While the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends a daily salt intake of less than 5 grams per person, urban Indians are ...

A child has reportedly died in Liverpool after contracting measles, prompting renewed calls for parents to vaccinate their children. The Sunday Times reported that the child was ill with measles and ...

However, turmeric supplements may do more harm than good, simply because, as Dr. Odogwu puts it, "You can have too much of a good thing. While turmeric is generally safe, high doses can be toxic to ...

The Director General of the World Health Organization, WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described the death of former Nigerian ...

"I've been in Liverpool for quite a while now and it's the kind of spirit Liverpool has that really made this possible. It's ...

The dramatic reorientation of U.S. aid abroad comes as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Germany have announced a scaling down of their own foreign assistance budgets and as humanitarian crises in ...

A new report shows the state’s cesarean section rate for low-risk mothers is the second highest in the U.S.  A report ...

As part of the development of the National Biomedical Waste Management Strategy, the Health Promotion and Environmental ...

The World Health Organization has formally recognized the pivotal role of a number of heads of state and government in securing the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the Seventy-eighth World ...

Niels Finsen's groundbreaking work with light therapy revolutionized medical treatment, earning him the Nobel Prize in 1903.

Humanitarians in Sudan, where a three-year civil war has made assistance increasingly difficult, warn that a vacuum left by cuts to U.S. funding cannot be filled.

The campaign plans to vaccinate more than 2 million people in the most affected municipalities in the provinces of Cabinda, Kwanza Sul, Huíla, Lunda Norte, Namibe and Zaire - regions where there is ...