Dartmouth researchers with the National Center for Disaster Mental Health Research are preparing to visit the Galveston, Texas area on their first field mission in early November to study the impact of Hurricane Ike, which hit in late September.

Revolution Health Network, the online health-care business launched by former AOL chairman Steve Case, is in discussions to merge with Everyday Health, a marriage that would join two of the three most-visited online health information networks.

The Institute for OneWorld Health (iOWH), the US-based nonprofit pharmaceutical company that develops drugs for people with infectious diseases in the developing world, today marked the first-ever World Malaria Day by renewing its call for new treatments

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. David Paterson says he’s reached an agreement with legislative leaders to extend health benefits to more than 1,000 workers who toiled at the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

SINGPAORE: Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan expressed concern about the prevalence of the Enterovirus 71 (EV71) strain of the Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD).