Our approach to estimating life expectancy losses in this study is conservative as it ignores the indirect effect of the war on mortality. Even ignoring this indirect effect, results show that the ...

President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to start soon after they were picked. But under a law passed by Congress in ...

Thousands of Palestinians are returning home with hope, as the ceasefire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas enters its fifth day. According to the United Nations, about 1.9 million of Gaza ...

Singapore has become one of the first countries to recognize just how harmful screen time is for developing brains, and its Ministry ...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and its Global Accelerator Lab (GALAB) Project has organised a review meeting to include child and force labor indicators in the LEAP Management Information ...

Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour ...

Civil society groups have demanded the release and dropping of charges against Grace Njoki Mulei, a patient who recently stormed Ministry of Health offices over Social Health Authority challenges.The ...

Overseeing the FDA, NIH and several other public health and medical research divisions, the HHS secretary is a powerful force in how the nation accesses health care.

Nutrition is one major area of mounting concern. UNICEF works with partners all across South Asia in an effort to reduce malnutrition and improve overall nutrition, by strengthening nutrition support ...