Susan Brink

That's the encouraging news in a new report. But it also means more kids are living long enough to face a host of serious challenges to their physical and mental health.

An article in this week's New Yorker writes about youngsters who fell into a comalike state in reaction to the news that their family may be deported. We interview the author.

Efforts to stop the practice have focused on health risks. And yet it remains widespread. A new study may explain why.

Students from 11 business programs around the U.S. came together to see who could make the best business plan to address infant mortality in Nigeria.

Candida auris first was identified in Japan in 2009 and now has been found in five continents.

How close are we to the point when a bacterial infection can resist all available antibiotics? A case in Nevada, reported this past week in the CDC journal, says that we're already there.

In Nigeria, the food crisis is so severe that when MSF sees families to treat disease or provide vaccinations, they're starting to distribute food as well.

A new report from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health looks at how far countries have come — and have far they still have to go.

It's one of the cancers highlighted in a new report that looks at the growing number of cases worldwide.

The station has since apologized for the segment. But researchers say it reflects local attitudes toward domestic violence.

The goal of curing all diseases "in our children's lifetime" sounds a lot like hype. But is it? It's the goal of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan.

A new study from Brazil provides an early snapshot of what the future could hold for children infected with Zika, then born with the brain defect.

The mite larvae that transmit scrub typhus were thought to live only in parts of Asia and Australia. Now three cases have been reported in an island off Chile's coast.

An outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo has raised concerns about the infamous and fearsome disease — once a scourge of the U.S., Panama and Spain.

What supplies will the health-conscious traveler pack to keep illness at bay? We asked the experts.

Some of the girls and women abducted by Boko Haram have escaped or been rescued. But freedom does not mean an end to their ordeal.

The results of the first coordinated global look at the disease show a dramatic increase, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

For millions around the world, it's the invisible microbes and parasites that can turn their daily drinking water into a dangerous elixir.

The world is focused on finding a link between pregnant women infected with the Zika virus and severe birth defects. But two studies and an editorial in this week's New England Journal of Medicine are reminders that malaria, a disease that killed about half a million people in 2015, also ...

Don't get bitten by mosquitoes.

That's the advice offered to the public in virtually every article on the rapidly-spreading, mosquito-borne Zika virus.

There's no arguing with the advice. Zika, once considered a relatively mild flu-like illness, has now been linked to a surge in severe birth defects in Brazil and ...