China's Ministry of Education sent an inspection team to east China's Jiangsu Province after media reports claimed that pollution near a school is threatening student health.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the government's health reform plan on Thursday, aiming to keep Australians with chronic diseases and complex conditions out of hospital and provide them with tailored services.
Fifty two out of 100 Korean companies are in poor corporate health, and 25 were barely average, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry said Tuesday.
China's local medical services have improved markedly following a nationwide campaign that began in 2009.
A Japanese teenager infected Zika virus after his return from Brazil, becoming the first Zika case in the island country since the disease spread in Latin America from last year, according to the health ministry here on Thursday.
Getting medical treatment has become much more convenient for Wei Xianfang since she joined a family doctor program.
The Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) alerted yesterday all airport operators and authorities to take the necessary precautions against the Zika virus, which has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Legislative Assembly of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) passed a bill on Wednesday to add Zika virus into the official list of notifiable infectious diseases as the mosquito-borne disease has posed global threat recently.
Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Tuesday said it was ramping up measures to safeguard against the Zika virus, following the World Health Organization (WHO) designating the virus as a public health emergency of international concern.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Monday declared the Zika virus an "imminent danger" to public health, giving the government more power to contain an epidemic that has already led to over 4,000 birth defects.
The World Health Organization declared the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency on Monday, a rare move that signals the seriousness of the outbreak and gives countries new tools to fight it.
The World Health Organization rang a global alarm over the Zika virus on Thursday, saying that the disease was “spreading explosively” in the Americas and that as many as four million people could be infected by the end of the year.
The UN health agency has delivered more than 100 tonnes of medicines and supplies for 1.2 million people in strife-torn Yemen's central Taiz governorate, where more than three million people, of whom, almost 400,000 were internally displaced, are in dire need of humanitarian aid, UN officials said here Monday.
An Australian state government has outlined its plan to increase the smoking age well above the national standard of 18.
In a two-year world-first trial, Western Australian (WA) police and mental health workers will join forces to provide better help to mental health sufferers -- while reducing the time police spend on this growing problem.
Mental health experts want more research done on how periods of serious pollution can cause "the smog blues."
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday said that the health needs of women and adolescents are too often neglected in humanitarian response to natural disasters and conflicts around the world, calling for a fundamental change to address women's health in conflicts and disasters.
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