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

A new World Meteorological Organization report warns of the exacting toll that sand and dust storms are having on global health and economies. The report pinpoints South Africa’s West Coast as a dust ...

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.

A child has died at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital after contracting measles, the BBC understands. There has been ...

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 ...

The Indian Council of Medical Research’s National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE) has launched a new initiative aimed at ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has placed Saima Wazed Putul, its embattled regional director for South-East Asia and ...

Doctors with special licenses no longer need to use special prescription pads that are difficult to obtain for their patients ...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that 3.5 million children have so far received their measles vaccines in the ...