Taking photographs or video of unusual symptoms on an ordinary camera phone can help doctors diagnose uncommon problems, according to researchers.

The National Pandemic Flu Service website crashed on the day it was launched after the site recorded more than 9.3m hits per hour.

New moms who can't zip up their pre-pregnancy jeans might not be catching enough zzzs.

Sure, expecting women have to carry most of the responsibility when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth. But that doesn't mean there's nothing for dads-to-be to do.

FRIDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- HIV infection and chronic drinking can deal a double blow to short-term memory, a new study has found.

Cosmetics, properly applied, can do wonders for improving your appearance and self-confidence, the National Rosacea Society says.

By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- The H1N1 swine flu could end up affecting as many as 40 percent of Americans, if one...

FRIDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Bad bedtime habits can keep you up at night and cause problems during the day, says the head of a Texas sleep study facility.

By Karen Pallarito, HealthDay Reporter SATURDAY, July 25 (HealthDay News) -- More than 340,000 Americans are on dialysis to treat kidney failure, but only a tiny...

Over 70 percent of people on ARV treatment will be affected in the next 12 months as health organisations cut on their budgets due to the crunch, a new report warns.

WHAT was billed as a landmark case in the fight against HIV-AIDS discrimination, yesterday ended in an out-of-court settlement between 22 current and past employees of the Oshakati Country Lodge, their former employer and the medical doctor they said tested

Nigerian Army has officially protested to the Ministry of Defence to use diplomatic means to get the United State Government to retract the statement that Nigerian peacekeepers in operation zones have high rate of HIV/AIDS or be sued, THISDAY investigations

THE global economic crisis threatens HIV prevention and treatment gains made by 22 poor countries over the last few years, according to a new UNAIDS and World Bank report.

A FATHER has said he has been given a new lease of life after surgeons pulled his heart out of his body.

Finally there is a small light flickering at the end of the dark tunnel. The political will and urgency, so severely lacking for nine long years while Thabo Mbeki and his health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were in charge, is on

THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has dropped its five-year opposition to the principle of assisted suicide after a consultation with its members.

In recognition of the shared health and social challenges associated with mental ill health, the Commission has adopted a Commission Communication on a European Initiative on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias and a Proposal for a Council Recommendation on measures

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Next generation' microbicides containing antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) are in early clinical testing and may hold out the best hope of protecting women from HIV/AIDS, a conference has heard.

The world's largest open scientific conference on HIV/AIDS ended in Cape Town this week with a sense of optimism over future possibilities to stem the epidemic, outrage over funding cutbacks and revelations over failure to steadfastly implement tried and tested