The deadly hemorrhagic fever is increasing dramatically in Brazil and has killed more than 100 people this year, raising an alarm to health officials.

The country's health minister Jose Gomes Temporao told the Russian Information Agency, a total of 121 people have passed away this year due to break bone fever or most commonly known as Dengue

A substance derived from the bark of the South American lapacho tree kills certain kinds of cancer cells, a new study has found. The compound, called beta-lapachone is now seen as a new hope for treating the most common type of lung cancer.

The compound that has shown promising anti-cancer properties is presently being used in a clinical trial to test its efficiency against pancreatic cancer in humans

Media reports from Paraguay confirm that dengue fever has reportedly taken the life of the country's top health official on Friday. Maria Catalina Roa, a supervisor for registered nurses in all public hospitals, had been hospitalized two weeks ago after contracting the mosquito-borne illness.

It is the latest casualty in an epidemic that has infected 15,000 people in January and February alone, compared to just 1,600 all last year. So far ten people have died

The World Health Organization said it will restart the campaign to rid the globe of the skin and bone wasting disease yaws. The disease affects over 500,000 people globally.

It was previously thought that the disease had been wiped out in the 1950s but it is now slowly returning in Africa's poorest areas in addition to Asia and South America

British researchers revealed that old fashioned red wines from the vineyards of France and Italy are helpful for protecting the heart. Those wines contained high concentrations of 'oligomeric procyanidins', the antioxidants which are good for cardiovascular health.

The study compared red wines produced using traditional methods, from France and Italy, to red wines produced using modern methods, from the U.S., Australia, Spain and South America