Health

A promising new treatment for bladder cancer is being hailed by doctors as a breakthrough after trial results showed it can help patients avoid life-changing surgery while significantly reducing the...

Sharp reductions in foreign aid spending by the United Kingdom, Germany and France could contribute to more than 11.5 million preventable deaths by the end of the decade, according to...

The United Nations has warned that nearly 35 million Nigerians could face acute hunger between June and August as worsening economic pressures, conflict and inadequate humanitarian funding deepen the nation’s...

The World Health Organization has raised the national risk level of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to “very high” as infections and suspected deaths...

An Air France flight bound for the United States was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo boarded the aircraft despite emergency Ebola-related travel restrictions...

India and the African Union have postponed the upcoming India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi amid rising concerns over the worsening Ebola outbreak spreading across parts of Africa. India’s foreign...

A new Ebola case has been confirmed in rebel-controlled eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, raising fresh concerns that the deadly outbreak is spreading far beyond its original epicentre. Authorities...

The World Health Organization has warned that the number of deaths linked to the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to rise sharply after the...

An American doctor who contracted Ebola while working in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been flown to Germany for specialist treatment, as global health authorities warn that the fast-growing...

Global health experts have warned that deadly infectious diseases such as Ebola and hantavirus are becoming more frequent, harder to contain and increasingly damaging to public health systems, as the...