The Health Data Collaborative will strengthen countries' capacity to collect, analyze and use reliable health data, thereby reducing administrative burden.

A pair of Vietnamese fraternal twins have been confirmed to have different fathers, a local genetic association reported to the BBC.

Hundreds more women and girls accessed medical treatment in 2015 after experiencing sexual and gender-based violence in Kamrangirchar, Dhaka. New

Spitting, like smoking, is a common practice which is blamed for some dangerous diseases. People spit on the streets for many reasons, not just because they

Aging-related hormone changes in men, sometimes called male menopause are different from those in women. Hormone changes are a natural part of aging. Unlike the more dramatic reproductive hormone plunge that occurs in women during menopause, sex hormone changes in men occur gradually. Here is what to expect and what you can do about it.

In remote central Indonesia, Bone-Bone looks like any other rural hamlet in the archipelago, but it is an unlikely champion in the fight against smoking in one of the world's most tobacco-addicted countries, after it became the first village in Indonesia to impose a total ban on smoking.

The first patient in the United States to receive a uterus transplant had to have the organ removed because of complication, the Cleveland Clinic announces Wednesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) calls for urgent research into different strains of the Zika virus and says that health services in affected areas should be ready for potential increases in the incidence of neurological syndromes and/or congenital malformations.

People with anxiety may not be able to distinguish between neutral and threatening stimuli as well as individuals without this mental health condition, a small study suggests.

Sperm have been made in the laboratory and used to father healthy baby mice in a pioneering move that could lead to infertility treatments, reports BBC.

New evidence on what works to delay the age of marriage for girls at highest risk in Bangladesh were released by the Population Council, says a press release.

Liver is the seat of metabolism in the body. Whatever food we eat, after digestion passes through liver. 85-90% of the blood that leaves the stomach and intestines carries important nutrients to the liver where the proteins are processed and broken down into amino acids, carbohydrates into glucose and fats into amino acids.

We are more or less aware about the importance of washing hands. The healthcare professionals and persons responsible for patient care certainly needs to be concerned about hand hygiene and should be able to perform it correctly at the right time.

A recent study from China reported an alarming finding: a gene that confers resistance to certain antibiotics (used against dangerous bacteria) is found in a growing number of bacteria from meat samples in China and from some hospital patients.

Researchers at University College, London have developed a way of finding unique markings within a tumour - its "Achilles heel" - allowing the body to target the disease.

Evidence mounted linking Zika to the birth defect microcephaly, and the United Nations health agency set a review of travel advice related to the outbreak of the virus while US officials planned strategy to control mosquitoes that spread it.

The emotional stress that causes chest pains and breathlessness can occur in moments of joy as well as anger, grief and fear, a Swiss study suggests.

Offering the meningitis B vaccine to all children is "not cost effective" and would be a waste of NHS money, the government says.

Global health officials are racing to better understand the Zika virus behind a major outbreak that began in Brazil last year and has since spread to many countries in the Americas.

New research gives the first evidence that Zika virus might cause a severe neurological disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome.