THAILAND: New drug crackdown raises concerns
Thai officers examine seized yaba pills
Eating Healthy: Whose Choice Should It Be?
McDonald's says it introduced Happy Meals with apple slices to...
UN stresses effectiveness of handwashing with soap to prevent diseases
BANGLADESH: Selling the toilet idea
Abdul Malik, 35, has his own phone, but shares a communal toilet with six families in a Dhaka slum
Inefficient developing world stoves contribute to 2 million deaths a year
An international effort to replace smoky, inefficient household stoves that people commonly use in lower and middle income countries with clean, affordable, fuel efficient stoves could save nearly 2 million lives each year, according to experts from...
National Eye Institute urges older Americans to protect their vision
Older people are at increased risk of several eye diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cataracts, and glaucoma. AMD can cause profound loss of central vision due to the breakdown of the eye’s light-sensing cells in the retina....
Experimental vaccine protects monkeys from blinding trachoma
An attenuated, or weakened, strain of Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria can be used as a vaccine to prevent or reduce the severity of trachoma, the world’s leading cause of infectious blindness, suggest findings from a National Institutes of Health study...
NIH-funded study shows increased prostate cancer risk from vitamin E supplements
Men who took 400 international units (I.U.) of vitamin E daily had more prostate cancers compared to men who took a placebo, according to an updated review of data from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT).
On World Mental Health Day, Ban urges greater resources for mental disorders
A woman poses in front of a graffiti representing the sun on the occasion of the observance of the...
Women exposed to DES in the womb face increased cancer risk
NIH study followed daughters of women given diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy and found increased fertility problems and cancer risks.
