While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...

Hermina lives in the Central African Republic (CAR), Murjanatu in northern Nigeria, and Sabera is a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh. Though they live in vastly different places, the struggles they have ...

Global maternal mortality had declined, yet WHO data showed Nigeria, Chad, and South Sudan remained among the worst countries ...

A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

One of the critics of the Guinea-Bissau study, Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center in the United States and an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's ...

You would be hard-pressed to find two snakes that evoke more fear than the black mamba and the king cobra. Both species are ...

Both during and after her time at the Journal Sentinel, she maintained her commitment to stay deeply engaged in the local ...