On the top floor of a hulking 90-year-old building on Brooklyn?s western waterfront, plasterers and electricians are preparing what city officials hope will be an economic antidote to the implosion of the financial services industry.

Search engine giant Google launched a new tool on Tuesday that will help U.S. federal health experts track the annual flu epidemic.

Researchers have developed a system for predicting cholera outbreaks using satellite monitoring of marine environments. They show cholera outbreaks follow seasonal increases in sea temperature. This could provide an early warning system for India and Bangladesh where cholera epidemics occur regularly

An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.

A common and sometimes deadly cause of diarrhea is far more common in U.S. hospitals than people thought, and only better hygiene and more judicious use of antibiotics will help, experts reported on Tuesday.

Native leaders and health experts from 60 countries will meet Thursday in Toronto to craft a global plan to cut alarming tuberculosis rates among the poor.

Researchers have suggested that an experimental vaccine against AIDS might have failed in part because it made some people's immune cells more vulnerable to HIV infection.

Many carriers of the potentially lethal Clostridium difficile bug are missed by unreliable tests, researchers say.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Wednesday said he was worried the global financial crisis he says could last two to three years might drive rich countries to cut back spending on health aid for the developing world.

Winnipeg researchers have found a way to make animals that suppress the deadly ebola virus sick -- a discovery they say might lead to a treatment for humans.

Saying Americans are threatened by a rising tide of emerging and resurging infectious diseases, the nonprofit group Trust for America's Health (TFAH) today issued a report calling on the US government to launch a comprehensive campaign to battle the microbes at home and abroad.

Compensation for farmers affected by bird flu helps the early detection of new outbreaks, the U.N's avian influenza chief said on Sunday, but refrained from criticizing countries like Egypt that lack such programs.

HIV-infected patients who began treatment earlier than is normally recommended lived longer than those who underwent the standard regimen, a study found.

The popularity of mobile phones in South Africa is helping to tackle HIV and Aids in the nation.

As Canadian women, mothers, physicians, and global-health advocates, we would like to draw attention to a great opportunity for the advancement of health in our time: the global elimination of cervical cancer.

Ontario's universal flu-shot program saves 300 lives a year and averts a substantial number of hospital admissions, doctor visits and emergency-department trips every year, a study published yesterday suggests.

The curtains that hang between patient beds in hospitals can become contaminated with drug-resistant bacteria and may be playing a role in the spread of these germs in hospitals, a new study suggests.

A U.S. recession could cut AIDS funding and impede the drive to find a vaccine for the disease, a senior official with a group spearheading vaccine research said on Tuesday.

Two of the nation's five biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) labs lack outer-ring security controls to protect against a terrorist attack or theft of some of the world's most dangerous pathogens, such as the Ebola and smallpox viruses, according to a new report from the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO).

An internal report prepared by the World Bank estimates that a severe influenza pandemic could kill 71 million people and cause a recession costing more than $3 trillion, Bloomberg News reported today.

Women must be more involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a disease increasingly being spread through sex, and men must also be encouraged to respect women more, a senior U.N. official said Friday.

For Nathan Wolfe, a 38-year-old visiting professor at Stanford, an ordinary workday can look like a clip from ?Survivor? ? chasing primate hunters through the dense foliage of rural Cameroon, sloshing through mud and streams, dodging branches and malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

We're still making progress on drugs and vaccines.

The town motto of Aklavik, an Arctic hamlet huddled at the Mackenzie River Delta in the Northwest Territories, is "Never Say Die." So when the close-knit community of 600 noticed an alarming trend ? a high number of people were getting sick with stomach cancer ? they decided to act. "In...

The emergence of a devastating drug-resistant strain means that tuberculosis now kills more of us than malaria. Award-winning photographer James Nachtwey travelled from Siberian prisons to Cambodian clinics to document the battle against this 'virtually untreatable' and deadliest of diseases