An outbreak of nodding disease is devastating families in northern Uganda. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
Pauline Oto still wears her faded yellow and green school dress, but she hasn't been to school for years and she can't comprehend what to do with the pen the community nurse has just given her.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.
Who says being nitpicking doesn't pay off.
A malaria vaccine has eluded scientists for decades, but preliminary results from a phase 3 clinical trial in Africa are providing hope.
A trial study finds a malaria vaccine appears to cut infections by half in a one-year period.
World Bank TV's James Martone reports on cleanup efforts in Port-au-Prince and the threat of disease-spreading waste.
It's been more than a year since Haiti was rocked by an earthquake, leaving about 230,000 people dead, hundreds of thousands injured and more than a million homeless. The international community was quick to provide aid, especially in the first few months after the earthquake.
No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup.
It decimated herds and caused disaster, devastation and death associated with the fall of the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the colonization of Africa.
Music icon Wyclef Jean and Chelsea midfielder Florent Malouda on raising money to aid Haiti.
My 10-year-old daughter was just treated for lice for the third time this school year. What's the best way to get rid of them, and how can I make sure she doesn't get it again?
"Killer apps," so the technological jargon goes, can transform the fortunes of businesses while improving the lives of the people that use them. But very few can claim to improve the worldwide provision of healthcare.
A recent CNN article examining hotel room hygiene revealed some uncomfortable truths. From bacteria and dead skin cells infesting the mattress to improper cleaning practices, it was enough to make anybody think twice about getting too comfortable in a hotel. However, such concerns are often overblown and, in some cases, unhealthy.
Less than a week before The Academy Awards, Scarlett Johansson had yet to make a starlet's most scrutinized fashion decision: Her Oscar dress.
It has been exactly one year since I traveled 44 hours to Angola to interview Didier Drogba, the Chelsea and Ivory Coast superstar, for a story in Sports Illustrated magazine leading up to last year's World Cup. He couldn't have been more accommodating, spending 90 minutes talking to me in his private bungalow on the heavily fortified Ivory Coast team base in Cabinda during the African Cup of Nations.
The actor, who has since recovered, finds the lighter side of his illness in a new interview
George Clooney explains why he'll never run for office. Full interview airs January 21 at 9pmET on Piers Morgan Tonight.
If you think this is the year George Clooney will finally settle down, don't hold your breath.
His rep says he's "completely over" the disease after Piers Morgan Tweets that Clooney is "feeling rough"
One day in 2004, a 29-year-old man with a terrible stomach problem stepped off a plane from the United States in Thailand. He wasn't there for the sights, or the food, or the beaches. He had traveled thousands of miles for worms -- parasitic worms whose eggs he intended to swallow by the thousands.
CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen teaches you how to get the right diagnosis and the best medical care.
"I get the chance to forcibly remove some hair from my friend's nipples," the host reveals
With help from The Carter Center, Guinea worm disease is close to eradication around the world.
It's a disease that has plagued Africans for decades, now medical researchers believe they are on their way to eradicating it.
Big Bird and the Cookie Monster have some new friends, but they're a long way from "Sesame Street."
Jeff Raikes worked with Bill Gates at Microsoft, most recently as president of the business division, for almost 29 years before joining the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as CEO in 2008. The last two years, he's worked building relationships with partners of the $33 billion foundation.
India offered another $20 million in aid to its neighbor and rival Pakistan on Tuesday, but an official in the flood-ravaged country said he has no knowledge of the aid.
Pakistanis are desperate for food and water as they try to survive the floods. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
CNN's Don Lemon speaks to Nan Buzard from the American Red Cross about the scope of the widespread flooding in Pakistan.
CNN's Kyung Lah reports from Shahdodkot, Pakistan, where residents are evacuating houses engulfed by rising floodwater.
For almost a million Pakistanis, the misery of epic flooding covering one-fifth of the country has now taken the form of communicable illnesses.
The massive flooding that has covered about one-fifth of Pakistan has claimed the lives of more than 1,500 people, authorities said Saturday.
The idea that those who have should share with those who don't is inherent in most societies -- insects, animals and humans alike.
British pop star Cheryl Cole has been stricken with a disease rare in the developed world
When I became CEO of Xerox nine years ago, the stock had tumbled, debt was mounting, and people kept asking me to consider bankruptcy. I refused. I considered my professional home of 25 years a company worth saving, and I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees depending on it.
Lady Gaga and President Obama don't often travel in the same circles, but they're the top competitors in a popularity contest that could have one of them setting a record by this weekend.
It started as an itch on James Madol's right ankle and festered. Two days later, the boy cried when he saw a thin white worm emerge.
Oppressed by war and poverty for generations, the Sudanese have struggled with terrible hardships. But the people of this vast country have a narrow window of hope to achieve progress by ridding both their nation and the world of a horrible disease forever.
Since 1980, one disease has been erased from the face of the Earth: smallpox. Health officials believe Guinea worm disease will soon be next.
They are normally transmitters of the disease, but mosquitoes could one day be used to tackle malaria after scientists developed a genetically engineered version of the species that can deliver a vaccine.
The legendary Egyptian "boy king" Tutankhamun, commonly known as King Tut, died of conditions including malaria and complications from a leg fracture, according to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a forensic expert, talks about what the examination of King Tutankhamen's remains reveals.
The devastation caused by Tuesday's earthquake could decimate what fragile medical care exists and spawn a "perfect storm" in a country already struggling to fight rare tropical and infectious diseases, health experts said.
My friend's daughter has pinworms. Can my daughter catch pinworms if they have a playdate together?
The World Health Organization (WHO) held a "side event" for public health officials in Copenhagen, Thursday, in an effort to put public health at the center of the climate-change debate.
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