New York: The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is calling for emergency funding to broaden efforts to reach millions living across 11 eastern and southern African countries which have be ...
New York: UN agency chiefs issued a call on Monday for global action to balance and optimize the health of people, animals and the environment, as part of a new “One Health” a ...
London: A study has revealed that sniffing other people's body odour might be useful in therapy for social anxiety.
A world-first look at the effect of the Mediterranean diet in women confirms it lowers risk of heart disease and death and should be recommended for prevention.
New research from Boston Medical Center found that substance use disorders do not increase the likelihood of dying from COVID-19. Published in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, the ...
Being vaccinated against Covid halves people’s risk of developing long Covid, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Continued warming of the climate would see a rise in the number and spread of potentially fatal infections caused by bacteria found along parts of the coast of the United States.
Women with mental illness, neuropsychiatric disability, or substance abuse are less likely to go for gynaecological smear tests for cervical cancer and run more than twice the risk of dev ...
Blind people are better at sensing their own heartbeats than sighted, shows a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
- WHO study shows USD 39 return for each dollar invested in fight against TB
- Pakistan registers first polio case of 2024
- Nearly 200 people hospitalised in Vietnam due to suspected food poisoning
- UN data shows child mortality hits record low figure of 4.9 million in 2022
- New research says high cholesterol was twice as prevalent among American-Indian teens and young adults
