Thursday.
An outbreak of cholera has struck northeastern Sudan, claiming 49 lives and infecting more than 700 others after heavy floods, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Moscow has broken the daily summer temperature record for the second time in a week, the meteorological service said Wednesday.
People with clinical depression may be unable to "snap out of it" because of faulty wiring in the brain, according to a new study released.
Blast at chemical factory in Siberia kills at least four
Sea ice in the northern hemisphere has plunged to the lowest levels ever measured, a US Arctic specialist said Friday, adding that it was likely part of the long-term trend of polar ice melt driven by global warming.
Ukraine has almost completed clinical trials for a bird flu vaccine, the head of the Ukrainian State Veterinarian Department said Thursday.