The John A. Burns School of Medicine will receive $103,800 this year in travel grants from the Hawai‘i Medical Service Association to fund neighbor island and rural clinical rotations for up to 25 medical students.

Dengue fever is scorching through the Pacific Islands, with Fiji reporting nearly 2000 cases and American Samoa reporting a year's supply of cases last month alone.

Fueled by increasing international business, mission, adoption and leisure trips, travel medicine clinics are among the fastest growth areas in the health care delivery arena. No firm reflects this growth more than Passport Health, the largest provider of

Source: Reuters By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Tourists traveling by plane and the growth of cities are combining to help new and old infections spread around the world, ...

Children who had a parent who died suddenly have three times the risk of depression than those with two living parents, along with an increased risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics