The United Nations says the death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has risen to 2,201 and the epidemic is still not under control. The U.N. humanitarian office says 1,550 new cases are being reported every day. It says 41,986 people are ...

Nepal on Friday reported its first outbreak of bird flu in poultry, confirming a case of the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus in the eastern part of the Himalayan country. "Laboratory tests confirmed that chickens in one of the livestock farms died of the bird flu virus," health official Udaya Pratap Singh told AFP from Kakarbhitta, near the Indian ...

Some medical devices for sensitive uses, from certain hip joints to a type of defibrillator, have won government approval without a close scientific review, congressional investigators said Thursday. Although Congress ordered the Food and Drug Administration years ago to resolve the issue, the agency approved 228 medical devices ...

A key Senate committee voted Thursday to expand a children's health insurance program to cover an additional 4 million uninsured children. The vote comes one day after the House passed a similar measure. The legislation to increase spending on the State Children's Health Insurance Program ...