Unused hospital razed in Nigeria
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A fully-equipped hospital the government refused to open for two years burns to the ground in northern Nigeria.
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A different perspective on the war in Iraq: behind the scenes at a hospital.
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This industrial city is reeling after learning that at least 63 children have been infected with HIV through medical negligence many blame on corruption and the illicit sale of blood.
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Blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki after an urgent appeal in South Africa was destroyed because it was regarded as a health risk, it emerged yesterday.
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A mortuary that secretly gave a Roman Catholic church fetal remains from an abortion clinic and other medical sources has apologized to a hospital unaware of the practice.
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Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, suffering from disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the United States.
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KANO, Nigeria  - A major outbreak of cholera in  northern Nigeria has killed 42 people and hospitalized hundreds  in the last two weeks, authorities said on Wednesday.
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Doctors fear stripping hospitals of key services such as A&E will lead to the eventual closure of the sites.
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BHOPAL, India  - Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh recovered 390 pieces of bones of newly born babies or fetuses from the backyard of a Christian missionary hospital, officials and media reports said on Sunday.
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Hashim Khalil Osman peeks out from the remains of his hut, partly bulldozed and then patched up with plastic sacking, to see if help has arrived to alleviate the misery of life in the slum suburbs of Khartoum.
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A three-story bank under construction collapsed in the main Nigerian city of Lagos, and two people were unaccounted for and believed trapped inside the rubble, rescue workers said Tuesday.
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A mysterious Syrian military facility that was reportedly the target of an attack by Israeli jets last month has been razed, according to a new satellite image that shows only a vacant lot in the place where Syria was recently constructing what some U.S. officials believe was a nuclear reactor.
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A small clinic in Manhattan that handled the cases of thousands of sickened 9/11 recovery and cleanup workers is coming under scrutiny over its performance.
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Bodies washed up on tropical beaches and piled up in hospitals Monday, raising fears of disease across a 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and walls of water that killed more than 22,000 people. Thousands were missing and millions homeless.
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Shoddy materials, illegal construction and a culture of corruption were blamed Saturday for the deaths of more than three dozen people buried when a 12-story apartment building crumbled to the ground.
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Rescue workers try to find survivors after a building under construction collapses in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
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Patients say they are treated as contaminated sinners; some are ordered to use separate toilets or to wash outside. Others are banished.