Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday dismissed rumors of his poor health at a meeting with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev here in St. Petersburg, saying "life would be boring without gossip."
Free health messages are being provided through mobile phones for about 500,000 mothers and mothers-to-be in rural areas of Middle and West China.
The H1N1 virus or swine flu has killed over 800 in India since the beginning of the year, said health officials Sunday.
For years, the preference for traditional home deliveries in Tibet have pushed up the region's infant mortality rate (IMR), but improved maternal care has reversed the trend.
The Dutch government got into a sudden and unexpected crisis on Wednesday after three senators from PvdA party blocked a health care law by Edith Schippers, minister of Health, Welfare and Sport from the VVD party.
Patients who have been treated for cancer of the central nervous system (CNS) (or brain tumors) in childhood or adolescence can show affected self-perception and self-identity in adulthood, according to latest study by the Karolinska Institutet.
The globalization of western eating habits is "bad for environmental health as well as human health," according to a study published Wednesday in the British scientific journal Nature.
The World Food Programme ( WFP) said on Thursday the Ebola crisis response "needs to scale up, get better and perform faster," as the UN health agency reported that if judged safe, larger scale trials of an experimental vaccine could be taken to hard-hit West African countries as early as January 2015.
Czech health ministry spokeswoman Stepanka Cechova announced on Wednesday that a spa in Karlova Studanka, north Moravia would treat about 120 Chinese child patients who are suffering from respiratory diseases. The agreement was signed by Czech health minister Svatopluk Nemecek during Czech President Milos Zeman's October visit to China.
Australian researchers said on Wednesday that eating large amounts of fruit and vegetables can make you happier.
A recent suspected case of a patient deceased with Ebola-like symptoms has alarmed Macedonian authorities and has been a test for the readiness of the national health institutions to face the contagious virus that scares the world.
A health care worker in Texas became the second person infected with Ebola on U.S. soil, apparently the result of a "breach in protocol" during the treatment of the first patient with the deadly virus in the country, U.S. health officials said Sunday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged 1,500 state health chiefs across the country to do their part to prevent the spread of Ebola, calling them "partners in this fight" against the deadly disease.
Swiss voters rejected a proposal to introduce a single health insurance scheme nationwide in a referendum on Sunday.
"Ebola is raging" in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 200 people a day in the worst outbreak ever of the hemorrhagic fever, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday, adding that health systems were "buckling."
Health ministers of 10 ASEAN members gathered in Vietnam's capital Hanoi on Thursday to discuss heath issues in the bloc on the occasion of the 12th ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting (AHMM 12).
Taiwan has fined a cooking oil supplier 50 million New Taiwan dollars (1.67 million U.S. dollars) over its sale of tainted lard, the public health watchdog said Wednesday.
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