COTABATO CITY -– Government and private doctors here said there is nothing wrong with herbal medicine being promoted by herbalists in many parts of the country....
TACLOBAN CITY — Eastern Visayas still needs additional 1,500 hospital beds for its 4.2 million population, to conform to global standards of one hospital bed per 1,000...
DAKAR, Senegal — The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is “totally out of control,” according to a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says the...
NEW YORK — A new survey suggests asthma in the U.S. may finally be on the decline. But the results are so surprising that health officials...
The ‘selfie’ obsession has been criticized by some as an egocentric and obsessive, bordering on narcissistic, shallow pattern of behaviour. However, in the case of...
OTTAWA — Garfield Mahood, for decades a painful thorn in the side of Big Tobacco, is back with a new campaign urging the provinces to put...
Scientists have made big progress on a “bionic pancreas” to free some people with diabetes from the daily ordeal of managing their disease. A wearable, experimental...
French drugmaker Sanofi and U.S. medical device manufacturer Medtronic Inc. have joined in a project to develop new combinations of drugs and devices for diabetes care....
LONDON — Women who often indulge their cravings for hamburgers, steaks and other red meat may have a slightly higher risk of breast cancer, a new...
MOGADISHU, Somalia—Hawa Nor carried her visibly weakened son into the hospital’s isolation ward. Like many sick children here, the 7-year-old boy is likely a victim of...