CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez is breathing with greater difficulty as a new and severe respiratory infection has taken hold, Venezuela's government said, describing the cancer-stricken president's condition as "very d... [Full Article]
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela has recovered from a lung infection and surgery to remove gallstones that kept him in hospital for nearly three weeks, the government said on Sunday. Mandela, 94, who has been in ... [Full Article]
Britain's Prince Philip was hospitalised Wednesday with a repeat of the bladder infection that made him miss part of his wife Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee celebrations in June, Buckingham Palace said. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Discovered: Weird weather informs beliefs about global warming; sight brought to blind mice; encroachment on tropical reserves; the popular anti-depressive Zoloft can prevent fungal infections. (Source: The Atlantic Wire)... [Full Article]
Britain's 90-year-old Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, left hospital on Saturday after five days of treatment for a bladder infection, an AFP photographer said. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Singer Elton John has been hospitalized with a serious respiratory infection and on Thursday canceled three nights of performances this weekend of his "The Million Dollar Piano" show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. In a... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A Haitian immigrant receives medical attention for a skin infection caused by mosquito bites in Inapari, Peru's border with Brazil, February 3, 2012. Over 250 Haitian immigrants hoping to enter Brazil have been stuck in Inapari, a rem... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Workers check the water quality inside a toilet closed for disinfection at the Legislative Council in the government headquarters complex in Hong Kong January 4, 2012. The President of the Medical Association suggested the entire water sy... [Full Article]
(AFP/DPA) - Helmut Fickenscher, director of the institute for infection medicine at the university clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, holds a petri dish with colonies of the virulent E. coli bacteria (EHEC) on June 1, 2011 at the insitute's laboratory... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - A boy (C) suffering from a bacterial skin infection sits at a camp for the internally-displaced people (IDP) between Khairpur and Sukkur, Upper Sindh August 26, 2010. The people were cultivating sugar cane in the Jacobabad area before fle... [Full Article]