Overweight and obesity are growing public health challenges in the Philippines. In just over two decades, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among Filipino adults has doubled, rising from 20% in ...

Nongovernmental organizations filled some of the gap in health services, often with funding from the United States or Europe, ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy says he cannot walk down the street without mothers swarming him to thank him for the work ...

Dr. Steven Stack became a household name in Kentucky as health commissioner during the pandemic. Now, beginning his tenure as ...

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need. Want this in your inbox? Get the Marketplacenewsletter ...

Commission on Social Connection has released its global report revealing that 1 in 6 people worldwide is affected by ...

The World Health Organization has launched a bold push encouraging the world's countries to hike taxes on alcohol, sugary ...

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

Only Honduran citizen children traveling out of the country to listed destinations, including the US, are affected by a new ...

Hamas says it has given a “positive” response to the latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza but says further talks are ...

In the United States, there is a long way to go, and Congress is proposing to make devastating changes to one of the largest ...

With measles outbreaks, avian influenza and syphilis and HIV on the rise, Canada needs to strengthen its disease surveillance ...