Health

Giving a single dose of antibiotics to mothers who have a medically assisted birth using forceps or vacuum could prevent almost half of maternal...

The US government has come up with a first of its kind strategy to prevent, detect and respond to threats from infectious diseases occurring...

Global rates of obesity among people who live in the countryside are rising faster than those among city dwellers, in part due to greater...

The active ingredients of commonly-used sunscreens end up in the bloodstream at much higher levels than current U.S. guidelines from health regulators and warrant...

More than 34,000 people across Europe caught measles in the first two months of 2019, with the vast majority of cases in Ukraine, the...

British police opened an investigation on Tuesday into a hospital where hundreds of patients are believed to have died prematurely after being given powerful...

Two former executives of a major US pharmaceutical company were charged Tuesday with fulfilling orders they knew to be fraudulent during the opioid epidemic...