Democrat Hillary Clinton's bout of pneumonia, kept secret until she nearly collapsed on Sunday, has raised an element of uncertainty about her health going into the final weeks of presidential campaigning and risks feeding a narrative from rival Donald Trump about her stamina.
Malaysia's health ministry said on Wednesday they have detected a new case of Zika virus in a pregnant woman living in Johor Baru, which borders Singapore, bringing the total outbreak in the country to three.
Lao health officials have intensified inspections to ensure hygienic foods served to thousands of delegates and media personnel planning to attend the ASEAN summit and its related summits to be held in Lao capital Vientiane early next month.
After drastically prolonging people's lives, and slashing infant and maternal mortality rates, China is poised to become healthier as it is building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
President Xi Jinping has urged authorities at all levels to consider public health when drafting policies, as he spoke for the first time on the proposed Healthy China strategy at a top-level meeting.
An average Canadian family of four will pay 11,494 CAD (8,792 U.S. dollars) for public health-care insurance in 2016, a new study released on Wednesday revealed.
Indonesian government will have an organizational reshuffle within the country's food and drug monitoring agency after it saw a nationwide fake vaccine scandal.
Contrary to popular belief, pasta consumption does not make you fat, according to research into a staple of the Mediterranean – and much of the Western – diet.
All Chinese living below the poverty line in rural areas will have access to basic medical care and other health services "close to" the national average by 2020, according to a guideline released by 15 central government departments on Tuesday.
Grameenphone, the Norwegian Telenor Group's concern in Bangladesh, has teamed up with the Bangladeshi government and launched "Tonic," a new digital health service, in collaboration with Telenor Health.
Women are almost twice as likely to experience anxiety as men, according to an international study released Monday by the University of Cambridge.
China is planning to extend family doctor services to the entire population by 2020 and ensure more convenient health services for residents who have signed contracts with family doctors.
A dozen insurance companies have unveiled tax-deductible, health insurance schemes on the mainland in a trial programme that China hopes can spur commercial medical coverage.
An international health partnership has appealed for universal health coverage as a priority for the development agenda at the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit, which kicked off here Thursday.
Nobody should be surprised when the present House of Representatives, dominated by penurious reactionaries, produces a stingy response to a danger that calls for compassionate largess. But for sheer fecklessness it’s hard to top the House’s response this week to the Zika virus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that life expectancy increased by five years globally since 2000, but that major inequalities persist within and among countries.
The nation's health authorities will establish a family doctor system to guarantee early response and accurate information for patients. Shan Juan reports.
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