Introduction Sickle cell anemia is an inherited form of anemia - a condition in which there aren't enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout your body. Under normal circumstances, your red blood cells are flexible and round, and they move easily through your blood vessels to carry...

Black Women's: Biological cause deadly cancer Breast tumors don't respond well to hormone-based treatment, study finds Updated: 6:25 a.m. ET Sept 6, 2007 A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not...

Se baigner sainement, sans risque de contracter des maladies. Voilà un minimum que certaines plages situées sur la côte sud de Port-au-Prince ne peuvent assurer. L'insalubrité du milieu, les flux de détritus qui arrivent sur le littoral, les déchets plastiques et les résidus solides qui polluent...

Tip of the Week: Six Ways to Ruin a Night's Sleep Counting sheep instead of enjoying sleep? Six ways to ruin your night. Updated: 2:19 p.m. ET Aug 17, 2007 Aug. 17, 2007 - If you're tossing and turning instead of falling asleep at night, it's probably not because the bed bugs are biting. Rather, a...

The emergency team at Jude Anne Hospital, which provides childbirth care to Haiti's poorest women, no longer has to perform triage in the parking lot. Médecins Sans Frontières, which opened the hospital a year ago, has now added a second building. That is how progress is measured in Port-au-Prince,...

Les ministres de la Santé d'Haïti et de la République Dominicaine ont appelé mardi à la reprise d'une commission bilatérale pour lutter contre les maladies dans la région frontalière entre les deux pays. Le ministre haïtien de la Santé, Robert Auguste, et son homologue dominicain, Bautista Rojas...