Burmese academic Sophia Htwe spent hours desperately trying to call home from Australia after the 7.7 magnitude earthquake ...

A global report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that the underlying causes of ill health often stem from factors beyond the health sector, such as lack of quality housing, ...

Women in the U.S. have now caught up to men's historically higher drinking habits, placing their health at risk.

Health inequities around the world are cutting lives by decades, according to a new report by the World Health Organization.

The CDC recommends the following weekly physical activity for adults aged 65 and older: 150 minutes a week minimum of ...

But even more importantly than all of this is the fact that no alternative organization, public or private, has the ...

ZAINAB USMAN is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Africa Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in ...

"When I was in medical school, I saw a life expectancy of Americans pretty much equal to Europeans; now we're five years ...

A World Health Organization report has found that social factors can reduce life expectancy by decades. Poor housing, limited ...

The United Nations agency that fights HIV says it plans to slash its workforce by more than half as a result of sweeping ...

With teen pregnancy closely tied to child marriage and gender inequality, WHO’s revised recommendations promote multisectoral ...