The World Health Organization (WHO) and public health agencies around the world must significantly ramp up screening and surveillance of a new breed of drug-resistant bacteria carrying the gene for …

In the “AIDS exceptionalism” debate, emotions run high, and the options are difficult: Shift some AIDS funding to other care, or find billions in new support.  

Thanks to a small cadre of village volunteers, trained in basic health-care concepts, western Uganda is beginning to see some promising improvements in child health.

Poor uninsured Americans, and middle-class households upset at rising health-care bills, have long been arguing for health-care reform. Now, growing numbers of the most wealthy Americans— including many business leaders—are …

In the fight to cut infant mortality, is the world focused on the wrong diseases? For Ashok Talyan, putting children first is more than a sentimental idea. With him, it’s …

General Motors president Rick Wagoner caused controversy when he blamed the US health-care system for his company’s near-bankrupt status. But health care and the US and Canadian automotive industry’s economic …

Developing world: More handwashing would reduce diarrhea-related deaths, doctor says NEW DELHI – Dr. Shambhu Nath sees the infectious diseases behind a million deaths in India annually rather differently from …