According to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the Vice Minister of Public Health (MoPH) in North Korea officially informed the World Health Organization...

In a follow-up to a report on the measles outbreak in Davao City in the southern Philippines, Assistant Secretary of Health for Mindanao and Regional Director, Abdullah B. Dumama, Jr. MD wrote the following...

After reporting just under 70,000 cases of the viral infection, hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in 2016, cases increased several time in 2017, according to data from the National Institute of Infectious...

After all the headlines that came across my desk the past week or more concerning a “Japanese broad tapeworm” case in California in a daily raw sushi eater, I figured that would be the end...

The Sarawak state health lab reported Friday that a Kuching man bitten by a dog in November tested positive for rabies, making him the seventh case in the Malaysian state sine June 2017. The 59-year-old...

Vietnam health officials reported an increase of some 63,000 dengue fever cases in 2017 over the year before, although less dengue-related fatalities were reported. In 2017,  184,741 cases of dengue...

Sato Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. obtained marketing and manufacturing approval for the oral antifungal agent NAILIN Capsules 100mg containing the active ingredient fosravuconazole L-lysine ethanolate (fosravuconazole)...

Chrysomya bezziana, the Old World screw-worm, is a primary myiasis-producing fly that attacks a wide range of warm-blooded animals throughout Africa, the Indian sub-continent, and Southeast Asia from Taiwan...

Officials with the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) are advising “jungle trekking” tourists to seek medical attention this winter season if they develop fever and headache due to the risk...

The Department of Health (DOH) reported that it has extended assistance to 27 Dengvaxia-vaccinated schoolchildren aged between 11 and 16 years old from Central Luzon. The types of assistance given include...