For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try, as per the UN World Health Organization (W ...

A new UN study has found that alcoholic drinks, especially beer and spirits, may raise the risk of pancreatic cancer.

A new study showed even a few nights with insufficient sleep promote molecular mechanisms linked to a greater risk of heart problems.

Waist-to-height ratio predicts heart failure incidence, according to research presented today at Heart Failure 2025, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy worldwide fell by 1.8 years – the largest fall in recent history according to the World Health Organization (WHO), in the s ...

Greater awareness and action are needed as Europe and parts of the Middle East grapple with fresh outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) which can have devastating impacts on both anim ...

An anthrax outbreak is compounding the worsening security situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), driving up humanitarian needs and further limiting access to basic s ...

Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to the more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease that occurred in 2018 alone, a new analy ...

Although strong global collaboration has helped to save nearly 13 million lives from malaria over the past 25 years, more action is needed to stamp out the disease.