The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an

Checking your phone at night and before going to sleep seems like a normal habitual act, but it is some harmful than you think.

More than a decade after playing a leading role in uncovering the health risks to players in the National Football League, Bennet Omalu hopes his research will lead to a ban on children playing high-impact sports.

The government signs a deal with an insurance company to provide health cards to poor people under a pilot project.

Stunted growth, also known as stunting and nutritional stunting, is a reduced growth rate in human development. It is a primary manifestation of malnutrition and recurrent infections, such as diarrhoea and helminthiasis, in early childhood and even before birth, due to malnutrition during fetal development brought on by a malnourished mother. The following infographic helps to present ideas on how nutrition effects your health in a clear and concise way.

Chances are, one of the first places you turn for quick information on everything from that new diet fad to a troubling rash to a cough that won't quit is your

Toothless heart disease patients are nearly twice as likely to die as those who have all their teeth, a new study suggests.

Milk is the most balanced source of nutrition for human beings. Dairy products are a good source of energy, and contain all essential food elements including protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins, minerals and trace elements.

Mr Nahid Imran, a 30 years old gentleman, just completed his masters degree in information technology. Few months back he was in the Skype, chatting with his friend, suddenly he felt down; means loss of consciousness and speech along unable to move right side of his body. Then immediately he was taken to a nearby hospital. After examination, it was confirmed that he got massive haemorrhage in his left brain. All of a sudden his life got stuck. Like Mr Imran, there are many stroke sufferers in our community; the question is how much are we taking care of them.

Doctors say there is now "encouraging" evidence that an annual blood test may cut ovarian cancer deaths by a fifth.

Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study suggests.

Researchers found out how many miles a week you need to run to improve your health — and it’s surprisingly low.

A new framework to eliminate human rabies and save tens of thousands of lives each year has been launched by the World Health

"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine", once said William Osler. Some believe he is the

Nestlé Nutrition Institute (NNI) organised the convocation of the certification course titled ‘Post Graduate Programme on Paediatric

On the second annual Universal Health Coverage Day yesterday, a coalition of more than 700 organisations in 116 countries came

What to expect as you get older and what to do about it? We all know that aging will likely cause you to develop wrinkles and gray hair.

US scientists discover a new gene therapy technique that is able to modify prostate cancer cells so that a patient's body attacks and kills them.

Being miserable or stressed will not increase your risk of dying, according to the UK's Million Women Study.

A man's weight affects the information passed on through his sperm and could leave his children predisposed to obesity, research in