A new study has revealed that in vitro fertilization (IVF) has a number of potential health risks.

A team of researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have discovered that women who utilize IVF to get pregnant have an increased risk for pulmonary embolisms (PE) and venous thromboembolisms (VTE) in the first trimester of pregnancy.

The possibility that autism is linked to traffic pollution has been raised by researchers in California.

Their study of more than 500 children said those exposed to high levels of pollution were three times more likely to have autism than children who grew up with cleaner air.

A yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's Darfur region has killed 107 people in the last six weeks, the World Health Organisation reported, warning that the disease could spread all over the country.

The number of deaths from the outbreak is steadily rising, and Sudan is working on an emergency vaccination drive, WHO said on Tuesday.

Eight people have died from a rare, noncontagious form of meningitis linked to contaminated steroid injections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday.

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has taken a swipe at the Minister of Health, Alban Bagbin, for his comments which sought to discredit the legitimacy of strikes by public sector health professionals.

The Health Minister, Hon. Bagbin, in an address to health workers over the weekend indicated that government will no longer tolerate unjustified strikes.

The government is setting out its White Paper on social care later, amid calls for greater clarity on how it plans to fund the system in England.

The government has said it agrees in principle with the idea of capping how much people have to pay but it will not explain how or when this will happen.

Obese cardiac patients are less likely to die early than their normal weight counterparts, say researchers.

Young diabetic women are so terrified of gaining weight that they're risking their lives by skipping their insulin jabs, recent investigation has revealed.