Niger has become the first African country to eliminate river blindness, a parasitic disease that is the second-leading cause of blindness in the world, the WHO said Thursday.

The most extensive study of the gut microbiome in Africa has discovered new microbial species and never-before-reported metagenomes from several African sites. The paper, titled "Expanding the human ...

Advancements in technology have facilitated the production and distribution of larger quantities of counterfeited goods in shorter periods of time, and have made it easier for counterfeiters to profit ...

Mpox vaccines are finally trickling into Africa after having been available in non-endemic, high-income countries for more ...

The Tetrapharmakos is a four-part remedy crafted by ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus to ease life’s anxieties and heal the ...

Ghana is leading the way in implementing community-based programs that protect traditional herbal knowledge while promoting ...

In 1983 archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three ...

This is the oldest confirmed use of a mixture comprising two or more plant toxins specifically applied to arrowheads.

Neanderthals  are not totally extinct, in some of us they live on – a little bit.” (Professor Svante Paabo, 2022 Nobel ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

It’s no coincidence that Azerbaijan ranks 115th out of 190 countries in the global longevity index, lagging behind Asian and African nations with limited access to food and medicine. Azerbaijani ...

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror ...