Doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo say that two Ebola patients who were treated with new drugs in Goma have been declared “cured”.

Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) cases in the mid-west region have outnumbered the winter vomiting bug and flu in recent years, new figures reveal.

Teenagers are failing to reach the minimum fitness levels required for good heart health, exposing themselves to developing chronic disease.

Nine out of 10 farmers are unaware that healthy animals can be a source of infection to themselves and to their family.

Despite a series of global health milestones in 2017, Melvin Sanicas argues there is still much work that can be done across the world.

Current lifestyles have normalised being motionless in front of a screen eating junk, says Suzanne Harrington.

A committee to evaluate drugs for rare diseases has yet to be set up three years after a Government report recommended its establishment.

There has been a 30% increase in the number of people attending support groups for eating disorders in Ireland.

Heart disease is still the number one cause of death in Cork.

Margaret Jennings says there is a wealth of research showing that a sedentary lifestyle with little or no exercise can lead to a higher risk of life-threatening diseases.  

Combining two powerful breast cancer drugs could dramatically shrink or destroy tumours in just 11 days, British doctors have discovered.

A second case of Ebola has emerged in Sierra Leone after health officials thought the epidemic was over.

Mice with Duchenne muscular dystrophy show partial recovery

Bill Gates salutes as his heroes the health and education workers whose vaccine programmes are on the brink of wiping out forever the debilitating, often deadly, disease.

A pill or potion that dissolves one of the primary causes of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain could be in sight after ground-breaking animal studies.

Climate change could push more than 100m people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report.

A new drug for multiple sclerosis patients has been shown to dramatically reduce the progression of the disease.

Ten people have died in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease centred in the South Bronx, New York City officials said.

Liberian officials have confirmed a second Ebola case in the same town where the disease was detected days earlier on the corpse of teenager.

The World Health Organisation says the spread of a mysterious virus from the Middle East to South Korea doesn’t merit being declared a global emergency despite infecting more than 160 people in the biggest outbreak outside the Arabian peninsula.

One in 25 Irish people is at risk of developing the world’s fourth most lethal medical condition due to our gene pool and chronic smoking habits.

A Norwegian company seeking to expand its fish farming operation in West Cork has admitted that severe storms compromised its ability to treat its salmon for sea lice and other diseases last year — prompting environmentalists to say this bolsters their argument for closed containment systems.