Dozens of people have died in central Somalia's Galgadud region after an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), medical personnel said on 23 December.

Next week in London a woman will give birth to the first baby free of the altered genes that cause breast cancer. That is a world sensation!

Fisherman from Indonesia Dede Koswara dubbed 'Tree man" faces new round of surgeries with the aim to remove surgically his warts

The joint study by the Newcastle and Queensland universities indicates depression has become a significant health issue for Australian women.

On Sunday December 21 the public organization "People's Help - Lviv" conducted money collection in the Roman Catholic paraphia churches within the framework of the campaign "Social Taxi 2009" directed towards the search of means for transportation of disabled persons.

Everything was ready to remove feeding tubes of a 36-year-old Eluana Englaro, according to the court decision, who has been in the state of coma after an accident from January 18, 1992.

Scientists from Oxford University are developing an electronic 'sex chip' that works by stimulating the pleasure centres in the brain.

The "Schools of Healthy Meals of Children" have been organized" in every children's policlinic of Kharkiv by the order of the public health administration of the Department of public health and social problems dated September 30, 2008.

Skin cells from a patient with a genetic disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) have been reprogrammed into stem cells that can be used as a model of the disease.

Accurate and reliable diagnostics is the basis of HIV/AIDS monitoring realization.

Guinea's President Lansana Conte has died aged 74, who ruled the West African nation with an iron fist for 24 years.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (a division of the D.O.D.) recently awarded a contract to GE Global Research, the technology development branch of the mammoth General Electric Company, for a two-year, $1.1 million project to develop a Biotic Man.

Not less than 46 persons got burns in Hong Kong, when an unknown malefactor threw into crowd of passers-by two bottles with hydrochloric acid.

We have not had the list of equipment of HIV-screening laboratories until now, which had to be approved by MHU, - said Deputy Health Minister of Ukraine, Valeriy Bidnyi, -

King of pop-music Michael Jakcson suffers from genetic disease. He lost 50% of vision and needs a lung transplant

however at present it's early to say about the epidemic.

Last week in all 10 control cities of the Ukrainian Flu Center (UFC) indexes of flu and ARD incidence were at the seasonal, ordinary for this time of year level.

In November 2008 the government of Cote d'Ivoire conducted the national immunization campaign against measles embracing children aged from 9 months to 5 years.