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Babies across the region, and at least one in the United States, have been born with abnormally smaller heads – a condition doctors call microcephaly, which can cause brain damage.

Brazil has the largest-known outbreak of the virus which has been linked to a spike in birth defects in new-born babies whose mothers were bitten by the mosquito during pregnancy.

The Zika virus is confirmed in cases from Brazil to Mexico, and just last week the first Texas case was confirmed in Harris County in a traveler returning from Latin America.

In Bangkok, The Public Health Ministry on Sunday announced the country’s second confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

“It’s through to the bone”, Gemma panicked as she was taken to the diary room for preliminary treatment before being transferred to hospital.

According to ESPN.com’s Christina Kahrl, the revised rules will place fewer restrictions on transgender athletes when it comes to their ability to compete in the Games.

A man left brain dead after a drug trial in northwest France died on Sunday, said the hospital where he was being treated.

In fact, January is known in health circles as National Cervical Health Awareness Month.

Victoria Azarenka is showing shades of the form which took her to two Australian Open titles as the Belarusian stormed into the last-16 once again in Melbourne on Saturday.

The first case of a scary new disease called Zika Fever to be confirmed in the United States has been isolated in a person in Houson who just returned from El Salvador, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Travel warnings about the Zika virus, especially for pregnant women, are very much in the news now, but the germ was discovered more than a half century ago, and you may have already visited places where it flourishes.

Last month, the 32-year-old former hedge fund manager was arrested in NY and charged with securities fraud and conspiracy related to another pharmaceutical company he previously ran called Retrophin.

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has been investigating the price increases undertaken by Turing and other drug companies, has subpoenaed Mr. Shkreli and ordered him to testify at a hearing scheduled for Tuesday on drug-price increases. However, the...

An 11-month-old infant, who only ate a type of almond-based baby formula with no vitamin C, developed scurvy, a new report of his case stated.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) started their Listeria investigation last September 2015 and the first case of Listeria-related illnesses was first reported last July 5, 2015. The CDC said there is no current proof suggesting packed salads in other Dole...