LONDON: The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled worldwide in under four decades to 422 million, and the condition is fast becoming...
LONDON: The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled worldwide in under four decades to 422 million, and the condition is fast becoming...
Geneva: The number of adults estimated to be living with diabetes surged to 422 million by 2014, a nearly four-fold increase on 1980...
Washington: An experimental drug that greatly increases levels of "good" cholesterol has no effect on heart health, a comprehensive clinical trial found. It...
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE. Reuters, Denis Balibouse By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON: Climate change can be expected to boost the number of annual premature U.S. deaths...
Cities with high residential density, number of intersections, public transport and parks saw increased physical activity New York: People living nearby markets, public...
REPRSENTATIVE IMAGE: A major international study Saturday suggested that healthy people may reduce their risk of developing heart problems before they start by...
Of about five billion adults alive in 2014, 641 million were obese, the data showed -- and projected the number will balloon past...
Washington: Vegetarianism over generations can result in genetic mutations which increase the risk of heart disease and cancer. Researchers found a long-term vegetarian...
Representative image. AFP, Philippe Huguen Miami: The world's first liver transplant from a donor infected with HIV to an HIV-positive recipient was announced...
By Suzanne Allard Levingston A diagnosis of cancer is shocking news, but it can create a teachable moment for the patient. "Think about...
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE. Reuters Paris: Not knowing if a decision will provoke pain is more stressful than correctly anticipating the outcome, even when that...
REPRESENATIVE IMAGE. Reuters By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM: Scientists in East Africa plan to exploit trained rats’ highly developed sense of smell...
A girl with a runny nose. A catarrh can by a symptom of a common cold or of an allergy. (File photo /...
Washington: Researchers striving to break the link between obesity and cancer have found in a new preclinical study that significant weight loss through...
Washington: Elderly people who are physically active seem to be able to stave off memory loss but only if they start exercising before...
Vitamin A is essential to skin, and can be obtained from carrots and other vegetables. (File photo/ Monique Wuestenhagen / dpa) Doctors say...
Financial incentives are offered to boost physical activityand encourage use of activity tracker devices. Washington: Stroll around the office or neighborhood six times...
Washington: American scientists have created in a lab the smallest viable genome existing in nature with just enough essential genes for an organism...
