Beyond direct injuries, exposure to tropical cyclones is associated with higher risks of death across a range of causes including kidney, heart and lung diseases, neuropsychiatric conditions, and ...

New York, N.Y. (WPVI) -- The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico today reported a jump in the number of mosquito-borne Zika virus cases. Health Secretary Ana Rius says there are 18 confirmed cases, though ...

NEW YORK -- Pregnant women should avoid traveling to Latin America and Caribbean countries that have outbreaks of a tropical illness linked to birth defects, health officials said Friday. The illness ...

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) impact over one billion people worldwide and affect poor and marginalized communities the most. Infectious diseases, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, ...

The world’s changing climate is quietly orchestrating one of the most significant public health transformations in modern history, bringing dangerous tropical diseases to communities that have never ...

HONOLULU -- Health officials say a baby born in a Hawaii hospital is the first in the U.S. with a birth defect linked to the Zika virus, a tropical illness currently found in Latin American and ...

Professor and Deputy Head, Climate, Air Quality Research Unit, and Group Leader of Children’s Environmental Health Research, Monash University Tropical cyclones – also known as hurricanes, typhoons or ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at eliminating river blindness and elephantiasis, ...

Popular talk show presenter Narinder Kaur issued a health update online hours after she returned from her lavish holiday to India.

The recent discovery of mosquitos in Iceland is just one way the climate crisis is creating new health hazards. A new scientific report says these risks are now unprecedented.From heart attacks and ...

Former Big Brother star and TV panellist Narinder Kaur has shared an update after it was revealed she was hospitalised after returning from holiday to India and the Maldives ...