The December issue of A&H is packed with features, interviews and reports that'll inform, educate and entertain. Read how a bit of humour can go a long way, why going nuts is healthy, and...

Private Public Partnership (PPP) is a catalyst for increasing costs and expenses in the Health Sector's budget while decreasing the level of care offered to those in need, the MUMN said this...

A coalition of companies and aid groups announced plans Tuesday to test experimental drugs and collect blood plasma from Ebola survivors to treat new victims of the disease in West Africa. Plasma...

A study suggests that curbing the routine use of preventive antibiotics before dental work may have contributed to a rise in heart valve infections in England. Some dental procedures can let...

U.S. officials acknowledged disagreements over coordinating the international response to the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, but they say most issues are being worked out and the overall fight against the...

The next Ebola or the next SARS. Maybe even the next HIV. Even before the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is brought under control, U.S. public health officials are girding for the next health...

Taking a cholesterol-lowering drug for five years in middle age can lower heart and death risks for decades afterward, and the benefits seem to grow over time, a landmark study of men in Scotland...

Use of electronic cigarettes by high school students tripled over three years, according to a new U.S. government report released Thursday. In a large national survey last year, 4.5 percent of...

Millions of people with stents that prop open clogged heart arteries may need anti-clotting drugs much longer than the one year doctors recommend now. A large study found that continuing for another...

Recovery of feeling can gradually improve for years after a hand transplant, suggests a small study that points to changes in the brain, not just the new hand, as a reason. Research presented...