In the most remote places in the world, people are daily battling diseases that many people may never have heard of. Called neglected tropical diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially ...

At least one girl and three boys were killed, and three boys injured, during an attack on the Saudi Hospital in the besieged ...

At least one girl and three boys were killed, and three boys injured, during an attack on the Saudi Hospital in the besieged ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

Ugandan health officials on Thursday confirmed a case of Ebola in the capital Kampala, in a nurse who sought care at a number ...

Bryony Cottam meets a doctor dedicated to combating malaria and other deadly diseases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Noma is a facial gangrene infection that affects children in particular. Its name comes from the Greek word “nomē”, meaning ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with ...

New research identifies life-threatening fungal infection in tuberculosis survivors among Assam's tea plantation workers, ...