STUDIES FIND WORRYING MISUSE OF MEDICINE WORLDWIDE

Up to 70 percent of hysterectomies in the United States, a quarter of knee replacements in Spain and more than half the antibiotics prescribed in China are... READ MORE›

MIDDLE-AGED BRITONS: DO YOU WORRY ABOUT YOUR HEALTH?

Public Health England launched a campaign aimed at 40 to 60-year-olds, 83 percent of whom are overweight or drink too much. Are you trying to be healthier?... READ MORE›

ALCOHOL-RELATED CRIME, LOST OUTPUT AND ILL HEALTH COSTS UK ?52BN A YEAR

Prof Ian Gilmore, the chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said Ordinary drinkers will not be penalised... READ MORE›

ZIKA VIRUS IS NO LONGER A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY, UN HEALTH AGENCY SAYS

If anything, this has been escalated in importance by becoming activities that will be continued in the long-term in the World Health Organization, he said... READ MORE›

WHO ZIKA NO LONGER A WORLD HEALTH EMERGENCY

The gambusia eat the larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the one most responsible for the spread of the Zika Virus... READ MORE›

ZIKA-INFESTED PUERTO RICO PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY

Zika-infested Puerto Rico public health emergency U.S... READ MORE›

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION DECLARES ZIKA VIRUS PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY

Zika alone would never be a public health emergency of international concern, he said... READ MORE›

NHS WASTING A?450M ON 'MID-LIFE MOT' HEALTH CHECKS, DOCTORS SAY

NHS wasting A?450m on 'mid-life MOT' health checks, doctors say... READ MORE›

DID BRAZIL, GLOBAL HEALTH AGENCIES FUMBLE ZIKA RESPONSE?

Melo phoned the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a public health institute in Rio de Janeiro, and got a lab there to test the patient's amniotic fluid... READ MORE›

WHO DECLARES ZIKA VIRUS A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY

The World Health Organisation has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be a global emergency... READ MORE›

BRAZIL SAYS ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK WORSE THAN BELIEVED

Exclusive Brazil says Zika virus outbreak worse than believed... READ MORE›

HEALTH WORKER WITH EBOLA TRANSFERRED TO LONDON HOSPITAL

Earlier this year the Royal Free hospital successfully treated another British aid worker, William Pooley, who was flown home for treatment after being diagnosed with the virus in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›

BETTER MENTAL HEALTH CARE MEANS A BETTER ECONOMY

WHO Better mental health care means a better economy... READ MORE›

WHO URGES MASS VACCINATION AGAINST MEASLES, OTHER DISEASES IN EBOLA AREAS

Who urges mass vaccination against measles other diseases in ebola areas... READ MORE›

MERCK BUYS RIGHTS TO NEWLINK'S EXPERIMENTAL EBOLA VACCINE

NewLink, whose subsidiary licensed commercial rights to the rVSV-EBOV vaccine in 2010, said it would receive 50 million plus royalties from Merck... READ MORE›

BETTER DATA MEANS BETTER HEALTH FOR THE WORLD'S DISEASE-TROUBLED AREAS

The numbers show unprecedented progress, says Dr Ties Boerma, director for health statistics and information systems at the World Health Organization... READ MORE›

JAPAN TO EMPHASIZE ITS HEALTH CARE AID AT NEXT G-7 SUMMIT

The Abe government is considering emphasizing measures to help spread basic health and medical care in developing countries as one of its foreign policy pr... READ MORE›

ZIKA OUTBREAKS LIKELY IN US, SAYS TOP HEALTH OFFICIAL

The 350 US cases so far were infected abroad, says Dr Anthony Fauci, but the mosquito that carries the virus is present in about 30 US states... READ MORE›

UNIVERSITY'S QUESTIONS ON MENSTRUAL CYCLES AND BREAST PROBLEMS 'TOTALLY OUT OF ORDER' AND 'MISOGYNISTIC'

A senator has criticised questions contained in a university's occupational health questionnaire for prospective employees as invasive, misogynistic and totally out of order ... READ MORE›

MYSTERIOUS AND FAST-MOVING, ZIKA VIRUS HAS WORLD'S HEALTH LEADERS SCRAMBLING

People said that about Ebola, and that was trying to get a bigger sail on the boat... READ MORE›

HUMAN REPRODUCTION, HEALTH BROADLY DAMAGED BY TOXIC CHEMICALS

The piece was written by a team of physicians and scientists from the United States the United Kingdom and Canada including from the World Health Organization... READ MORE›

U.N. HEALTH AGENCY RESISTED DECLARING EBOLA EMERGENCY

Senior staffers in Africa at the World Health Organization raised the prospect of declaring an international emergency... READ MORE›

U.N. HEALTH AGENCY RESISTED DECLARING EBOLA EMERGENCY

Senior staffers in Africa at the World Health Organization raised the prospect of declaring an international emergency... READ MORE›

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION 'MUST REFORM' TO COPE WITH PANDEMICS LIKE ZIKA

If the WHO does not successfully reform, the next major pandemic will cause thousands of otherwise preventable deaths... READ MORE›

ZIKA FOREST, MOSQUITO PARADISE WHERE VIRUS WAS FIRST FOUND

It was in the thick woodland of Zika forest, some 25 km 15 miles from Uganda's capital, Kampala, that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was first discovered in 1947... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP TELLS THE WORLD SOMETHING IT ALREADY KNEW

That led his own campaign to issue a statement later in the day insisting that Mr Trump did believe Mr Obama was born in Hawaii... READ MORE›

REPUBLICANS SEEK TO USE SPENDING BILL TO CLOSE DOOR ON SYRIA REFUGEES

Some conservative U.S. Republican lawmakers want to tie President Barack Obama's Syrian refugee resettlement program to a spending bill that must pass in o... READ MORE›

JEREMY HUNT WEEKEND NHS DEATH CLAIMS UNHELPFUL, SAY CIVIL SERVANTS

Leaked documents show Hunt's own officials believe focus on 'weekend effect' has undermined drive for 'seven-day NHS'... READ MORE›

2 YEARS, 594 ATTACKS, 959 DEATHS AT HEALTHCARE FACILITIES, FROM SYRIA TO AFGHANISTAN

Attacks On Hospitals In War 2 Years, 594 Attacks, 959 Deaths At Healthcare Facilities, From Syria To Afghanistan... READ MORE›

OBAMA SLAMS FATAL SHOOTINGS OF BATON ROUGE OFFICERS, SAYS ATTACKS BY 'COWARDS' MUST STOP

The attacks on public servants and the rule of law have to stop, President Barack Obama said Sunday after another shooting spree targeting police killed... READ MORE›

OBAMA RESPONDS TO CRITICS IN CONVERSATION ON RACE AND POLICE

Obama, the nation's first black president, has repeatedly condemned violence against police officers... READ MORE›

OBAMA TO CUT SHORT EUROPEAN TRIP, WILL VISIT DALLAS

President Barack Obama will cut short a European trip and will visit Dallas early next week, the White House said Friday... READ MORE›

MORE AMERICANS EVACUATED AFTER EBOLA SCARE

A Partners In Health clinician working in Sierra Leone has tested positive for the Ebola virus... READ MORE›

'NO' TO OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION PLANS, SUPREME COURT SAYS

Texas had led 26 Republican-dominated states in challenging the Obama initiatives in court... READ MORE›

AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA

Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›

US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA 'TO VISIT CUBA IN COMING WEEKS' - SOURCES

US President Barack Obama is to pay a historic visit to Cuba in the coming weeks a senior administration official has said... READ MORE›

For instance, the report found that 45 percent of Hispanics have searched the Internet for a health care provider, compared to 41 percent of the non-Hispanics... READ MORE›