Panamanian-American Cristina Henríquez portrays the construction of the crossing in a new novel and finds an echo with the ...

Bill Gates has called for the UN to make a “major strategic pivot” from a “doomsday view” of climate goals towards funding ...

Pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa frequently suffer from worm infections and malaria – with sometimes life-threatening consequences for both mother and child. Now, an international research team ...

The saga of Alexander the Great has inspired endless tomes, yet most dwell on his epic campaigns while glossing over the ...

Organizing a two-week journey around South America can be daunting when you are looking at a map of a whole continent. The ...

As an American medical resident in a global health program in Uganda 12 years ago, Dr. Ross Boyce saw the devastating toll of ...

Fund announced today a total investment of approximately JPY 1.73 billion (USD 11.6 million1) in four R&D projects for the development of diagnostics and a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB), neglected ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks ...

As children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made ...

A new formulation of Novartis' antimalarial Coartem has become the first medicine to be approved for use in very young children who contract the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease. Coartem Baby ...

Mosquitoes have been detected in Iceland for the first time as the region warms due to climate change. The disease-carrying ...

The Trump administration is holding $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives in warehouses in Belgium rather than delivering them to women overseas, as aid workers voice concerns that ...