Iran's Health Ministry has said that a swine influenza epidemic has claimed the lives of 56 people.

Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since January, WHO says.

Indian surgeons cut a kidney weighing 7.4 kilogram out of a man with a life-threatening genetic condition.

In the United States, total deaths to cardiometabolic disease have been rising since 2011, according to new research.

Congolese authorities and health workers have vaccinated more than 200,000 people against Ebola in August, official data shows.

Adapted pig hearts could be transplanted into patients within three years.

At least 100 children have died this month in the eastern Indian state of Bihar from encephalitis, commonly known as brain fever.

North Korea steps up measures to prevent the spread of the highly contagious and deadly African swine fever.

The number of US measles cases has reached a 25-year high and the country risks losing its measles "elimination status" if current outbreaks continue.

The World Health Organization has for the first time recognized "burn-out" in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which is widely used as a benchmark for diagnosis and health insurers.