India faces a growing obesity crisis, with a quarter of adults overweight or obese, fueling a rise in chronic diseases like diabetes and he...

Nearly 6 in 10 Americans live with at least one chronic disease, with heart disease and diabetes leading the toll. In 2023, over 697,000 de...

Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy, a weekly weight-loss injectable, in India. The drug is available in five dosages, costing between Rs 17,345 a...

Robert F Kennedy Jr said the nation’s health agencies will cut 10,000 jobs from their 82,000-person workforce. Kennedy said the department ...

In latest DOGE push, the US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy is planning to cut 10,000 jobs at his department. The red...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing for the position of health secretary turned contentious over his controversial views on vaccin...

A report by India's leading health research body found that air pollution caused 1.7 million deaths in 2019. This represents 18% of all dea...

With 800 cases identified in deer, elk, and moose in Wyoming over the past year, experts label it a "slow-moving disaster."

Burning sugarcane and rice husks may be releasing a toxic substance that is causing a mysterious kidney disease among agricultural workers ...

The state government of Odisha in India declared Hepatitis B and C as notifiable diseases due to their emergence as major health problems. ...

A third booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a 90 per cent reduction in death in people with multiple health conditions c...

The study, published in the Lancet journal, noted that life expectancy in India has risen from 59.6 years in 1990 to 70.8 years in 2019, ra...

Muscle-strengthening exercises can cut the risk of liver diseases and its complications.

Concerns are not limited to India. The assessment shows the infection, as well as is its consequent mortality, increasing rapidly worldwide.

Hamid Ansari strongly favoured the need to develop a comprehensive approach to combat heart disease in India which is "achieving epidemic p...

Innovation and technology will be important differentiators as pharma companies try to drive growth in emerging markets

Three out of every five deaths in 2008 were caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like cancer, stroke, diabetes and cardiovascular dis...