While the U.S. Congress votes hundreds of billions of dollars for military expansion, it is squeezing health programs vital to…
The Caribbean countries of Puerto Rico and Cuba, both located near the Zika hot zone, have similar peoples and climates…
As the Zika-carrying mosquito, Aedes aegypti, hits Puerto Rico, new evidence reinforces the disease’s link to two neural disorders, microcephaly…
A coalition of groups is collecting signatures on an appeal to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf “to see to it that…
Are deforestation and global climate change responsible for the Zika crisis sweeping across equatorial countries in the Western Hemisphere? Are…
Zika, a mosquito-borne virus, is spreading quickly in 33 countries. The virus was identified in Brazil for the first time…
Regional and international health officials emphasize that the Ebola virus disease crisis is not over, as three new cases have…
As in much of the world, heart disease is a leading cause of death in Cuba, but the country has…
A recent trial of a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus disease has taken place in the West African state…
Even though the three states where the Ebola Virus Disease struck last year have been declared free of the epidemic,…