Health authorities in Madagascar have sought help from three United Nations agencies to contain an outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley Fever that has killed 17 people and infected 59 others.

A UN press statement said Friday that officials in Madagascar have asked the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health to undertake a joint mission to the country to support their efforts to contain theviral hemorrhagic disease

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that a generic version of a popular name brand antidepressant is both safe and effective, despite recent consumer complaints

The federal agency reviewed the generic version of Wellbutrin manufactured by Teva after some patients reported their depression returned when they switched from the brand name drug Wellbutrin XL to the generic pharmaceutical. Some patients also complained of headaches, anxiety and other side effects

ew research shows that people who have high blood pressure are less likely to get migraines than those with normal blood pressure.

More than 51,000 people were studied by the researchers regarding their systolic, diastolic blood pressure and pulse pressure rates

Brazil is considering calling on Cuba to send doctors and has mobilized its military to join the nation's public health workers in battling a deadly outbreak of the mosquito-borne viral illness, dengue fever, which has killed 67 people and infected more than 45,000.

For the past few years, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has been at the center of a resurgence of the disease in South America

A Southeast Valley man in his 60s was discharged Wednesday from a local hospital after being diagnosed with the nation's first case of West Nile Virus for 2008.

State health officials attribute to Arizona's warmer winters and earlier mosquito season for the West Nile Virus' premature occurrence